How does everyone stay in shape while on the road?
 

After searching all over, I came upon this sight wanting to get some methods.
Back in June of 2005, I weighed 250 pounds.
As of now, I am 5'8 and weigh 170 pounds, most of it muscle obtained from working out every other day for 2-3 hours, and not wanting to own a car. I also, never went on a diet and still lost and now maintain this weight
Anywho, I'm planning on giving driving another try after two years of having my CDL.
I ordered a Montague folding mountain bike and plan on getting a small set of weights.
Because seeing as 24Hr Fitness is primarily a West Coast thing, I'll need something to fill the gap when it's not there.

This is my training regimen, does anyone else have a special method?

Not to mention I'm new to this board and couldn't spot the introduction section.
I found a couple topics like this in here by searching.
Can't delete this post, so if no one has anything to say, then I'll just stick to my guns out there.

tarp a maxi set two to three times a day. rain snow or shine. it keeps me in shape, i bet it would do good for you too. :)

Re: How does everyone stay in shape while on the road?
 

They mostly don't. Look around. I saw a guy the other day, STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, wheeeeeze, STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, wheeeeeeze, and it felt like a scene from Jurassic Park. That dude must have weighed 400 pounds. It's pretty damn sad when you're so out of shape that walking to the fuel desk is enough to put you in danger of having a heart attack.

But anyway, I don't work out with weights or anything. I unload furniture, which helps some, and I park as far away from wherever I am as I can, which helps some more. Park at the far end of the fuel island, park at the far end of the parking lot, etc.

It hasn't helped enough. I'm 195 pounds, and need to be 150 to be right for my height and build.

Which is part of why I'm hanging it up, actually. I'm going to join a gym and get in shape, because I don't want to suffer the eventual consequences of carrying around this much extra weight, and I can't get enough exercise in this lifestyle.

Not very encouraging, but it's true.

Most truckers are in shape.....

ROUND!

That's essentially what scared me out of driving in the first place.
Not to mention the outfit I was with, CRST, was strictly teams all the way through.
The only reason I'm getting back into driving is to pay off some serious bills, then back to full-time college afterwards with local work.
I feel by driving on a strictly solo basis, I'll be able to focus on my daily workouts without sweating the potentially worrisome team-mate.
As I said before, I'm currently pulling 2 hours in the gym, every other day.
I'm going to keep this up while I'm on the road no matter what.
If I limit myself to a quota of driving 10 hours and putting in 2500-3000 miles each week, then I'll feel fine.
Not to mention that at my fitness level, 4-6 hours of sleep, and I'm fully recharged for a 14-16 hour shift.

How about eating more salads and less snack/junk foods?? Cut out all soft drinks and make sure you don't eat right before you sleep. I trucked for 8 years and was always in great shape.

I ride my bike a lot... All I have to do is take the front wheel off and put in on my bunk. It's a great thing to do during resets and when you're at a customer for a long time... although most customers won't let you leave you're truck and go for a spin... I try to eat right out here but it's freakin hard... Theres only so much room in my cooler that I tend to run out about a week in then the second week is full of junk food before I can get to a market... Truckstops don't have crap for healthy food for sale....

I smoke crack, it keeps me super thin and energetic.

Now that I'm back in grad school I do jogging, karate, the weight room and intramural tag football, but back when I was trucking I had a pre-employment physical that was downright scary, so . . .

First off I quit smoking, I'm seven and a half years clean. This should be your first goal if you plan getting in shape.

Next was a new diet that was basically a modified Adkins. It is high in fat, but mostly fats like olive oil, though I must admit I don't skimp on butter or steak. Protein is fairly high, but is mitigated by a lot of nuts and green leafy vegetables. My diet has no complex carbs (grains, breads and pastas) but is fairly high in carbs from vegetables, especially the green leafy kind, and broccoli. For salad dressing I use Paul Newman's creamy Caesar, which tastes great and has no sugar. My fruits are mostly berries, which are low in sugar.

I also take Centrum A-Z Vitamins (one per day) plus either fish or borage oil 3 times a day, and one aspirin in the afternoon and ONE glass of red wine before I go to sleep.

Last I started exercising, and I started off SLOW (I started with gentile stretches and a walk, and that was it at first.)

Whenever my exercise routine became easy, I would add one small challenge, for example, I would add one more push up, or maybe 30 seconds to my run, and hold it there for several months. By going easy on myself, with modest improvements over time, AND sticking to it over the long haul, the benefits were slow but dramatic. Now seven years later life is fun again.

Anyway, this was what I up to when I quit trucking:

Every other day:

Pull the rubber mats I got from hauling paper rolls out of the side box.

Stretch for 10 - 15 min

60 push ups

100 sit ups

60 sit ups

run for 21 minutes min, 30 min max

50 squats

jump rope 3 min

stretch 5 - 10 min

put the rubber mats back in the side box

Usually this program cost me from 4 to 6 hours of sleep time per week, and I typically did it in a rest stop, unless I did it while the lumpers were doing their thing at a dock. It was best to do it at night when I was getting tired, it tended to wake me up better than coffee (though it did cost me time.)

Using this combination, I've gone from a diagnosis several years ago of a pre-diabetic smoker with blood pressure that was starting to climb, to one of "excellent health", with normal blood sugar, normal blood pressure, 17 percent body fat (at 45 years of age), low bad cholesterol, high good cholesterol, and cardiovascular and lung capacity better than many of the college kids I'm attending classes with -- I know, I play intramurals with them. There are other advantages as well: I don't look my age now, though for the first few years I certainly did. (I don't even have any grey hair yet, while my brothers and sisters did at the same age and even younger.)

Most importantly, I did this while working as an OTR trucker, and started when I was both overweight and unhealthy, so I know it can be done by just about anybody who is healthy enough to start making some small changes.

Oh MAN that is funny!