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!

DIET is important, as most of the food in truck stops is very high in fat.

I carry a freezer & a propane grill to do my own cooking. I also eat a lot of salads & healthy snacks.

I also carry a mountain bike & weights in my cab, and I often like to go for a long walk or run when I can.

I have never been a real big guy weight wise but i started getting further and further out of shape after i started driving, getting a bit softer, less energy and putting on a couple of extra pounds....when i started my new job with Barr-Nunn and got on this 2 weeks out thing, i decided i could not just sit on my but, sleep and eat for 2 weeks at a time....I now make every effort to park as far away as possible at rest stops and truck stops as much as possible, I always take the fuel lanes on the far end and I get out and walk laps up and down the sides of the truck while waiting on loads and unloads when its not a drop and hook. I changed my diet drasticly, cut out a few snacks, cut back on meal sizes and improved the quality of the food. I also started carrying some dumbells, everyday/night before I hit the bunk I do a pretty hard workout with the weights and stomach crunches. I have trimmed off a few off those un-wanted pounds and started hardening back up in the middle and getting the upper body toned back out and back in shape, not to mention I feel stronger and just all together better. i do this stuff and pop the multi vitamins everyday and i am starting to feel pretty good for a guy who spends his days cramped up in an airconditioned box sitting on his but all day.

I'm still going to stick to my 1-2 hour cardio sessions anyway possible.
I've already been keeping in excellent shape by performing them for that long, every other day.
If there's a 24 Hour gym within 10-20 miles of me, then I'll go over there and burn out for a few hours, no problem.
If I'm stopped in some weird place that doesn't have that available, then it's two hours on the mountain bike, maintaining 140-170 BPM on the heart rate monitor.
That and a healthy amount of push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks, and leg lifts.
As I said in another post, I plan on going into the California Department of Corrections in the near future.
Beer bellies are NOT an option!! :x

And I know I'll be able to pull this off without worrying about time constraints.
Just do it every other day like I have. :P

I am soo tired of subway, im ready to burn it down!! Thats for the most part all you see at the "travel centers'.
I need alot of greasy food to keep me going...I have a high metabolism that just keeps me going.
I still find the time to go mountainbiking if Im in a hilly area.
I really think its not what you eat all the time, but where your metab is.
However the Wendys salads can be real good!

TKR

That is the most likely case with me and my "stay trim" success.
I still eat things like burgers, fries, pizza, etc,. on a regular basis.
It's just that ever since I've added a 3-5 day routine of vigorous exercise a week, it's been effectively kept under control.
It's all about staying active to a fairly moderate extent.
Rest and get plenty of sleep one day, get out there and get that heart pumping the next.

LOL!!!! :lol: :lol:

!!!!!
 

:twisted:

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but... it was a joke...

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Very :evil: at you...lol....j/k

it was more to the i do crack statement to stay in shape.... :wink:

the last thing i need is diet pills.......im already skinny enough, as for the 60's i didn't come along till some years later :roll:

tyvm, i do try to enjoy all the time i have....there no telling when it could end.

[quote="Consider"][quote="street_95"]Yea that was a shock, he will be sorely missed, i knew he was popular and well known worldwide, but i can't get over all the news coverage he has gotten and well deserved....just incredible :sad:

steak and shrimp specials at the petro lube whenever possible :lol:



I low carb it on the road, and yes i`m guilty of eating a meal a day in a truckstop but I also have a fridge full of food and snacks, I just like being able to unwind in a restaurant and maybe bs a lil bit with someone.

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Well, I'm glad you like it and I'm going to keep it this way.
But, the sucky thing is the fact that I'm going to be "bike-less" for the six weeks of OTR training.
In the meantime, I got myself one of those Polar-brand, heart rate monitors. That way, I could run/jog as an alternative to no bicycle, and/or no 24 Hr Fitness nearby.
Like I posted on the bikeforums.com, I'm going to have to make those six weeks fly by so I could be using my bike again.

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

Yeah. I drive for 15 hours, then unload 55, 200 pound sofas from the back of a 120 degree trailer.
Then I do it all over again.....repeat until you drop dead from exhaustion. :lol:

I wear giant jogging pants

I have a set of these. Awesome for quick lifting session! You can also buy a folding weight bench to take with you OTR. Also, if you can jog 2-3 miles at a time, all you need is a good pair of runing shoes and 20min/day 3-4x a weekwhenever you're stopped and you're good to gohttp://www.powerblocks.com/

I don't really excersise

I just wear giant jogging pants

Here's my routine:

a) Wake up at 2am.
b) Go to truck (parked at warehouse).
c) Drive 30-40 miles.
d) Unload 1200 pounds of food by hand.
e) Drive 10 minutes.
f) Unload 1200 pounds by hand (again).
g) Repeat 15 times per day (try to finish in under 13 hours)
h) Drive 30-40 miles back to warehouse.
h) Collapse.

(hey, at least it's not sofas! :lol: )

I was thinking about you guys when I watched two doctors on Oprah the other day. They were talking about some extremely simple things that make a lot of difference in weight over time.

One was that something called gremlin... (it sounds like that, but that may not be the spelling) has an affect on how much we eat because it makes us feel satisfied... I think that's how it goes. It comes from things like nuts. So if we eat a handful of nuts a half an hour before a meal, we feel satsified sooner, as we eat.

Apparently it takes us about 15 minutes to eat a meal, but our bodies take 30 minutes to register that food has been received. So by eating the nuts before hand we give ourselves the good kind of whatever gremlin is, and we also get our bodies ready to feel satisfied before we eat a second helping of everything.

The thing that goes with that is something like "lepoic"... (again.. not sure of the spelling, and I couldn't find it on the web)... but... Darn.. it's become a foggy memory... I think it's the bad counterpart to gremlin...

Here's the link to the show, I'm sure the book explains it... I don't read much anymore, so I'm not going to order it... If you want it, the link is provided:
http://www2.oprah.com/health/yourbod..._350_201.jhtml

Okay, so the next thing was to avoid hydrogenated oils... you have to read the labels on food to see this. I checked my peanut butter, because I was thinking I'd use peanut butter instead of a handful of nuts... and my peanut butter is made with hydrogenated oil. It's cheap peanut butter that was given me as a part of some food program when I was sick ... I need to get real, all peanut, peanut butter.

Another thing to avoid is anything with bleached flour, or enriched flour, because "enriched" signifies that it's been stripped of everything good in it, and then a few things were put back.

A woman on the show was saying how she found things with wheat only, pure wheat, and that it took her a little while to get used to wheat things when she'd been used to bleached flour things, but she lost quite a lot of weight after she made the change... it was about a pound a month... but in a year, the difference was noticable. I mean, she looked really different. (I'd need six years... which seems a bit long)

Another thing to avoid is sugar... I don't eat much of that, but apparently if you eat spaghetti sauce it can be in that... so you have to look at labels.

All this stuff is on the web site.
(link above)

I'm going to get some good peanut butter, the all peanut kind, and try that.

And walking. The only exercise the doctors said we need was walking.

Oh, and once a bit of fat was replaced with muscle, the muscle uses up more calories and that in itself aids weight loss.

Weight, it turns out, kills with the same regularity as cancer... only we don't really hear about it in the same way. (they said)

Maybe it isn't the weight, per se, but the hydrogenated oil, etc... (that's my take on it)

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know these things. :)

tarp and straping will always keep you in shape my 30/30"s weight 100 pounds a piece

I set my cheese tostido's far enough away...where I have to stretch and reach hard for them. I repeat that for usually 20 reps. :?