How do people keep fit while on the road all the time?

Even Teletubbie truckers can drop weight fast by doing low carbs right now. I’m doing it and it works!

 

Planet fitness.
Lots of water
No pilot flying j horse meat hot dogs
Fast food once a week
Walk 1mile everyday
No soda

 

Shoot, I got one every 500 to 600 miles on my routes, lol daddy don't go without.

 

Right^ 2 big story tellers..with unlimited women. Uh huh.

 

First off staying in shape is a discipline that you have to enforce yourself to adhere to. I start my morning as I have every morning for the last 30 years, stretching, jumping jacks, pushups, situps, and every other day I get a vigorous walk in since I can no longer run. Diet and fluid are extremely important part of the diet are don't graze all day long.

 

You can graze, just gotta be on baby carrots, celery, apples, and oranges.

Winter is tough. It's miserable out. You're tired from the blizzards.
Just the cold makes you crave gravy.

 

Load trailers to the floor. Drive half the night. Wait a few hours, lump the same freight back off the floor onto pallets in Hunts Point. Gtfo out NYC deadheading west to grab something that delivers the next day.

The more I lumped loading for Hunts to Lump off physically in addition to high tension driving, the more food I required.

I weighed 130 when I graduated. Nothing at all. I weighed 140 in trucking school. 20 years in trucking I still weighed 145. Winters were the hardest for me. I would consume between 8000 to 12000 calories, partly to burn off to stay warm in -40 with 50 mph winds that wont quit and lump the loads of meat or various really heavy stuff. I was a little person. 6 foot and nothing soaking wet. But I had endurance and heart to do the work whatever it was. and it was done.

When I hit my 40's I realized that my lumping days must stop and in addition to the metabolism slowing down I must back off the food amounts. By then I was 170 and married for a while. Quitting smoking was worth 20 pounds, a good wife cooking is worth 15 more pounds and so on.

I approached 300 several years ago. This is genetic. All of my family were big. Obese actually. The reason I was not was becuase I was born three months early and should be dead. at one point they hooked into my femoral artery using three people to adjust pumps 24/7 for three weeks exactly to bypass my lungs. They surgically removed the needle system from that leg. The hole in that leg is still there to this day. I consider it an advantage in a fight because it's surrounded by massive amounts of scar tissue like a armor around the main bone.

anyway I took care of that 300 getting back to 190 or so. 175 is my goal But realized at 181 last october I was not getting the nutrition I needed to stay healthy so back up to 195 I went in 5 days.

Another part of the problem was I was running the rockies most of my life and the accumulated verified lung damage from bulk tanking and other problems that caused additional damage requires that I remain below 4000 feet above sealevel. I am about 250 give or take a hundred here in the south. So that settles the oxygen blood problem I was having. I cannot be at 12000 feet to pass through say Eisenhower tunnel anymore. that's final. Or fly that high. (Airliners at 35000 tend to create a certain percentage differental which works out to between 8000 feet to 12000 feet atmosphere inside the cabin. If I had a Embraer airplane at 45000 feet the apparent atmosphere inside of it will be closer to 14000 feet which will not work for me. Even though you can be in chicago in about 20 minutes from Little Rock with that rocket ship, I wont get there alive.

Med flight with King Air limited to 5000 feet is a option I have open to me via my medicare insurance. They are a email away with a few hours notice at any time. Very expensive. But they are available to me. It's much slower than say a 737 to Baltimore. The alternative is Texas Eagle to chicago then Capitol Limited sleeper berth amtrack to Baltimore via DC/Harpers Ferry. The appalachians is only about 3800 feet in three passes, so that's not a problem. It does cost as much as a round trip plane ticket.

I can go on, but as one gets older, one loses certain things. A man tends to lose a percentage of testosterone which could be replaced, but at a risk to the heart among other things. It's not always wise to inject more of the stuff into a 50 plus year old and then see him chase after wimmen like a 25 year old. It's just not natural. They also lose a percentage of mass reached at 30 when beyond 60. Something like a 8% loss in mass per year. It's not much but suddenly one day you will look at your father and go omg where did you become a shadow of your former self?

 

I see tons of fat flatbedders. Pulling a skateboard is nowhere near enough work on its own to keep a person in shape.

 

I used to work out at the truck stops. But then i realized the parking lot is full of urine, spit, grease, oil... My current dilemma.

Best to set up a workout station inside the bunk. Or just go for a run around. The block.

 

Your right. There are some. I was being a bit facetious but you have to admit the ratio of fat flatbedders to fat van drivers is much less.