Why don't you exercise ?

I do arm curls while driving down the road. One potato chip... Another... Two this time... OK I'm beat -- funnel the bag down my throat...

 

It cracks me up when drivers talk about logging a 70 hour work week... in a 14 hour day.. for most of it hou are sitting.. think of the cashier at the truck stop that you were nust rude to.. theh are on their feet for at least 8 hours..

I am a 50 year old woman.. I just switched to flatbed because pulling van or reefer was too easy... not enough physical work for me....

I never complain about how hard it is.. you all are a bunch of whiners... trucking is not a tough job.. you know how many middle aged women come into this career as their retirement job...

It is ashame and an embarrassment that a job that a 50 year old lady can easily do and you all find tough...

Throw away the stupid x box, get out from in front of the t.v. and live life.. it truly is not that tough..

 

If we could all be so tough

 

WERE NOT WORTHY!!!

Seriously though...madame has a point. I'm not complaining myself. I just want people to not stereotype drivers as fat lazy arses. Go to ANY Wal*Mart and just look how many fat people there are. They all fight to get a parking spot close to the door. Many of them have fake disability parking permits leaving the people that have real disabilities without a spot to park. Then they get in a motorized cart scooter and load up on junk food.
It's not just drivers. It's just many people are lazy and unhealthy in general.

 

Like many have noted, there are many times I just want to pull into a spot and roll into the sleeper to grab some rest. I don't know that it's a physical fatigue, but more of a mental one from all the various concerns and stresses from the road. A few times a week, I try to get out and make a few laps of the truckstop, but many times, it just isn't safe to do, either because of the traffic or the people haunting around. I wish more places would put in some kind of walking path or facility. We say it a lot, trucking is a lifestyle, but part of that is that companies, shippers and receivers don't pay us to stay healthy, they pay us to keep those big rubber things turning. At some point, you have to decide what your quality of life is worth.

 

Yea. I think most drivers would agree that after you put in a near 14 hour day...about 11 hours rolling the truck it is mentally fatiguing. Your brain is tired, and it makes your body feel tired. I recently started taking multi-vitamins and it seems to help me some with fatigue, but its also true that the more active you are, the more energy you will have. It's a cycle low activity=lower overall mental and physical energy. Higher activity= higher mental and physical motivation.
Its just a matter of getting out of a slump once youre in it.

 

Great question op. I dont know how a lot of these obese guys can look in the mirror and be happy. I started to gain a little weight until I got back into shape by learning effective exercises in the sleeper. I keep dumbbells under my bunk and use a towel to keep them from rolling around.

 

I wasn't a workout freak by any means, but I did walk and always parked toward the back of the truck stop parking lot so it would be further to walk. Also carried two 20 lb. dumbells in the tractor.

 

I don't really understand why the OP is making an issue about it. Why would he care? He could just as easily go to any elementary school and pick out a dozen fat school teachers and ask them the same thing. I went in to my local hospital a couple of weeks ago to have a simple blood test done and I counted no less than a dozen nurses that were just plain fat.

I'm overweight...but I try to walk because I have a pooch with me and I take her out for a couple of walks per day. If I didn't have her around I'd probably exercise a lot less.

My point...why to some people what to be constant "do gooders"? Why does the OP want me to exercise or question those that don't? Honestly, some people just poke their nose into other peoples business because they have nothing better to do.