Do you guys in food service workout outside work

If you are shooting for muscle and endurance join a good MMA gym. That is what I always did to stay in great shape. A gym and endurance workout. Just make sure it is not a take your money mma gym as their are a ton of those out there.

 

Dave,
I see a lot of OTR drivers and some of them aren't in very good shape and I'm not really being judgement I don't mean this to be mean, but I wonder I mean are some of those guys getting new medical cards every 3 months? I mean I would be worried if I was one of those guys, I know they don't have the best options when it comes to food. I mean geeze eatting Arby's for breakfast, lunch and diner isn't probably the key to long jevity and I'm a big fan of Arby's ha-ha, but I have to stay away ha-ha!

What I wonder is, and I'm sure some do, but what about like when you get settled in at the truck stop just walk a couple laps around the property 3-4 times around a big truck stop walking might equate to a mile or two.

I remember a month ago I took a flight and it had a layover in Atlanta so when I got off the plane I was on concourse B in Atlanta (that's where all the Delta plans land) and I said well, lets take a walk I walked the entire B concourse in Atlanta 4 times! That had to at least be 2 miles. It was fun though Friday night out in America seeing people all convened at one point in the country folks from all over so that was also part of my motivation.

 

I have to take really good care of my body due to have been a trooper as well as diabetes and one year cards. I brought 80% of my food OTR with me.

 

Don't most OTR guys try to bring food with them? Just the expense alone of eating at fast food joints everyday would eventually catch up to you.

 

When I did foodservice, I have to admit it was pretty hard to get motivated to hit the gym on your days off when you're putting in 12-14 hours a day. A lot of times it's about PRIORITY, whether you have the time to get a workout in or not. When I was in my late teens, early 20's, with no responsibilities, I made working out a priority. I started off in martial arts and got into bodybuilding and powerlifting (non competitive). As I got older, my priority shifted from keeping in shape to supporting my family. Things tend to change when you get older and you find out your body just can't do what it did in your 20's, but I still workout regularly. If MMA was as popular back then as it is now, who knows, I might of tried it out and taken a different path instead of being a trucker. I'm a huge MMA fan and I loved Pride FC back in it's heydays when it was bigger than the UFC. I'm glad to see Pride came back from the dead, and is now known as Rizin. I missed seeing TRUE MMA with Pride rules, not like all the BS rules that they have in the UFC.

 

I should hit the gym on my off time, just haven't gotten to upgrading wife's membership (with me as guest) to a family one yet. Mostly because the gym won't let me bring my 10, 9 or 7 year old sons with me. At some point I'm going to change that around, there's got to be a local gym that will allow my boys to come and run the treadmills and some of the lighter equipment with me.

 

When i did food delivery i was too bloody tired to workout afterwards. i did sleep very well though. A lot of the stuff had some weight to it such as 20-50lb bags of rice. 40lb boxes of sauce etc. So you were sort of getting a workout on the job anyways. Some of the drivers actually enjoyed it. i will have to say the very first stop was actually exhilarating. But all the stops after that......weren't.

i'm not in foodservice anymore for a reason.......

 

One of the toughest jobs I ever had was when I drove for Keystone Freight in the late '90's. You had to hand unload everything from '53 that was literally stuffed from nose to tail, ceiling to floor with freight that weighed in between 80-150 pounds to places like TJ Maxx and K Mart using rollers. They had sunroof ceilings which made the trailer feel like 130 degrees in the summer. I would come back at the end of the day COMPLETELY exhausted and about 20 pounds lighter as well.

Forget about Jenny Craig, if you wanna lose weight and get paid as well, work for Keystone Freight.

 

@Sho Nuff, ah those rollers! When I was a kid growing up in the grocery store, that was how the dry vans always unloaded! (Produce, dairy and all refrigerated all came in on different trucks than dry groceries.)
Anyway, our "back room" was actually the basement. We'd set the rollers up through an old converted coal shoot. The driver fingerprinted everything that came off the truck. We'd pull it off the rollers and stack it. Then when it was all unloaded and checked in, we'd use a two wheeler to move the stacks up the stairs, which had one set of steps, a landing with a 90 degree corner, then another flight of stairs. At the top of the stairs we'd have to negotiate out way through a literal obstacle course in the butcher shop, and out onto the floor, where all the cases were opened, all individual items priced and then put on the shelves. Extremely labor intensive.
As I remember it, the 25# bags of flour, four to a wrapped package, were the worst to deal with, not only because of the weight, but because of the size.

 

For me it's a constant battle since I stopped smoking. I just instituted vegetable lockdown this week, cause I crested at 228. I go about a real good 195. Just sat on my butt while caring for my dad, don't know why, usually when I'm home like that I really get busy, but didn't.
I stopped smoking, be 11 years in 3 weeks, but always went 185 to 190, now unless I stay working out, I just put on the weight. Getting old too. But OTR its easy to eat wrong, your tired, lots of times there's stuff that needs to be done. It is truly a form of discipline to eat properly if your out for weeks at a time.
I wished I could figure a way to take my bike ( mountain ) OTR, so it doesn't get thrashed, I don't want it in the cab with me.
Walking laps around the TS or down to the next off ramp and back is where its at. Push ups, sit ups, leg lifts, squats. I carry 2 x 30lb. barbells. No gym needed. Do it anywhere. Have a piece of carpet I roll out by my tandems or drives and do sit ups & leg lifts. Just put my gloves on, so my hands aren't in someone's urine.

It's all about what goes into the mouth though. If you eat non fat food, you won't get fat. If your like me and sucker for fried chicken, corn dogs, and spaghetti, you could have a problem. I haven't had a soda for probably 8 years, except when we go Vegas, and I'll have a Jack n Coke. Water & milk. Beer = maybe two 12 packs a year, during summer.

It's much easier to take good, and cheap food, if your by the house every few days. Doing a super regional I'd take three days worth, and buy almost nothing from anywhere, occasional corn dog. Same with local. So I can certainly understand how some guys just balloon up. And its tough dropping it down, but the key IMO is getting rid of the fatty food. You can eat, literally, a truck load of veggies, all you want, provided they aren't cooked in butter or oil.

But yea, I can definitely see how it happens to guys. And the offerings at the TS's don't help.