Getting into shape while being paid :hard work:

Round is a shape.?? Any extra work you do will help . Even parking at the back of the truck stop helps.

 

Make some of them 130 pound boxes. Moving 48500 in a few hours.

I could not do that now. Ive done way too many of them as a younger driver. Sometimes two times a day.

For me work = being a carnivore. The body took care of itself. Food was fuel for that. There was no excess fat or problems anywhere. One can argue that served me well into my current age when you consider my obese family by genetic.

 

You'd be better served to get a real job where you could join a gym and be home every day instead of trucking, just sayin'

 

4 stops a day? No.

10+ stops a day with a change in diet - most importantly to higher protein percentage on fewer calories? Yes.

Lifting stuff isn't a magic bullet. If you don't control what you eat, how much, and when, you'll just build some muscle under the fat and actually get bigger. This will hurt your heart and joints.

The job isn't going to fix your fitness problems. The job can help if you adjust the rest of your life accordingly.

Small protein-rich meals. Cut the cokes and beers. Don't eat after 8PM. Ride out the 10 minute hunger pangs (not really hunger - it's sugar cravings). Watch the fat melt.

 

No it will not. Don't confuse manual labor with body building. Building muscle means hitting the gym...lifting weights...heavy enough to fatigue your muscles after 8-12 reps or more...doing multiple sets with little rest in between sets...and eating a high protein diet to feed your muscles to grow. What you're basically doing is tearing your muscle fibers through weight lifting and rebuilding it so it grows back bigger and stronger. And you need days off to allow your body to repair itself.

It may tone up your body but not your cardio. Anything that involves physical activity will burn up calories...like walking. You do it long enough and it'll help keep you trim. But none of that matters if you just eat garbage foods. Building muscle will actually help keep you leaner because it helps speed up your metabolism, so you burn more calories by just having more muscles. Cardio on the other hand means elevating your heart rate for a prolonged period of time through endurance exercises...like jogging. Do it long enough and you build endurance...which will make it easier for your heart rate to adapt to the physical activity.

Think of it this way. When you moved into an apartment or a new house and it took you all day to carry all your belongings into your new home, did it feel like you gained any muscle mass or cardio? Or did you just feel tired? That's manual labor. Same thing with unloading trucks. There's a big difference between being physically fit, building muscle and endurance...compared to just doing manual labor

 

Diet and exercise. Mostly diet. When I used to run sleeper teams I actually lost weight because I prepped all my foods and snacks for the 5 days I was living in the truck. Only thing I got from a truck stop was there coffee. Sure I had some crap here and there but I kept it in check. All I did for 5-6 days a week was sit or lay down. I’m home everyday day now but I still prep all my meals for the work week. It’s way easier that way.

End of rant.

 

no, you will only be "working out" your arms. the only true workout is at a gym.

some companies make you take a physical agility test, to see if you can handle what they haul.

best bet for you, is to sign up to a gym NOW, and get a true work out, and build up your strength for that test.

 

Great for your muscles.

Terrible for your back.