Exercise and healthy eating for the OTR truck driver

Know of any gyms in your area with large parking lots nearby? I'll pay you $! I am looking for fitness clubs with parking lots either attached or nearby that can fit a 53' rig. Wal-Mart plazas, shopping center plazas, and the like.

I'll send you a crisp $10 for each one you submit with some digital photos. Send me five? I send you fifty bucks!

PM me for more info

I am compiling a list for truckers.

(you must have a CDL to get the $)

 

####, thanks for the tip.

 

I think pretty much any medications they do that for.

I take stuff for anxiety and depression and I got the 1 year card. I got grilled at a Level 1 in Oregon about what medications I take any why about three months ago

Doh.

 

They still CAN"T test for anything other than opiates, pot, and other mind altering stuff. I got a 2 year card in January at Swift. Didn't tell them about the BP meds. Took a new physical at my new job. Told them about the meds. Doc said, "one year because of the meds!" My bp has been coming down since I am off the road. I get more excersise, little better diet.

 

Hello I had a question. I'm halfway through training. Iv already gained probably 25 pounds in. The past 2 mons I have been training. Do u have any tips on cardio I was thinking, a jump rope for cardio what do u think?

 

It's difficult to stay active when one has to live in a truck and drive for 10 or 11 hrs every day/night. Watch what you eat. You can do your cardio, etc but if all you eat is fast food at truck stops (Subway, Denny's, McDonalds, that kind of junk) you will keep on gaining weight. Reduce amount of bread and fat, eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and lean meat instead of fat meat. Avoid snacks like chips, candies, sweets saturated with sugar and all that junk that people love but just makes them sick and fat. Prepare some light food in the truck so you will save money and eat healthier and will feel much better after a while. Good look with the new way of life.

 

Hi folks came across this info the other day just thought i'd share it with you.
In 2007 Canadian researchers of the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, reported they had found a cure for cancer. Evangelos Michelakis and his colleagues discovered that dichloroacetate (DCA), a common and basic drug already used to treat metabolic disorders, could be employed also for inhibiting the growth of tumors and for killing most types of cancer cells in humans.
Over the years the news of this discovery, after arousing initial interest and curiosity, has been ignored until the recent appearance of a post blog on the Web stating, “Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice,” which drew attention and spread the news again. This post underlines the fact that major pharmaceutical companies have intentionally ignored the discovery for business reasons.
DCA is a safe and nontoxic drug, it leads cancer cells into self-destruction and consequent death thanks to the activation of apoptosis process by mitochondria, without effecting normal tissues, as it happens instead with patent anti-tumoral drugs produced until now which are focused on glycolysis method.
The reason why pharmaceutical companies are not interested in this “alternative” drug is only business. In fact DCA has no patent, so it can be employed widely and for a cost that is ridiculously low compared to other drugs produced by major drug companies.
“Big Pharma has no interest whatsoever in investing [in DCA research] because there will be no profit,” said Michelakis to Life’s Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience.
Diseases are sources of profit for pharmaceutical companies, which work like any other company, following the logic of business. The sale of drugs that cause many side effects brings the greatest profit. Cancer drugs are the ones which cause the highest number of side effects. Therefore they represent a huge business for drug companies, triggering a mechanism that could be also defined criminal, made by conflicts of interests, cynicism, cruelty and lies.
New generations of alternative methods would largely reduce the profit, for this reason companies don’t invest in research like the DCA one. “If DCA proves to be effective, then it will be a ridiculously cheap drug,” Michelakis said, highlighting the scarce possibilities to make profit on a drug like that.
“Without the promise of a reasonable profit, there is very little incentive for any company to develop new drugs,” explained Omudhome Ogbru, a pharmacologist R&D director at The Medicines Company in New Jersey.
The magazine Forbes classified pharmaceutical industry as the most lucrative of the world at the same level of oil industry. At so high of a business level it is not surprising that the conflicts of interests regulate choices in regards to health and ethics.
Various investigations and revelations have brought to light all the negative sides of the pharmaceutical sector. These include causation of new diseases to sell drugs, spread of epidemics in order to produce and distribute vaccines, reports on false research or falsification of data, censorship on inconvenient facts, and corruption and bribes to politicians, doctors and officials at international level.
This is all an interlacing of relations and a power game of enormous range where human life is worthless and only the money counts. Treat is better than cure for the “world’s health masters. The word is out folks.

 

thanks lil daddy for the info that was one of my biggest concers of trucking. I mean dude I would see truckers pull up n get fuel n it was literally disgusting at the amount of food trash came out the truck! Then the weight I was like ### that I'm never trucking!

 

Forgive me if this has been posted already, but here is a truckers story on being healthy on youtube.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1lbpry70o[/ame]

He goes through his exercises and whatnot.

 

Great thread!

One thing I don't think many people are aware of as far as easy foods is the amount of sodium in sliced lunch meats.

I worked as the shipper in a meat plant for a number of years and they supplied free lunch meats in the lunch room. Nice bonus, Freybe's brand, but we had a few heart attacks and I got high blood pressure for the first time in my life. Turns out they are often 1/3 sodium!!

Taught me to read the labels alright...