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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BeHereNow97, post: 11580010, member: 307324&quot;]It&#039;s hard to stay in shape OTR. I see the general advice in here of going on walking trails, yeah that&#039;s great and all but you tell me how much you&#039;re going to feel like going for a walk in the park December - February in Iowa, Wyoming, Wisconsin, PA, etc. etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing that I struggled with the most is that OTR sometimes I would just get so tired towards the end of my shift and so to stay awake you just get some sugar in you to push through the final hour or two to get to parking. Cookies were my weakness in that regard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem is that you get bored driving. So if you&#039;re a smoker you smoke and if you&#039;re a non-smoker you eat. That&#039;s just how it is. You can try to get some crushed ice or something and munch on that, maybe that would help.</p><p><br /></p><p>You really do have to stay disciplined, it&#039;s an uphill battle. You are not going to go for leisurely walks on the walking trails in half this country December - March when it&#039;s cold as hell up north, it&#039;s just not happening. Parking in the back of the parking lot furthest away from the building helps. I never used a pee bottle unless it was an emergency so that meant I usually walked in and out of the truck stop at least 2 times each night I parked. And then once in the morning again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem that I ran into OTR was a lot of shippers and receivers want you to sit in the truck while you wait to get loaded. So you can forget about exercises there as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have someone to talk to on the phone that might help with your boredom driving so that instead of eating you&#039;ll be talking to someone and that will keep you distracted. Definitely get a fridge that plugs into the cigarette lighter and try to stock up on food from Walmart, that&#039;s what I did. I still gained about 15 pounds the 2 years I did OTR driving. Not much compared to some people but definitely not healthy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the biggest thing that people overlook is just how many steps you get AT HOME WALKING AROUND THE HOUSE. That is exercise that you don&#039;t even think about. Walking from the living room to the kitchen to your bedroom then downstairs and then back upstairs. All of that really adds up. I never noticed how MUCH exercise somebody gets just by walking around the house compared to sitting on the bed in the sleeper birth the whole time when your shift ends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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