Weight lifting

Tire chains, wrappers, heavy fuel hoses, big shop tools, parts, snow shoveling, packing a chain saw, but not in an actual gym. I am too tired from working most days, to lift anything heavier than a bowl of icecream in the evening. Maybe switching to a more physical haul would be a good way to build strength.

 

Just use your own body weight, you'll put on more weight over time.

 

I lift 4x a week but I'm also home every night.

I will say that you can get a suprising amount of muscle gain from just dumbbells. Not gym-level ripped but enough that people start to take notice.

 

I lift during the weekends..... I use to ride my mountain bike on the trails all the time and walk uptown a lot, had to stop the walking and biking this year due to surgery on foot about a year ago..... its hard to lift and not do any cardio....

 

I am home every weekend and do an hour of farmers walk plus a soccer game.
Also got a pull up bar in my truck and a kettlebell. I only started to use kettlebells back in the spring and wish I got into that earlier. Takes less amount of space in the truck than barbells and can do better exercises.
I think kettlebell swing is the best ever exercise for truckers

 

I’m not a driver anymore, but I was able to build a decent amount of muscle OTR with resistance bands & body weight activities. Dumbbells would be nice but you need a decent amount of weight to be productive.