Trucker fitness

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Trucker fitness



Trucker fitness, or lack of.

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As a driver, you can spend 3 days getting in shape, and your trucking job will spend the next 3 days getting you back out of shape

I mean with me, I get decent time off but still notice the above, at the end of my off time I'm usually or always in optimum shape due to working out, eating healthier, resting better.

But then I notice when get off from a 3-4 day work cycle, I'm near back to not being in shape again, it happens just that fast, why?

1. Long hours of just sitting, Whether OTR or regional and back every day, you're still sitting for long periods of time in traffic, where as on other jobs there's constant movement, or if are seated can get up and walk around.

2. Do to poor health quality of food 'out there'. Everything is processed

3. Due to mental drain of driving for such long hours. As a driver not only do you drive, but you have a trailer to look out for, 50 + long vehicle which makes everything more stressful, from changing lanes, to parking to making turns. All that stress adds up at end of shift.

4. Lack of interaction with others. In the cab, there's no one to talk to, to compare your mood to, to joke with, laugh with, interact with, and then when show up to shipper or consignee, the interaction can be very dry, park here, park there, and that's it, no hug or anything, just orders.

And I could go on, and will as this section unfolds.

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Today I went to the park and just felt dead, body wasn't responsive, and I don't even drink anymore, so it's the job environment that does that to me, and the time it takes to recoup from it.

And if suffering from pain, it's even worse, cause now you have to sit there and hold large steering wheel for hours at a time, seems like no big deal until in pain, and pain drains.

When in pain, and can do nothing about it but sit still in truck, it really does drain your energy.

Where as on most other non driving jobs, if in pain can stand, walk around, bend over, go to bathroom, whatever, but not in driving.

In driving you just got to sit there for hours at a time and take it, and with cab camera watching you.

And even sometimes the tight seatbelt over your shoulder can become an irritant by rubbing against your skin all the time.

Best solution? Don't get a driving job if older, but since most don't have a choice, we'll have to come up with on job solutions in future posts.

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it's morning, pre go to work time, moments left to be at home where life is the most safe, at least for me.

For once I step out those doors, it's like stepping into hell, at least for me.

And driving, at least at my age, isn't really good for your health, truck driving that it, the long hours of just sitting still, terrible for the body.

I can spend 4 off days getting fit, staying fit, eating right, and all that all but eradicated after just one long shift of driving a semi truck.

Not to mention when 'out there', I tend to buy junk food, snack food, I'm bored to death food so I'll just eat anything to pass the time, type of stuff.

I think the effects of driving aren't as bad if one has shorter routes where in and out of truck many times a day or an hour, cause at least you're moving, interacting with others, you mind doesn't just have to sit there bored for hours at a time listening to talk radio.

But just remember, life never stops until it stops, is why this blog forum was created, cause 'all moments matter', even obscure ones like this.

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Can still eat great, if know how to shop wisely.

No need for dollar stores if a wise shopper.

Listen up you urban women, stop feeding your small feet's junk food!

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It still amazes me how few truckers fail to keep fit by doing the most simplest of things



Fitness matters, if you want to matter when older.

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I don't see myself as a trucker anymore, I think, observe, today anyways, most truckers are low IQ, eradic driving, bathroom destroying, out of shape, lacking in clothing style, lacking in personality, drive, sleep and eat all day fools, and I don't want to be associated with such types anymore.

That being said, it's time for me to go workout.

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Well, I did go workout, did about 5 laps, ye sure, to someone who's younger and in much better walking or running shape, that's nothing, but for me it'll do.
I'm not a athlete, not training for anything anymore other than the hardships of life.

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Truckers are some of the laziest people you'll ever see.
Go to rest areas, and you never ever see truckers walking or exercising, all they do is park, sleep, drive and eat.

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It's amazing how quickly the trucking lifestyle can put you back in not just bad, but terrible health!

Was away for like 11 days, and even when drank on a few of those days, in no way does that compare with the destruction just 3 long shifts in trucking can cause to your body, mind, and soul, and even moral.

Just sitting, eating, sleeping, stressing, eating, sitting, driving, sleeping, eating, what a recipy for bad health and moral.

Especially if work longer driving shifts (there's many types of trucking routes, some are less destructive to your health than others)

Like vending routes, ect, you're out and about, and moving around, not so bad actually, it's the longer routes I speak of, where spend large swaths of the day just sitting, and or of course OTR drivers, who, for the life of me, never get out of their trucks and exercise...they just park, sit, eat, and sleep.

Trucking has already taken a lot from me in life, the one thing I don't want to give it is my health.