What Do You Do To Stay Fit As a Trucker?

Lots of drivers stay fit on the road. Some use those resistance bands and dumb-bells. Some also carry a folding bicycle inside the truck, then use it when parked at a truck stop to ride around town or wherever.
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I jog wherever I go, if I can find any road that is halfway safe for me to do so that I can get to on foot from the truck stop. I know what truck stops have good jogging roads around them so I try to stop at those if I can. If a truck stop has no roads other than dangerous highways on all sides and there is literally NOWHERE off of truck stop property to exercise, I call those truck stops "landlocked."

I'm 5'8 and 163lbs and that hasn't changed in 4 years of truck driving. I also eat a salad every day in the truck. What you eat matters more than exercising but exercise is very important. I've also met some cool people while out jogging, found an out of the way garage sale in a subdivision that had tons of stuff I could use, found lakes, found beautiful subdivision of houses, found junky places, found old dildos on the side of the road. You just never know what you're going to find when you leave the truck stop and start walking/jogging.

I do it as much for the mental part as the physical. I have to get away from the truck for a while. No trucks idling, no APU's, nothing. Just birds chirping in the trees as I walk/jog by. I walked out onto a dock in a lake one time and watched some ducks in the water. Just anything but that #### truck for a while.

 

A few years back, I was siting at a dock in El Paso next to a team truck when the second driver suddenly appeared. He hopped out of the cab in running shorts, ankle socks, and running shoes (no shirt), popped in some bluetooth headphones, and took off around the corner like a bat outta hell. He returned a half-hour later, drenched in sweat, toweled off, then got back in the sleeper to change in preparation for going on-duty.

The point of the story is that everyone has lifestyle choices to make. You can choose to be sedentary in a tuck, or you can choose fitness. You don't need an entire gym... resistance bands, folding bike, dumbells, maybe a couple of weight plates. That should be enough to stay fit without adding too much weight to the truck or taking up too much of the limited space available.

 

That's ok except his team driver has to smell his sweaty butt for hours until they get to a truck stop with a shower. I will ONLY exercise if I can get a shower afterwards. And I run alone in my truck. I would NEVER driver after sweating like that.

 

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I have a planet fitness membership, they are in every major city and even the smaller ones . Play golf in Utah when I go there and make a point to do push-ups , sit ups when ever I can .