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Injury Prevention Exercises - Fitness Tips For Drivers
Drive through places can be so tempting for you when you are on the road for hours and are working to get somewhere by a certain time. Skipping meals is also common practice. Aside from planning your meals better to carry proper foods with you there are other issues you need to attend to or the next thing you know, the steering wheel will get stuck on your belly unable to turn! The weight can creep up on you especially when working for long hours. Police patrols have this issue as well and have belts which cause them more discomfort since they have to wear them while driving. Investing in a band collection such as bodylastics would be your best bet. Even if you can only fit in 15 mins of resistance per day with some walking, you are ahead of the game. You probably sit more than you did in school since the largest part of your day is driving so making that extra effort to get some movement in is essential. Postural exercises such as rotator cuff work, external and internal rotation is top of the pile. Next you want to add some crunches, back extensions which can be done cobra style (yoga) and resisted lunges. The great thing about the bodylastics is you can carry it with you and use it anytime. It has attachments allowing for lat pull work or leg curls done lying. Included in the set is a little booklet with a collection of programs you can do, you choose the one which suits your needs best. You as a driver want to work on mid back exercises to help with posture, leg exercises, and core. If you have time you try to cover the whole body but you don't have to do that at one session. You can break it up over the week so that you fit it in. Even if you have to do an exercise or 2 before bed time at least you get it in. Usually you do not want to train pre bed but with passive work it should be fine. Make a conscious effort to take in large amounts of water all day; don't just fill up on coffee. You need to do whatever you can to help keep fat gains away and frequent water intake helps. Now I know this is not necessarily convenient for those long trip drivers but your passengers need to stop so you may as well drink up and stop along with them for those bathroom breaks. This small effort will help you last through your career pain free
and keep you fit along the way.
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Bus
drivers, cab drivers and truck drivers spend a huge portion of their
time seated, using only the lower portion of their legs for gas
or brake and eat at the worst places. Bus drivers come in 2 flavors,
the city drivers and the long distance drivers which take you from
city to city and so on.
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