someone suggested it to me so i've been trying it out. just wearing a backpack with some good straps with 40lbs in it. marching around and climbing staircases and stuff with it.
i've actually been sticking to it and i feel like it's got me mini-sore compared to the soreness i used to experience from squatting, deadlifting years ago. i've had a lot of trouble motivating myself to return to a gym schedule, calisthenics, or do anything really.
am i just wasting my time? it's been great just going on night walks and listening to audiobooks.
it is a major meme if you think about building strength, endurance/cardio and size. From a toughness perspective it is pretty nice, though it is a double edged sword, carrying heavy for long will put you out and make you incapable a couple of days. It falls in between two chairs, you will neither build size nor increase your endurance, it will however make you tougher and more suited for carrying loads around, which you never will unless you are in the military and a hardcore camper/hiker. And it will do nothing for you cardio and endurance
unless you fall in to one of the two groups i listed, you are hardcore wasting your time
Joshua Foster
you won't be in SIR comic bro chill
Joshua Carter
this is true. do rucking military style and only do high intensity training. this is why sprinters are so much more aesthicc than marathon runners. humans evolved to african-american walk ridiculously slowly for dozens of miles (sweating is not for jogging, but actually because the sun would beat down on you for hours at a time), or run like fucking hell for a couple hundred meters.
Mason Reyes
Holy fuck you're a genius Okay but like ookie buttlick
Tyler Bell
yeah but people who would ruck aren't doing it all day every day. there'd be a pretty big difference right? i mean even the load would probably be less bad on your knees than the impact of running?
It’s a great way to destroy your knees, ankles, and back
Charles Thompson
Holy fuck please stop tailing me through dimensions
Lucas Thomas
Go for endurance, cardio and (potentially) general health. Won't build size and it can potentially fuck your joints if the weight's too high. Personally I'd suggest mixing it in with hill sprints or beach and water runs for HIIT. Running up hills, on soft sand or through thigh deep water is a fucking killer cardio workout and takes a lot of strain off your knees. But at the same time, rucking is good for that more long term endurance and puts more tension through your bones (good for building bone mineral density and avoiding osteoporosis when you're old).
Jace Butler
you do know that the reason the military do rucking is literally to break you down? it is not about getting you in to shape the slightest. It is about training your mind and the individual soldier to keep going when every inch of your body screams stop.
Regularly doing that for no reason is batshit retarded as it breaks your body down
Chase Powell
You retard that's the secret to gains! Breaking it down!
Nicholas Cruz
yeah... everything i read about rucking suggests all these things to keep yourself healthy. all the stuff the military does (running, extremely heavy weight, marching for hours) is going to fuck you up no matter what
Angel Fisher
a protip is that being able to carry a heavy load for hours has got nothing to do with your overall shape. Any person who does not have a health issue is able to do it, it all boils down to willpower and your state of mind. When me and my buddy got conscripted we were pretty much untrained lazy nintendo kids, many of the other conscripts were well trained strong dudes . During the death march how trained you were didn't matter the slightest, well trained strong guys were crying and throwing tantrums because they were "exhausted" and in "agony" just as much as dyel nerds were, while me and my buddy had no problem marching on, because we were having a good time and our will was not broken. The will is the first thing that breaks and starts hurting, and the military don't want those dudes, hence why they put people through death marches
