You wear a weighted backpack and you go for a walk. It’s THAT simple. If you’re new to rucking, start with 20 lbs. If you’re advanced, 50 lbs. is the max weight we recommend. A good pace is 15 minutes/mile. If that’s too fast for you, reduce the weight. If it’s too slow, increase the …
RUCKING GEAR TIPS Make the weight stable inside your ruck. Cinch your ruck all the way down – no beboppin’. Don’t forget to hydrate. You wear a backpack, it’s a fitness thing. When in doubt, start with 20 lbs. Whatever bag you use, you want it to conform to your back as much as …
RUCK•ING [VERB] To put weight on your back and go for a walk. More weight or more miles equals more results, more friends and more time together equals more fun. Ruckers are a tribe and rucking is a way of life. A community and a movement of people in cities, suburbs, and neighborhoods all over …
Getting ready for an event is rarely easy. Not just the hours you spend in a gym or the miles you put on your feet. But balancing it out with everything else in your life is tricky. One thing that I have seen over and over is the dreaded training injury, which sucks. I can’t …
Sandbags are one of our favorite pieces of training gear. They’re durable, simulate uneven weight distribution, and easily transportable. Great for someone who can’t always make it to the gym or is traveling a lot. Mike Knaisch from CrossFit Lakeland walks you through some of the finer points when it comes to basic sandbag movements. That …
Bee Yang is the true definition of a great GRT. He shows up everytime and puts out 100% all while smiling. I could bore you with his GORUCK accomplishments but you’d then just get really jealous and have to go sign up for like 13 more events. So I won’t. Recently he took to his …
