I'm not airborne infantry anymore, but my 51 year old ass still goes backpacking in the Sierra Nevadas with my boys. LOTS of hills. Good video. Thanks!

Great vid! Having spent 4 years in the Infantry and 19 in Special Forces, I can say that this is something I wish had been institutional knowledge during my career. If you just train for rucking by rucking a lot with 100 lbs or more (trying to simulate selection events), you will break yourself. I've met many soldiers preparing for a selection course like SFAS who rucking too much with too much weight. That leads to overuse injuries like shin splints and even stress fractures before even showing up for the course. If you are prepping for a selection course, heed the advice in this video and strengthen your lower back, core, and shoulders to be able to handle the weight you will be carrying without injuring yourself.

Im convinced God put this in my feed. Thank you guys so much

Great information especially for a 35 yr old aiming for selection!

Probably the best rucking advice I've gotten

Outstanding information, thank you! I found that doing farmers carriers helps as well since the load varies at goruck events.

Excellent video, not just for exercises but more importantly recovery.

Thank you universe for answering my questions.

Great video! Much appreciated

"Which is why you guys have that big giant waist belt on your army rucksack" *Screams in Canadian Forces*

Thank you for sharing sir!

Helpful and informative video!

Good tips. Thanks.

I'm training to enlist soon. I'm a great runner but I'm short and small framed. Long story short all that time "trying" to get better at rucking just made my knees hurt and useless. I couldn't run some days bc of my knee pain. So I researched and yes...BENCH SQUATS, KNEE DRILLS, ETC WILL HELP TONS. THANK YOU FOR THE WISDOM!!!

This has been very helpful! I’m preparing for the assessment and selection for marsoc and rucking is currently my weakest point, I hadn’t even considered squats!

Great advice thanks much!

Solud pro tips. I like it.

wow thank you, i've been thinking about the heavy ruck marches ALTHOUGH i tried their backpack and i felt my core being weak and my legs were fine lol hopefully i'll be ready when i enlist :D

Outstanding!

Great material as always! The lacrosse ball has definitely helped release "tension" in the arch of my feet that occurs post-hike. On high-bar back squats: I've done my best to increase my ankle mobility. However, I still cannot reach proper depth without butt-tuck while high-bar squatting. Low-bar allows me to go to proper depth while maintaining spine alignment. Should I continue working on ankle mobility in order to finally do high-bar squats or are low-bar squats a viable alternative due to a bodily predisposition to them? Thanks guys.

Thank God we got a SF dude to tell it how it really is. I never ever ruck on my free time. Ever! But when i do it's fuckin easy to me because of squatting and always had a strong back before the army. Sometimes im really just amazed when guys say their back hurts when rucking. Like bro, HOW?! lol

I like weighted stair master training for getting in shape for rucking.

Exzellent lecture guyz

Nice one!

What I do, is walk up and down stairs while rucking, also a few incline push ups

Very helpful but coming from a medic, you should always wrap up the limb with a compression wrap. So start at your knee and wrap up the quad this will help push excess fluid up and out of your leg instead of pushing down into your lower leg.

Informative

would you recommend a hand roller for the quads vs the band? i dont have a band but i know almost everytime the bottom of my quads cramp up and i use my hand to massage the lactic acid out

Never rucked in a flat field?? Come to Florida we don't have obstacles 🤣

Oh if I had this in 2013, like so many other videos you post Lol “waist belt” like we’re allowed to use them

The ruck waist buckle gives my hips hella bad scratches and bruises when it’s 70+ lbs

Yes there are ways to supplement your hiking abilities in your weight and resistance training. However, the only way to get used to humping a 30lb plate carrier, 70lb main back, 10lb rifle, and 27lb M240, is to do exactly that.

I want to ruck so I don't have to use a back squat. I don't have a squat rack.

are we allowed to carry those items to selection? the ball and wrap?

Where should we focus? Hypertrophy, explosiveness, endurance, or strength? How many reps/sets? How many seconds of movement during the exercise? (eccentric:isometric:concentric)

Great information

I can squat a good amount for my size. And i have to honestly say I dont think it helps much with the ruck. Right now my issues are blisters and shoulder/trap pain as i enter the later miles. Im only wearing a 30lb ruck and doing around 8-10 miles at 14-15min/mile pace and its already giving me pain on my shoulder. Legs and back are fine.

Cool guys work out in their socks. Nice. 4:25

All this helps, but you’re not gonna get better at rucking unless you go rucking regularly. I weigh like 145lbs at 5’11 and I’m pretty good at it. Gotta build your mental robustness as well as conditioning your body to it. Good video.

The British are the ultimate rucking badasses. San Carlos to Port Stanley...google it. What a yomp. Those lads carried over 100 pounds and then fought a battle and won. Those Royal marines and Paras are next level.

Are you allowed to have a lacrosse ball in training?

I was in the Navy but I know Marine and Army friends were rucking all of the time. So why would you not ruck more to get used to it? I get what you are saying but I just don’t see them having to you workout in bootcamp to get better. They just make you do it more and more.

Any advice for the heels of your foot getting chewed up?

I don't think compression wraps or those balls are allowed at selection. I know you could improvise, anyone know?

Any tips on Ruck Runs. For distance and heavy loads

Why no RPs bro? Lol

more weight = more injuries.

Umm, we didn’t have a big giant waist belt on our Alice packs. Maybe in the new kinder, gentler, worried about your feelings millennial army the rucksacks have nice wide padded belts, but we had heavy, unergonomic, uncomfortable, grunt-proof gear. We didn’t have little water bladders to sip from, we had 1qt canteens that had been reissued 10 times over and often had mold in them when you first got it. They were nice enough to let us carry them in a steel cup inside our canteen covers that were great at absorbing and holding moisture. We had crappy canvas shelter halves that we carried but somehow ended up sleeping under our ponchos. Ask an 11C (mortarman) or 60 gunner what their rucksack weighed ;) Early 90’s soldier here. We had it easy compared to those 10-20 years before us. I don’t know what the hell is going on in today’s Army but I’m pretty sure our enemies are loving it. With all my ranting, forgot to say great advice and info. Airborne lead the way!

Never ever put on a compression band like that. You absolutly have to wrap towards your heart. You jeopardize your venous valves (google translator, sry if I messed the term up)who are not able to work or maybe even withstand the pressure you put on them if you wrap like him. Besides that great video and quality content!

Lol so apparently stamina/cardio is not needed. Righttttttt

Sometimes you need to know when to shut the Ruck up!

The waist belt? You mean the “bitch belt” that they make you tie off in the infantry? 😂 My DS would be disappointed in me if he saw me with that on.....

That’s not a ruck, this is a ruck...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j56Jobx_sbywZ5c.html

Zero evidence for the efficacy of all the fancy warm ups and "mobilizations". People are better off spending their time actually working out

You actually look and sound soft for special ops guys.

Dont wear the POG belt