best way
First when people talk about training for rucking they could mean two different things.
1. Your looking to get used to having a ruck on your back and it not bother you.
-Guess what, that will never happen, even if you have 35lbs in there, after a while it’s going to suck. That’s all mental, either you have the will to push through it or you don’t.
2. Your treating every ruck as a race event the same as any 10k or triathlon.
-My workout that pushed me to the top of my class in rucking was to never ruck in training until it was a scored or gated event. Each one was treated as a race and I wanted to win it. To train for that I spent most of my time on the treadmill. I called it the 6 and 6 for 60. 6% incline, 6mph, for 60 minutes. It’s a slow shitty burn, the kind of burn that replicates those long rucks in the NC hills. You don’t have to start out with those numbers, but if you decrease either speed or incline mirror the other number. So as an example 5% incline and 5mph. On your time make it whatever you need to in order to complete it injury free. On those workout days that would be the only workout I would do. And I wouldn’t do that more than 2x a week.
Remember save your joints and bones for game day. Training shouldn’t take away from your readiness it should only improve it.
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