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How much weight/distance for backpack training?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 1674990" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>I've always seen the practicality of what they call the farmer's walk in strongman competition, don't have to be an aspiring strongman to benefit tremendously from the stupidly simple but challenging discipline of picking up something heavy and seeing how far you can carry it. I grew up on a farm (worst farmkid ever though, no sense of direction - when people tell me east/south/north/west half the time I have no idea which way those are - no sense of mechanical inclination or intuitiveness, no burning interest in what the weather is doing according to people who live within visible distance of myself <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) and helped out as much as I could. For a few winters our set up involved me carrying 2 5 gallon buckets of water for the bulls we kept at our farmyard about 150 paces or so and repeating this 10-15 times a day every winter. I was 14, quite gangly, about 130 pounds, and am not athletic at all (very uncoordinated, actually just broke my middle toe two days ago because at the age of 27 I still haven't figured out where my feet are apparently) and I remember it being very smugly gratifying to see how mad it made the taller, heavier, more muscular looking, more athletic (and less socially awkward) guys I went to school with that they could never take me in an arm wrestle or pick up and walk around with as heavy and awkward to carry items in the machine shop. not the same as walking around with a rucksack but I'd recommend this too, farmer's walks require no fancy equipment, are simple and straightforward to do, work pretty much everything and are tremendously taxing on the heart and lungs if you're going heavy enough, and get results fast. Increased grip strength is never a bad thing in life either, and has in fact been demonstrated to correlate with life expectancy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 1674990, member: 109862"] I've always seen the practicality of what they call the farmer's walk in strongman competition, don't have to be an aspiring strongman to benefit tremendously from the stupidly simple but challenging discipline of picking up something heavy and seeing how far you can carry it. I grew up on a farm (worst farmkid ever though, no sense of direction - when people tell me east/south/north/west half the time I have no idea which way those are - no sense of mechanical inclination or intuitiveness, no burning interest in what the weather is doing according to people who live within visible distance of myself :) ) and helped out as much as I could. For a few winters our set up involved me carrying 2 5 gallon buckets of water for the bulls we kept at our farmyard about 150 paces or so and repeating this 10-15 times a day every winter. I was 14, quite gangly, about 130 pounds, and am not athletic at all (very uncoordinated, actually just broke my middle toe two days ago because at the age of 27 I still haven't figured out where my feet are apparently) and I remember it being very smugly gratifying to see how mad it made the taller, heavier, more muscular looking, more athletic (and less socially awkward) guys I went to school with that they could never take me in an arm wrestle or pick up and walk around with as heavy and awkward to carry items in the machine shop. not the same as walking around with a rucksack but I'd recommend this too, farmer's walks require no fancy equipment, are simple and straightforward to do, work pretty much everything and are tremendously taxing on the heart and lungs if you're going heavy enough, and get results fast. Increased grip strength is never a bad thing in life either, and has in fact been demonstrated to correlate with life expectancy. [/QUOTE]
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