>>1482601Rucking is a meme: if you want a tough hike, go uphill.
Humans are not designed to carry large weights, that’s why fatties get knee and hip operations and girls with big boobies have back problems. Just because the government needs its soldiers to carry loads of memegear doesn’t mean it’s good for them in the long term - the percentage of soldiers who “rucked” who now have huge knee and back problems is very high, and typically ex soldiers who go /out/ try and keep their pack weight as low as they can and use trekking poles to save their precious knee cartilage.
Throughout history, the poorest most desperate people have carried their possessions, and any “bourgeoisie” who valued their health (for instance the health and fitness obsessed Athenian middle and upper class) would use pack mules or camels or goats or bison or horse etc.
