>>1544570Follow-up to explain the specific exercises:
1. Squats (low rep, high weight): These are an amazing exercise to build up leg power, there are numerous variances so read up and focus on your form.
2.Squats (high rep low weight): I like to do this to get some muscular endurance with some weights, you don't really need it but I like the balance between high weight, low rep and low weight, high rep schemes.
3. Farmers Walk: This is one of my favorite exercises and is basically just walking a certain distance carrying some weights in your hands. This really builds up your Traps and your grip. While the grip is not important, your traps are what the shoulder straps of a pack are resting on so don't ignore them.
4. Running: As explained in the first post, running will help build up your cardiovascular endurance and that will make you a lot less likely to get winded on long hikes.
5. Sprints: Where the run will help your endurance, this will help your speed and build leg power. Just don't run or sprint with much, if any, weight.
6 Rucking: Self Explanatory, in order to get better at rucking, you need to ruck.
