 Next question is from K. M. Emerson. What are your thoughts on rucking? Does it combine some of the benefits of resistance training with cardio? What impact does it have on posture? I almost like you said a dirty word there, Doug. It's uh, I I'm curious to what you guys think. I don't off top of my head I don't see a lot of value in it unless you are specifically training for something where you're gonna need to go like For distance with the backpack on you. Yeah, or carry like it Very specific right if you're somebody who is just trying to get in good shape Or you're just trying to improve your your mild time or just be general strength Whatever I see no value in it whatsoever If you are going to if you're training and you're gonna go like a go-rock competition You know and that's part of the competition is you have to you have to carry a weighted vest on there Then that makes a lot of sense. So so rucking essentially is training with like weight on your body Right for the listener. So you can use with a backpack or people will do this with weight Vests and stuff like that. I'm with you Adam I think if you're training specifically to get good at carrying things for long distances like you're going backpacking So I've had clients that I've trained like this where they they told me Hey, you know, I want to get I want you to get me fit and ready I'm gonna do this, you know, this the seven-day backpacking trip or we're gonna be hiking miles every day everything that I'm Taking on this trip has to fit on my back in which case I would actually have them train This way they would go and do hikes and they would carry weight I'd have them put weight in their backpack or whatever or and then towards as they got closer I had them actually carry the pack that they would carry when they would go on their backpacking trip other than that You know, here's some of the problems with rucking People don't walk Very good anyway, like I don't have good biomechanics. Anyway, then they're gonna throw a lot of a lot of load on and then they're gonna go for long distances Yeah I tend to see a lot of joint problems a lot of foot ankle and knee problems You have to be pretty fit to go like I don't think you should go from like not hiking a lot So like I'm just a regular dude now. I'm gonna start rucking I think you need to be really good at hiking first like and really fit and then maybe you can add some resistance Otherwise causes problem. Yeah I was trying to think of a justified way of like throwing it in to build work capacity or like from that you know aspect of like if I was to think of conditioning but like adding weight into my conditioning if My sport was something where I guess like a wrestling or where I'm actually carrying another person and trying to like Move another object that was fighting me and like the added resistance of that Where it would make sense where the like enduring that mattered like having that that added stress on me would matter I would probably program that in somehow, but in in terms of yeah Like the joint thing would be my issue with it is all that added weight over time as you're You know walking or running especially with it will Will definitely impact your joints negatively well The second part of the question too is does it combine some of the benefits of resistance training with cardio and no No, not really. I mean it's basically cardio still. It's just I Mean we don't I'm not even a fan of people using weights in circuits That's too close to cardio doing cardio. It's just a weighted vest or a backpack Yeah, like you'll get a little bit more strength than you will without putting weight on your body But it's it's all almost all endurance and then you know the ask what impact does it have on your posture? I mean depends on the person, you know and the load right if you're carrying a 60 pound bag You're probably gonna your posture is gonna currently compensate to manage that 60 pound it We're talking about a five or 10 15 pound vest on you. Maybe not as much But if you're loading a backpack on your bag Most people are gonna be leaning forward when they do that your posture is gonna be different So not a lot of value You're not getting a ton of reward and that's not saying you don't get any reward You're not getting a very much reward for the amount of risk and what you have to do if your benefit is to Build strength. There's much better things for you to be doing Resistance training wise if your goal is to have great cardio endurance You can have great cardio endurance and not have to put a weighted vest on your back