Garmin adds RUCKING Support (weighted hiking)

via @Jw, ty

Garmin is about to add a Rucking Sport Profile to select sports devices with additional analyses in the Garmin Connect app.

Garmin Rucking – The Details

Garmin will soon support rucking by introducing a dedicated sports profile in its watches, making tracking progress easier with added pack weight. Ruckers (is that a word?) can now manually add the weight of their pack, allowing them to monitor its impact on their overall fitness metrics without altering other activity stats. With the new rucking profile, Garmin users can track basic metrics like distance and pace and how pack weight influences their endurance and muscle strength over time. As far as I know, no other brand supports rucking.

Adding pack weight to hikes is a potentially good way to increase difficulty and improve fitness, and Garmin’s new feature will help users track this more precisely. The Garmin device records the total weight of your pack and its contents so users can observe how pack weight affects their training metrics and identify trends. With these updates, Garmin enables ruckers to get more out of each session, using data-driven insights to enhance strength and cardiovascular health.

When?

Soon. ie this year (2024)

Any other speculation

I suppose this feature might be announced alongside an Instinct 3, though there is no new intel on that. #Speculation