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
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Aaaaah, when will they add unicycling???
after horse riding and unicorn riding I believe.
Horseback riding has been added as an activity on the Fenix 8 if you did it know.
sorry, i was being temporarily hilarious. at least i thought so 😉
the horse was the link to the unicorn which linked back to the unicycle. Jokes are always funnier when you have to explain them and when they’re not funny 🙁
I cannot fathom that they haven’t added roller ski as a separate activity.
roller skis are the ones that take up the entire road width? we have a couple of guys around here that do that and it looks fun. Going up hills…less so.
It’s basically a road version of cross country skiing. People do both skate and classic. It’s a somewhat popular activity for many endurance athletes in countries with a big cross country culture.
This is great! A days mountain trek with 20kg on the backs vs 2 is quite different and has given a faulty training score so far.
there’s going to be ways to determine rucking vs regular use. I’m unsure of the details on exactly how and how it might integrate with the physio metrics
Hopefully I can add pack weight to the Hiking activity as well … since we don’t get a Trekking activity 🙂