*Sample* | Outdoor Rambling about my Rucking Adventures – includes evening cricket sounds & white noise (Bonus Episode #108)
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Whispering Harris | ASMR & Insomnia Network
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🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another bonus episode of Sleep Whispers, an extra treat for my Soul Plus members. |
| 0:12.0 | This is bonus episode number 108, and it's another backyard rambles session. So yeah, once again, I'm inside my |
| 0:28.0 | gazebo tent in my backyard on a warm summer night. Tonight, I'll be rambling about my experiences with rucking. |
| 0:43.3 | What is rucking? |
| 0:46.3 | You may know. |
| 0:50.3 | It's kind of getting to become a popular form of exercise. |
| 0:59.0 | It's not very complicated. |
| 1:02.0 | It's simply walking with weights. |
| 1:07.0 | And this typically involves wearing a weighted vest or wearing some kind of backpack that has weights in it or it's just somehow a heavy backpack. |
| 1:26.6 | I guess if you even walk around your neighborhood with your kid on your back, then yeah, I'd call that rucking. |
| 1:37.3 | It's just walking with extra weight. |
| 1:42.3 | And the extra weight can be anywhere from 5 pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds, or whatever you want it to be. |
| 1:59.0 | Even the distance that you walk can be for as long as you |
| 2:04.6 | like or as long as it feels comfortable for you. This concept of rocking as a form of exercise, I think it basically evolved from the military and special forces. |
| 2:29.3 | The soldiers train by walking from miles with backpacks. |
| 2:39.0 | That weigh 45 pounds, 55 pounds, and 65 pounds, and maybe a lot more. |
| 2:51.6 | The military, or at least the soldiers, |
| 2:57.6 | I don't know if it's an official term, |
| 3:01.6 | call their backpacks, rucks, or rucks. So walking with a ruck was called rock marching or rucking. And that's what I'll be talking about today is rucking. All right, enough about the history of rucking. |
| 3:32.0 | This episode is about how I got into rucking as a form of exercise. |
| 3:43.6 | It all started when I was watching this TV show about a training program for soldiers in the special forces? |
| 4:00.3 | How by special forces, I mean. |
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