Title says it all
Title says it all
The weight of a heavy backpack should be carried by your hips primarily. Adjust your backpack.
Take out the heavy items.
-pack your heaviest materials closer to the potion of the pack touching your back.
- carry the pack higher, and experiment with altering chest strap/ waist strap attachment to mix up weight distribution.
- shoulder adduction stretch, lat stretch, pec stretch.
- invest in a lax ball or tennis ball, place it under the sore spot, and roll on top. Kelly starret has some good lat mobility exercises.
stop being a pu$$y
Is there any way you could lighten the backpack? Like if you’re carrying books around, could you just use an iPad instead?
Steveyboy wrote:
Title says it all
Is this like a regular school backpack? If so there’s not much you can do. Tape towels around the straps.
Get stronger?
Alan
Loosen your bra.
External frame backpacks are much easier to carry (teh weight is mostly on the hips), but look gross. Internal frames are supposed to get bent to your individual back, but I found the steel difficult to bend.
Get a closed cell foam sleeping pad and cut wide shoulder strap liners. They are pretty easy to put into place--4 seconds. You can sleep on the rest of the pad.
Millennium Falcon wrote:
External frame backpacks are much easier to carry (teh weight is mostly on the hips), but look gross. Internal frames are supposed to get bent to your individual back, but I found the steel difficult to bend.
Get a closed cell foam sleeping pad and cut wide shoulder strap liners. They are pretty easy to put into place--4 seconds. You can sleep on the rest of the pad.
I have my good ‘ol Army Molle Ruck. I have mine set very high and tight. It suited me well for the 26.2 shuffle I did at BATAAN.
Alan
Runningart2004 wrote:
It suited me well for the 26.2 shuffle I did at BATAAN.
At 100 years old you started a new career as a physical therapist? Exciting stuff!
Niw that you have already done the damage, the best thing for sore traps, neck muscles is either time, or if you can afford it, a massage. I think someone mentioned a tennis ball which will work also.
Sounds like there are some former “Ruck” harden guys chiming in already so nothing more I can say. But learn to pack your ruck better before going out again. The last thing you want or need is to be a casualty from your own doing.
And for what its worth, i never pack the heaviest stuff towards the bottom, makes for a very unpleaseant march especially when your most important gear is at the bottom. God forbid you go down and someone else has to go through your sack. I akways put my heaviest on top
I've stopped strengthening my muscles since they are not visible through the fat. I'll lose weight in spring. Living a short bus ride from the beach, I can't resist it.
Mountain climbing is what got me into America. Communists thought an mountain expedition organizer was dedicated. Climbing in the Adirondacks is the most inspiring form of recreation I've done; the gentleness of the climb leaves plenty of room for meditation.
The most difficult position I attempted in yoga was difficulty 6/63, Intense Side Stretch; Downward Facing Tree is difficulty 10 and One Armed is probably more difficult. I gave it up when I got injured twice in the same place; I still have a manual. Now I even find it difficult to stretch--I do it on weekends when I get pumped up.
This is enough for a weekday.