Chester “C. Edziu” Pacana currently serves as the vice president of sales and recruitment at DeRosa and Associates in Jamestown, Tennessee. As a conservative wealth management planner, he focuses on helping clients safeguard their principal investments and secure their retirement. Away from the office, Chester Pacana enjoys traveling, hiking, and the lesser-known sport of rucking.
Rucking is an activity that involves purposeful walking with a rucksack or backpack strapped to one’s back. While rucking through mountain terrain is just hiking, rucking in cities simply goes by the name of “rucking.”
As a sport that improves cardiovascular fitness, it does demand a degree of energy, endurance, and commitment. It can burn as much as three times the calories that walking does. But because the weight of the backpack can vary, rucking is accessible for people of all ages and degrees of fitness and strength.
By increasing the weight of the backpack, a person can experience increased resistance in the shoulders and back, promoting an increase in strength without the addition of unneeded physical bulk. Increasing the pace of movement speeds up these gains even more. People experienced in the art of rucking point out that walking with a weighted pack is actually a core exercise for United States’ military special forces team members.
