Ruck Work Tracker vs Heavy Stride

Ruck Work Tracker is your go-to app for logging, tracking, and improving your rucking workouts. Whether you're new to rucking or a seasoned veteran, this app helps you measure your effort and see your progress over time. WHAT IS RUCKING? Rucking is simply walking with weight on your back. It's one of the most effective full-body workouts you can do — burning more calories than walking alone while building strength and endurance. THREE WORKOUT MODES Start Ruck Track your rucks with real-time GPS or enter distance manually. Add your ruck weight plus optional extra credit items like a sandbag, jerry can, or CMU. See your distance, pace, and route on a map as you go. Start Workout Log ruck-based exercises like squats, thrusters, overhead presses, lunges, rows, and more. Track reps or timed holds. Ruck lunges earn double credit for the extra effort. Distance Challenge Set a target distance and try to beat your personal best time. Track your PRs across 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 mile distances or set a custom goal. MEASURE YOUR EFFORT Ruck Work Tracker calculates two key metrics to quantify your effort: Ruck Work Units (RWU) — A measure of total work combining weight carried, distance covered, and exercises completed. Ruck Tons — Total weight carried across all workouts divided by 2000, showing how much cumulative weight you've moved. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS View your workout history with detailed stats for every session. See weekly trends, all-time totals, and personal records. Charts show your progress over time for RWU, Ruck Tons, and distance. FEATURES - GPS route tracking with real-time map display - Manual distance entry option - 12+ ruck exercises with rep and time tracking - Personal best tracking for distance challenges - Daily, weekly, and all-time statistics - Customizable default weights for ruck and accessories - Weight units in pounds or kilograms - Distance units in miles or kilometers - Quick add reps customization - Cloud-synced workout data RWT PRO (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) The app is completely free for daily use. All workout tracking features work without a subscription. RWT Pro unlocks unlimited workout history — free users can access the last 7 days of data. - Monthly: $4.99/month - Annual: $49.99/year (save 17%) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://ruckworktracker.replit.app/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://ruckworktracker.replit.app/terms-of-service

Heavy Stride is built for ruckers who want more than a generic walking workout. Track rucks on iPhone or Apple Watch with live distance, pace, calories, steps, heart rate, elevation, and pack weight. Review finished workouts with route maps, splits, break detection, load-aware recovery metrics, and analytics designed around load-bearing training instead of generic walking summaries. Heavy Stride helps you: • start workouts from phone or watch • set exact distance targets, including long events like 26.2 • track long rucks accurately on Apple Watch and iPhone • review maps, splits, and break-adjusted pace • infer stops after the workout, then edit or remove breaks and recalculate split pacing • compare training load, weekly tonnage, and same-weight pace improvement across workouts • understand how pack weight affects effort, calories, ruck work, and training stress • keep a live ruck visible across phone and watch, then transfer to iPhone if the watch battery gets low • share a polished route-and-stats recap image through Messages, Mail, and other share targets The companion experience keeps workouts visible across devices so you can train with the device that best fits the moment, hand off from watch to phone when needed, and still review the same workout afterward on iPhone.