Heavy Stride vs Ruck Mode

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.

Ruck Mode records loaded walks with your Apple Watch and supported iOS devices. Set your pack weight, start a workout, and review your loaded pace and saved ruck. Route and heart-rate information depend on your device, permissions, and the samples captured. FREE, WITH NO SAVE LIMIT - Record and save loaded rucks - Pack weight on each loaded session - Live distance, time, and loaded pace - Post-ruck debrief and workout history - Save workouts to Apple Health with your permission PRO - Loaded Mile Score comparisons across your rucks - Debrief insights Pro is available monthly or yearly. Eligible new subscribers can start Pro Annual with a free trial. The App Store shows the current price and eligibility before confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage subscriptions in your Apple account settings. BUILT FOR Rucking, weighted walks, weighted-vest training, and pack hikes. Scale load and distance to your fitness. PRIVACY Readiness calculations run on your device. Optional cloud AI debriefs require explicit permission to send selected workout and health summaries with a persistent identifier to the hosted debrief service and Anthropic. Connected Strava uploads and weather/map requests have separate data paths. Product and subscription analytics use persistent random identifiers; this version excludes workout measurements and activity milestones from analytics. Public Friends workout posting has been removed. See the privacy policy for version differences, service providers, and data requests. No ads. We do not sell health or workout data. Ruck Mode is a fitness training tool, not medical advice. It is not affiliated with Apple, any military branch, or an event organizer. Terms of Use: https://ruckmode.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://ruckmode.app/privacy