Loaded Carry ▸ Features
What you
actually need.
A rucking app built around the load, the miles, and the crew beside you.
General-purpose activity trackers may record the route without accounting for the carried load. Loaded Carry records the load as part of the session.
Physical
Track weight
like it matters.
Weight input on every ruck. Calories calculated with load and elevation. Progress shows weight increases over time. The defining metric of rucking, treated like one.
"Gym routines don't prepare you for loaded miles."
Physical
Workouts that
belong on the trail.
Ruck PT combines weighted movement with exercises along your route. A solo library for training on your own schedule, built for the loaded miles.
"Nobody starts rucking for what it does to their head."
Mental
The mile that
argues back.
The first mile is loud — the strap, the pace, whatever you said on Thursday. Then the pack settles where it always settles and the noise goes with it. Problems that wouldn't move at a desk start moving around mile two.
Later it turns. The pack is wearing through your shoulders, you're hot, and the voice starts making its case. Every step is its own small decision, and quitting is available at all of them.
The skill is finding somewhere to stand while it argues — not clamping down on the discomfort, not giving the voice a vote. You let it talk. You don't answer. You keep the pace. That's the rep that carries.
Tracking keeps running with the screen dark. Nothing on the screen needs you.
"The work is logged. The next decision still matters."
The Advisor
Pace, distance, and weight tell the Advisor what the ruck actually asked of you. It gives you one clear next step, then checks the next eligible ruck against what you were shown. No canned calendar. No pretending every week starts from zero.
A jump in distance belongs in the context of the work that came before it.
Safety
Your body adapts
on its own schedule.
Loaded Carry flags a session when its distance is more than ten percent longer than your longest ruck in the previous thirty days. That is context for the next decision, not a promise that an injury will or will not happen.
Weather doesn't care what's on your calendar. Real-time weather safety alerts monitor heat index with WBGT-inspired thresholds, cold and wind chill warnings for winter rucking, and sunrise/sunset awareness for early morning ruckers. The environment is a threat vector too.
Weather safety alerts are always free. Safety is never paywalled.
Safety Beacon
Share your ruck with someone who cares. Live location. Overdue alerts. Accountability that goes both ways.
Live location sharing.
Your safety contacts see your position in real time on a live map. No app install required — just a link.
Real-time tracking viewer.
Safety contacts get a Mapbox-powered live view of your route, pace, and progress. No login needed.
Overdue check-in alerts.
If you don't check in on time, your contacts get notified via email and SMS. Automatic.
Set your window.
Define your expected duration. The system watches. If you go silent, it acts.
Free users get 1 safety contact. Pro unlocks 5 contacts with email + SMS alerts.
"The rucking community is scattered across Facebook groups and word of mouth."
Social
Find your people.
Follow other ruckers. Join local clubs. Find events. Show up. Share routes. Build something that outlasts any single leader.
Lead
Clubs shouldn't die when one leader burns out. Every event carries a lead — assign anyone when you schedule it, or step up with one tap. The weight of leadership spreads one ruck at a time.
Route Sharing
Attach routes to events so everyone knows the plan. Upload GPX files and see the route on an in-app map.
Emergency Contacts
Leaders see attendee emergency contacts during active events. Because safety isn't optional when you're training under load. Always free.
"Badges in fitness apps feel like participation trophies."
Physical
Earn patches that mean something.
74 achievements across distance, weight, elevation, community, training, and Ruck PT. Military morale patch aesthetic. You earn them under load.
"Generic fitness dashboards don't show what matters for rucking."
Physical
Data that improves your training.
Weight progression over time. Pace under different loads. Grade-Adjusted Pace that accounts for terrain. Personal records across 6 metrics — fastest pace, longest distance, heaviest weight, most elevation, highest ruck work, and longest duration.
Real-Time Splits
Live per-mile or per-km splits during your ruck. Pace, elevation gain, and duration for every segment. Optional audio announcements so you never check your phone.
Moving Time
Separates moving time from elapsed time automatically. Rest stops don't inflate your pace. Your numbers reflect the work, not the breaks.
Speed PRs
Time trial PRs tracked by distance and weight class. Your 5K at 35 lbs and your 5K at 50 lbs are different records — because they are.
Grade-Adjusted Pace
Normalizes your pace for elevation changes using the Minetti model. Compare efforts across flat and hilly routes fairly.
"When elevation drifts on a flat route, the rest of the numbers are harder to trust."
Under load
The device records the path.
Kalman filtering smooths route noise while the tracker records the path available from the device.
LCDA accounts for the work of moving body mass and external load across grade and terrain.
Barometric Elevation
Records the elevation data available from the device alongside the route.
Kalman GPS Filter
Kalman filtering smooths route noise while the tracker records the path available from the device.
Load-Aware Calories
Energy estimates account for load, pace, grade, terrain, and load position. They remain estimates, not laboratory measurements.
Terrain & Load Aware
Road, trail, sand, snow — each surface changes metabolic cost. Backpack, vest, sandbag — each load position changes the work.
Weather Auto-Capture
Temperature, humidity, wind, and conditions captured automatically at ruck start and end. No manual logging.
Anti-Gaming Validation
Server-side integrity checks flag speeds, durations, and distances outside accepted bounds.
"Pace alone misses what weight changes."
Physical
Ruck Work. The metric that matters.
Weight times distance. That's Ruck Work. The number that makes rucking rucking. A 3-mile ruck at 45 lbs is more work than a 5-mile walk with nothing on your back — and the leaderboard should reflect that. Ruck Work rewards load, not just legs.
Ruck Work
135 lb·mi
45 lbs x 3.0 miles
After Action
Saturday Morning Ruck — Recap
12 RUCKERS · 340 LB·MI MOVED
Distance
4.2 mi
Weather
Clear
"Your group ruck happened. Now you're typing summaries in a group chat."
Social
The ruck happened. The recap proves it.
Who showed up, how much weight moved, how far, what the weather was doing. Every completed event gets a recap — stamped and shareable, the moment it ends. Leaders don't write a word. The data was already there.
"Same person leads every week until they burn out and the club dies."
Social
The weight of leadership gets distributed.
Every event carries a lead. Assign anyone when you create it, or a member taps "I'll lead" and takes the weight. No signup calendars, no schedules to babysit — leadership spreads one ruck at a time.
Sat, Mar 7
Morning Ruck
Sat, Mar 14
Morning Ruck
Sat, Mar 21
Morning Ruck