Official YOMP Ruck Clubs meet across the UK and Europe. Turn up with whatever pack you own, go at the pace of the slowest person, and be home by lunch.
The clubs
Every club listed here is an Official YOMP Ruck Club: five or more regular members, running for at least three months, and posting often enough that you can see it is still going. Nobody is on this list who isn't actually out there.
Each club is run by its own members, not by us, so details change. Have a look at their page before you set off the first time.
Prestwich, Greater Manchester
A men's training club out every Saturday morning from St Mary's Flower Park. Small, consistent, and five months into building something.
Birmingham
A hybrid performance facility with a strong and growing ruck community, affiliated to DEKA and Deadly Dozen. Coached ruck sessions run alongside the run club, and every one of them scales to whoever turns up.
Cambridgeshire
Built for people who have never rucked before. Community rucks, beginner sessions, ruck runs, distance rucks and race prep, with guidance on weight, pace and progression throughout. Start light, find your pace, and nobody gets left behind.
London
No weight limit, a group-friendly pace throughout, and nobody left behind. Stops for coffee and pastries along the way, because this one is as much about connection as it is about fitness.
Rhuallt, North Wales
Trail rucking in the hills above Rhuallt, out every Saturday morning. All abilities welcome, and the terrain does the hard work for you.
Eivissa, Ibiza, Spain
Rucking and ruck-based hybrid fitness sessions on the island. Routes and times vary, so get in touch and they will sort you out with the next one.
Wherever you are
You don't need a club near you to join in. On the first Saturday of every month the whole community rucks, in their own town, on their own route, at their own pace, and logs it to the same place.
Your first one
If you've never done this before, it is considerably less intimidating than it sounds. Nobody is timing you and nobody is looking at your kit.
A loaded pack and a route. Most clubs cover 8 to 12km in around 90 minutes at a pace where you can still hold a conversation. If you can walk the dog for an hour, you can do this.
Around 10% of your bodyweight for a first outing. For an 80kg person that's 8kg. It will feel almost too easy for twenty minutes and about right by the end. Going out heavy is the single most common reason people never come back.
You don't need our gear, and no club will ask what you're carrying. People start with an old rucksack and a bag of sand wrapped in a towel. Shoes you've already walked in matter far more than the pack does.
Every official club runs at the pace of the slowest person on the day. If that's you on your first morning, it was somebody else on theirs.
Nothing near you
Every club on this map began with two people, a car park and a time. Not a committee, not a launch, not a plan. Two people who agreed to turn up on the same morning and kept doing it.
We've written down what the clubs already running say works: how to pick a spot, what a month of sessions could look like, how to handle the weeks when nobody comes, and how to become official once you've been going three months.
Questions
No. Any rucksack that sits comfortably and doesn't swing about will get you through your first few. A proper rucking pack has a plate pocket, a hip belt and a sternum strap, which keep the load high and still, and most people buy one once they know they're going to keep going.
About 10% of your bodyweight. Build from there in small steps once an hour under load feels straightforward. The YOMP Standard sets out the levels if you want something to work towards.
That is up to each club, and most are free. They are run by their members, not by us.
Almost certainly not. Rucking is walking with weight, which is why people come to it from every level. Start light, start short, and go with a group that waits.
Join the first Saturday ruck wherever you are, and have a look at our guide to starting a club. Several of the clubs on this map were started by someone who'd been rucking for a couple of months and was fed up of going out alone.
Once you've got five or more regular members and have been running at least three months, apply to become an Official YOMP Ruck Club. Listing on this map is one of the things that comes with it, along with a free pack and plate for the club and a 15% code for your members.
Either way, you'll be out on Saturday morning with weight on your back, which is the only part that matters.
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