Having grown up on a farm, Anna, and having had to carry umpteen differently -shaped and heavy items from the time I could heft a bucket, I can absolutely back you on this. I love this underrated and often ignored fundamental move. As prices for kettlebells skyrocketed under Covid, I found a collection of them at my various TJ Maxx stores, and scored a nice range up to about thirty pounds. I either do a double or single arm carry with thirty pounds. I do laps in the gym during workouts, and where I now live, I have hills. That adds a whole other layer of difficulty and challenge. At 68 and a lifetime bodybuilder, these kinds of moves are for me particularly good as part of sometimes very extreme balance work and core strength training. I think we get lost in trying to out-precious ourselves with fancy Look At Me moves. To that, the most experienced and serious lifters at my gym all do this carry, some with plates, some with dumbbells, some with kettlebells. In many ways this move simply replicates the kind of work I did as a child on the farm, hence the name. It's also part of the World's Strongest Man competition, if I recall correctly, and as such is a fine reminder that true strength is functional, not fictional, in that way that pretty biceps that can't work effectively in real life are functionally useless.