[The Beast1]

(10-26-2014 04:05 AM)Vroom Wrote:  

I saw some dragonball z the other day and it got me thinking about weighted clothing to help increase strength and speed. I already wear weights for things like chins and dips, but I was wondering about weighted clothing to wear throughout the course of my day.

From browsing the net it seems ankle and wrist weights are frowned upon as they add a load on the ends of your extremities, raising the risk of injury, but I'm more interested in weight worn around your core, ie vests and shorts. The reason being you should be able to add significant weight to your torso, but because it's close to your centre of gravity, it should still be fairly safe.

I'll probably end up experimenting with it for myself over the next few months, but was wondering if anyone here had used weight vests/clothing outside their workouts, and if so, the results they got?

How much weight could you wear and how long could you tolerate it for?

Are there are brands/items they used to add significant weight while maintaining a fairly low profile? Or even better, is there an ingenious way someone has made their own weighted clothing using common and cheap materials?

It would be awesome if we could train in a higher gravity environment.

Oh and

[kosko]

Weighted clothing has value while you train. You can purchase compressive shirts and shorts with weoghtrd material in them. It helps but wearing them for prolong periods is not worthwhile. Just wear to the gym, work out, take off.

[Yeti]

Bumping this thread to see if anyone has some experience with weighted vests. I walk a lot and was thinking of adding some weights to my torso/core, but haven't seen anything conclusive on the forum. I've been eating paleo/primal more and together with walking and sleeping a lot, and avoiding sugar/dairy/grains, this keeps me pretty healthy and trim. I would like to build up my muscles a bit, though.

[king bast]

I have a 30kg weighted vest which I use for bodyweight exercises like chins and dips. It's a fantastic training tool, but unless you're using it to overload a particular muscle group, it's probably not what you're looking for if your goal is to add size.

It sounds like you're wanting to just wear it while you're walking, which would make it more of a "systemic" exercise like a loaded carry. Although great for increasing overall strength, it's not an ideal mass building exercise.

If you were to try it, I'd keep the weight pretty low - even putting my full 30kg vest on is kinda challenging, and just leaving it on between sets gets pretty uncomfortable. I definitely wouldn't be setting off on a walk of any more than a couple of hundred metres with that sort of weight, but maybe 10kg might be OK.

I'd be interested to hear what results you get if you do try it.

[Yeti]

(01-03-2017 09:04 PM)king bast Wrote:  

It sounds like you're wanting to just wear it while you're walking, which would make it more of a "systemic" exercise like a loaded carry. Although great for increasing overall strength, it's not an ideal mass building exercise.

If you were to try it, I'd keep the weight pretty low... I definitely wouldn't be setting off on a walk of any more than a couple of hundred metres with that sort of weight, but maybe 10kg might be OK.

I'd be interested to hear what results you get if you do try it.

Yeah, just for walking. I walk at least an hour each day on average, basically to work, so I figure that I might as well add some weight. I see now that it probably won't add much muscle, but that's fine. I'll try it and see how it goes. My goal is just to make use of the time a bit better, since I'll be walking anyhow. 10kg sounds like a good weight to try out. I listen to podcasts along the way to make use of that time walking.