Weighted Women’s Vest

Women today are enjoying their workout while wearing weighted women’s vest, at least for sport-specific and general fitness training for women. Wearing a weighted vest adds mass to the body, forcing your muscles to overcome this extra resistance with every movement.

While the weighted vest is worn for training, the sport benefits occur when your performance is measured without it. The ground benefits that you can have when wearing this women’s vest include increased muscular strength and endurance.

The use of this kind of women’s vest is based on the overload principle. In order for gains in strength and endurance to occur, your body must work at a load that is beyond normal. This is because with every move that you make, your central nervous system thinks that your weight has increased. Additional muscle fibers are recruited to overcome the additional resistance of the weighted vest.

Weight training targets specific muscle areas while the weighted vest distributes the extra resistance evenly throughout your body. Resulting in strength gains occurring in many muscle groups, walking and jogging strengthens the lower body muscles. Your core, abdominal and muscled in your lower back contract to maintain proper posture while wearing the vest.

Women’s vest has definitely gone a long way, aside from providing fashion and trendy new styles. These weighted vests help by promoting a leaner and healthier body when women go on workouts. They are worn just like any other women’s vest on the torso. The vest has a nylon covering with inserts to place cylindrical weights in the front and back to evenly distribute the weight. Velcro straps custom fit the vest to your body. Weight resistance capacity ranges from 10 to 100 lbs.
Suggested starting weight is two percent of your body weight, working up to 10 percent.

If you want to try this one out, you should first consult your physician before starting with a fitness program. Initial training should occur without the weighted vest to build a strength foundation. When wearing the vest, start with a lighter weight for use with everyday activities to maintain proper posture and alignment before performing training activities. Postural deviations while wearing the vest may lead to injury.

The study that was conducted at Texas Tech university features the use of this vest for track and field athletes. When comparing vertical jump performances, the athletes that used the weight vests during plyometric, or power training, experienced a significant improvement in their vertical leap compared to those athletes who didn’t.