A weighting vest is used by many athletes to increase strength and endurance during the training process. This is achieved by the gradual increase in working weight while running, training on the horizontal bar or bars. Many athletes also use other types of additional equipment, which include weighting for running, fixed on the legs and arms. As a rule, they are light in weight, but are used quite widely both in training fighters, and during sprinting runs.
Why do we need a weighting vest?
They are used because our body, gradually getting used to the loads that our natural mass indicators are able to provide, ceases to progress and build muscle, as well as to increase the characteristics of strength and endurance. Sports vests are much more convenient to use than conventional training equipment because of their narrowly specialized specialization. Usually weighting materials for arms and legs increase the additional mass due to filling with sand from one to five kilograms.
A weighting vest and other auxiliary elements naturally increase the mass of your body, while psychologically you hardly feel it and are used to a certain mileage while running or to your usual strength indicators. But as a result, after a two-week training session with similar devices and after refusing to use them, you will not only begin to look physically stronger, but also notice a sharp jump forward. If you could run, using a weighting vest, five kilometers - and this was your record, then without it you will master the same five kilometers without even panting and sweating.
Such weighting materials are simply irreplaceable for those athletes who are involved in athletics, gymnastics or workout, because they allow them to dramatically increase their results thanks to the emotional lift that occurs when you realize the limit of your physical capabilities and especially when this limit grows exponentially.
Make or buy?
In principle, the manufacture of such a vest will not take you so much time and will not hit your wallet, which is important. You can take any suitable outerwear, sew pieces of strong fabric in it in the form of pockets with zippers, Velcro or buttons, and add extra weight elements from ordinary fittings, cutting them with a grinder into small (5-7 cm) sticks of 100-200 grams each . The only drawback of such a home-made vest is that the lack of tight fixation of the body is extremely inconvenient, especially when used while running or performing acrobatic elements. But at the same time, it is possible to supplement the weighting vest with its own clips, including a little imagination. The cost of such a vest on the sites will vary from a thousand to three thousand rubles. You can buy it on Chinese sites one and a half to two times cheaper, but the delivery time from China takes at least a month.