Starting with fire-fighters, police officers then moving to athletes, Resistance training with a weighted Vest has now gone on everyone’s radar and rightfully so, because resistance training gets you doubles the results you originally wanted to achieve in the same amount of time or sometimes less weighted vest training is the best way to strengthen your muscle and improve their firmness but it also is key in burning calories and ultimately fat faster. It has been well proven over the last 30 years that weight-training adds strength to the muscles and density to the bones.

Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., who wrote, “Strong Women Stay Young," an excellent book, found that there were other benefits to weight training as well. Women who completed her studies restored bone, improved balance, controlled weight, toned their bodies, improved flexibility and endurance. They also felt better about themselves than they had in years.

The program recommended in Dr. Nelson's book required leg and arm weights and could be done at home. The negative is that the program requires effort and dedication, and also correct form. Weight training done incorrectly can have harmful consequences.

Weight Vest Studies for Osteoporosis and Osteopenia

In 2000, Janet Shaw did a long-term study at Oregon State University. She found that postmenopausal women who participate in a long-term fitness regimen that includes jumping and "resistance" exercises using weighted vests can prevent significant bone loss in the hip.

Another study was written up in the Biological Research for Nursing newsletter in 2003. Eighteen women over 60 were randomly assigned to an exercise group wearing a weight vest and doing strength training for one hour three times a week, or to a control group that did nothing. The weight vest group had significant changes in bone density and in weight loss in 32 weeks.

How to Use a Weight Vest

By wearing a weight vest during your walking time or your most active time of the day you are getting the benefits of weight training without most of the effort.

Do it Isometric

Research has shown that a muscle contraction during Isometric exercise produced more force then a contraction generated by lifting weights. Although research shows that Isometric exercise increases muscle tension significantly, Isometrics can also involve holding a joint in position against a sub-maximal contraction to all muscle fibers types.

History

Isometrics are thousands of years old and examples can be found in the static holds in certain branches of yoga or Chinese martial arts.

Isometrics was first brought to the modern public’s attention in the early days of physical culture, the precursor to bodybuilding. Many of the great bodybuilders of the day used and incorporated isometrics into their training regimes.

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