Weight Vests

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CarbonViper

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215 posts

128 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Thinking of getting a weight vest due to having major knee surgery this side of Christmas and thought a weight vest would help with bodyweight exercises that I will still be able to do, I can imagine it would be fairly helpful for rehabilitation as well. Does anyone have any experience with them or any advice on which brands are pretty good. Ideally I would like to be able to start out fairly light and add weight to the vest or buy a heavy vest that I could remove the weight from, not just a simple specific weight vest (Mainly for the rehab purposes.)
Any input is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Mark A B

166 posts

148 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Used to train at a boxing club a couple of times a week and we had a few there. If you turned up late you wore the 10kg for circuits the second time and you had the pleasure of a 20kg vest.

The extra weight made so much of a difference. Really made you appreciate dropping the pounds as I couldn't imagin walking around with a extra 20kg on me.

What kind of training will you be wanting to do as surely using your own body weight will be better before popping a weighted vest on?

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks

CarbonViper

Original Poster:

215 posts

128 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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It will be pretty much used for bodyweight exercises, press ups, pull ups, diamond press ups. Bodyweight isn't a problem on all and with having no access to the gym or wanting to invest in some dumbells, I figured this is one of the best options as I could take it to the gym and use it after recovery as well.

fandango_c

1,914 posts

185 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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mph1977 said:
weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks
What sports have they been banned completely from?

Eleven

26,271 posts

221 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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fandango_c said:
mph1977 said:
weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks
What sports have they been banned completely from?
Synchronised swimming.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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fandango_c said:
mph1977 said:
weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks
What sports have they been banned completely from?
the ISAF ( who may at that point still have been the IYRU) banned them around 20 years ago they had allready been weight restricted for adult competitors and banned for under 19s for a number of years prior to that.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/sports/yacht-rac... - talking in the period where restrictions were in place for under 19s



rule 43 of the racing Rules of sailing refers

http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index...

, specifically 43.1.(a)

43.1 (a) Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for
the purpose of increasing their weight.
(b) Furthermore, a competitor’s clothing and equipment shall not
weigh more than 8 kilograms, excluding a hiking or trapeze
harness and clothing (including footwear) worn only below the
knee. Class rules or sailing instructions may specify a lower
weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may
include footwear and other clothing worn below the knee
within that weight. A hiking or trapeze harness shall have
positive buoyancy and shall not weigh more than 2 kilograms,
except that class rules may specify a higher weight up to
4 kilograms. Weights shall be determined as required by
Appendix H.
(c) When an equipment inspector or a measurer in charge of
weighing clothing and equipment believes a competitor may
have broken rule 43.1(a) or 43.1(b) he shall report the matter in
writing to the race committee.

Burrow01

1,802 posts

191 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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mph1977 said:
fandango_c said:
mph1977 said:
weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks
What sports have they been banned completely from?
the ISAF ( who may at that point still have been the IYRU) banned them around 20 years ago they had allready been weight restricted for adult competitors and banned for under 19s for a number of years prior to that.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/sports/yacht-rac... - talking in the period where restrictions were in place for under 19s



rule 43 of the racing Rules of sailing refers

http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index...

, specifically 43.1.(a)

43.1 (a) Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for
the purpose of increasing their weight.
(b) Furthermore, a competitor’s clothing and equipment shall not
weigh more than 8 kilograms, excluding a hiking or trapeze
harness and clothing (including footwear) worn only below the
knee. Class rules or sailing instructions may specify a lower
weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may
include footwear and other clothing worn below the knee
within that weight. A hiking or trapeze harness shall have
positive buoyancy and shall not weigh more than 2 kilograms,
except that class rules may specify a higher weight up to
4 kilograms. Weights shall be determined as required by
Appendix H.
(c) When an equipment inspector or a measurer in charge of
weighing clothing and equipment believes a competitor may
have broken rule 43.1(a) or 43.1(b) he shall report the matter in
writing to the race committee.
I thought this ruling was more to prevent people from using Water vests - filled up with water to increase weight when hiking / trapezing and then dumping the water when going downwind?

fandango_c

1,914 posts

185 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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mph1977 said:
fandango_c said:
mph1977 said:
weight vests are such a great idea they have been banned completely from some sports for many years becasue of the damage they do to backs and necks
What sports have they been banned completely from?
the ISAF ( who may at that point still have been the IYRU) banned them around 20 years ago they had allready been weight restricted for adult competitors and banned for under 19s for a number of years prior to that.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/sports/yacht-rac... - talking in the period where restrictions were in place for under 19s



rule 43 of the racing Rules of sailing refers

http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index...

, specifically 43.1.(a)

43.1 (a) Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for
the purpose of increasing their weight.
(b) Furthermore, a competitor’s clothing and equipment shall not
weigh more than 8 kilograms, excluding a hiking or trapeze
harness and clothing (including footwear) worn only below the
knee. Class rules or sailing instructions may specify a lower
weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may
include footwear and other clothing worn below the knee
within that weight. A hiking or trapeze harness shall have
positive buoyancy and shall not weigh more than 2 kilograms,
except that class rules may specify a higher weight up to
4 kilograms. Weights shall be determined as required by
Appendix H.
(c) When an equipment inspector or a measurer in charge of
weighing clothing and equipment believes a competitor may
have broken rule 43.1(a) or 43.1(b) he shall report the matter in
writing to the race committee.
Thanks for the reply.

It would be interesting if there was some recent research, especially given the use of body armour etc by the armed forces.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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I'm not a physio but just thinking aloud. One problem many obese people suffer from is knee problems because they have too much weight on their joints. So if you're using a weight vest for walking or running then it would be an issue, right? The counter argument would be that hikers carry loads but then they don't hike on pavements so if you walk on soft ground then you would be fine. If you're using it for stuff like pull ups then I think it'd be fine as many people do add loads when they find pull ups easy.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Tuesday 28th October 2014
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Burrow01 said:
I thought this ruling was more to prevent people from using Water vests - filled up with water to increase weight when hiking / trapezing and then dumping the water when going downwind?
no the reasoning was primarily health related.

water bottles were use din the old weight jackets becasue they weight 'nothing' should you fall in , where shot would still weight you down.

also unless the you dump the water at the last windward mark you lose out on it forthe rest of the race - the old several hours duration triangle +sauasge championship/ olympic courses were generally several laps.