Has anyone used a weighted belt or vest walking? Is it beneficial? I walk a lot and have for years and I'm on my feet all day walking at work as well. To do my additional walk at night time or on my treadmill would adding weight help burn calories or help in anyway?
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This calculator reckons 10kg for me ,78kg, gives about 10% extra burn - https://exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs
I've read that 15% bodyweihgt was well tolerated by unfit clients .
And then there's rucking https://www.americangrit.com/2017/04/12/rucking-replace-aerobic-workout/
Some people go heavy
Additional calories burned will be nominal at best. I often walk with a weighted pack though, especially starting in early spring to get ready for hiking later in the season. There are reasons to add weight to your walking, but additional energy expenditure wouldn't be chief among them.
I wear it for strength/endurance training.
There's no doubt that wearing one will strenghten your core and lower body strength/endurance especially if you wearing one while hiking in very hilly terrain as I do.
There is a hiking/cal calculator that I use to use that measures the cals expended based on distance, % grade and wt of the load carried and the additional cals that I burned on 3-5 mile hikes at up to 1k ft in elevation was not trival.
I'll look for the calculator and post a link to it if/when I find it
https://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-hiking/
As I recall, the calculation was pretty close to what I got w/MapMyHike w/o carryibg a load but MMH will not adjust for additional wt carried.
If you're about 100 kg / 220 pounds, that makes sense. 🙂