{"id":83808,"date":"2025-08-22T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83808\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:22:08","slug":"weighted-vest-walking-is-taking-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83808\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighted Vest Walking Is Taking Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

It happened slowly, then all at once. On esplanades and trails, by the water or the mountains, and in the city or the country: Everyone\u2019s walking<\/a> in a weighted vest.<\/p>\n

I first noticed it early this year. Suddenly, it seemed like all the women I passed on my daily running path\u2014whether walking in a group or solo\u2014were strapped into a contraption that made her look like they were headed to a battlefield rather than getting their steps in.<\/p>\n

I thought it was funny how much the trend was taking off, but this was Brooklyn, New York, ground zero for viral fitness trends. It wasn\u2019t until I traveled to Paris this summer and saw that even the fad-averse French women had succumbed to the vest\u2019s allure that I truly understood how big the workout trend had become.<\/p>\n

Mosey on over to social media, especially TikTok or Instagram, and it\u2019s clear how much the trend has exploded. The more hardcore sister of TikTok\u2019s \u201chot girl walk<\/a>,\u201d the \u201cweighted vest walk\u201d has been exalted as the new way to burn calories and gain strength easily and effectively, the way for girls to get fit and look good doing it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see why. Walking is technically free and it\u2019s not intimidating, like signing up for a technical reformer Pilates<\/a> class or a daunting CrossFit workout. It\u2019s something many of us can do with very little prep or investment.<\/p>\n

And for the past few years, walking as exercise has had a rebirth as a stylish way to exercise. You can look cute on a walk (you\u2019re not sweating that much), you can bring accessories (Owala bottle<\/a>, headphones), and you can do it with a friend. It\u2019s getting fit while socializing and putting in the effort to tone without seeming like you\u2019re trying too hard.<\/p>\n

Of course, walking for exercise is nothing new. But Rebecca Kennedy, a Peloton<\/a> instructor and fitness trainer, tells me that she\u2019s watched as the popularity of the humble walk has exploded in the past few years\u2014and she\u2019s all for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a huge advocate for getting people moving, and I think walking is the easiest way,\u201d she tells me. \u201cWe\u2019re already doing it. I grew up with my mom going out for walks with her friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy had tried weighted vest walking about three years ago, when she was recovering from an injury but wanted to up her low-intensity workouts. About six months ago, she says, she saw a \u201chuge burst into the mainstream\u201d for the workout, and decided to added weighted vest walking to some of her class offerings on Peloton. She and the team quickly realized that there was a \u201chuge appetite\u201d for the content, and she thinks it makes sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really approachable,\u201d she says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t require you to learn a new skill. You can kind of do whatever you\u2019re already doing and increase the efficacy of the workout. You have a higher metabolic output, you have more demands muscularly on your joints. So there\u2019s just a ton of benefits when you start wearing the vest for the workouts that you\u2019re already doing to meet people where they\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It happened slowly, then all at once. On esplanades and trails, by the water or the mountains, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1167,6647,102,56,54,55,11518],"class_list":{"0":"post-83808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-exercise","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-workout"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}