The Hyper Vest Elite Weighted Vest Makes Bodyweight Exercises Tougher

But bodyweight can take you only so far, especially if your goal is serious strength and muscle. Somehow, you need to overload your body, challenging it with more weight to see musce growth. And a weighted vest, like Hyperwears Elite Weighted Ves t, can help.

This form-fitting vest can add up to 20 pounds of load to your bodyweight, and its the perfect way to up the intensity for a bodyweight strength workout. Moves like pushups, planks, squats, and lunges instantly get a bit more challenge, and more rigorous exercises like pullups and L-sits suddenly become nearly impossible. Youre now placing new and challenging stimulus on the body, potentially driving serious muscle growth.

When you use a weighted vest, youre also adding load in a way that still permits athletic movement. You wouldnt want to run or do box jumps with a 20-pound kettlebell, but a 20-pound weighted vest? Yes, you can work through entire CrossFit workouts in it, and do burpees in it. too. Hyperwears model gets bonus points, too, since it fits snugly against your body and wont get jostled around, even during intense sprint sessions.

Best of all, the Hyper Vest Elite Weighted Vest is currently on sale for $44 off , knocking down the price from $219.99 to just $175.99 .

I use it mostly as a way to mix up cardio workouts, adding a little bit of load and challenge to, say, a treadmill sprint or a set of burpees. What makes the Hyperwear work for this is that it hugs the body, so even when I'm doing box jumps or muscle-ups, I never have to worry about it swinging all over the place and throwing off my momentum.

"The vest is fitted and the weight is dispersed evenly, unlike other bulky, front-loaded vests I've tried," says Fitness Editor Brett Williams. "That makes it much more appealing to slip on for bodyweight work, or even if I just want to make my at-home compound lifts a little tougher."

Its a perfect way to add load to your training if you want to try something different from dumbbells, kettlebells, and barbells. But act fast, because this great deal won't last for long.