Farmers walks with weighted vest

[BazUK]

Would there be any added benefit from doing farmers walks with a weighted vest?

Baz

 

[The HoneyBadger**]

Weighted training equipment is a gimmick.

 

[KnuckleSangwich]

Why not do farmer's walks with farmer's walk handles?

If you can add a weight vest with no problem just add more weight to the handles...

 

[PUO3]

i cant see why you would want to?

 

[Eric Brown]

Why not just pick up heavier shit?

 

[Pearse Shields]

Weighted training equipment is a gimmick.

Weighted dips, push-ups, pull-ups, etc are hard to see as "gimmicky". Nothing wrong with wearing a weighted vest for certain workouts or exercise (although not running or similar activities, and even less so if your conditioning activity of choice is swimming).

Inb4 HoneyBadger don't care.

 

[BazUK]

Because grip strength is the limiting factor. Would adding the extra weight via wv improve traps, posterior chain, shoulders, lats and legs quicker than without?

Baz

 

[Pearse Shields]

Because grip strength is the limiting factor.

Then that is what you should be addressing first.

 

[The HoneyBadger**]

Weighted dips, push-ups, pull-ups, etc are hard to see as "gimmicky". Nothing wrong with wearing a weighted vest for certain workouts or exercise (although not running or similar activities, and even less so if your conditioning activity of choice is swimming).

Inb4 HoneyBadger don't care.

I said weighted training equipment. Like weighted vests, gloves, etc.

Nothing wrong with plopping a 100lb peanut between your ankles and pounding out some power dips.

What? That puts unnecessary strain on your ankles HoneyBadger. HoneyBadger don't care. Honeybadger don't give a shit.

 

[apizur**]

The point of the exercise is the address all aspects of the exercise. If you wanted a stronger posterior chain do other posterior chain exercises that your grip can handle. Until then work on your grip... it's the weak link in your farmer's walk.

 

[apizur**]

is to address*

Sorry, I can't edit my posts. They've put me on double yellow. So in case I wanted to go back and edit whatever I said that might have offended somebody, I can't now. Makes sense, right?

 

[Gfreak]

I said weighted training equipment. Like weighted vests, gloves, etc.

Nothing wrong with plopping a 100lb peanut between your ankles and pounding out some power dips.

What? That puts unnecessary strain on your ankles HoneyBadger. HoneyBadger don't care. Honeybadger don't give a shit.

Making something more convenient, is in no way a gimmick lol. Hell, even if you just went on walks with a weightvest. That's a perfectly valid "excercise" right there IMO.

And putting on a weight vest is much easier than putting a weight between your ankles, and your ability to pinch your ankles together is by far going to be the limiting factor in that.

 

[Thunderflash500]

Seems like walking with weights/weight vest would be bad for joints and not give a lot of benefit to anything. I could be wrong though, never did it.