The routine of exercising can be amended to suit your strength and your workout performance. One of the easiest ways to change your workout routine while exercising is using a tactical vest (weighted vest) while workout increases the load your body is carrying. Your body must increase in workout harder to fit in at the same speed and for the same amount of time as it would without the vest. This means the intensity of the working out is greater while wearing the vest and the energy needed are increased to the amount of energy without weighted vest.
Extra load means extra work
1. Weighted vests come in different sizes and weights. The 2 best sizes are 5kg and 10kg using flexible weights which allow you to control your workload. Wearing an extra 10kgs on your body while walking means that your body is doing extra work and is expending more energy than it does when you walk at the same rate without the vest.
Weighted vests and burning calories
2. Your body burns calories for fuel as you perform aerobic exercise. A weighted vest increases the intensity of the exercise. Increased intensity translates into more calories burned in the given amount of time spent exercising. Walking for twenty minutes with a weighted vest burns more calories than walking without one.
Weighted vests and strength training
3. Weighted vests can be useful for doing strength training movements such as push-ups and pull-ups. Donning even a 5kg vest would greatly increase the intensity of these exercises.
Walking and Hiking with a vest
4. You can wear a weighted vest for more challenging walks such as hiking trails and the loose sands of a beach. These walks will add variety and tax your body differently than a walk in your neighborhood.
Start slow
5. Wearing a weighted vest while walking, even one that you perceive to be light, adds unfamiliar stresses to muscles and joints. When you begin using a vest do not attempt the same walks you had been doing. Instead, gradually work your way back up to them over the course of several weeks.
Reference: aokhealth