TikToks secret for getting snatched this summer? A $33 weighted vest from Amazon
Skip the shapewear and pass on the overpriced pilates.TikTokers have discovered a heavy-hitting hack for shedding pounds fast, and it won’t weigh down your wallet as much as that Equinox membership or the new juice cleanse your bestie swears by.
That’s right.The latest obsession is a good, old-fashioned weighted vest — a rubber, modernized version of the sandbag your dad strapped to his back in his makeshift garage gym back, circa 1995.
For those less familiar, the Zenus Weighted Vest is available on Amazon, offered in a weight range of six to 30 pounds, and suddenly, it’s everyone’s favorite fitness find.“It’s day two of walking with a weighted vest until you can’t find my waist,” TikTok creator @coachedby_casey declared in a brief clip of her marching away with her vest on the treadmill.The video has amassed over 800,000 views and is one of millions of #WeightedVest videos flooding the internet.While the consensus remains that 10,000 steps a day is satisfactory, TikTokers swear that lugging around extra pounds during their walks is helping them slim down fast.
Some are even suiting up for domestic duties, sweeping, scrubbing, and decluttering while working up a sweat.“If you want to lose weight for the summer, walk.
If you want to lose weight faster, walk with a weighted vest,” another fitness influencer candidly explained to his followers.Some of his favorite styles are designed by the ZELUS brand — “They do a great job with the weighted vests… good quality and stitching.”In another viral clip, one TikToker revealed her 40-pound weight loss before and after videos, attributing the results to nine months of walking with her vest.
In the caption, she admitted she was skeptical at first, but decided to give it a shot, and the rest was history.While it seems the TikTok generation believes they’ve finally unearthed the secret to losing weight fast, wearing a weighted vest to lose weight is not necessarily a new revelation.Athlet...