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Hi James, I know this is an old article but I just got referred to it by Jeff Nipards recent video on increasing metabolism, really amazing indepth stuff and I’m super impressed with everything you’ve done here. I just had a question which wasn’t really made clear in the article or Jeff’s video, was your client wearing the weighted vest during resistance training? Including during exercises in which body weight mattered? IE pullups, squats etc. And when doing so did you change the weight that would be normally used for that training or remain the same? For example, if he… Read more »
No, I don’t think he was wearing it during his weight training sessions.
I’m a general population person. I’m losing weight, reduced calories, I’ve lost 25 pounds, want to lose another 20 pounds. I get 10k steps a day, strength train 3 to 4 days a week. I want to try wearing weighted apparel when I walk once a day. I think it would increase how many calories I burn during the walk, and might help with not reducing calories any further. Could I get some feed back on this idea please? I could work up to wearing weighted apparel most of the day, I work at home, I stand and walk a… Read more »
Wearing a vest during your walks isn’t going to increase energy expenditure much or really make much difference. It would need to be worn most of the day to be effective.
I thought the same thing as Alisha. Using the equations above adding 20 pounds would increase energy expenditure by 0.4 calories per minute and walking 60 minutes would use up an extra 24 calories. Still, with a sit to stand desk andworking from home I could wear one much of the time so I’ll go ahead and try it (as well as other things of course).
Hey, Michael, thanks for your comment, and welcome to Weightology!
Interested on reverse engineering for lean gaining purposes.
Very interesting and successful approach, thanks a lot for sharing! How was the macro split during the cut and the meal time frequency? I would assume that would also influence the overall result?
Meal timing doesn’t really have any significant impact on fat loss, assuming sufficient protein intake that is spread through the day.
Macro split was a typical high protein, moderate carb, low fat split…don’t recall the exact numbers.
Obviously doing this is insane for the average gym goer than happens to be dieting after a long bulk.
Naturally, that’s exactly what I decided to do.
Hello James, Awesome stuff as usual. Correct me if I’m wrong but you seem less than enthusiastic about the average person trying this. Why not? Meaning putting aside contest prep if a regular Jane or Joe is simply attempting to reach best body composition – say a mythical maximal muscularity in combination with least possible healthy body fat (which is always my goal) – it would seem this is just a way of increasing gross caloric expenditure (daily, monthly, yearly, etc.). So if I wear the 20 pound vest 3 times per week and all other variables are held constant… Read more »
First, it’s not just a way to increase energy expenditure. Wearing it 3 days a week likely won’t impact energy expenditure enough to make a noticeable fat loss difference, as the weekly increase that you would get might only amount to an additional 600 calories or so depending upon the amount of weight added. Also, keep in mind that a big benefit may be from the gravitostat, but to take advantage of the gravitostat, you would need to be wearing it most of the time (3 days per week won’t be enough).
Hi, can you please explain why? Why would he need to wear it almost all day? The person in the study used it for 10k steps and saw benefits I am not mistaken. Thanks!
If you’re referring to Eric, he wore the vest most of the day. It needs to be worn most of the day to trigger the “gravitostat” benefit.
Super interesting, I have long recommended weighted vests for my fat loss clients, but I have never thought about the “artificial weight“ concept… many thanks for this!
I have been following Eric’s progress and I am excited to try this out for myself. My contest prep starts this week or next. Super excited to see how things go.
Really interesting and am very inclined to try this 4 weeks in. Thank you for the great info, as always, James.
This is just… so god damn interesting. Thanks to you and Eric for this!
I can imagine the typical bro contest prep coach scoffing at this while he eats his 5th meal of white fish and almonds.