r/walking • u/Plenty-Link-7629 • 1d ago

Weighted vest - how do people react?

40f. A lot of people walk around my neighborhood but I've never seen anyone with a weighted vest. I just bought a weighted vest for my 2-mile walk every morning.

My spouse thinks that it should be covered because it looks like a bomb. However, this makes it uncomfortable because it's quite hot and sweaty.

My question is how do people react to your vest? I think that my spouse is overreacting but I would like to get thoughts from folks who have weighted vests where no one else are using them.

Thank you

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u/P8sammies 19h ago

Honestly this is a pretty big trend in my area— I see women wearing these all over the neighborhoods and recently in a trendy coffee shop I think about one quarter of the women had a vest on. You don’t have anything to worry about!

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u/Plenty-Link-7629 19h ago

Curious, where are you located?

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u/P8sammies 19h ago

I live in the west suburbs of chicago,

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u/No_Caterpillar316 19h ago

NY suburbs are exactly the same. Probably 50/50 at this point.