Speed-Vest Adjustable Weighted Weight Vest Short 10lb

Speed-Vest Adjustable Weighted Vest

The Speed-Vest is adjustable from 1 to 10 lbs in 1/2-lb increments by simply adding and removing the individual Flex-Metal weights from the pockets. It comes with 10 lbs.

SPEED-VEST™ is designed for running, jumping and intense training. This is the best training tool for track and field events, basketball, soccer, football, baseball and volleyball.

SPEED-VEST™ is the top of the line for athletic weighted training vests. The fast design of this patented vest combines IRONWEAR’s™ soft Flex-metal™ weights with a wide array of high performance features unmatched by any other weighted vest.

SPEED-VEST™ gives you the ultimate fitting, thinnest, and most comfortable weighted vest available. The proprietary oversized stretch strapping system holds the vest securely to almost any young athlete to adult size torso, while the new double lock system on the belts keeps the vest completely stable. The design allows the vest to expand to accommodate your breathing, even during rigorous exercise.

SPEED-VEST™ incorporates a high visibility neon green porous polyester shell to allow air to flow freely through the vest. SPEED-VEST™ helps to keep you cooler so you can workout harder.

SPEED-VEST™ stays in place better than any other weighted vest. Every aspect has been designed to minimize movement of the weights. The SPEED-VEST™ is designed to tightly hold one weight in each per pocket so that no movement occurs during rigorous exercise.

The SPEED-VEST™ provides an exact balance of weight from the front to the back of the vest while the special weight pocket system allows the soft weights to bend and flex with your movement.

SPEED-VEST™ will not get in your way. With one layer of soft Flex-metal weights the vest is only a ½ inch thick. This combined with the unique thin flexible padded shoulder straps keep the SPEED-VEST™ from inhibiting your movement in any direction.

SPEED-VEST™ is easy to clean. Hose it off, hand wash or machine wash with the weights removed.

SPEED-VEST™ can be worn in the water. The vest is constructed primarily of a fast dry polyester mesh. The porous design keeps water from collecting and permits the vest to dry quickly. The SPEED-VEST™ is currently being used by competitive swimmers and for training water polo players.

SPEED-VEST™ is supplied with 10 pounds of Flex-metal™ weights, but can be adjusted from 1 pound up to 10 pounds by removing or adding the 1/2 pound Flex-metal™ weights.

Limited Lifetime Warranty

What Is Flex-Metal?

Flex-metal™ patented weight inserts are super flexible, thin and flat. They are ½ inch thick, 2 inches wide and 4 ½ inches long. All the edges are fully rounded, so there are no sharp or hard corners or bulges. Each individual weight insert has a fabric shell to allow it slide into the weight pockets. The inserts fit into the patented internal stretch pockets of many of IRONWEAR ™’s products including the Uni-Vest™, Uni-Pants™, Under Vest™, Cool Vest™, Hand Irons™, Ankle Irons™, Shoe Irons™ and Iron Belt™. Most IRONWEAR ™ products are supplied with one weight per pocket, but the pockets have been specially designed to hold one or two weights securely.

Compare to Competitors

Competitor body weight systems (including weighted vests, weighted belts, etc.) are often made with solid STEEL or LEAD BARS. The good things about solid metal bars are they're cheap and they're heavy.

Bad things about solid metal bars:

1. Exercising with metal bars against the body has the potential to be very dangerous and should be done with extreme care. If you fall or bump into some one the solid metal bars may cause you or another harm.
2. Solid metal bars do not conform to the shape of your body and can cause tissues damage when you move.
3. Solid metal bars can interfere with your movement, and because they do not flex they can block your ability to twist and bend.
4. When you walk quickly, run or jump the solid metal bars move up and down. This jarring motion can cause more harmful impact on the knees, shoulders and spine.
5. Vests made with solid metal bars tend to hike up the torso during many exercise like jumping rope or running. The wearer soon finds the vest has hiked up to his neck and is hitting his chin.
6. You can not do floor exercises such as sit-ups without the bars pressing into you.
7. Lead bars are by their nature toxic and must be handled with care and checked to make sure no lead is leaching out, coated lead can still leach out. Disposing of lead bars can also be difficult.
8. Vest made with solid metal bars must have the bars placed in a locations where you will not bump or press into them. For this reason they can not be positioned uniformly over the body.

Other competitor vests are made with metal shot. The good things about metal shot is it's cheap and less dangerous than metal bars, so long as it's not lead shot.

Bad things about metal shot:

1. Metal shot settles at the bottom of the bags creating lumps in the vest.
2. Metal shot bounces in the bag when you move. The more you move the more the shot moves around, increasing the impact on your knees, shoulders and spine.
3. When you bend, the lumps press into your body and cause localized pressure. Metal shot does not bend with you; it resists your movement.
4. Floor exercises are often painful due to the lumps.
5. The movement of the metal shot also causes the vest to hike up in the same way as the metal bars.
6. The movement of the metal shot in the bag causes the bag to wear out quickly and leak.
7. Never buy vest that uses metal shot made of lead. As the lead moves against itself it creates lead dust, the dust passes through the fabric easily and this dust is very dangerous to you and especially children (lead poisoning).

Uni-Vest™ with Flex-Metal™ does not have these problems. These vests stay in place, let you breathe, let you move, distribute the weight evenly, and are thin, flexible, form fitting, an orthopedic shape, durable, comfortable and above all the safest vest line in existence.