Weighting for the feet with your own hands

Weighting for the feet can increase the effectiveness of training. They can be purchased at a sports store, but it's best to make them yourself. Consider one detailed master class.

Benefits of weighting for legs

Extra weight on the legs helps to make the walking and running exercises as effective as possible. As a result, the load on the muscles of the thighs and buttocks increases. You can use weighting during the execution of normal exercises, for example, swings, jumps , etc.

The benefit of such training is that to perform a certain exercise a person must exert more effort than doing the same, but without weighting. Thanks to this, not only the process of losing weight and pumping muscle mass is accelerated, but also the cardiovascular system is strengthened, the breathing and circulation are stabilized.

How to make the weighting of the day with your own hands?

According to the presented class, you can make a weight of 1.2 kg, but if desired, the weight can be increased to 1.7 kg. For work it is necessary to prepare a strong fabric, in this case jeans is used. To make your own weight heavier for the legs, you need to prepare 4 pieces of 45x20 cm, and another 1.6 m of Velcro, 2 zippers of 40 cm, and 1.6 m of capron tape and 2 metal ovals.

A step-by-step instruction on how to make weighting agents for the feet:

1. Used 4 identical pieces of jeans, two of them already sewn, as it is a piece of leg. In the center of one part of the mother, stitch the nylon tape with a sticky base. To be able to tightly tighten the weighting agent, it is necessary not to sew up to the end about 10 cm. Do not forget to attach a metal oval at the end of the tape.
2. In the end, it should look like this: first comes the fastener, then the sticky tape with a rigid base. Then everything goes to the nylon tail again with a soft adhesive tape. After that, one edge needs to be sewn, and on the other hand sew a zipper. The result is something that looks like a handbag, which has a size of 37x18 cm.
3. The next step in the instruction is how to sew the weighting for the legs: divide the length of the rectangle into 4 identical parts and sew the drawn lines on the typewriter. As a result, you get 4 pockets, which need to be filled with sand or grains. The selected material must first be put in a plastic bag, so that nothing will crumble. You can use pieces of lead or pebbles for weighting.

Now you know how to make the weighting yourself for the legs and you can evaluate the result. Such weighting agents can be used for both leg and hand training.