Try Weight Loss, Workout With Walk Vest and Weight Vest

Exercising with Walk Vest, which is a weighted vest that you take on, helps to add resistance to your body and becomes a good way for weight loss. This weighted vest comes from Walk Vest and is created by Debbie Rocker who founded Walk Vest in 2003.

A weighted vest from Walk Vest allows the following benefits to burn excess calories and add muscle to lose fat.

A walk vest helps to condition core and strengthen abdominals and build bone density.

How Does WALKVEST Work?

WALKVEST® safely adds weight, from 2 to 16 pounds, to your normal body weight. Wear the vest while walking, the added resistance safely causes your body to work harder. Your bones are forced to grow denser and stronger and burn more calories so you lose weight faster. It is the number one way to build bone density too – we have doctors and research to prove it.

From Walk Vest Website Press Information

What is The WALKVEST?

The WALKVEST is a lightweight cotton vest with weight pockets strategically located around the mid section so that added weight is evenly distributed for safety and comfort while you walk. Professionally designed for postural benefits and back safety, doctors recommend exercising with WALKVEST® to strengthen bones and muscles while also increasing cardiovascular strength. Walking with The WALKVEST® also helps you burn more fat and calories than walking alone, to help you stay lean and fit.

Any activity that causes the body to work against gravity is a weight bearing activity. Research shows that weight bearing excercises best build and maintain bone mass and bone density. WALKING, jogging, stair climbing and dancing are all weight bearing activities.

RESEARCH HAS PROVEN THAT EXERCISE IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING ONE CAN DO TO PRESERVE AND INCREASE ONES BONE MASS.

"Oregon State University Study finds that elderly women can halt bone loss by exercising with a weighted vest."

"In The New England Journal of Medicine researchers concluded that walking two miles a day reduces the chance of heart attack by more than 28%."

Benefits of walking with The WALKVEST® include:

increasing cardiovascular strength
lowering blood pressure
reduces stress
lowering cholesterol
enhancing stamina and increasing energy

strengthening bones, muscles, and connective issues
muscle toning
With a passion for "changing people's lives, not just their bodies,” Debbie Rocker created WALKVEST by Debbie Rocker in 2003, drawing from her experience as a former professional athlete, World Record holder in cycling, fitness expert, and personal trainer for thousands of individuals, including health and medical professionals, and some of Hollywood's best-known celebrities. Also one of the original developers of Spinning, operating the company and establishing Spinning gyms in Los Angeles and New York, Rocker brings an attuned sensibility to the business of fitness. - Some parts of the story are taken from Walk Vest media kit.


Thinking Fitness?


Marion County Health Department and Fit City encourage all Health and Hospital, Wishard and health department employees to "think fitness" as we enter the warm months. Making fitness part of your daily routine doesn't mean you have to be confined to the gym or spend lots of money on equipment. There are many exercises you can do in the comfort of your own home - and on your own time, without exercise bikes or treadmills.

And the best part is, you can get your entire family involved. Here are just a few tips for how your family can work in exercise to your lifestyle:

* Set up an obstacle course. This one is especially fun for the kids. Set up stations such as push-ups in the family room, sit-ups in the bedroom, frog jumps in the hallway. Time everyone and see if your time improves with repetition.

* Buy an exercise band. This is one piece of exercise equipment that's worth every penny. This piece of strength-training equipment is portable, safe and can be used in a variety of exercises. They're also pretty cheap. Check out various resistances and types to fit your workout needs.

* Dance. Can't seem to find the time for an exercise session? Turn on the radio or pop in a CD while you're making dinner. Encourage the entire family to dance around the kitchen.

* Walk. There are many programs that can help you track your steps, whether they are around the house or around the neighborhood.

The health department also provides a free physical fitness program called Indy In Motion. This is a cooperative program with the National Institutes for Fitness and Sport and Indy Parks. Walking, fitness, aerobics and other activities are held at various Indy Park locations throughout the county. In addition, participants will learn about good nutrition and the role what we eat plays in our overall health. All are welcome to join the program no matter the time of year.


ExerciseTV Top Trainer - Nationwide Search For America's Top Fitness Trainers


CityVoter, ExerciseTV to research, build and promote "ExerciseTV Top Trainer," the first interactive online guide and contest to discover the country's best fitness professionals. ExerciseTV is a joint venture between Comcast, Time Warner Cable, New Balance and Jake Steinfeld of "Body by Jake." CityVoter's award-winning platform and services are used by the country's leading media companies including FOX, McGraw-Hill and Hearst-Argyle.

Between January 28 and March 23, ExerciseTV and CityVoter invite fitness professionals and their clients or friends to nominate themselves or their favorite trainer at http://www.exercisetv.tv/toptrainer.

"We're building on the overwhelming response to our 2007 'America's Next Fitness Star' contest, in which more than 1,000 fitness professionals from across the country competed to be named the country's next fitness celebrity," said Chris Mansolillo, General Manager, ExerciseTV. "This joint venture will provide online users a fun and easy way to vote, nominate and comment on their favorite instructors across the country."

ExerciseTV joins a growing list of media companies that have chosen CityVoter to build a local directory and introduce interactive features such as voting, nominating businesses and posting comments and photos. CityVoter guides include hundreds of local business profiles, complete with photos, maps and contact information.

"This partnership demonstrates the extensibility of the CityVoter platform," said Josh Walker, chief executive officer, CityVoter. "Our 'best of' model, which engages consumers and local businesses, gives national media brands a way to reach local service providers like fitness instructors. With CityVoter, ExerciseTV is giving fitness professionals a unique and powerful way to promote themselves."

Fitness professionals receive a complimentary listing within the ExerciseTV guide, which will launch with listings from more than 10 major metropolitan areas that will be accessible to fitness professionals and consumers across the country. Fitness expertise categories include Boot Camp, Cardio, Kickboxing, Dance, Pilates, Personal Training, Yoga and General Fitness.