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I'm using euro cents as weights in my weighted vest. When I started doing this I didn't want to afford dedicated weights as it seemed like a waste of money, bu
by modulovalue 2y ago
I'm using euro cents as weights in my weighted vest.
When I started doing this I didn't want to afford dedicated weights as it seemed like a waste of money, but I had many cents saved up from my childhood, which I started to use instead.
I have roughly 15kg in euro cents in my vest and I'm regularly talking walks with it.
To get one kilo you need 435 cents and it turns out that in Germany you can also "buy" coins "for free" at the "Bundesbank", that is, you can exchange actual money for weights without any fees. You give 4 euros and 35 cents and you get a kilo. Once you need the money back, you can also sell those coins back to them for free.
- rwmj 2y agoWhat's a weighted vest? Something for diving?
- dmd 2y agoIt's a way to increase the risk of injury to your knees and ankles and strain your back and shoulders while taking walks, and in general make walking more unpleasant. Some people think it's an exercise 'life hack'.
- normie3000 2y agoIs it worse than carrying a backpack?
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoI went 0' 5' 10' 15, 20kg over 3 years after an embolism. N=1 (rather like yourself: or you spoke to/ read about people that don't quite understand 'pacing'. Do you/ them struggle with 1 bag of shopping? I make three or more light(er)trips.
- t-3 2y agoThe risk of injury while walking in a weighted vest is not much higher than walking normally. A very high weight of vest is probably ill advised, but walking on a very flat/regular surface for long periods is far more damaging than walking with a little extra weight. Weighted bracelets/limb weights are dangerous though, and shouldn't be used unless you know what you're doing and take care not to move too quickly and put excess strain on joints.
- dotancohen 2y agoHow much weight on a weighted arm band is considered dangerous? I'm considering 500 gram bands for my arms, that's just about twice the weight of a cellular phone today.
- ffsm8 2y agoEhh, I've been doing fitness boxing and knockout home fitness (Nintendo switch) with 1.5 kg wrist/hand weights for ages now, no issues to speak off. I think he's taking about the 2-5kg weights, these are way more dangerous then you'd expect from wearing them. (I did that for a while, after getting slightly In shape - at least until I read up on it) Strong recommendation for Nintendo switch for baseline fitness btw, these games are great for a 1-2 day 20 minutes workout/week for unfit office workers. Way better experience then the equivalent VR games.
- archi42 2y agoWhat are the equivalent VR games? Just curious. I don't play too much VR these days, but enjoyed Beat Saber for "stationary movement", Gorn for beating up stuff and the VR ports of the original Serious Sam games for "run and shoot like a maniac".
- ffsm8 2y agoThese can be pretty physically challenging too! my issue with arcade style games for fitness is that they stop whenever you fuck up. That's not really great when your goal is to get moving for ~20 minutes or so. The one's I've currently got installed on my quest 3 are Supernatural Fitness (I need a VPN to play because they're geolocking it to USA). I find the way they try to "get personal" with the trainer super awkward. FitXR (only one with decent passthrough gameplay) I dislike how most exercises are centered around "gyms", whenever you enter a session, there are others around you doing the same exercise as you and you get a scoreboard. It really doesn't vibe with me whatsoever. I also don't believe that I almost always get first or second place - I'm pretty sure this is showing you numbers to make you feel good about yourself. XR workout It's the most "indie" of these and with the highest difficulty ceiling. It's biggest downfall is that it doesn't really give you a generated "I wanna exercise for 20 minutes" button. At least I couldn't find it. There are also others, but I don't have them installed. I.e. Les milles etc But as I said before: purely from a workout perspective, the Nintendo games work way better in my experience. It's just so awkward in VR compared to Knockout Home Fitness, worse signalling what you need to do next - you're wearing a headset while getting sweaty - no center stage youre watching, instead youre just trying to guess which movement you're supposed to do while things randomly float around. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLdgFf5GCQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLdgFf5GCQ
- naming_the_user 2y agoIf you're injuring yourself by walking around with a few extra kilos then you are so, so hilariously out of shape that any advice you can give is competely disregardable.
- devoutsalsa 2y agoI avoided injury when backpacking through the Himalayas by tying helium balloons to by backpack for neutral buoyancy. Had to make slight adjustments as altitude changed, but it all worked out. I had my porter carry the helium tanks.
- yohannparis 2y agoI do not know if that is satirical, specially the last sentence?
- naming_the_user 2y agoGod must have created America, humans wouldn’t have been capable of trekking with such weight.
- alistairSH 2y agoThe OP said their legs were shaking just standing due to lack of exercise. So, they were literally that hilariously out of shape.
- kjellsbells 2y agoSome people have no, zero, none understanding of sensible limits. "If X is good then more X must be better" applied to one or more aspects of their life. Hence protein in their diet, vitamin supplements, weight in a vest, and of course, infamously, having a presence on social media.
- OJFord 2y agoIn the same way that consuming food and drink is? Or carrying a backpack of things you need, not just dead weight? Maybe I misundertand - how much weight are we talking about here?
- swarnie 2y agoUsed in running to add extra resistance. I've used them on and off in the past; useful in limited circumstances.
- modulovalue 2y agoIt's a vest that you can fill with stuff to increase the intensity of a workout. There was a time in my life when my legs started hurting and shaking from muscle atrophy because I was programming too much and moving too little. I was looking for a way to fix that issue and I didn't want to waste time going to a gym, so I started talking walks with a weighted vest. Walking is nice because you can think while walking and with a weighted vest you don't have to walk for hours for it to have a useful effect on your body.
- xandrius 2y agoFor information, the current research shows that the intensity of the exercise is much less important than the duration. So if you did so little exercise that you get muscle atrophy, a weighted vest isn't going to do much for you.
- mr_mitm 2y ago> For information, the current research shows that the intensity of the exercise is much less important than the duration For what goal? Increasing strength? I have my doubts.
- uoaei 2y agoThey're probably referring to some contrived fitness study on hypertrophy.
- vidarh 2y agoAnyone who has actually done both low-intensity exercise, e.g. walking, and high-intensity, e.g. heavy compound lifts, will tell you that statement needs a lot of additional caveats.
- Kirby64 2y agoYou’re gonna need to provide a source to that. For caloric burning? Sure, I’d agree. For cardiovascular health? Eh, the answer lies in the middle. For strength and muscle building? No, quite the opposite really. At some point the intensity of an exercise is so low it provides no meaningful muscle stimulus.
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoThe decathlon weight 500g pakets of sand)jacket is about €20. How easy is it to make your jacket 10kg? Are the coins easily removable? Do you have straps to keep the weight 'tight'?
- modulovalue 2y agoIt's very easy. I'm using the cheapest weighted vest that I could find and it came with blue bags that I've just filled with coins. You don't really need straps to make the weights tight because the money just kind of spreads inside of the bag and doesn't move at all once it's there. It's on my todo list to 3d print some containers to replace the bags with actual "money rolls" so that I can remove them more easily.
- swores 2y agoMaybe you've already considered and decided paper wouldn't work, or maybe you want the fun of working with a 3D printer, but my initial thought: Would it not be simple to create rolls of coins by simply wrapping a sheet of paper round a stack of them, once or twice around, a little bit of sellotape to hold the paper in place, including folding it over at both ends and taping there too? I'd imagine an A4 sheet would be more than enough for each stack of coins, cutting off what isn't needed, and since you wouldn't care about them being beautiful you wouldn't even need fresh paper and could just use paper that would otherwise go into recycling/trash (letters received, junk mail, etc.) edit: I did a quick search which both confirmed people have made coin rolls using simple paper, and also that it's highly likely banks will offer pre-made paper holders for the various coin sizes that you can just ask for and get for free (with the bank assuming you'll be bringing them back full of coins - you could either ask for as many as you need, or just one per size and use it as a template for making more from plain paper like this guy does: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvsOkp_WPxY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvsOkp_WPxY )
- modulovalue 2y agoThat's a very good point. I wonder about the durability of a paper based solution, but 3d printed rolls might also be suboptimal in that regard. This needs some experimentation.
- thenthenthen 2y agoCould you explain more? I do not understand how you can buy coins for free by paying coins for “weights” (what are these weights? What are they made from?). Also, what is the use for this? To check of your coins are real? Calibrate your coin scale?
- thfuran 2y agoYou give bills and get pennies.
- MadnessASAP 2y agoThe coins are weights, the actual money is paper or electronic money.
- thenthenthen 2y agoHow do you pay 35 cent in paper is still a mystery. But OP just means you can exchange/buy coins (and use them as weights)?
- brianshaler 2y agoYou should be just as mystified about the 4€ component.
- trompetenaccoun 2y agoExcuse the nerdy nitpick, I get the point but technically as far as "actual" money goes that's the coins. Electronic entries in bank ledgers are not legal tender. One can of course go further and question if banknotes and coins should be called actually money. Today the nominal value is completely disconnected from what the metal is really worth, it's not like with gold coins back in the day. And once collective belief in the value is lost fiat money quickly becomes worthless. Zimbabwe and Venezuela are recent examples.
- killingtime74 2y agoHave to correct your nitpick. What you're talking about is currency not money. Not being legal tender doesn't mean it's not money. The majority of money sits as electronic entries in each country's central bank. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency.asp#:~:text=The%20terms%20money%20and%20currency,one%20tangible%20form%20of%20money https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency.asp#:~:text=Th....
- dangerwill 2y agoI have to ask, how do you not sound like ~6500 coins jingling together as you walk? I notice when I have like 10 coins in a backpack. Do you wrap bundles of coins in cellophane or something?
- kqr 2y agoI remember back when I used physical coins, banks used to wrap them in paper rolls with known quantities in them. So you could get a $10 roll of ten $1 coins or whatever.
- dangerwill 2y agoAh that is almost certainly it, it's been so long since I've gotten a roll of quarters from a bank that I forgot that is an option. Thanks!
- ffsm8 2y agoYou can also go to the beach and get unlimited amounts of weight for free too. That's what's most budget weights are made of
- krick 2y agoI don't mean to argue that it's just gimmick and any sane person would just use sand, but to be completely fair, sand is much less dense than steel, so if the coins pack well it does make a better weight. I do also suspect that there must be some product that must be more cost effective than coins but denser than sand, but cannot think of it right away. I mean, scrap steel is a couple of cents per kg.
- Ao7bei3s 2y agoOlympic weight plates for barbells. They're widely used, so competition has brought the cost down, and they're easily available in useful increments. I currently see 4x 10lbs for <$50 on Amazon. That works out to 2,53 Euro per kg. So cheaper than euro cents. They may not have the exact shape you need. The scrap steel probably didn't cost cents per kg when it was sold for its original purpose. You are paying for a useful shape. A professional equivalent of weighted vests are ballistic plate carriers. Real ballistic plates can be fragile and expensive, so options for exercising in (or milsim games in airsoft etc.) include expired (and failed to re-certify) real ballistic plates, made for purpose training plates... or plate shaped sandbags!
- raverbashing 2y agoEspecially if you hit eBay or similar, you can get it for cheap
- another-dave 2y ago> That works out to 2,53 Euro per kg. So cheaper than euro cents. The cents are free though, cause they're legal tender — just deposit them instead of having to sell 2nd hand
- timeon 2y ago> saved up from my childhood Isn't Euro just from 2002? That surely is not that long time ago!
- ttymck 2y agoIt's 22 years ago, roughly
- johannes1234321 2y ago> you can also "buy" coins "for free" Free till you count inflation and opportunity cost. (What you could gian as interest with some other investment) But yeah, probably still cheaper than some product from a store.