The Original Walkvest Training System by Debbie Rocker

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Equipment Details

• Weight-bearing walking vest for burning calories, toning muscle, and improving posture
• Helps you lose weight, strengthen abs, protect lower back, and build bone density
• Comes with eight 1/2-pound weights; upgradeable to 16 pounds (other weights sold separately)
• Includes free introductory 20-minute walking CD; breathable best fits comfortably
• Designed by Debbie Rocker, former pro athlete, fitness expert, and professional trainer

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Description of The Original Walkvest Training System by Debbie Rocker

The WalkVest helps you burn fat and build muscle during everyday activities.

A favorite of top U.S. gyms, leading health professionals, celebrities, and pro athletes in the U.S. and beyond, the WalkVest kit comes with a 20-minute introductory audio CD, along with eight 0.5 pound weights (additional weights and CDs are available).

Note:
The amount of weight you wear in your WalkVest is based on your own body weight and fitness level. Detailed instructions are in the box. You may also choose to vary the weight load based on the length or intensity of your planned workout.

About Debbie Rocker
With a passion for "changing people's lives, not just their bodies," Debbie Rocker created the WalkVest in 2003, drawing from her experience as a former pro athlete, cycling world record holder, fitness expert, and professional 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--she ran the company and established Spinning gyms in Los Angeles and New York--Rocker brings an attuned sensibility to the business of fitness. Rocker's athletic experience includes a trip across the U.S. on a tandem bicycle with a female friend in an attempt to set the Women's Tandem Cross Country Cycling world record. After training for a year and a half, securing Bud Light as a major sponsor, and assembling a 12-person support team, including a motor home and film crew, she and her friend rode from Huntington Beach, California, to Atlantic City, New Jersey in a mere 12 days. The point-to-point 1986 world record remains intact and is still recognized by the Ultra Marathoners Association.

In the early 1990s, Rocker partnered with ultra-endurance cyclist Johnny G and formed the Spinning Group. She sold and delivered the first Spinning package to Crunch Fitness in New York, and nurtured the growth of Spinning until she branched off and began operating Spinning and private training facilities in New York and L.A. Rocker invented the WalkVest after pounding the pavement for hours on end while training for marathons. Although the training regimen helped her achieve a personal best time of 3 hours and 18 minutes in the Los Angeles marathon, it ultimately wore on her body, leading Rocker to switch to progressive resistance (weight-bearing) walking. The switch immediately improved her body's performance. "I started to love my workouts again," says Rocker. "I felt no pain, and my body became stronger and even leaner than before. Best of all, I looked forward to walking, and I could do it with friends of different fitness levels, since we could all choose our own variable weight to carry."

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