01/12/2026
Strength training is always a better choice than just walking.
I love the loaded walking trend, BUT…
Walking with a weight vest on just doesn’t replace structured and progressive strength training, which is the real secret weapon to health and fat loss for both men and women.
What does the weight vest actually do? It’s actually quite simple, but adding additional load to the body during otherwise low level walking, the heart rate elevates into trainable zones to develop cardiovascular health and fitness.
While walking more is always recommended, walking is not really considered “exercise” due to its lack of trainable stimulus. It’s really just “movement” and yes we need more of that as well, but training your heart, lungs and circulatory system to adapt and get stronger is a higher yield activity.
But as great as that sounds, just walking under load doesn’t activate many of the other training stimuli needed to be strong, healthy and adaptable. Strength training does that.
Strength training helps us build muscle, burn fat (for longer), develops strong bones, enhances movement health, improves balance and motor control, harnesses protective power, unlocks mobility and makes you better at everything.
Including making you harder to kill in every way…
A well balanced training program can absolutely including weight vest walking AND structured strength training. My recommendation? A 3+3 program training strength 3x/week with a full body program, and then add in 45-60 minutes of loaded walking another 3x/week.
This will have you achieving ALL your goals simultaneously.
And that’s exactly what my Female Functional Physique Program offers inside of the Unbreakable Training App.
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