What’s the deal with weighted vests?

Jennifer Gerson

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Everyone on Instagram — and walking down the sidewalk or around the playground — seems to be wearing a weighted vest. Everyone but me.

Forbes reported that the weighted vest market generated $205 million in 2024, and that number is expected to be even higher for 2025. So it’s not all in my head: They’re big business, and American women are happily buying in. A political pollster recently found that 1 in 6 American women has one.

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That has made me feel a little left out and paranoid. W