You got a hard CrossFit workout…and that should be enough…
Right….right…??!!
Apparently, the likes of DT, Karen, and Cindy just aren’t quite enough for the serious CrossFit enthusiasts. At least, not in their “vest-less” iterations.
….also, some days you just gotta do a weight vest workout.
Thankfully, we have a few heavy hitters here for you to choose from!
When considering the…ramifications for donning the weighted vest, factor in ~20-30% more time than a “weight-less” variation of the same workout might take you. After looking at top Murph times versus what the best in the world put up at the 2015 and 2016 CrossFit Games competitions, this range seems to be pretty consistent to the kind of…hindrance that you gotta overcome when working in a vest.
Still up for the challenge and you’re cool with your weighted Murph time looking a bit slower than when you’re vest free? Then, without further ado, here we have…
Table of Contents
The 20 Best Weight Vest Workouts
Hidalgo
Equipment: Weight vest, Air Runner (optional) barbell, bumper plates, plyo box
We’ll kick-off with one of the toughest, if not the toughest of the top weight vest workouts. I mean, 4 miles in a vest is hard enough, but a bunch of heavy-ish squat cleans, box jumps, and lunges…
Holy burning quads, Batman!
…and those 2-minute rests before and after the big runs…just teases!
Sweat
Equipment: Weight vest, Air runner (optional)
It’s always the workouts that look so “simple” that end up to be soooo hard!
Truth be told, Sweat “only” throws 100 burpees and a couple of miles at you…but this just means that you’re supposed to move…
Fast…you’re gonna sweat!
Get going!
Taylor
Equipment: Weight vest, Air Runner (optional), pull-up bar/rack, gymnastics rings
The quarter-mile runs…no big deal.
20 muscle-ups…tough, but do-able.
20 burpee muscle-ups…this is getting hard.
20 weighted burpee muscle-ups…good luck!
Westy’s 10,000
Equipment: Weight vest, dumbbells
One of the hardest parts of this one might be simply finding a 70-pound vest. However, if you are “lucky” enough to get your hands on one, then you get to do one hundred grounds-to-overheads with a couple of fiftys.
I mean…those grounds-to-overheads would be hard enough without a weighted vest…so…have fun!
2017 Riders Throwdown – WOD 1
Equipment: Weight vest, Assault Bike, barbell, bumper plates, pull-up bar/rack, Air runner (optional)
Make sure you wear a weighted vest for this one (the Rx athletes at this event had to perform this one as a weight vest workout)!
You gotta take your time on the Assault Bike or your legs will be absolutely worthless during the thrusters…not to mention being absolutely destroyed during the run.
tldr: don’t try to be a hero during the beginning of this one!
Luce
Equipment: Weight vest, Air runner (optional), pull-up bar/rack, gymnastics rings
A lot of running, and a lot of air squats…kinda sounds like you know who, doesn’t it?
Well, as tough as Murph is (that is who you were thinking of, right?) at least you don’t have to knock out 30 muscle-ups!