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For a person of 160 pounds that is roughly eight pounds. The reason to start low is that a vest loads the spine, hips and knees continuously rather than in bursts, so soreness shows up a day later rather than during the walk. Most people who get hurt with a vest did the full weight on day one and felt fine at the time.",{"question":26,"answer":27},"Does walking in a weighted vest actually burn more calories?","Yes, and the effect is modest rather than dramatic. Carrying extra load raises the metabolic cost of each step, and published work on load carriage puts the increase somewhere in the range of ten to twenty percent for a vest in the eight to twenty pound range at normal walking speed. It is a real gain, but it will not turn a walk into a run. 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