Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

A fitness trend has people donning extra pounds — in the form of a weighted vest — in order to intensify their workout. But is it safe? Weighted vests can help in burning more calories and improving ...

Nearly a decade ago, Kristen Beavers, who studies safe ways for older adults to lose weight, began asking whether weighted vests could help this population drop pounds without sacrificing vital bone ...

Like multitudes of middle-class American suburbanites have in recent months, Kim Holderness looked out her window in Raleigh, North Carolina, earlier this year and chuckled at what she saw: “Just a ...

WALKING HAS BECOME a daily ritual for me. Aviators? Check. Walking shoes? Check. My 11-month-old? Double check. That’s been my pre-walk checklist for the last six months since I entered full-time stay ...

The FIA has declared a "heat hazard" at the Singapore Grand Prix, meaning drivers have the option of wearing cooling vests to combat the extreme temperatures and humidity forecast this weekend. With ...

Welcome to Retail Therapy by Prevention! In this series, our editors provide thoughtful, honest reviews of what we’ve been testing lately that we want you to know about—because we refuse to keep these ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Another K-9 officer in Cranston will soon be outfitted with a protective vest, and the police department says this one will pay tribute to a K-9 that died last year. Major Todd ...

Share on Pinterest Are weighted vests really a fitness breakthrough? That depends on a lot of factors, including your current fitness level and goals. Yakov Knyazev/Stocksy United Weighted vests are ...

A weighted vest is a garment with sewn-in or removable weights. When worn during a walk, weighted vests increase your body weight, and, therefore, the intensity of your workout. Using a weighted vest ...

In the fitness class Jessie Syfko created for a nationwide gym chain, exercisers wear weighted vests that add a challenge to their workouts. “People start to realize how good it feels to work just a ...