Thread: Training with Ankle/Wrist weights
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Old 09-02-2007, 04:45 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kanik View Post
Yo all. I am wondering if there are any bad effects from training (Sprinting, jogging, bagwork, et.c etc.), with wrist and ankle weights on. Especially when it comes to running, do you think running with them on your ankles would damage anything in any way? my friend seems to think it would, and another friend is tellimg me it wouldnt. So yeah I also wanna know personall experiances with them too. Good and bad.
The problem is that the nervous system is weight specific. When you train with arm weights or ankle weights it's like developing a new skill and it competes for dominance with the unweighted skill.
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