17lbs Ironwear® Long Neon Speed Vest® 1/2lb Flex-Metal® MADE IN USA Free Ship

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NEWEST 17 lb Neon Breathable Mesh SPEED VEST® (long) Professional Weighted Vest SV17
SUPER THIN Adjustable with 32-½ lb Soft Flex-Metal®  Weights ★★★★★
★★★★★ This vest is fantastic!!! We first saw them being used by a number of athletes at the Olympics and we had to try one. Now they are an integral part of all our training programs. (Professional Trainer)
★★★★★ I wanted to express my extreme appreciation on behalf of myself and my athletes for the performance of your Ironwear® Speed-Vest and Ironwear® Hand weights. In my 32 years of coaching Track & Field at every level I can honestly say that the Ironwear® products are the "Leader's of the Pack" when it comes to quality, fit, feel, and performance. When it comes to resistance training for ALL EVENTS in Track & Field there is no better product available! Keep up the good work! Yours Through Sport! "Peanut" Harms, USA World Cross Country Coach '96 & '05 Nigerian Olympic Track Coach, El Dorado High School Head Track and Cross Country Coach" (Professional Trainer)
*Note about the model - He has lost 50lbs training with IRONWEAR® vest, pants, hand and shoe irons in the last couple of years. We will be featuring his story soon.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) Breathable 17 lb. Athletic Weighted Vest
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) is designed for running, jumping and intense training. This is the best training tool for track and field events, basketball, soccer, football, baseball and volleyball.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) is the top of the line for athletic weighted training vests. The fast design of this patented vest combines IRONWEAR®’s soft Flex-metal® weights with a wide array of high performance features unmatched by any other weighted vest.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) gives you the ultimate fitting, thinnest, and most comfortable weighted vest available. The proprietary oversized stretch strapping system holds the vest securely to almost any young athlete to adult size torso, while the new double lock system on the belts keeps the vest completely stable. The design allows the vest to expand to accommodate your breathing, even during rigorous exercise.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) incorporates a high visibility neon green porous polyester shell to allow air to flow freely through the vest. SPEED-VEST™ helps to keep you cooler so you can workout harder.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) stays in place better than any other weighted vest. Every aspect has been designed to minimize movement of the weights. The SPEED-VEST™ is designed to tightly hold one weight in each per pocket so that no movement occurs during rigorous exercise.
The SPEED-VEST™ (Long) provides an exact balance of weight from the front to the back of the vest while the special weight pocket system allows the soft weights to bend and flex with your movement.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) will not get in your way. With one layer of soft Flex-metal weights the vest is only a ½ inch thick. This combined with the unique thin flexible padded shoulder straps keep the SPEED-VEST™ from inhibiting your movement in any direction.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) is easy to clean. Hose it off, hand wash or machine wash with the weights removed.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) can be worn in the water. The vest is constructed primarily of a fast dry polyester mesh. The porous design keeps water from collecting and permits the vest to dry quickly. The SPEED-VEST™ is currently being used by competitive swimmers and for training water polo players.
SPEED-VEST™ (Long) is supplied with 17 pounds of Flex-metal® weights, but can be adjusted from 1 pound up to 17 pounds by removing or adding the ½ pound Flex-metal® weights
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IRONWEAR®  challenges you to find a better weight vest.
IRONWEAR® has been supplying Flex-Metal® weight vests all over the world for over two decades.  IRONWEAR® is the design and technology leader for weight vests.
A few years ago there were only a couple different types of weight vests, now more are available, including a number of vests which claim to be “Ironwear”, have soft weights and even “Flex-Metal”weights, or claim to be “Uni-Vests” using our trademarks and patents without a license to try to get you to buy their illegal imitations.
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery, but these imitations have been of terrible quality, quickly falling apart and the weights often dissolving, these companies have also been falsely selling and advertising weights as “Ironwear”. “Uni-Vest” and even “Flex-Metal”.
You as the customer need to beware!!!
Please contact us if you see or have purchased any imitations of our products so that we can take appropriate action.
Just so you know IRONWEAR® invented soft flexible weights and Flex-Metal®, the overlapping neoprene belt system, stretch belting to allow the user to breath, the stretch internal pocket system, the short and long sizes, the laminated nylon shell to name just a few items.
What you should know and you are not being told!!!
All weight vests are not the same and you do not necessary get what you pay for!!
Many of the weight vests are made with STEEL or LEAD BARS including Xvest™,Vmax™, ResistanceWear™ and many others.
Good things about steel and lead bars:
1.    Steel and lead bars are cheap.
2.    They are heavy.
Bad things about solid metal bars:
1.    Exercising with metal bars against the body has the potential to be very dangerous and should be done with extreme care. If you fall or bump into some one the solid metal bars may cause you or another harm.
2.    Solid metal bars do not conform to the shape of your body and can cause tissues damage when you move.
3.    Solid metal bars can interfere with your movement, and because they do not flex they can block your ability to twist and bend.
4.    When you walk quickly, run or jump the solid metal bars move up and down. This jarring motion can cause more harmful impact on the knees, shoulders and spine.
5.    Vests made with solid metal bars tend to hike up the torso during many exercise like jumping rope or running.  The wearer soon finds the vest has hiked up to his neck and is hitting his chin.
6.    You can not do floor exercises such as sit-ups without the bars pressing into you.
7.    Lead bars are by their nature toxic and must be handled with care and checked to make sure no lead is leaching out, coated lead can still leach out. Disposing of lead bars can also be difficult.
8.    Vest made with solid metal bars must have the bars placed in a locations where you will not bump or press into them. For this reason they can not be positioned uniformly over the body.
Many vests are made with metal shot such as Valeo’s weight vest and many others.
Good things about metal shot.
1.    It is cheap.
2.    It is less dangerous than metal bars, so long as it is not lead shot.
Bad things about metal shot.
1.    Metal shot settles at the bottom of the bags creating lumps in the vest.
2.    Metal shot bounces in the bag when you move. The more you move the more the shot moves around, increasing the impact on your knees, shoulders and spine.
3.    When you bend, the lumps press into your body and cause localized pressure. Metal shot does not bend with you, it resists your movement.
4.    Floor exercises are often painful due to the lumps.
5.    The movement of the metal shot also causes the vest to hike up in the same way as the metal bars.
6.    The movement of the metal shot in the bag causes the bag to wear out quickly and leak.
7.    Never buy vest that uses metal shot made of lead. As the lead moves against itself it creates lead dust, the dust passes through the fabric easily and this dust is very dangerous to you and especially children. See lead poisoning.
The Speed Vest® with Ironwear's® Flex-Metal® weights does not have these problems, these vests: stay in place, let you breath, let you move, distribute the weight evenly, are thin, flexible, form fitting, most orthopedic shape, most durable, most comfortable and above all the safest vest line in existence.
If you have any questions please call us between 8:30 and 4:30 Monday through Friday Eastern standard time.   800-630-2779