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Weighted hip belts vs. knee health
Hi, I noticed on another fitness thread that someone mentioned the concern that weighted hip belts put too much strain on the knees, and I've seen that before on another thread about the belts.
So, why exactly are the belts bad for the knees? I can see that dancing with ankle weights might strain the knee joint, because the extra weight is hanging directly off the knee joint, but the weight from the belt is distributed around the body and in an area that most women carry some extra weight anyway. So, why is the belt more dangerous to the knees than just weighing 10 extra pounds? I'm not trying to be argumentative. I've just toyed with the idea of getting one of these belts, so I want to understand better what the disadvantage of one might be.
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