The benefits of adding weight to your weight training and street workout routine!

Adding weight is one of the most effective techniques for continuing to develop when bodyweight exercises become too easy.

Whether you do weight training, street workout, or even running, adding external weight allows you to take your performance—and your physique—to the next level.

👉 In this article, you will discover why weight training is essential, how to use it properly, what equipment to use, and which exercises to focus on to make faster and more lasting progress.

Let's go 🚀

Why add weight?
The principle of progressive overload

When you start weight training, progress is rapid:

• Muscle gain,

• Toning,

• Fat loss

• Increased performance...

Then, after several months or years... the body gets used to it. Dips, pull-ups, and push-ups become too easy, and progress slows down.

This is precisely when ballast becomes essential! 💪

Ballasting means deliberately adding weight in order to:

• Increase intensity

• Revive growth

• Work your muscles differently

• Improve strength, explosiveness, and endurance

This is the simplest method for breaking through a plateau while continuing with the same exercises.

The benefits of ballasting

1. More muscle

Muscle fibers must be sufficiently challenged in order to strengthen. By adding weight, you create a new stimulus that forces your body to adapt.

2. More strength

To build strength, you need to reduce the number of repetitions and increase the load. Weight training allows you to do just that.

3. More explosiveness

Performing short sets (3 to 5 repetitions) with an overload is ideal for improving speed and power.

4. More motivation

By recording your weights and repetitions, you can track your progress session after session. Nothing is more satisfying for staying motivated 🔥

How to ballast intelligently?
Rules to follow

1. Gradual increase
Don't double your load all at once. Add weight little by little to allow your joints and tendons to adapt.

2. Goal: achieve 8-10 repetitions
If you do more, increase the weight.
If you do less, decrease it slightly.

3. Short sets for strength
3 to 5 heavy repetitions: the best strategy for explosiveness + strength.

4. Track your performance
This is the key to continuous improvement.

Weight training & street workout: an underestimated asset

Street workout athletes make extensive use of weights to improve their skills in moves such as:

• the Handstand,

• the Flag,

• the Muscle Up,

• or even Front/Back Levers.

Why?

Because weighing yourself down:

• Strengthens grip and grip strength

• Improves stability

• Makes technical exercises more accessible once you return to body weight

• Allows you to create much more challenging circuits

With a compact weighted vest, you can also intensify circuits involving push-ups, burpees, and jump rope. Once you take it off, you'll feel lighter and more explosive.

And bonus: you don't need any external weights when you train outside, just your vest in your bag. Handy 😄

What to use for ballast? Essential equipment

1. The Weighted Vest

The weighted vest is the most versatile tool: it can be used anywhere and is ideal for dynamic exercises or exercises on the move.

Our available models:

• 10 kg weighted vest

• 20 kg weighted vest

Advantages:

• Adjustable with iron weights

• Close to the body → complete freedom of movement

• Fits all body types thanks to the adjustable strap

Perfect for street workouts, cross-training, running, and high-intensity circuits.

2. The Ballast Belt

The weight belt is the ideal piece of equipment for heavy lifting during pull-ups and dips.

Its strengths:

• Adjustable to any body type

• Wide, padded back for optimal comfort

• Two practical carabiners

• Capacity up to 300 kg load

👉 Bonus:

You cancombine the vest and belt to distribute the load and achieve a more natural leg position.

This equipment is waiting for you to help you take your game to the next level 🔥

Which exercises should be weighted? The essentials

Upper body exercises

• Supination pull-ups → Back & Biceps

• Pronation/Australian pull-ups → Back

• Dips

  • straight body → Triceps

  • slightly leaning → Pectorals

  • leaning forward → Shoulders

• Weighted dips → Pecs & Triceps

Lower body exercises (with vest)

• Squat

• Pistol Squat

Cardio and explosiveness

With a weighted vest:

• Box Jump

• Burpees

• Running

• Jump rope

The goal: to make the movements more demanding so that returning to body weight seems easy.

Ballasting: a motivation booster

Nothing is more motivating than realizing that you can lift heavier weights than you could a few weeks ago.

You set goals, you make progress, you surpass yourself... and you sculpt the physique you really want.

Whether you practice:

• Weight training,

• Street workout,

• Crossfit,

• Running…

Weight training is an ally for all athletes.

Thank you to the sports blog Le Gong Sportif for testing our weighted vest:

Conclusion

If you want to continue to progress, exceed your limits, and avoid stagnation, weight training is one of the best strategies possible.

Whether it's a vest or a belt, the goal remains the same:to intelligently increase intensity in order to become stronger, more muscular, and more explosive.

Work hard, take care of yourself... and keep pushing yourself 🔥

See you soon!

Eric Flag