When I was in Berlin to celebrate New Year’s Eve I heard about the New Year’s Eve Run. I decided to take part in that run.

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The route was really nice and there were two pitches I liked because I passed several people. I think my calves were more trained than those of most other people in that race. Thanks lovely leg weights .

I haven’t been running for a couple of weeks. So my result wasn’t bad. I finished the ten kilometers run in 49 minutes and 53 seconds. I got 217th of 935 competitors. You’ll find more information and pictures here.

Once again. The fastest lap I ever had. I got thirty five seconds faster on a distance of five kilometers. Now I start to beleive that this speed-up is the result of the leg weights I wear from time to time.

These are the weight’s I borrowed from Herbert (thanks Herbert ). Each of them have a weight of 1140 gramms. Generally you wear them under the pants so the right picture only shows how it looks like on your legs.

Leg weights are an old training technique, but are extremely effective at building stamina and muscle, and you can use them anytime anywhere. At home, while you’re at the office, out shopping, anywhere you go your legs weights can go as well.

It may not seem like much but adding that little extra weight will make your body work that much harder, and thus without you even knowing it you’ll have built up some major stamina in no time. And when you take the weights off you’ll feel a lot lighter.