I love this weighted vest. I bought it with 40lbs of weights which is really like 37ish lbs because they count the actual vest as the remaining 2-3lbs. I filled it all the way up on day one since you have the option to add as much/little weight as you'd like in the 2.5lbs increments. I first wore the vest for 1 hr around the house and felt a slight pain when I took it off, even the second time. It is a very minor annoyance to put the vest on at 40lbs and would likely be less of a headache doing so with at least some of the weights out of the vest while putting on FYI, but I'm too lazy to load it up and unload it after every use. It does have outer handles on the shoulder area to carry the vest by and pull it up closer to your head when you want to wear it, nice touch! It is overall padded well, even on the shoulders. I only felt pain at first because it's an additional 40 lbs that wasn't weighing me down before. I have only used the vest like 6 times and can wear it down the trail for a couple hrs at a time now. I tried to run in it before but even when I had it wrapped around me relatively tight, it still moved around a little. Don't know about running in it so much, good for hikes though. The weights can be expensive when not buying them with the vest, I now want to add the remaining 20lbs to max it out. This was well worth the price in my honest opinion. I'll include photos with the color detail too, it's like a black denim material.. very high quality! 9 weight slots on the front and 10 slots on the back, plus a rear reflective strip on the back. Hold 57 lbs of added weight and the vest weighs approximately 3lbs itself... supposedly. Hope this answers all your questions

Works great. Stays in place. Very comfortable.

Con: the dye used rubs off onto towels, clothing, anything if the vest gets wet. I have been soaking it in a bucket out in my lawn to try to get the color bleed out. I'm on my 8th bucket and there is still color that comes off when I run a paper towel in the wet surface. I keep dumping the dirty water onto my summer scorched grass. At least the grass is happy. I didn't want to wash it in the machine because of the metal loops.

Pros: I am short so the short length of the vest is perfect. You can also adjust the weight of the vest by slipping the weights in and out of the pockets.

If you buy this...I hope you like blue.

60-lb vest review: I did just use it for the first time walking my dog for 30-minutes and I can certainly feel it.

This vest is constructed very well, great weight distribution and comfortable to wear. I've started off with 8 weights in the vest. It's worth noting the vest only comes with 19 weights and has 19 pockets because the vest itself is part of the 60 lbs. I'm not mad about that but some might be surprised. So, I'm rocking it at about 27 lbs right now. The shoulder straps are adjustable so that the wearer can lower the weighted vest on the torso. I took it to work to show a few folks and they were pleasantly surprised at the construction and layout of the vest.

What I absolutely don't like about the vests are the straps. I understand the idea of the straps coming from around back to tighten up on the torso but they need to be a little bit longer. I bought this vest to aid in dropping some weight. I have a 42-44 chest. When I reach for the straps with my slightly t-rex arms, it's workout in itself but even then, very little strap room for reattaching once the straps are run through the metal loops. Because of how short the straps are, I couldn't adjust the shoulder straps to lower the vest a little if I wanted to. A Mojave style dual side release buckle would be perfect but that's just my opinion.

Overall, I absolutely recommend this vest to anyone looking to up their workout game or simply aid in dropping some weight by walking around with a weighted vest. I also bought the 60-lbs vest because it was $5 more than the 50-lbs. Also, the size of the vest is the MAX it can hold. You can remove weights but you can't get it above what you buy so I didn't want to limit myself. Hope someone finds this helpful.

So we'll made fits great .No sand weights real quality 3 pound iron weights that fit perfectly in the generous amounts of slots given. The fit is amazing if there were more than 5 stars I'd give it more. So glad I didn't purchase a cheaper brand.