Welcome to the body happy joins. This is our one question Monday where myself I'm Shannon and Dr.

Payton Busker who is a physical therapist and instructor at EFLO, where we take one of your questions

and we just break it down as quick as possible.

And today, this is a very common request, a very common question, and I think it's because it's very

trendy in the fitness industry, and it's our thoughts on wrist and ankle weights.

So today what we want to do is kind of chunk this into three different pieces.

We'll talk about using ankle weights on your wrist, so wrist weights.

Then we'll talk about ankle weights and the uses on there on your ankle.

And lastly, we'll talk about walking with wrist or ankle

weights so just so the listener kind of knows what to expect from this from

this episode so welcome Payton thank you very happy to be here as always.

As always let's let's talk about wrist weights first so I think that the common way I see wrist weights being used in exercise is something like a Pilates class where someone just has them on the entire time and they're doing something like arm circles out to the side or they're doing like tricep kickbacks.

What are your thoughts on using wrist weights in that type of format?

Yeah, it's interesting because we can kind of peel it back and say like the way that we see

risk weights used typically, well let's look at the exercises that are most common and they're all those more common small tiny little like pulses and motions that we see a lot in more like a matte Pilates class.

And those are motions in general that we tend to not utilize in our programming

regardless of the risk weight.

So when looking at those exercises,

most of those are late phase loading

the deltoid muscles, like different portions

of the deltoid muscles like different portions of the deltoid muscles in different

way shapes and form and that's not necessarily a bad thing but it's not necessarily either the

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