Reebok Adjustable Ankle Weight Sets

I wear these around the house all day long (I am a 62 year old female)...walking, up and down the stairs, doing leg lifts side to side and back kicks, front kicks. My legs are more toned and finally strong (I had really weak legs). When I go out without the weights on my ankles, I can walk forever! Well worth the price. One hint: if the weight beads become hard and hurt your ankles, just take a small hammer and "pound" the beads lightly to loosen them. Sometimes the beads meld together and harden, but easily soften after "mushing" them. I have had these for months and they still are like new. No wear and tear at all! My daughter used them to train for months before she entered "Tough Mudders". Highly recommend!

I have used these to do traction in a warm salt water pool. I had worked my way up to 5 pounds per leg. My gym used to have its own ankle weights but they got rid of most of them. I have mixed feelings about these weights. They are fine if you are just hanging and stretching your back. However the way they close is not good and can contribute to their being uncomfortable. When I used lighter ankle weights they had two snap attachments. The nice thing about that feature was that you could adjust it to your ankle size and would not have to redo the sizing each time. The double snaps kept the weight on in a more comfortable way.The Reebok 10 pound ankle weights only have one strap to attach them. Each time you have to redo the sizing. This causes gaping and makes them uncomfortable to wear. Since the weight are quite heavy it would be good to have snaps in the front so that you could easily detach them if you needed to do so in an emergency. It makes absolutely no sense why heavier ankle weights would have flimsy single attachments while the lighter ankle weight would have the much better and much safer double snaps. I would never use these weight for anything that involved movement. Since I just use them for hanging traction they are adequate.

See my earlier review below about the velcro straps allowing the weight packs to come loose and slip down. That didn't make sense. So I analyzed the weights to see if I could figure it out.The weight packs are flared out with rounded corners on one side and have angled in ends and corners on the other side. I first put them on with the wider side down as that seemed to match the shape of my leg-ankle-instep.NO WAY.As soon as I turned them upside down with the narrower side down, they were better and did not slip down around my ankle or come loose.YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHICH END (SIDE) IS UP, or they are useless.I would have increased the rating more if Reebok had supplied the least bit of information about how to use them, which would have included WHICH SIDE IS UP!!--------------------------------------------------------------------------EARLY REVIEW - WEIGHTS COMING LOOSE - NO INSTRUCTIONS FROM REEBOKSummary:The thin velcro straps that wrap around the OUTSIDE of the weight pack stick to everything you don't want them to but they CAN'T KEEP THE WEIGHTS FROM SLIPPING DOWN AND OUT DURING WALKING. These might be barely OK if your exercise regimen includes FREQUENT REST BREAKS where you will be wrestling with the straps to raise and reposition the weights back around your ankle.Minutia:One end of the weight pack has the metal link that you route the velcro strap through. So that might be OK. IF you can get the strap tight enough, the metal link should keep the weight pack from slipping down.But the other end of the weight pack has no such link and the velcro on the outside of the pack STOPS FOUR INCHES FROM THE END OF THE PACK. So there is nothing to prevent the weight pack from slipping down and out from under the 1-1/4" wide velcro strap, especially if you are walking at a brisk rigorous pace.I wished I could see some suggestions from Reebok (diagrams, pictures) of the best way to fasten the weight pack around my ankle. NOT A CHANCE. NOTHING on the box; NOTHING in the box. And nothing at the official Reebok website either. In fact Reebok does not list or show this model at all.Do yourself a favor. Look for ankle weighs that have wide velcro flaps built into the weight pack, instead of velcro straps around the outside of the weight pack.

Bought these on 2/24/13 and the velcro strap on one ankle weight snapped right in half (early June 2013) in the middle of a workout when attempting to readjust tighter. If you look at your set notice where the velcro is held together by a sort of adhesive? That is where it snapped. I would at least not recommend these for any woman. The very weight of these caused them to constantly slip beneath the velcro strap to where the corners would drag on the floor. They also irritate the ankle horrible and I could not wear them w/o ankle wraps underneath them. What drove me to buy them was that I felt too used to the 5 lb. ankle weights and wanted a more challenging, strength-training workout. After almost daily usage I began to notice the strain on my body - in my back around the tailbone area that has caused movements such as lunging to be painful. I went back to 5 lb. weights to reduce the physical stress. Not being in the medical profession...I cannot say with 100% certainty the pain is caused by the weights but they are very strongly suspect (I am a 30 yr old & in-shape). The outside material further seems prone to collecting dust, fuzzies and other debris. Maybe these are better for a man (?) but as a female customer I am not happy with the performance.