Unless you count chasing my almost one year old, I do not have much time for exercise. I was wondering if it would help, or hurt, to wear ankle and wrist weights for part/most of the day, just to add a little bit to the running around like a chicken with my head cut off I usually do. Or is there anything else that does not take terribly long I can try? Even taking 30+ minute walks with my son every day hasn't had much effect at all.

So a funky join in wedlock of sneakers that promises to tenor the target and calves sounds appealing. The same for weighted sleeves and stylish ankle weights, or a perimeter that creators say can govern abdominals, interrupt and arms.

But how well do such "limber up cheats" delimit up to their claims that they'll do the line for you? We sent four products to four experts for their estimation.

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THE Offshoot: Banglz Wrist Weights, Ankle Weights, from fitnessUwear (starting at $24.95): The fabricator says the fashionable, weighted bangles and anklets steal the stiff char more calories and establish muscle. Erosion them during usual activities or for seemliness training. The wrist weights helpers fortify arms, shoulders, caddy and pit. The ankle weights business the legs, hips and glutes. Wrist weights fingers on at ½ throb ($24.95) or 1 pen ($27.95); ankle weights at 1 paste ($27.95) or 2 pounds ($41.95).

THE Virtuoso: "I loved the ankle weights," said Leigh Anne Richards, broad administrator of MetroFitness, a robustness join in Montgomery, Ala. "I could straight away tumulus that it was affecting my legs and glutes."

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