Should You Wear Goku's Weighted Clothes? 

Hey! Thanks for watching. Loved how this episode turned out. You can find all of the resources I used in the show notes. I see a lot of angry comments, but remember, the question was should YOU wear weighted clothing. Goku is a super buff alien and he can obviously pull it off, but would using our Earth-version of weighted clothing give you similar benefits? Keeping that in mind, I stand by my conclusion. -- KH

"You should only be wearing weighted clothing during training, and not all of the time".... That's where the comparison went wrong. Goku trains ALL THE TIME!

You're much better off just doing a hundred pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats, and running 10 km a day

"vertical leap improved only 4 inches" This is actually quite a nice gain.

The weights we need to investigate are rock lees weights

I once tried to use instant transmission, but accidentally used special beam cannon.

why is Thor educating me

"Only 4 inches" that's the difference between being able to dunk or not

This video has better CGI than Dragonball Evolution!

I wore a backpack half my weight. I ended up with a terrible posture.

“So, nudity makes you stronger?” “No, we’re wearing weighted clothes.” “Of course.”

I always take off my clothes before a fight - they run away every time. Must be the power level boost.

Krillin is my favorite DBZ character. Pure human and still hangs. Respect the no nosed guru, man.

Captain America: I can do this all day. Goku: Can you do it for twelve episodes and a movie special, though? Captain America: ...........

Hey Vsauce Thor here

I wouldn't antagonize Krillin too much. He's always got that destructo-disc to fall back on, and that's no joke.

The DBZ characters also had several several YEARS of training with them, from young ages. The time span alone could compensate their bodies into recognition of the weight. All of what you said is true, if you're sloppy while wearing them you'll get hurt. But flexibility training, and constant focus put on those exposed joints would be a lot like doing a workout till absolute failure. So long as you dont let your weights to get too heavy too soon you should be fine. Remember Goku was stronger than a grown man before he could walk. So the point of this practice is to have constant tension put on his body to make him have to constantly watch what hes doing. It helps his focus and control over his body. So that even if he took them off, or was fighting he WASNT just swinging around radically and losing control over his joints, tendons, etc. If you dont train or wear them the RIGHT way with your focus and alert on high at all times like every second you're wearing them you'll get hurt. You have to focus on not hyper extending at any time. Constant working out, hes not just wearing them like clothes, every move he makes is planned out. So that when he does lift his arm for something small like scratching his head or holding a cup hes making sure his whole body is in on it and making the conscious effort to move around without putting too much strain on his shoulder, rotator cuff, and elbows. His whole body is moving around with insane amounts of control. The more your body acclimates to that level of focus, the better off you'll be doing this training. Side note, goku is an alien who's body literally doubles its ability with every last rep and battle. So this training is literally perfect for his race. Humans would not be able to advance that fast without doing the training at a very young age. And of course with much lighter weights. If the body is used to being that heavy it'll compensate, if you focus on all of your movements and dont fling around willy nilly you should be fine. But again that's a "every second of every day" kind of thing. 24/7 focus, no matter what.

Yeah but you forgot one thing....Goku isn't human. Not poking holes, I'm just..... Saiyan

'slight improvments in agility' Yeah. But when you plateau at the highest level of fitness, small improvements go a long way. Especially when you are competing.

Already wearing them. They're call fat.

Used to do breakdance, my instructors made me use ankle weights for some minutes during training to make me kick more strongly and get more inertia to get all the crazy rotation stuff. I think, as studies say, it s very good for agility based training but nothing more.

No, all the cool kids wear Rock Lee leg braces.

Goku is an Alien. Therefore, human data is not 100% relevant or accurate. Humans should not train like Goku. (Period)

It’s alright Lee.. Take them off 👍🏻

I was wearing my armor! - Vegeta (DBZ Abridged)

dude, a few weeks of training and u can run 1 second faster, 10 more push ups, 4 inch higher vert??? thats amazing. do u know how much a second counts in sprinting? and how much 4 inches is in a jump? those r huge increases in short amounts of time

Why does Thor have a RU-vid channel ?

Thanks for this now I’m going to wear weighted clothing until September 20 so when I Naruto run into Area 51 I can reach light speed

This is interesting. I was actually planning on doing an experiment that included a weighted vest, ankle weights and shoulder weights (biceps really) as well as a weighted belt. The weight would gradually go up, rather than be conistent. Up until now I deemed this as merely another experiment among many but I see now I must do this for the benefit of science! Very motivating to say the least!

Nah bro *Push Ups* *Sit Ups* *And a whole lotta juice*

4 more inches vertically and 10 more push ups are actually quite impressive.

Hah imagine the damage Goku tossing his boots would cause - Here, catch! - Uargh!

TLDR: A weighted vest helps, but wrist and ankle weights are very dangerous for your joints.

Clearly weighted boots and wrist bands are dangerous for humans, but due to Saiyan's "special" ability to get stronger every time they survive an injury, wearing workout equipment that regularly inflicts small joint injuries may actually be very useful for Goku.

I did actually use to wear a 20lb vest while doing no impact cardio and some lifting. I thought it was fantastic. Made me feel great and I had more and more control of my body.

2:26 *"Its like I'm in a frieza"* Me: *"Its like I'm in a cooler"*

I always thought Goku got so strong that his weighted clothing started to feel like regular clothes to us. That’s why he doesn’t take it off anymore lol.

When Vegeta was training in like 14x gravity it literally inspired me to workout! 40 yrs old and I still love that damn anime..😑

Goku is not 5 or ten times stronger compared to Captain America. He is few quadrillions times stronger than him.

Hey kyle. Did you assume gokus t shirt was as thin as a typical t shirt? I believe his blue shirt always looked pretty thick. It could hold weighted material in the thickness of the shirt because it definitely doesnt look as thin as a regular shirt.

10:54 10 tons x 10 because he was training on King Kai's planet.

Goku wore those weighted clothes his entire life. Not just a few weeks.

Some say the backpacks full of books in school is the same.

1:51 Krillin owned count: 37

thats why 10+ years ago when I was practicing martial arts almost fulltime, i only bothered with ankle and wrist weights. I only wore them outside of the actual training times. the point was to make every little action: walking, cooking, working, etc an extra effort by itself, to not let my arms and legs just drop, to make every movement consciously and purposefully. The end result wasnt to make my muscles grow or anything like that, but make some muscles around my joints more durable. I found that my joints were able to withstand higher impacts/recoils from my own punches and kicks. But that was then, and here i am now. more than 10 years later. Suffered an injury that theres no way to 100% recover from. Spinal nerve damage. I had to give up martial arts. I can do most activities but with some limitations and every once in awhile my legs or parts of my legs would go numb and then Id have to use a cane to keep my self from dropping to the ground all of the sudden in front of people.

5:30 vertical jump increased 4 inches?? That’s a great improvement! Why is he downplaying that? Especially since the studies he mentioned were only conducted for a few weeks

"Its cold out here, its like im in a frieza" - Thor with diploma 2019

Why you picking on krillin when Yamcha is RIGHT THERE!

I think the biggest problem is that wearing weighted gear all the time maybe doesn't give your muscles sufficient time to regenerate their muscle fibers, which is why it's better to train smart and not necessarily just hard.

Can we please acknowledge that Krilin deserves more respect? Sure compared to Goku he is weak, but Krilin is one of the only humans to hold their own among the Z fighters. He is up against all of these over powered alien... it's not like he's Yamcha!

Yes I have a question: so, if it's the nitrogen in our atmosphere that makes the sky blue, and the chlorophyll that makes grass green, then what would create the green skies and blue plants like we see on Namek? Keeping in mind that the atmosphere on Namek is still relatively safe and breathable for humans!

I love this channel it makes science interesting

I actually tried this for three weeks. If you're interested, here's how it went down... I've been training for years, Boxing, Muay Thai and MMA. A couple years back, just before COVID, I got invited to fight in Strelka. I hadn't had a fight since my late twenties and I was one of the oldest fighters on the roster, so to get the edge over the younger competition, I thought I'd give it a try. I lived in (at home only) and trained with 2-2kg wrist weights on each forearm, the same on each leg and a 30kg vest strapped to my upper body. At home: Doing regular shit, like frying an egg was beyond frustrating, because all the gear would just get in the way. Eventually, I started walking around the house like a crab, so I didn't knock shit over and that included my kids! After a couple days, I started keeping my forearms bent in a semi-curl position without realizing, because I wasn't feeling any beneficial resistance on the muscle groups I was trying to target. After about a week, I had to keep them like that to relieve the strain off my rotator cuffs. I could feel some minor benefit in my core, because I had to WORK to keep a solid posture at all times, but in general, I could feel the unnatural position actually changing my posture for the worse. In terms of legs, I didn't really notice a difference. MMA and crossfit are pretty leg intensive, so maybe I didn't use enough weight or walk around enough, but I definitely felt it in the ligaments in my feet (and not in a good way), because I constantly had to correct my center of balance. I didn't try weighted sleeping, but I'm pretty sure it's a bitch! During training: Training was more frustrating than day to day life. Weighted training gear has it's benefits, but when you strap weights onto places that don't need them, they seriously get in the way! For example, pushups are nearly impossible with wrist weights, because your wrists can't bend. Sit-ups are awesome with wrist weight's but the vest restricts you from fully sitting up. Funny enough, I found bag and pad work to be the most counter-productive of the lot! I actually thought I'd gain in this department. The weights kept flying back and forth when I punched, especially with jabs and crosses. I had to keep resetting them, which took more time then the actual training itself! With kicking, I could feel some benefit with teeps, but with roundhouse kicks, the weights flung me off balance and stopped me from following through into my target and once again, just like with my wrists, it restricted joint movement in my ankles. The vest just got in the way of everything. There's my personal account. I hope that gives some insight to all the potential SSJ's out there... Weighted training gear isn't gonna miraculously help you achieve the transformation! They don't simulate extra gravity (like you think), because the extra weight isn't evenly distributed throughout your body. Give it a bash, maybe you'll get so angry from trying to live and train in them, that you'll explode and your hair will turn yellow 😀 Personally, all I gained was wasting three weeks of crucial training time. To be honest, you'll probably gain more by jogging with a barbell... Brilliantly done vid, I laughed my ass off 🤣🤣🤣

10:47 Oh boy. You DO NOT want to see a Goku vs the Avengers debate.

When I was younger, I was inspired by DBZ and bought weights for my ankles and wearing them all the time including when I was training for sprinting. My trainer told me that I was overdoing it and might damage my legs, and well he was right. Over 15 years later I'm still having long term effects that make me sometimes have a slight limp when I walk...

Stop knocking on Krillin, he may not be as strong as all the Aliens, but he his the Strongest Human.

*Wear 8 shirts and 4 wrist bands all soaked in water (or coconut oil).* I think that those increases in numbers are actually pretty good given that it takes so long to see gains when you’re already close to your max gains. I was 440lbs, and when I got to 340lbs I felt skinny and as light as a feather walking around, even though I was 340lbs lol... Having that extra weight definitely helps for training.

Hey Kyle, I went through your videos and noticed something very sad. I’m appalled, APPALLED I SAY, that you haven’t done a video on the physics of the helicarrier. You must rectify this with haste! Back to the video, you are correct. In exercise physiology, it is all about internal adaptation to external work, defined as W=FxD. In that regard, his muscles would definitely have to increase in CSA to adapt. With that being said, it’s not humanly possible to hit this for one reason: CSA. In studies comparing body builders to recreational lifters and sedentary individuals, body builders and recreational lifters have no difference in cross-sectional area but both are significantly higher than sedentary. The difference between body builders and recreational lifters is an increase in fiber count. It could be hyperplasia but that is still a hypothetical based on limited evidence. Even with inhibition of myostatin, the “brake system” to muscle growth, there is still a physiological ceiling. I’m also happy you brought up the articles showing no meaningful effect of weighted clothes. Similar to the “altitude simulating masks” and sauna suits, the training adaptation is mitigated by reduced training capacity, to wit, you’re restraining your training and therefore minimizing adaptation. Not to mention, they look like fools. ...Helicarrier! Do it! Do it now!

Morale of the Story: Weighted clothing is useful and smart aslong as its within training and giving your body rest time (Time dependant on your fitness level).Don't go trying to put on weight equal to your own body weight and begin training....No your not physically ready, you have to work your way up as you do in any type of training.A perfect example of a similar scenario is the military, you run in heavy boots aswell as a 45 pound ruck in a course of 2 to 3 months and over the course of time (Not just 2 weeks of slounging around like the study he mentioned) you will get stronger because your body is adapting to a new workload.In conclusion weighted clothing is useful for the physically fit looking to get even more fit now unless your a pt god (which your probably not if your watching this video, including myself just yet)you have to be able to understand your limits and what your body is capable of, otherwise you ineveitbly will hurt yourself.

*puts on waited clothes Waits a week *Gets in a fight Master: Take off your weighted clothing. Student: *takes off weighted clothing Student: Now I'm sore.

“Ripped out of his mind from head to tippey toe” 🙏 Love the reference.

Jesus why does everyone rag on Krillin can't we go back to making fun of Yamcha

AWESOME WORK on the Video! :D ALSO LOVE THE PUNS xD hahaha

This is amazing! I really appreciate the way you correlated the training from a popular Japanese cartoon with real life data and research.

"It's like I'm in a frieza" Me: *unsubscribed* Lol jk

We know that our legs are 3 times stronger tha our arms, so walk with your hands and get super arms hahaha

Go back to asgard

As someone who's a huge dragonball fan, I really appreciated all the effort that clearly went into making this as accurate to the series as possible! Thank you so much for the awesome videos!

Thor praising Goku lol Its a trap I tell you!!

Kyle, I have a burning question. When they transform into a Super Saiyan, could they still see through the aura with all the light they are emitting?

Goku *wears 100 pounds worth of clothes* "Whew that was tough, but now I can destroy average people while wearing the clothes and defeat masters without my clothes" Normal person *wears 100 pounds worth of clothes* "I regret everything, now I'm in the hospital and I'm hardly better than before."

The thing about saiyans is is that they heal a lot different than humans every time there body is damaged it comes back 2x better if a human hurts a joint it’s hard to come back from

Wow it's Thor talking about Goku!!!

Okay. I have actually done this. In military training, we wear heavy backpacks, and often have fitness events where we walk with them. It's hard, sweaty work. To prepare for this, I used a weight vest, ankle and wrist weights. There is NO WAY anyone should try jogging, running, or any other activity except walking. You'd just be asking for sprained ligaments and tendons, wrenched vertebrae, and potentially permanent damage. Martial arts katas?! Please folks, do not take fitness advice from a cartoon character! With an hour's brisk walk twice a week, I did find some benefits. Front of the deltoid, biceps, quads, hamstrings, calves, and the external obliques got a good workout. Lots of sweat, I'd estimate it burns 300 calories. If you're expecting to carry a heavy backpack, as in mountain climbing or cross-country walking, then yes, I can recommend this training. Wear the weights only for that hour's walk, and remove and clean them promptly after -- do not wear them throughout the day! The legs and obliques may bulk up a bit, so pair this with a good upper body weight regimen. Every body is different. I would not recommend this if you have joint problems or if you're already packing a lot of extra pounds; stick to walking, bicycling and swimming. Also I strongly discourage this training until you're fully grown. Heavy backpacks on children can lead to spinal injuries. Stop training immediately if you feel any discomfort in the joints, especially the rotator cuffs, spine, or knees. As this is rough on the joints, allow plenty of recovery time -- no more than twice a week. Be certain to walk on a strictly level surface. With all that weight, you increase the possibility of stumbling and spraining an ankle. A running track is ideal. Well padded combat boots will help support the ankles, while giving their own workout to the front and side ankle muscles. Wait for a cool day, and have water available. This is not a gentle exercise and it's very specialized, but with these guidelines in place, carefully try it and see if it's right for you.

Well moderation is a thing, steadily increasing the weight over time through training and conditioning your body until that weight diffrence isnt a factor than upping the weight would be more efficient

I feel like you had WAY too much fun doing this video. Lol I REALLY enjoyed it though!!!!!!

When I was younger I tried Weighted training. Weights consisted of: * Kevlar vest if substituting Kevlar for metal plates can simulate a weighted shirt. It's bulky but I have done this. * In addition leg ankle weights (not very healthy for your ankles) and wrist weights. * ADD to that a 50lb rucksack and you will feel the G. It was around 100 extra pounds. Now should you do this? I don't recommended. I did this for a little over 5 years starting when I was around 13 and the side effects where that: * While I was a lot stronger than I looked due to my bones and muscles becoming denser. * When I started having back pain, my chiropractor, who I visited later after years of training , informed me that my spine had compressed and the back neck pain that I felt was due to serious bone compression in my mid back, lower back and neck. More specifically It was between the disks that would handle the natural curvature of the spine and support most of the weight when shifting and siting. * Those same disk ligaments had calcified a bit and my range of flexible motion had been reduced by 30%. * Another side effect was that my body got used to the weight and when I stopped wearing the weights after years of training my body would want to consume food to reach the weight it was used to. * I also gained Hypertension or high blood pressure from these compounding factors. If you are going to weight train don't do it for extended period of time and when you do have a certificated trainer and visit a physical therapist to monitor these side effects. I would not recommend weight training until after puberty when you reach your growth peak around age 21-23. Otherwise you can hinder your bone growth or damage your spine.

4 inches onto a vertical leap is huge

Goku? Who's Goku? I only know ROCK REEEEEEEE Ps you should do a video on how much Rock Lee's weights weigh in the Lee v Gara fight, and how they should actually affect his body

"Like he was living in the surface of jupe-jupe" I CANT *B R E A T H E*

Goku's shirt is totally plausible if you take the Mythbusters' approach and try to replicate the results. 190 cubic inches of tungsten is about 60kg. The shirt Goku wore definitely looks much thicker than a regular shirt, and there's nothing saying it has to be made like a regular shirt, requiring a specific fabric with an enormous density. If you were able to disperse the metal over the shirt's surface area, you can start to get an idea of how thick the shirt would have to be. I think you could store the weight across the shirt by having a cell/quilted like structure, holding crushed tungsten. Much like weighted blankets are made. This would hold the weight, as well as allow for movement flexibility. You can quibble about specifics, but this is the general idea. Based off of one of my shirts, I used a surface area of 1000 sq inches, because that was a good deal smaller than my 1200 sq inch large shirt I used as a reference. If you divide that 190 cu inch by 1000, the tungsten would be .19" thick, uniformly across the surface area of the shirt. Since this is if it was a solid sheet, I assumed that 25% of the shirt's area would be taken up by the quilting pattern. This would consolidate the tungsten to 75% of the surface area, pushing up the thickness a bit. Meaning that the shirt would be about .25 inches thick. We don't see a quilted pattern. So let's assume, like a weighted blanket, that there is a durable exterior layer that masks and protects the structure underneath. I think Goku's shirt could totally pass for 1/4" thick and would be flexible, yet difficult enough to move around in to explain his difficulty taking it off. There you have it, a 60kg tungsten weighted shirt that is a plausible solution for Goku's training undergarment.

Loved that frieza joke, yeah,frieza was cool, but his brother was cooler....

2:18 I'm sorry, did you just say "surface of Jupiter"?... That's not even 'canon' in the real world...

The problem is when your wear it for weeks and then take it will make you weaker put when to heal again the effect will take place it's just like going for gym to long when you go gym for weeks in end you body will get tired and you will have to heal

5:30 what he is talking about? A 4 inch increase in a jump is great. Same with pushups and a 1 second decrease in a sprint?!? Imagine running a 3:70 40yr dash rather than a 4:70

Here's interesting question. What could/would the possible science be behind the sensu bean?

all I'm gonna say is fat-guy calves are definitely a thing.

2:30 was like i had a mixture of thor and ace ventura in front of me 😂😂

Super Nerd Sean (Pee-ry) here with some show semantics and terrible consiquences of being a human doing Sayan training: For Sayans, they have an exception to their anatomy that makes it so no human should EVER train like they do. When a Sayan gets injured, and recovers from that injury, they become more powerful. The worse the injury the stronger they become. This means that after a certain point, when they can survive punches to the face, it becomes more effective for Sayans to just thoroughly damage themselves rather than doing classic strength training. This, oddly enough, lines up really well with Gokus training regiments. He does so many things so wrong that it is impossible for him to not be getting constant back injuries and fractures. In the episode where he tosses the densest material in the universe, he has his legs spread super far apart instead of shoulder width, which would put undo strain on the groin. Through observing Gokus actions in the show, it becomes clear that he has unintentionally trained his body to use the most inefficient methods of doing things (in everything but fighting) because of this trait. He lifts with his back, uses jerking motions when pulling or lifting, he off-centers weight and even when he stretches he yanks around his joints before he exercises instead of doing proper stretching techniques which should be slow and after a workout. It is so bad for the body that it appears to be that he is deliberately trying to damage himself in everything he does. I wanted to go over the episode where Goku get 8 tons suddenly added to each limb (of which he is currently hold 2 tons on each), when he starts to use the 10 ton weights. And since Japan uses the metric system that means this is 8,000kg on a planet with 10Gs so 784kN of force on each limb. Random internet sources can't agree on what the force needed to rip off an arm is and 2 hours isn't enough time to dig that question without some kind of lead or ending on a biased/non-scientific result, so we'll just go with the highest guess which was 200kN. 784/200 = 3.92 times the force required to rip off a normal persons arms and legs. (probably) Ya, if Goku were a human this sudden addition of weight would have torn every single limb from his body (if he remained floating), strength be damned when sudden unexpected weight drops at the rate of 10 times Earths gravity. Some sources I ran across estimated that it takes less than a kilo-newton of impact force to dislocate a shoulder, so please, don't try to be a Sayan people. So please, stick to One Punch Man workouts if you want to be a super hero; even then be cautious not to over extend yourself on the full regiment if you haven't done appropriate conditioning before hand.

Goku: *watches video* Goku (after watching video): Sooooooo what's weighted clothing?

Quote of the day “Ki ain’t Free”

The improvements from weighted clothing were pretty good considering how long it takes to improve those feats under normal circumstances. The improvements were really good for a week only.

Actually, wearing wrist and ankle weights could possibly have some benefits, but only if they were EXTREMELY light. Remember that although Goku wore 20 kg boots, at that time he could lift well over 2 tons, which makes each boot less than 1% of the maximum load on his body. Hence, an average martial artist that could deadlift 100 kg would wear ankle weights of less than a kilo. To a trained person with strengthened bones and ligaments, such a minor weight wouldn’t cause any strain if used carefully, but would make their kicks slower, just like in DBZ.

U are forgetting something, every time Goku or any Saiyan pushes their limits their power levels go UP , but humans on the other hand...........

This guy just crushed my dreams with this video.

So in short, this technique isn't for strength training, but for full body control and awareness even when you're standing still to maximize your regular workout. Imagine being at the ready at any given time because your body is constantly working. A 24/7 warm up. Not a workout but a martial arts practice. To be fully conscious of your body and its movements and flexibility.

Who else completely stopped listening and just read comments?

Actually, the first mention of weighted clothing appears before in dragonball. Goku and Kulilin used weighted turtle shells for their first training with Kame Sennin.

Hurdles final at europian championship was won by 0.002 sec , and you are sayinn "only" 1 sec

When I saw the title I thought you were talking about someone wearing the exact weight of Goku’s weighted clothes. Me realizing that that was not the case being happy that you were not going to test if putting on clothing that weighs tons was healthy or not