Who said to add weight below your waist? The harness weight I was referring to is at the shoulders. Obviously if you have weight pockets on a BC your still in the cavern diver relm. And with usual padding there as most BC's have , the weights would need to be double ziptied there. I punched a hole in my harness straps where I wanted my weights to sit and added a gromet to each side and have my weight there. My old Transpak 1 straps are too wide to slip through the hardweights so I had to Mcgyver it but it works.