- I know, it's exciting, it's very exciting, right?
Are you seeing this?
Yeah, so they're actually doing drills that --
Prizes for who can annoy her the most.
(crinkling)
Morning, Trainiacs.
I know, it's exciting, it's very exciting, right?
Are you seeing this?
So, Trainiacs, what's inside this box
is something that I've wanted
since No Triathlon Kim and I went on our honeymoon
to Kona, the race.
Ironman World Championship.
Three, shhh.
Three years ago.
We sat there, trying this out,
and I fell in love.
Big fan, big fan.
One of the best recovery tools
that you can possibly get.
How do I deal with this without making a mess?
Uh.
Oh, a mess already!
Hey, hey, hey,
those aren't for eating.
Grace.
Here.
Nope!
Hmmm, what if I do it like this?
Ooh.
(tape ripping)
I'm not all into the whole Casey Neistat,
make your surroundings just a disaster
during an unboxing.
I am into the most controlled,
stress free, clean unboxings imaginable.
Oh yeah!
Brilliant, brilliant stuff here.
(plastic squeaking)
Who's excited?
This is the most carefully wrapped package
I've ever received.
Precious goods.
Like Gracie.
Like you're precious, I'd wrap you up.
Mmm.
(kiss)
Mmm.
Mmm, I know.
Getting there.
(exclamation of exertion)
There we go.
Recovery pump.
(fabric zipping)
(objects clattering and clicking)
(zipper zipping)
Program one.
Recovery, yes, please.
So Trainiacs, this is it.
These are the RP
Sport Recovery boots.
And you might know more about Normatec,
but these are basically the same premise,
well, like, exactly the same science behind it,
some really smart people.
I tried these out back at the Ironman World Championship
in 20 -- when did we get married?
Don't NTK that I don't know the year.
2013, 14?
And the premise behind recovery boots
is like, compression sleeves,
compression socks,
but a little bit more sophisticated than that.
You know when you say, like, get hit in the shoulder
and you go, ah, and you press on it?
And then when you release, that ends up creating
a rush of blood to that area
to start repairing it.
Now the same thing happens with compression in your legs.
When you beat up your legs,
you want a whole lot of blood going to that area,
and starting to repair it.
Now with compression socks, the issue is,
you look kind of silly, yeah.
And it's kind of inconvenient to put those on
and walk around with them throughout the day.
And also it doesn't go all the way up your leg.
In the case of these boots,
what happens is down at the bottom,
by your toes, that fills up first,
and then what it's doing is
it's slowly filling up
and inflating the rest of the boot
so that it's pushing all of the blood flow
back up into your body.
When you stand up, when you're sitting,
you've got a lot of blood that pools
down in the bottom of your legs,
and what happens is your lymph system,
your circulatory system,
it kind of just becomes stagnant
because it's always working against gravity.
In this case, your circulatory system
kind of gets jump started,
and in particular, your lymph system,
the only way that it can be activated,
which is like, sort of the fluid
that makes our body go round,
the only way that that can be activated
is with movement.
So when you're sitting stationary,
like so many of us are in modern day,
you aren't actually working that lymph system,
and that's becoming a big thing
that a lot of people are focusing on for recovery.
This allows that lymph system to move
while you aren't necessarily moving.
So in my case, why I wanted these
is because editing videos,
working at a desk job,
even though we might be standing,
we're still basically stationary.
I can put these babies on,
and I'm gonna go in and edit today's vlog in them.
I'm just gonna chill out here,
and bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
And meanwhile, my circulatory system
and everything is starting to recover,
and flow through.
(repeated smacking of fabric)
Now.
(air hissing)
Now RP Sports actually isn't paying me to say this.
I reached out to them,
which tends to be the case
for most products that you'll see in these vlogs,
because I don't want to be like,
pitching hair gel just because they're paying me to do it.
I want to just show you what products I like,
so I reached out to them,
and I say, you mind if I feature your stuff in my vlogs?
And they said, sure.
And then what they also committed to,
is they will have a person, like literally a person,
you can pick up the phone, call that person.
Can't remember, uh, Jenn?
Jenn?
You know what, you're gonna be seeing these boots a lot,
but they will have a one on one person
to help you out and give you some consultation
on which boots and which systems
because there's different levels of the boots,
some cost like $1000, others are I think, $1600,
but you can get somebody that'll help you out
and tell you which system is right for you.
If you're interested, hit me up in a comment.
Let me know what you think about these,
and if you're interested, I'll get you that person
and that number.
So now, I'm gonna go and edit the blog,
and recover my face off.
Back on June 25th --
(rewinding)
(pencil scratching)
(static)
(zipper)
- Oh yeah.
After yesterday's 11 hours in a canoe.
(deep breath)
That was fantastic.
The swim this morning indicated that my body
had rusty lawn chair syndrome.
Whew.
(engines rumbling)
(water splashing)
- Yeah he did.
- One to one session, he showed up?
- Yeah, exactly, you show up, you're good.
- All right.
(water splashing)
- All right, check this out.
Brian and Nicole are doing a pretty awesome drill.
You need to know about this.
Textbook.
Yeah, so they're actually doing drills
that I am a big fan of,
that I put in triathlontaren.com/swimdrillprogram,
the free swimming drill, learn to swim,
15 day drill swimming series that I put together,
where they're putting on fins,
to take the propulsion and the floating
out of the equation with swimming.
But what they want to work on,
is a nice high elbow and not freaking out
as you get that little bit of a sinking feeling
as you're pausing.
So if they roll onto their side,
and then they pause,
they don't do a full stroke right now,
they're kind of coming up,
and just pausing right there.
And it reinforces that high elbow,
getting it out of the water,
and.
And, and, and,
what was the other thing I had in mind?
Oh, just proper catch body roll mechanics.
All good things.
So Trainiacs, you remember how I was telling you
that I was trying to build a Triathlon Taren,
slash post-Taren social media
agency studio, here,
so that we could give up the office downtown.
Well, looks like the bank came to their senses
and realized that I actually do have a job.
Tricked them into thinking that YouTubing is a job.
A passion, it's a lifestyle,
deep down right there.
So yeah, we have garage builders
coming in and out over the next week or so,
and I think, certainly not very soon,
but before the end of the year,
we're gonna be in there.
That means a hell of a lot more training,
hell of a lot more fun videos.
We're gonna customize this place
into training Mecca.
It's gonna be a blast.
Oh, also.
Check this out.
Kim made melons.
Prizes for who makes the best
NTK's melons jokes
in the comments.
Guys, this is for who can annoy her the most.
I'm the leading champ.