♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Howdy, folks. I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- So, you know, do you need to stretch your chest muscles?
Now, one way to tell is actually if you take a foam roller
or a massage gun or something
you get into the muscle and it's painful.
- You can just use- - It's tight.
your fingers. - Right.
- Push in there
and see what the muscles- - Oh.
That's a tender spot. - Does it hurt?
- Yeah, no. (both chuckle)
But that's a simple way to do it.
We'll show you three tests here too, also, to do.
These massage guns, by the way,
I'm gonna put in a little plug-in for our brand.
They're Bob and Brad.
They're very well-made, high quality,
and they got five speeds.
- I do use a gun on my chest-
- [Bob] On your chest? - particularly my left pec.
It does work well.
- [Bob] 'Cause you like doing this, (voice vibrates)
don't you? - Yeah.
But actually I do it because I got a problem there,
so this works out well to loosen that up.
- Well, we'll show everybody how tight you are, Brad.
- (laughs) Yeah. - Why don't you just start,
we're gonna show it this way first, from a side angle,
then we're actually gonna flip the bed
so you can see it better, even.
- One thing about these muscles being tight,
you're not gonna have good posture if you have tight pecs.
- Right. It's gonna pull you right over like this.
- Yep.
- And it's gonna round you out.
So you really,
now this is a little bit strange.
You got the upper fibers of the pec and the lower fibers.
To check the upper fibers,
it's kind of opposite of what do you think.
You put your arms across like a cross.
Across like a cross.
And- - We're not doing
middle fibers?
- No. - Okay, we're calling,
I get it. - Upper and lower.
- Cut it in half. - Yep.
- Great, yep. - So Brad,
you will be able to see on the next one
that Brad actually has his arms all the way down,
so his upper fibers are looking pretty good, Brad.
- Yeah.
I feel it this way. - All right,
now to check the lower fibers,
he makes his arms into a Y.
And he should be able to get his arms
all the way down to the bed,
and he shouldn't have to arch his back.
Look what Brad is doing.
He can't get his arms down and he's arching his back.
So he's got some tightness there on your lower fibers, Brad.
- Oh, they're about even, anyways.
- Yeah. Now they are. - Yeah.
- That one was worse,
well, it wasn't- - Well, we'll see.
There might be another test (indistinct).
- Now, one last test you could do, Brad,
you could clasp your hands
and try to put your elbows down to the bed.
And again,
now the left one
is the problem. - Yeah.
- So let's flip the bed here, Brad, and let people see.
All right.
Let's do the first one, Brad. Just straight across.
- Oh, that's right.
- All the way down.
Look at that.
See? He's down.
The upper fibers are looking good, Brad.
Okay, make a Y, Brad.
Why, Brad, why?
- Why?
- Now, as you saw before, he was arching,
now look at what what's going on here.
Both arms are not down.
He can't come down.
How 'bout the last one, Brad?
(Brad groans)
Now this one,
you can really see this one's getting close to being down,
but this one is still sticking up.
- Yeah.
That, little tight over there.
- All right. I'm gonna show you one more test, Brad.
You can actually stand up,
and you can let your arms just naturally hang by your side.
If your palms are facing toward each other,
that's pretty decent.
But if they're facing back,
you got some natural tightness that your shoulder is,
your pec is the internal rotator,
and it's internally rotating your shoulders.
- That pulling in.
- So you're a little bit back, Brad.
- Yeah.
Oh, it depends where I put my shoulders.
- Yeah. If you go back, you could change 'em out.
So there you go.
If they are in need of a stretch,
we're gonna show you some of the stretches in our program.
Go to bobandbrad.com,
go to the Programs section,
and we have a program on stretches.
- [Brad] So there'll be one on pec stretching?
- [Bob] Yep. - [Brad] Okay. Yep.
- [Bob] And what else is there, Brad?
- [Brad] Ah, this is a really good deal.
It has a PDF printout showing the preview of the video
and stretches.
It's all for free.
Not even your email is required.
It's a wonderful deal.
- Yeah, we, it's our gift to you.
All right, thanks for watching.
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