- Okay, Brad and I are gonna demonstrate to you today
how to increase your mobility
and flexibility
without stretching.
- Excellent. Excellent.
So we're gonna take a little shortcut, perhaps, huh?
- There we go.
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- Okay. By the way, Brad, these are supported by research.
- Sure.
- So, they're solid.
Now the reason they're better than stretching
is because you can focus on
the part of the muscle that's tight.
- Sure. You get those knots or those
trigger points. - Contracture, or
Scar tissue.
- Yes. Big one.
- Quite often, if you go,
you're gonna start with your hands.
You know, if you, let's say the calf muscle.
- Yep.
- You're gonna find the tender spot.
That's usually the spot that needs some work.
- Yep.
You got a tender spot, Bob?
- Yeah. Well, not too bad.
- You've been working
on your calf diligently - I've been working 'em, right
for the last couple years, so.
- You can use your thumbs.
You can use your fingers.
You can use your fist.
- [Brad] Yep. I can usually find a tender spot,
but boy. You know,
I've been working on mine too
and they've been getting better.
- [Bob] So you work on the tender spot until it goes away.
Now, if it's actually torn or infected
you obviously wouldn't do this.
- And when you do it it's gonna be painful
and it'll continue,
- Right.
- Even get worse as you massage more.
So that's a red flag.
- Otherwise it should kind of hurt so good.
- Yeah. Hurt so good.
Or even after 30 seconds or so
it starts to feel better,
then you know, that's green light.
Keep going.
- All right, Brad, what they're gonna find real rapidly
is that your hands are gonna get tired. So-
- Right.
- It's great to use some type of device
you might have around the house.
A softball,
a lacrosse ball,
a tennis ball.
- Sure.
- Even better would be a foam roller.
- That's right.
- So you wanna show how that works, Brad, under the calf?
- Yep. So I'm gonna go like this,
lift my butt up in the air on my hands
and get some weight through that, those muscles.
And then you turn your feet this way.
You may rotate this way to find that-
- [Bob] Tender spot
- Tender spot or that tight spot.
And if you really want to get aggressive,
like, if it's on my right calf,
I'll cross over like this with my left leg.
That really puts more pressure on it.
- [Bob] This'll make you moan.
Moan so good.
- There, there's a spot right there.
And that's too much pressure.
So I'm gonna work.
There we go.
So you'll get a feel for it.
You have to work with it for a while
but you may spend, you know,
three to five minutes on this
with both calves to really get that well.
And again, your hands don't get tired with this.
- [Bob] Right. - So that's the big advantage.
- All right, Brad.
The third alternative is actually a massage gun.
- Right.
- It'll cost you a little money, but well worth it.
- Right. And you can use it on many parts of the body
and they're, they work great.
They're very popular the last few years.
- It happens to be our giveaway, too.
- Oh yeah. Giveaway. Nice
- The M 19.
- Good.
Yeah. So sign up for it at our,
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- Right.
- Yep. Send it right to your house.
- And it also co-ordinates along with the sale we're having
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- Yes.
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- 31st. There we go.
We had to memorize that one.
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- Right.
- You can look online to see
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- Right. It's close to you.
- Right.
- Otherwise it's a road trip.
- That's right.
Or walmart.com.
- That's right.
Okay. Here we go.
Here we- it's a nice deal.
You just, it has 20 settings for intensity.
It tells you how much-
- Isn't that amazing?
- Yeah.
- Tells you how much battery life you have. And I'm gonna,
I've got the round head.
There's other heads on it that'll work,
but I like this.
- A few heads.
- Oh yeah. Show, go ahead and show 'em, Bob.
I'm gonna-
- [Bob] I'll talk about the heads.
- [Brad] Yep.
- [Bob] Got kind of a flat head
- [Brad] That works good through the, over your pants.
- [Bob] What do you call that, Brad?
- [Brad] Well, I call that the, the curved head, the arc.
- Okay.
Field goal.
- Yeah. We don't use that one a lot, but it has its places.
Oh, I got the sensitive spot.
- The Flathead.
- Yeah. That's a little more aggressive
than this round one.
- Really aggressive.
- Yeah.
- The bullet.
- Yeah.
- I like it. - I can't use it.
- I like it.
You gotta- - I'm wimpy.
You gotta toughen up, Brad.
- I know. I'm gonna build up to,
to that kind of-
- Be a man.
- Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Oh boy, it just feels for me, so good when I get
down by the Achilles tendon.
It's gonna be different for everyone.
So you may spend, you know,
three minutes doing this on one leg.
It's gonna be bit depend on your symptoms
and how you respond to it.
Do both legs.
Do your arms.
Do your chest.
Do your piriformis.
Do the hamstring, do the quadricep.
Just don't-
- Very good, Brad.
- Just don't do anything on your face or your neck.
- That's for sure. - By the way, Brad.
I never knew of anybody
- Anybody
- that complained about getting a massage gun.
They love it. It's one of the best gifts you can give.
- Yeah, that is true.
That is very true.
All right. We're gonna go to another one.
- No, we're done.
- We're done?
- Yep.
- Whoa.
- We can fix just about anything
- Except for
- [Both] A broken heart.
- And the massage gun is not gonna have a chapter in a book.
- It could make you feel better.
- Yeah. Well, yeah.
It can make you go Ahhhh!
- Don't do that.
- It's kind of fun.
- Not recommended.
- Take care
- Bye.