♪ Bob and Brad, ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists on the internet. ♪
- Hi folks. I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Well, today, Brad, we have a new
unusual home exercise program
and it's with the vitality plate.
- So, we're talking about
the thing you're standing on, right?
- Right. So, what's unusual about this, is it's,
well, for one thing, it's very well made.
- [Brad] Hmm, it is.
- [Bob] What's unusual about it is
you're actually gonna put your body
into three different motions while you're exercising.
So, I'm gonna show the motions first.
- Okay.
- This is the first one going back and forth.
- Right.
- And you can do this all from a remote.
The second one, this is, it's going back and forth
and it's tipping at the same time.
- It might be a little hard.
Can you zoom in on that a little bit?
Zoom in so they get a real understanding of that motion.
- [Bob] Well, here I'll go through all three.
And here's the last one.
This one's just tipping up and,
you know, like a Teeter totter.
- [Brad] Teeter totter. Yes.
- [Bob] Yep. So, we'll go through them all again.
Here's side to side.
- [Brad] Oh!
- [Bob] Here's 3D combination.
- [Brad] 3D combination. Yeah. Kind of an elliptical.
- [Bob] And the last one,
- [Brad] Back and forth on the horizontal plate.
- [Bob] Yep. Yep.
- [Brad] But Bob, there,
- [Bob] Oh, by the way, if you are new to our channel,
please take a second to subscribe to us.
We provide videos on stay healthy, fit, pain free.
And we upload every day.
You're also gonna wanna go to Bob and Brad
and like us on Facebook because
we're gonna be doing some heavy, big giveaways.
Me giveaway big stuff.
- Right? Yeah. Not one of these
but we do have some things that are much more,
- More expensive than this one.
- Yeah, actually. Yeah, it is.
- So, in addition to the three modes
there's also got 10 levels of intensity.
So, as I'm going higher,
you can just push the button and I can go up.
This is like twerking bread.
- [Brad] Yeah. Yeah. It really,
- [Bob] You know what twerking is?
- Yes. Torque is force that,
- Twerking.
- Oh, twerk. I thought you said torque.
I don't know, Bob. Now you're,
- The way you shake your bottom and you're,
- Oh, it's kinda like the,
- It's a young kid thing.
- That thing. They go like this, flossing.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Anyways,
- You could do that while you're doing this.
- Right. It'd be really good exercise.
So, this, I like this therapeutically
because you're really working
the co-contraction on the muscles,
particularly around the hip joints.
It's gonna make them work harder than they normally do.
- Yeah, so.
- Good for proprioception.
- Yeah, it is. It's gonna work well on balance.
You know, the pros are,
I'm gonna go over the pros and the cons.
- Okay.
- By the way, now.
So, it definitely is gonna increase your circulation,
wouldn't you agree with that, Brad?
- Sure.
- I mean, even if you sat and put your feet on here,
it's even increasing.
- Right. We got motion, motion.
- Yeah. It's gonna help with swelling.
- Yep.
- Because of the same reasoning you're gonna get,
it's very low impact.
It's gonna help with your bone density.
- Sure.
- Wouldn't you agree with that?
- That is a good point.
Particularly, the one where you're doing the,
not so much the side to side one,
but with the vertical one,
- The 3D one, this one here.
- Right.
- Yeah. You're definitely, the way bone works
is it responds to pressure and stress.
- Right.
- So, the more stress there's on a bone,
the heavier the bone becomes, the bigger it becomes.
- The body responds by building up bone mass with,
- As Brad said, Wolff's law.
- Wolff's law.
- And it's good for balance training.
- Right.
- And it enhances the exercise.
We're gonna show you some exercises you can do with it.
It enhances those exercises by making them harder.
The con is that, one, I would say that it's pricey.
I mean, this is $525.
- Sure.
- So, this is very high end.
It's gonna, you know,
it's gonna work well in a therapy department.
- Right.
- But I don't know if you can spend
that much for a home program.
- Yeah.
- I mean, some people do.
- Everyone's got their own budgets.
- Yeah, right. The other thing is
I don't know what the weight restriction is
for putting weight on here.
- Like if you're,
- Yeah.
- Three hundred, four hundred, five hundred.
- Yeah. I couldn't find anything on that,
to be honest with you.
If we find out we'll put it in the description below.
And the unit itself is heavy.
It weighs at least 40 pounds, I would say.
- You're not gonna just pick it up
and move it easily unless you're, you know,
strong like bull, like me.
Yeah. No, actually I'm not gonna move
that very often myself, personally.
- Yeah. So, it's heavy.
And the other thing is, you know,
you do gotta worry about safety with this
because it, you know, you are moving in different directions
and it can really throw your balance off.
- Right.
- All right, having said all that, I'm gonna show you.
We can go through some of the exercises you can do with it
by the way, it's got programs, too.
So, I mean, I can also take it down like this.
Oh, it's coming down to the 27 seconds already, Brad.
So, I go back to the 10.
And so, I go on program one here.
- So, it's a preset program.
So, it'll change intensity over time
without you having to push the button.
- So, I hit program and this is program one.
And so, now the intensity's going up on its own.
- Yeah.
- It ramps up on its own.
So, it's at six, seven.
And by the way, the farther your feet are apart
the more you are gonna be working.
- Sure. There's a readout
- Yeehaw!
- An LED readout down here, that, you know
you can see where you're at in relationship to what you,
- As you can see I'm working here.
Now, this actually is, I'm working right now, Brad,
I don't even need to be doing anything.
Now that the level's going down.
- Sure. You think it kind of got Bob excited there.
He was doing some things without
even thinking about it. You can do squats.
- Yeah. The first thing you're gonna do is,
I mean you can do squats.
I mean, they even talked about
getting up on your toes here, which,
- Sure.
- It's a little questionable to me, but.
- That's challenging, for higher level people.
- I'm gonna go ahead and change it here.
Now, this one, too, is gonna ramp up on its own.
Cause I just changed the one that I'm on.
- Switch setting. Yep.
- Yep.
- Now, he's doing a Teeter totter mode more.
- Okay. I'm actually gonna take it down cause we'll go ahead
and do some of these other exercises now.
So, we're back to just a regular,
the 3D one, here.
- Right.
- So, let's go ahead and do some
of the exercises we can do with it, Brad.
So, we can go ahead and do squats,
which I was going ahead and doing,
I think we'll go ahead and turn this maybe now.
And we can see these better from a,
- A side view. Sure.
- Yeah, from a side. So, we're gonna turn it off.
So, we got it all moved and now
Brad's gonna show how you can do lunges on here.
So, we got it going, tipping side to side.
And again, if he does it, he puts the foot in the center.
It's not nearly as difficult as if
he puts the foot off to the edge.
That's gonna be more work.
- Can you move up the,
- Intensity?
- Yeah. The intensity a little bit.
So, you can see.
So, if I'm gonna do some lunges like this
this is quite a bit harder
than a lunge without that vibration
or the isolation that that machine is offering.
- Shows you how solid this machine is, though.
Yeah. It is really well built.
- Yeah, it is. It's commercial grade.
I would call that. Okay, nice.
I really like,
- Yeah, while you're on here, Brad,
I'm gonna hand these to you.
- Okay.
- So,
- Ooh.
- And they come with these two bands that attach
and you can go and you can do biceps.
You can do abduction,
- Thighs,
- And you can do flexion, too.
- Yeah.
- Or, you can, they help just for balance.
- Yeah, they do. They help keep your balance.
- So, if I'm gonna work my squats here.
You know the nice thing about this?
If you're upper, a higher level person,
more athletic, you can go to one leg.
Now, if you go to the side to side one, Bob,
- Sure.
- Or I can go over to here.
Whoa, there you go.
And this is where these bands are kind of handy.
I can do one legged squats and see how that goes.
- Gonna see if I can change the mode, here.
Oh, let me hit this one here, first.
- There you go.
- And now hit mode.
- Sorry.
- There you go. And bring up the,
- Want me to bring it up the volume?
- Yep. There you go. Oh, yeah.
- All right. Well, I'm gonna go ahead
and show planks on here.
- Oh, yeah.
- Actually is a great one for planks because,
by the way, I have tape on my shoe
just to try to show contrast on this thing.
But, if put your hands on here, like this,
just holding it like this is a workout, Brad.
- Right? Well, your shoulder girdles are
really double timing it here because of that motion.
So, you're getting a lot of work
just to stabilize, as well as the core.
So, this is a nice,
- You can add this on there,
and do movement with planks, with movement.
This is a workout, Brad,
this is twice as hard as doing just a regular plank.
- Sure. I believe it.
- Now, you can do pushups on here, too.
And it's the same thing.
They're just a lot harder.
- Well, your body is forced to stabilize
with all that motion going on.
So, right. It's like double time.
- Now, you can do modified pushups, too.
You can start off like this and, again,
just much harder or modified planks even
where you just hold yourself like this.
- Yep.
- And man, I just feel like I'm shaking and baking, here.
- And it is interesting when you get off the device.
- Yeah.
- You got those sea legs where things are, you know,
- Yeah, you feel it.
- Feeling kinda light and things are moving yet,
then that, so, it really does, I think,
work with that balance
and that vestibular system as well, a little bit.
- And if you're just starting off, you can do bridging.
- Oh, there you go. Sure.
- And again, you can see how the legs are working.
- Right.
- And the core is working.
- Right. Bob and I were discussing this earlier,
as far as therapy, this would be something
I think for someone after a stroke if they're higher level
and they're out to the point where they're walking outside
on uneven surfaces and they have a little problem with that.
And this could do, you could do something inside,
of course, with a therapist right next to you.
But again, that's more for the therapists point of view
not for someone at home by themself, probably.
Bob, you're gonna get your tie dirty. Why, Bob? Why?
Here, I got my work out clothes
and he has to play and I don't get to play.
- Well, what else do you wanna try, Brad?
Anything else that you can think of that,
you did the lunges on there.
- Right. And you know, if for balance, you know,
if you go in line like this, you know,
and you can work that.
- Yeah. Just standing there is working the balance.
- Right, right. Yep. It is.
And if you change your, and go through your toes.
Like we talked about before, you know?
- Right.
- If you're up on your toes
it really puts some other twists on things.
And if you wanna turn around, oh.
- Remember, again, remember safety first on this thing, so.
- Yeah.
- You wanna have somebody with a belt holding on to him if,
especially if it's a patient.
So, all right, Brad.
I think we did a good demonstration on this thing.
It's, it's.
- Yeah. Bob is, Bob is green.
- It's funny, I'm short of breath.
Boy, especially with the planks, it is something.
- Yeah, it is a nice unit.
- All right. Well, we'll link below.
Thanks for watching.