♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ the two most famous ♪
♪ physical therapists ♪
♪ on the internet. ♪
- Hi 'yall 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,
- What'd you do?
- Don't worry about it.
- So Brad's gonna show us
how to buy the perfect massage gun.
- Yeah, massage guns are very popular
and for a good reason
it's because they work very well.
And there's a lot of them out there
and you wanna make sure you buy the right one for you.
Make sure it's not too big, not too small.
And it's gonna last a long time.
We're gonna show you all that.
- Brad's got kind of a mad scientist
version of how he's gonna test the gun.
- Not at all, Bob, actually, it's from my 10 years
of working on electric motors, before I got into this
I know how to load test electric motors.
I understand them.
And this is professionally done.
- And speaking of massage guns
we are gonna give away the X6.
- Yes.
- You just go to bobandbrad.com
and go to the giveaway section and you can sign up.
It's easy-peasy and
you can have one of these in your hand.
by the end of the month.
- So just watch this video and you're gonna learn all the
specs that is gonna be important for you to make sure you
purchase the proper gun.
So what I'd like to talk about, first of all, is
like I said, we go the extra step.
We promote some massage guns, but we know they work good
because we like how they look.
We like how they work.
And...
- the company we work with is
very reliable and very good on quality control.
- Right. And I certainly didn't trust them at first.
So I actually made this device to load test the gun
which means we're gonna test it under heavy load
and leave it run for a long period of time and find
out how it responds.
Is it gonna last or is it gonna, you know, fail?
- Can you imagine living with this guy?
- Yeah, you should see my garage.
So anyways, actually, I was an electric motor mechanic
we rewired motors, built them in the industrial world.
So see this spring, this is gonna to be the load.
So Bob can this...
- This thing really?
I mean,
- [Brad] Push, oh my God.
It is really
wound, I mean...
- [Brad] I mean, it's an aggressive spring.
So we're gonna use that to load, test this
one of our guns.
And I'm gonna put it in there.
- That's putting a lot of load on that gun.
- Bob, you wanna talk to 'em about the first,
other than this, what the next thing you look for.
- First I know, you wanna look at the Amazon ratings
and you know that's the greatest thing about Amazon.
I think they came up with.
These ratings that are negative and positive.
- Yep.
- And if they have a lot of ratings,
you know a lot of people bought them
and you can be fairly certain
that the ratings are correct.
So we got like...
- talk loud, Bob!
- 4.8 to 4.9
ratings on our
guns because they are
good guns to have.
All right that seems...
- Just wait Bob, you know
I'm going to get this outta here
but right now I've got this spring,
I'm collapsing.
- Yeah. Really put a lot of...
- [Brad] I'm putting a lot of pressure on it.
And now that I can just leave that pressure on it
I'm gonna set it over here,
get it out of the way and we'll leave it run for a while.
- All right.
Next thing we're gonna talk about is amplitude.
Now this is very important
to a lot of people or travel or head movement.
We're talking about how much the head percusses.
So if you look at this one
actually you can see that it goes in and out.
See the distance that it travels.
- [Brad] That one goes 10 millimeters.
- Right?
- [Brad] Okay.
- Which is pretty good.
- Right, other ones go...
- This one's less.
- Yep. Six millimeters.
- Right?
- And then these, these lighter ones
the smaller ones go about two or three.
I actually haven't measured it inside the specs
but it's less.
We have one coming out. That's gonna be...
- Gonna be the monster
- 16 millimeters.
- Right.
- Which if you're a small person or a thin person
you do not wanna go that heavy.
- Even with this one,
if you were elderly and you had osteoporosis
I would probably stick with something like this.
- Exactly.
And if for like us
or the average person, six millimeters,
- Right.
- Somewhere in that range is gonna be more
than adequate to get into those muscles.
- Right.
Let's talk about stall force, Brad.
- Right.
- You wanna show 'em
- You bet!
So stall force means how much pressure can you put
on the gun before...
- it stalls?
- Yep, exactly.
So you get it moving.
- I'm pushing it as hard as I can.
- Now there's ratings on stall force.
We have this small one has a pretty good stall force
of 13 kilograms.
In other words, 29 pounds.
- I never am able to shut it off.
- Right.
And then our bigger one has 40.
Where is the big one, right there?
This one goes 44 pounds
- And this is 29,
- Right.
- Or 20 kilograms or 44 pounds.
So if you're in that 30 pounds
and you're an average person or a thin person
you got more than enough stall force.
If you're a big bulky person,
heavier, you got more soft tissue.
- You really wanna get deep into those muscles.
- Yeah. Then you wanna get up into that 40, 44.
And I have a feeling our big one's gonna be up closer to 50.
We'll find out when they give us the specs.
So that's...
- All of our massage guns come with
at least five different heads.
- Right.
- And we got the field goal,
we got the bullet,
we got the air-filled
which is very popular because
you can go right near the bones.
- [Brad] Yep.
- And its not gonna bother you
Brad likes the round one because he comes in from the side.
- [Brad] Yep.
- Instead of going right on the muscle,
- [Brad] We've got complete videos.
- I actually showed my daughter Jamie last night.
- Oh Good.
- Because she...
- she was grateful?
- Well, she wanted to do it on her foot,
but it was too much.
I said, go front the side.
- Yep.
Get that angle on there.
All right.
- How about battery life, Brad?
- Battery life.
All of these, will last a minimum
of one and a half hours up to three hours.
But that's loaded.
That's with you working them.
- Right?
- Working 'em on your muscles.
If you...
- They work a long time.
Yeah.
- If they Free-wheel, they go much longer than that.
- They're lithium batteries right?
- You know, I gotta check into that.
- Some of 'em are.
- Yeah.
- I know that
- They're good batteries.
I'm more concerned about how long are they
gonna work loaded.
- I know that Alex said at one point that we had
the same battery that Tesla uses.
- Oh sure.
Not Nicola, but the Tesla car.
Yeah. These are all brushless motors.
You should get one.
That is a brushless DC motor.
They last much longer.
They're much more efficient.
I'm not even sure if they make brush ones anymore.
- Oh, sure.
- But if it doesn't say brushless on there,
do not get it.
Sound level.
- It's important.
- It is
- We've had some that we were testing that were real loud
and irritating.
- Yeah. I mean, it's no fun.
You can't watch TV.
- Right.
- And do this.
If it's loud
- That's what I do.
I sit there and watch TV while I'm massaging myself.
- So decibel wise
there should be a rating on there for decibels.
These are all at 55, which means 55 is good.
If you're getting up, you know, higher than that
in your 70, 80, or whatever, look for one that's quieter.
Unless you don't care about the noise.
Most people do.
- Right.
Appearance wise?
- Appearance is what you like.
- Right
- It's a personal thing.
You know, color, appearance, all that.
- You know, it's funny.
This is a small one, but I really like it
because you grip it well,
- [Brad] yeah.
- It's really functional.
- [Brad] It is.
- [Bob] And some people talk about these,
they're too heavy.
- Right
- Well, for travel
this one is much easier to travel with than this baby.
- Just like, you can explain to your airport,
it's not a real gun.
- It's a massage gun.
Give him, let, 'em do a little massage on the plane.
They'll be grateful and be like,
oh, I need to take this away from you.
- That's right.
- Then they'll be massaging all the way over
- You'll never see it again.
- Tanner, can you hear that working out there?
- [Tanner] Yeah.
- Is it annoying?
- [Tanner] No
- I didn't know it was more annoying than we are.
- We shoulda closed the door.
Anyways there is one other thing
that you really need to be aware of.
And there is something called the auto-shutdown time.
- Yes.
- Now all of them that we sell have a 10 minute.
- Right.
- If you're working with it for 10 minutes,
it'll automatically shut down.
- Like sometimes I'm massaging myself and I'm watching TV.
And time gets away from me
and all of a sudden it shuts down, but I hit the button.
And it starts right up again.
- Right.
It lets you know that it's been going that long.
- Right.
- Okay.
As a matter of fact, we just had a shut down on,
now you can hear it.
Yep.
So the other thing is that if you overload these
or the batteries are, starting to go low,
then it will turn off too.
But it'll turn right back on.
So don't get worried.
It's not a problem with your massage gun.
- If you start seeing smoke come out...
- Right.
- That's the way they're built.
- Right.
- So, and you'll see
on the better guns like these,
they have little holes in here.
- Like air vents almost.
- And that's for cooling of the motor.
So, you know, don't cover that up, make sure it stays open
- Right, good point
- and that'll be very helpful.
So again, it all depends on if you're big muscular
or a heavy person and you're chunky, you wanna get in deeper
get the bigger gun with the more travel
- Right?
- The better, the higher stall force.
- And, Brad, I think you would concur
that I'm very proud of the quality of our guns.
- Well, actually,
I wouldn't have gone through all the effort to
make something to load test it properly and find out.
It's just fun for me.
When you know, you have something you're proud of.
- Are you gonna bring him back in or not?
- Yes. Yes. Yes.
- So again, all of our guns come with at least five heads.
I think this one maybe has six even.
- Yeah. One, two.
Well, there's four there.
Well there's five here.
- Oh, I guess it doesn't
- But, but it does have a little holder.
That's kind of nice.
Yeah. So we, this one passed the test.
We got the auto shut off here and life is good.
So keep that in mind.
You're gonna buy the right massage gun.
And of course look at the warranty.
- You know, if you buy...
- It should a one year warranty
- If you buy an inexpensive gun,
you're gonna know it right away.
My nephew bought a gun.
- Yeah.
- He said it was just junk.
- Did he get a, did he get it back?
- He didn't get a refund
- Ours, well, if you're not happy with it
it's not working,
get a hold of us.
We will get you a new one.
- Brad will pay for pay for it right?
- Well, no, you'll get a new one.
You know, that's a good question,
but we've had almost no problems.
- Right
- In the couple years we've been selling this.
- Exactly.
- It's not an issue because we test 'em
be careful and have fun with your massage gun
- We can pat ourselves on the back.
- And one thing about these is Bob.
We can fix this about anything except for
- A broken heart,
- but these aren't helping.
- Don't put it on your heart.
- Don't jerk this for the broken heart
- You can do your chest, but not your heart.
- Oops. All right.
- All right.
Be careful.
- Thanks for watching