Hey in this video I'm going to show you around the Pro Fit Flex 180 degree percussion massager.
I'm going to give you my honest opinion as a physical therapist and let you know this is worth
buying for you. My name is Dr. David Middaugh. And I'm a specialist physical therapist at El Paso
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that we post every single week. So we're going to open this up and just tell you things about it as
I do so and then I'll summarize my pros and cons for this device. Once we're wrapping up, so nice
little box here, the handle sticking out of the box. And here's the case for the Pro Fit Flex 180
massager, really nice case it's pretty firm here. Looks like it's super nice. Actually, I like it
a lot just might get scuffed up if you scratch it up. The zipper is kind of a medium quality zipper
looks like it works really nice though. I've seen better zippers but this isn't bad at all.
Well, I'll get into that here in a second. Let's show you the Pro Fit.
So here's a Pro Fit Flex 180 degree percussion massager. And it's got this head already attached
to this kind of your standard head that comes with most percussion massagers. It's got a
little bit of a gift but it's a pretty firm ball here on the end. And usually you just pop this
off and pop it back in. And it looks like it comes off super easy. You've also got in here,
a little case for all your other attachments. This one comes with a lot of attachments for
a massage gun. Let me just lay them out here for you and go through them.
So you've got this squishy kind of silicone one that's got little Nabis on it, it's got little
bumps on the end, but it has quite a bit of give compared to this one, this one's a lot harder.
And then you have your pin point one that's more like a thumb.
That's the whole concept is supposed to be like somebody's pushing their thumb into your body,
wherever you're going to apply this. You've got the one looks like a fork.
The idea with this one is you're supposed to go up and down the spine.
And this one's unique. I've never seen an attachment like this.
It's a massage guns kind of like a gel padded
attachment. It's got some give to it, but it's kind of like a squishy give firm, but definitely
a little squishy compared to this one. This one has this kind of a more hollow give to it.
So I like that I'll show you what that feels like. And then you have your dampener attachment here,
it's just a broad, it's not that big. I've seen a lot bigger ones, but it's kind of a broad flat
and it's hard, there's no given all that's hard plastic for that attachment. And then also in this
little carrying case, you have your charger. And so you have a standard block here with a standard
USB two port. And then over here you have a USB two US USB two, two USB three ports. So this is
one of the more modern ports that are coming out here are the two ends of the charger
cable. So this one goes into the block. And then this one goes into the device,
and it would plug in right here at the bottom of the device just like that. And your block
would plug in on the other end. Just like that, of course it's got a little twisty
on here, you can undo that to get plenty of links out of this cord.
And it looks like
looks like this is about a three foot cord.
The only other thing in the case here is the user guide. And so it's got all the instructions on how
to use it and you know special information about the product, Scott, it's your basic
information. There isn't anything crazy in here that is unique disclaimers, that kind of stuff.
And then you have this just so that you see everything,
there's this pad in there and there's nothing else in the little basket pocket that is in here.
So the unique thing about this percussion massager is that it has an adjustable arm right here.
So on the sides, on this side of the device here, you can press this button and as you hold the
button, you can adjust the angle the arm, it's got three positions, it's got this 45 degree position,
and then it's got a straight up and down like a 180 degree position, you know straight versus the
position that it came in was about a 90 degree position relative to the handle over here.
I really like that feature. I think that it's very beneficial to have different angles that
you can adjust the SAT because see at this angle here you can get a lot of leverage. If you're
pushing down on a body part like especially your leg or if you're using this on someone
else you can really push them on someone's back or hard to reach places on yourself.
then speaking of hard to reach places, if you're using this on yourself, which is how most people
will use these for personal use, you can find the right angle to get onto your back so that you
can reach it properly, versus if it was locked in just this position that you can only reach so far,
depending on how flexible you are. But if you angle a little bit more than you can get down
a little further, of course, that might influence the effectiveness of the device, because if it's
moving up and down in this direction, and you're only hitting at an angle versus straight on,
it's not going to feel the same. But I love that concept. And in using this device, I
don't think that it gives up any sort of speed, or revolutions per minute at least that I can't tell,
as a physical therapist. And having tried many massage guns, this one feels about par with all
the other ones. In other words, it's just as good quality as all the other ones, the weight of it
is really good. And it doesn't it's not too heavy. It's not, it's on the lighter side of massage guns
that I've used. But it's not the lightest ever. I love the handle, I just love the dual handles,
so I feel like I can maneuver it really easily around my body. As I'm using this for recovery.
And I love the handle, I feel like I can maneuver this between hands. And around my body, as I use
it to soften up my stiff muscle. As far as battery life, this one's really good. The information here
says it'll last you 200 to 600 minutes. So you're looking at anywhere between three and a half hours
is to up to 10 hours. Of course, depending on the speed and intensity that you're using it at.
Let me just get close to here. So you can hear how loud this is. And also see the control. So here's
the control panel, it's got like this plastic covering, I think you could probably peel it off,
I'm kind of scared to I'm going to leave it on. But I think you peel it off and it won't
look it won't have that little warp in the plastic covering. So let me just go and do it. Yeah, there
you go. Just little plastic covering. So it looks beautiful. I'm going to hit the power button.
And there it goes. And it's got five speeds, you can see. And you would just hold the button down
to get it started. And then you hit the button one time to go up in speed. And at its highest
speed. It isn't that loud. It's not the loudest gun I've ever used. And the force is great I,
I love the force that it gives. It's worked very well for me to use my like on my muscles
as I apply it on my body. It's on par with all the other massage guns that I've use. I think this one
as far as force and use and sound is fantastic. You would tap that to turn it off, it's still
technically on since the battery indicator is a lit up, you can hold the button here and it
turns off the battery. And of course you can adjust the different angles it works the same
at this angle, you have to turn off the machine to adjust the angle. That's the construction say
I have not adjusted it with that on I just didn't want to do that I want to break my machine here.
So once you turn it off, you can adjust now that that's one thing that I found is a little funky
about this. It's not bad at all. But just the the adjustment mechanism here just doesn't feel the
smoothest like there's a little wiggle in this medium position in the middle position. Once
it's down here, it's pretty locked in it doesn't wiggle at all. And there isn't any in between,
you have to go to one of those three positions and getting it out of there can be a little
tricky. That middle position is just a little loose. In my opinion, I don't know if it's just
the gun that I have. Or that's how they all are this top positions a little bit loose as well.
But just that straight 90 degree position is pretty straight. I've enjoyed using it in
this position, I feel like I can get pretty good leverage on my body. Like right here. I just feel
really good holding the gun in this position, even though you want to hold them like this
to work on those stiff tight muscles. It works very well to do so. Now one more thing I want to
mention is this gel attachment I found out you can actually stick in the freezer, and it will cool
so I thought that was really cool. I've never seen an attachment like this. I thought it was just
to give you a different feel. But you can actually freeze this and then you get the
vibration with some cold. It looks like it's really durable. I don't know how it'll hold as you
use this over time. But that's a really neat feature. I love that about this massage God.
And I picked this up at Sam's Club. It's one of my favorite places to shop along with Costco
look where the department stores and it was under 100 bucks. You got it for about $80 It was on
sale. So I think it's an extremely good value for the price. Get a great gun compared to some of the
higher end guns out there. I think this is great. Now if you're watching this video, you don't have
access to Sam's Club or you have a membership. You all link a comparable gun down in the description
below that you can find that Amazon there's tons out there. I haven't found many that adjust. I've
seen some that are angled this way and some that are angled this way but they're not adjustable
If we find one that that we can link on there from Amazon, we'll update it. But in case you go down
to the link and you don't find an adjustable gun that looks just like this. That's why it is that
only been able to find this one at Sam's Club, and I'll put the link on there for Sam's Club as well
in case you do have a membership and you choose to order online as long as they're available,
they tend to run out of their stock, and once they run out Who knows when they replenish them.
Overall, this is definitely worth it. If you've got stiff muscles. If you're dealing with some
chronic knee problem, back problem shoulder problem and you get stiffness from it. This
is going to be well worth it so that you can get some relief. Avoid taking as many painkillers,
avoid visiting the doctor for injections and possibly help you in curing the problem. Hey,
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