♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Aren't you a Dapper Dan today, Brad?
- Well, Bob, you know, I'm thinking about something
very exciting, but we're gonna get to it pretty soon.
- Alright, it has something to do with a proven
way to reduce stress as well as depression.
These are based on two studies that Brad looked up,
and fits right along with what we have found
to be true in our lives--
- And as well as therapists, we can concur
that this is beneficial, so we're gonna get to it
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- Oh right.
- Or runs.
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- Our valuable advice, right Brad?
- There you go, Bob.
Wow that was a good throw!
- Yeah. - Okay!
So, stress you know, Bob, it's one of those things,
I don't know if there's anybody that doesn't live without
stress, although I think Bob is probably one
of the most stress-less person I know.
- No, but I do things to try to keep my stress level down,
and you're, what we, you're gonna mention today,
I do on a regular basis, well during the summer anyway.
- Right, I mean Bob runs a business, we do this show,
so we got, he's got two businesses to run, he's got a family
and children, and I don't know what else you--
- Well you've gotta deal with me!
- And right, yeah, we've gotta put up with each other.
- That's why you have stress.
(laughing)
- Anyways, everyone has stress, and then there's another
thing that leads with stress, and that's this one study,
the first study I'm gonna talk about is rumination.
And that's the, if you're not familiar with that term,
it's when you think about things, and you continue to--
- It's probably like cyclical thinking.
I mean you just get on a cycle of thinking
about something and you can't get off of it.
- You stew over it, and stew.
And oftentimes it can be a negative thing, I couldn't,
you know 20 years ago, when I went through a divorce,
man I had a lot of ruminations going, and I used
to exercise aggressively to get that out of my system
so that I could relive my stress.
- Sure.
- Worked really well.
So, what they did is, Standford with a study.
- Okay.
- To see how you can reduce the ruminations.
- [Both] Reduce your stress.
- Right. - Okay.
- And they took a group of people and 50% of them,
they went on 90 minute hikes, the other 50% also went
on 90 minute hikes, the difference was, was that one group
went into the forest and walked on nature hikes.
- Gotcha. - Okay?
Peaceful, calm, quiet.
- Sure.
- The other group, were in an urban setting.
- Sure.
- You know, and depending on where you live, you don't
always have an option, but anyways--
- And you're watching traffic and you're hearing sounds,
and it's just, yeah. - Sure.
So, so the results on this may not be surprising but
it's nice to get some science to prove, you know,
to have some good solid proof.
And what they did, is afterwards they took MRI studies
to see what's going on with the brain
as well as questionnaires. - Gotcha.
- And the bottom line was, it's strongly supported
that people who hiked in the calm, relaxation setting,
in nature. - In nature itself.
- Yeah, had a big decrease in rumination.
- Gotcha.
- So that part of your brain, that's part of stress,
I should say, becomes less and less.
- Right, if you can break that cycle--
- Right.
- It really, it really helps.
So, and then you had a second study too right Brad?
- Right, now this kinda related to it,
not so much to the stress, but it's all related.
Another group of Germans, this is in Europe,
they studied the same thing, but they just looked at people
hiking, and it happened to be in a rural area, you know,
hiking in the woods and forests, whatever.
- Gotcha.
- And what they found was that, anti-accident defenses,
the defenses in your body that reduce your risk
for cancer was a very positive thing.
So it was-- - It increased
with those people that were hiking in the--
- Right, right.
- Forests and the quiet atmosphere.
- Right, exactly.
So the reason I have this hat on, is because I went
and purchased this hat, and one of the things I'm gonna
really use it for is when I go out and do my hiking.
Or, a lot of times, I live in a rural area myself,
so I just walk down the road and back,
and it's pretty much right there.
- Right.
- We can see nature and whatnot.
So another thing is, my wife works in dermatology,
and she always says, get some sunscreen on or wear your hat.
So a nice brimmed hat like this--
- Yeah you do, because I always hear these stories
of the people who live down in Florida, some of the,
a lot of the golfers down there, the top of their
ears are lopped off. - Yeah.
- Because they've had cancer and they've had to--
- Right, right.
So if you're gonna do your hiking, and you're gonna
be outside, protect your head, and get a nice pair of shoes.
And we know the benefits of the cardiac,
and just the muscular strengthening and et cetera.
- Well I'm gonna just attest to this too again,
so during the, we have a cabin, and whenever it's nice,
and it starts getting nice, my wife and I,
we walk 90 minutes to two hours in nature.
And I can't tell you how much that just wipes
out the week's stress. - Right, right.
Without a problem, I mean I have no problems at all during
those months, it's during the winter months that you know--
- Well if you could cross country ski
and if we had consistent snow.
- Yeah that's the problem though.
- Yeah I know it's half the time there's snow,
and half the time it's ice and rain
and blah blah blah. - Yeah exactly,
so it just doesn't work.
- But you know, and people that live in a larger city,
like New York, they have the big park, Central Park.
- Right, yep, yep.
- I know I have relatives that live in the Chicago area
and there's a lot of forest preserves throughout,
you can go to it and walk and that kind of thing.
So typically there's some place you can
go to get that kinda atmosphere, so you can
get that stress relief you need.
- It's the idea of meditating is the same thing Brad,
it's, you know you're concentrating on your breathing,
and it takes you out of the rumination, and the idea
is that you really are not thinking any thoughts at all.
- Sure.
- All you're thinking about is your breathing.
And I've done some of that too, and that does work.
- While you're hiking?
- No, I don't need to do it while I'm hiking,
but I've done it in the winter.
- Oh sure, yeah.
- Because you know I don't have it, and it does
take you off that rumination.
- Sure.
- It really does so, so that's,
we hope we could give you some hints here
to help make your life a little less stressful.
- I'm a little less stressed out now than compared
to at the beginning of the video when I had to sit
next to Bob and now it's less stressful, so I feel good.
- How about this?
Does that help increase the stress again?
- (laughing) I'm just joking Bob, come on!
Gimmie a break.
- Alright, thanks for watching.