♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together, we're the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course.
- Brad, we're always trying to save our viewers money.
- Right.
- And we're trying to also give them great ideas
for exercise and how to improve things.
- At home
- At home.
And this does both.
- You better believe it. - So-
- So, if you're familiar with the Bodyblade,
- Right.
- someone came up with this excellent idea
to make a blade that would help strengthen your shoulders,
your core, your arms. It has a lot of versatilities.
We're gonna focus on the rotator cuff and shoulder
strengthening mostly for this, - Right.
- and I found that, you know, I looked up Bodyblades,
and 50 bucks is the cheapest one I could get for a nice...
- That's the high end of a Bodyblade.
- 150 bucks, - Wow.
- anywhere in-between there, and you know, I'm thinking
that's-
- That's a lot of, that's a lot of moolah.
- Right! - Or cash.
- So if you can do it a little cheaper, or a lot cheaper-
- And then try it. - Yeah.
- And see if you like it or not.
- So, I found something that worked.
Here, I got a piece of vinyl trim for a house.
- Made out of PVC.
- Right. It's 100% vinyl,
I bought this at Menard's.
- Let's go over to the dimensions, Brad.
- Okay. Yeah, 'cause that's important.
5/8 inch wide, or thick.
- I'll put these down below, too Brad.
- And an inch and a half wide, and six feet long.
I found out if you use five foot, it doesn't work very well.
So you need at least six foot long.
I had to buy a 12-foot piece of this for $5.
Cut it in half, it will give me two,
for two and a half dollars for one.
- For one Bodyblade.
- Right.
- And,
- Now did you put some tape on there?
- Yes I, because I wanted to find the center of it.
You need to find the center of it.
So I, three-foot right here, I put some black tape,
and I just put black tape on the ends
because I thought you could see it better on the video.
But, if you're not familiar with the Bodyblade,
you have to get a rhythm going with it like this,
and this doesn't look real hard,
but it's really working my shoulder.
- It doesn't look really hard until I try it.
- Well, I don't mean... you have to get a rhythm.
Sometimes some people will have a hard time doing this.
- It's a, yeah, it's not only strength,
but it's coordination and rhythm.
- Right. - And so, I mean,
we'll have to show me do it too,
because you'll see the difference.
- Okay. - and I'll-
- I'm getting better right?
- Right.
- You can still see how uncoordinated I am with it.
- Yeah, a little practice-
- You wanna see how it is even worse?
Is my left side here. (laughing)
I just can't hardly do it.
- Right, do it the way you can do it easily.
- Yeah,
even on this one, my left, it shows you my left arm.
By the way, I'm missing one of the muscles,
- Sure.
- the serratus anterior,
but also, the coordination just is not as good there
as it is on this side. - Yep.
- Now, here I do it effortlessly.
- Sure.
- So, you know, that can show you some of the weaknesses
you have too, especially if you're into sports.
- Right.
- And the importance of coordination and strength
in the muscles of the shoulder.
- So, you know, I'm going show a nice rotator cuff
and shoulder girdle strengthening that, if you're a thrower,
or working some overhead activities,
let's say your, your shoulder is recovering and
you wanna work that rotator cuff, you get your, your body-
- I would say, this is pretty high end, Brad though,
this is not for, you know-
- It is, it is. This is for the athlete.
- probably for the athlete. - Right.
- Yes, exactly.
- So you get your body blade for $2.50
and you get the feel for it like this.
And I like to start 90 degree here.
And just like, this is very similar to some
of our rotator cuff with Thera-Band, but then you
start working it out like this-
and then the here, and I'm starting to get tired.
And if your shoulder's good enough-
- I can hear it. I can hear it in your breath.
- and if you're, yep, and now,
- if you're an overhead thrower,
this is a good way to do it.
I've seen baseball players out
with their nice Bodyblades
and they're out like this warming up before they throw.
Now, I'm starting to get pretty tired,
and I'm gonna come back down to here,
and now I'm gonna give my arm a rest.
- Now show your left side. Your left,
you have trouble with your left side too don't you?
- Yeah, it is a little harder, - Yeah.
- but I've practiced with this a little bit more than Bob,
and I'm gonna go out here, and I'm gonna work here,
and I got some core going on here,
and then I'm gonna work it up to here.
I'm gonna work it back down. I'm gonna hurry up
because my arm's getting tired, no pain, but fatigue.
I mean, from this whole,
my whole shoulder girdle's tired right now.
- I'm curious to see how it'll help with my golf game.
- Yeah, yeah!
- Because it, it really, it just, you know it gives a-
- Well, it's different shape than a golf stick.
I don't think it's gonna work. - (laughing)
- Ha! I'm just kidding.
- You know, this reminds me of that old joke,
Brad, walk into this. (laughter)
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like this one. This really works the core.
You get up here and you start working it,
my stomach muscles are doing almost as much work as my arm.
Not as much, but it's close.
- So again, he got this at Menard's,
which you may not have a Menard's in your area.
You may have a home Depot. - Right.
- So you may have to look into that,
but you may just wanna walk around the store
and find something that's similar.
- Right. - And that's all you did
Right? You walked around-
- Well, initially that's it, I just kind of ran into it.
I thought, I start, picked it up.
It's like, hey, that's gonna work.
And it works really well, but I think you need,
the vinyl works better.
I don't know if you're gonna use some wood product that may
not have- - No, I don't think so either.
- I agree, it's a vinyl siding maybe, or vinyl trim.
- Yeah, and its waterproof and it's gonna hold up well
if you leave it out, you know,
outside and you forget it in the yard.
- Well, again, for three bucks, or two and a half bucks,
I mean, you can't go wrong,
- Right, right. - and it lets you try it.
And could be a really good product for you.
- So you got the dimensions down there, right?
- Yeah. I got the dimensions down there, Brad.
- Yeah, and so far we had a lot of fun with it.
We had one, two, one of our patients' husband,
he even wanted to try it,
and everyone was using it and having a good time.
- Yeah, exactly. It's, it's very interesting.
- Go ahead, Bob, have fun.
- Again, I have trouble with it.
- Yep. So, once again, we're, we're- there you go.
There you go.
- This is a weaker shoulder.
I mean, it really shows, so-
- You know, if you're a shoulder person.
It's not gonna do anything for broken heart though,
is it, Bob?
- Brad, we can fix just about anything,
but we can't fix-
- Broken heart, but if you get it up close
gets that resonant, for, yeah-
I think it's helping my heart there! Ahhh...
- All right. We're, we're done.
- (laughing)