♪ Bob and Brad, the two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists on the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- 'Cause we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about the latest
finger and forearm strengthener for rock climbers.
And this was invented by a rock climber.
- Right, this is a wonderful tool
for strengthening the hands, wrists and forearm.
- Who's this?
- Alex.
- Alex. - Great to see you.
I'm here to bring some youth to this channel.
(all laughing)
Just kidding.
- You guys aren't that old. - Yeah, we do need help,
that's for sure.
- He skews us lower that way and so on.
(laughing)
By the way, you may want to check out Alex's channel.
His wife is the one that does our filming, and there,
we got the sign for you. - Thanks Brad.
- It's the Family Product Channel.
Where is it, right here?
- Yeah. - Right in the middle.
We'll put a link down below.
It's pretty funny.
Like you just saw a little sense of his humor,
which is very little.
- If we're not funny, let us know we're not funny.
(all laughing)
As long as we get a view.
- All right. - All right Brad,
where are we at?
- Where are we at?
- Yeah, are we gonna start?
- Yeah, we're ready to start.
We should do our introduction.
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- What?
- Yeah, yeah.
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This way we're giving away the SleepOvation mattress.
- And they're deluxe. - Nice.
- So it's under the giveaway section, under Bob and Brad,
so check it out. - There you go.
Okay.
- Now we can go to work.
- Bob, as therapists, we're always thinking
about how to strengthen things,
and here, someone came in to see you
who happened to be
a rock climber. - Yeah, he was a rock climber.
- And you started talking about this, and he invented this.
- Yeah, he's an engineer too, so that definitely helps,
but he invented this like 20 years ago, and I said,
you know, it's pretty cool, I'd like to, maybe we can
help you with it and take it a little bit further.
So we made some modifications to make it
a little easier to use, and this is what we came up with.
I've been using it, and it's greatly helped my golf game.
So I don't climb rocks, but I do...
- Right, this is actually something we can use in therapy,
but it's a pretty higher end.
It's for advanced strength and range of motion.
But anybody who, you know like you said, golfer, hockey.
- Almost any sport you could think of.
Tennis or in bowling.
- Wherever you gotta grip and a grip
is gonna make a big difference.
- Go ahead and say it, Bob. - What?
- I know you're waiting to say it.
- I didn't say it, what am I gonna say?
- That your grip is stronger than mine
after you been using this. - Oh, that's right.
I forgot.
- I thought for sure
that was coming in there. - How did I forget that?
- I can't believe it.
- We had a contest and I edged him out.
- Let's get on with the program.
- I was hungover that day.
- What we have here is, the unique thing about this,
and you guys can cue in,
is you put the resistive bands,
there's four of them, and so you can use different levels.
I've got two, Alex has got two on each foot
I have two that are-- - And I'll do three.
So, different levels here.
- And you're gonna use your legs for a post,
or a stationary post.
Actually, you use your forearms.
And you can use it a little bit differently.
Like this.
You can put it between your knees
a little bit. - Yeah, I go a little bit
in between the knees because I'm taller.
- And the unique thing about this,
is I think this is what Jay was looking for,
as a rock climber, is you wanna get your fingers
all the way down like this, with resistance,
roll it up, and then you get that grip,
and then you finish it with flexion of the wrist.
And because you got resistance bands,
the further you get up, the harder it gets,
it's unlike if you use a dumbbell.
When you bring a dumbbell up,
once you get to a certain point
the gravity and the physics of it,
it actually gets easier.
So this, you have a nice increased resistance.
- Continuous resistance, and it increases actually.
- And the nice thing about this
is you can change your resistance a little bit
just by moving your feet apart
or bringing your hands up or down a little bit.
- Right, you can make it harder or easier.
So there's really a lot of variety
in how much resistance you can get,
'cause you have four bands,
plus the difference in how you have your feet.
- Exactly, so a lot of combinations.
It's basically, well not infinite,
but within a certain range it is infinite,
and I'm already-- - Oh yeah.
- Are you starting
to pump up there? - Oh yeah.
- I'm feeling the burn, boys.
- If you are really wanting to get the strength,
you're probably gonna get enough resistance on
so that by the time you get to 10 or 15 at the most,
you're gonna feel like you need a break, okay?
- I'm ready to break through my shirt, look at that.
- Well, that is a Popeye forearms.
The next nice thing about it is
you just flip your hands over,
and then you can work wrist extension.
- This is when I found that I tend to fatigue more rapidly.
I can do a higher amount of resistance,
but it really tends to pump my forearms up
when I do this one.
- And when you do strengthen your grip,
it's a really good idea to strengthen,
we call this extension and flexion,
so that you get a total grip strength.
And then there's actually one more plane that oftentimes
is completely forgotten. - Yeah, you can't do it
with weights very easily, not easily anyway.
So you're putting your hand on the sides.
Thumb up.
- So from your view, you can see it from the,
and I've just, here like this so your thumbs are up,
and then you're working another group of wrist muscles.
You don't have quite as much range.
Alex, he's younger, he's got
more range visible. - Yeah, I've got more range.
- Least he's got something going for him.
- And the handle swivels with you.
I think that's
what he was mentioning. - That's a good point
that he's making is--
- Thanks Bob.
- This is designed so that it swivels.
- And it's very nice.
It's never gonna wear out.
This is a steel pipe in here.
I mean, this is...
Actually, we were thinking about driving a car over it.
- Oh, you could drive over a car with that.
Nothing would happen. - And then showing you
how tough it is.
It's extremely well-built, well-designed by Jay.
- It does say strong like bull, so you can't beat that.
- There you go.
So if you're interested,
and you have a need for one of these,
you're welcome to go, where are we gonna have this?
- We'll have it linked below.
- Linked below, there you go.
Alrighty, so--
- All right, remember Brad and I can fix
just about anything.
- Except for.
- Put it right over his face.
- Yeah, there you go. (chuckling)
- A broken heart, but we're working on it.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
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