- What's up AD?
It's Kevin Love, I'm here in Cleveland, Ohio.
I'm really excited to show you guys my wellness room.
Let's go check it out.
I've been in this house since my second year in Cleveland.
I'm on year six now, obviously on hiatus
throughout COVID-19.
But you know, really trying to utilize this space
as much as possible.
The idea around it was to have something
that was gonna supplement everything that I do out
on the basketball court and keep me feeling young.
This is my 12th year in the league so I think there's things
that you have to figure out coming event.
I mean, it's not like you can just roll out the ball
and play anymore.
This room as far as recovery, is very paramount
in everything that I do.
Alright, so this is my first modality here
and my Joov red light.
It helps promote really great sleep and it has this,
you know, like a heating factor to it as well,
that really gets the body moving
in the morning gets the joints lubricated.
It's really, really user friendly, easy to use,
as you can see here, it's great for inflammation
it's something I do when I wake up in the morning,
or after a long flight for the sake
of this video I'll turn it off.
So the next piece of equipment I wanna go
to is the hyperbaric chamber.
This is something that I really use a lot
during the playoffs or after long road trips,
because we are moving across different time zones,
we're super sleep deprived, even in quarantine now,
I found myself pretty stressed out,
I get worked up over the unknown so for me,
it's really trying to make sure that I'm catching up
on my sleep, whether we're at home,
whether we're on the road, just continuing to pay it forward
to our bodies and try to stretch our careers out
as much as possible, keeps my inflammation down,
gets my red blood cell count up.
This brand of hyperbaric chamber is actually sold
to fit two people at a time, but being 6'9,
it's a big enough footprint to accommodate me,
but I've actually tried to be in there with Kate
and there's not enough space to work for both of us.
Alright, so as you can see behind me, we're moving on
to the infrared sauna.
This is actually really good for cell regeneration
and infrared sauna also is, you know,
to that point really, really good for skin
and for energy levels, it really picks you up
that's why coming home from practice, I wanna make sure
that I'm getting all those benefits and it's picking me up
for the rest of the day.
You know, this is something that we really utilize,
especially with the seasons here.
It's not like we're living in LA, we're not living in Miami,
it's very seasonal, and it gets pretty cold here
during the winter so it's something really nice to use
when you know the temperatures get in that freezing level.
Alright, so the next piece of equipment we have here
is the wave bed.
And there's my puppy Vestry right there she's using
it right now and it helps promote sleep.
You know, it has different sounds and different vibrations
that when you sit down on it, you put headphones on,
and then if I can move my puppy here, you can see
that actually it has a wave component to it, so when you sit
on it it's actually allowing you to settle in
and those vibrations are promoting,
you know really really healthy sleep.
So there's a couple different variations on here.
It has touch like a little touch up it has gentle, deep,
that's typically the one that I use because I lack a lot
of deep sleep and then there's energy as well.
Vetry's looking like she needs a little bit of
that energy right now.
The wave bed also acts as a massage table as well,
so I'll typically jump on there.
She also pretty much just lays on top
of me when I'm either getting a massage or I'm
on the wave bed so she has it pretty good.
You know even for dogs too I mean it's their science saying
that you live longer, you know if you have a dog,
you know it promotes getting outside
and I'm incredibly grateful that not that I was hurt
but that we had the time to then take advantage of you know,
training a dog and you know kind of have her grow
as you know part of our extended families
and this is all she wants to do, she's a velcro dog.
I don't think she'll ever get out of that stage.
It's every day we kind of laugh at how she's close to us
or on top of us no matter what.
I use this vibrations from this power plate right here,
especially on my lower half.
Like I mentioned my feet, I hold a lot of my stress
in my feet and we're pounding so much out there
on the floor, especially playing heavy minutes.
I play 30 plus a night.
So the next piece of equipment here looks like
a giant bubble, but it's the Waff Max.
It's something that super promotes muscle relaxation.
It's actually what I tend to meditate on.
So I'll use headspace, I'll put my phone or my headphones
on, you know, maybe even an eye mask and I'll settle into
that with a weighted blanket and just go
through my breathing exercises.
You know, I could really actually get used to right now
and there's the puppy she's checking it out.
Atta girl.
I was one of those people that got
into meditation super late.
I had kinda preconceived notions about it
or made assumptions but it was something
that I just had an open mind for
after I started doing you know, therapy,
start peeling back layers of what I'd been feeling.
I believe meditation as a great, great way
of making you look inward and has a great way
of just having you being mindful and stay in the present.
If 2020 has taught me anything especially in the NBA,
you know, with the passing of David Stern,
with the passing of Kobe,
and then the game just being taken away from us,
it's just to stay in the present.
The mental health aspect has been something
that's incredibly important to me and obviously I've talked
about at length and will continue to speak about
but I think more and more players, athletes in general,
are starting to open up and you know, speak about the idea
of you know, taking care of the mental side of things,
whether it be you know, their mental health
or just even their focus training their mind just as much
as they're training their body in order to get an edge.
Because if you wanna be at the top of your game,
you have to do both.
My parents were either children of the 60s or just getting
into their 20s so obviously we have the incense.
For me it's pine typically because I grew up
in Portland, Oregon, and then candles always.
So that's what leads me into yoga here.
I set up my computer right there, we get on the zoom call,
and do yoga as a team.
It's another way of staying connected,
but you know, making sure that we're working out
and taking care of our bodies so that when we do come back
to play, we'll be ready to go.
Listen, a lot easier to stay in shape than
to get back into shape.
I try to think of where I've had injuries.
I've had a separated shoulder on the right side here.
My left side I've had a shoulder dislocation
and labral tear.
So like opening those up, is paramount for me.
I think something that's sometimes overlooked,
especially in this space is natural light.
Now just being surrounded by the trees here makes me
in some way feel like I'm back home
in the Pacific Northwest.
So not only the natural light, but the trees
and the greenery and just being around the elements,
it's very key.
The true beauties of this room is that it allows me
to spend more time at home.
You know, it's really vital to just making more time
for myself, especially during the season where we're not
at home too much and we're spending over half the year
on the road.
Okay everybody, so thanks for checking out my wellness room.
I hope you guys got something from this.
Stay safe, stay healthy, and I'm gonna go get a workout in.
I'll see you later.