♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi 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.
- Big day for us, Brad, big day.
We're coming out with a new product
and we actually did not invent this,
but we did refine it, I would say.
- Right, we worked on the development.
- Yeah we got a lot of input,
and it was actually invented by Jay Heisel.
He's a engineer, really sharp, clever guy.
- He is. - He actually helped us
with the wall anchor, too.
- Right.
- In fact, he came up with most of the design for that.
He's also a rock climber.
- Right, he's been a long-time rock,
I mean, for what, 20 years ago.
- Right, he developed this product, actually,
like 20 years ago to help him with his rock climbing,
and then, you know, it just kinda
sat on the shelf for all these years,
and now we're bringing it to life.
- Right, you know, as a rock climber,
as in many sports, you need very solid grip strength,
not just in your fingers, but in your wrists, as well.
Goes for baseball, hockey, tennis, golf, all these things
require that. - That's right.
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Just because we're doing this video in the future, somewhat.
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- It's not candy or popsicles, you know,
it's an exercise, you know, a bed.
- Yeah, a mattress. - We're gonna give away,
mattress. - We do SleepOvation
mattress sometimes,
yeah we're giving away something big.
- [Brad] Good stuff.
- So this is the Bob and Brad Grip and Forearm Strengthener.
We got a little bit of a sticker on there that says that.
On the other side, can you pick that up Liz?
See if she can pick up what that says.
- [Liz] No.
- There, look at that. - There we go.
- [Brad] What does that say?
One of our famous sayings on our channel,
we love to say,
- [Bob] Strong like bull.
- You gotta roll the R, strong like bull.
- There we go.
So what's neat about this
is we actually got these four different bands of resistance
that can be used for this.
And the key to strengthening grip and forearm
is you actually gotta strengthen the wrist movements, too.
- Sure.
- Like when you grip something,
you don't just grip like this,
you actually move the wrist up like this and then grip.
So as a case study on this, Brad, I used this
and I used it for a couple months,
and my grip strength went up from,
I don't remember the first number,
but it went up like 18 pounds,
and it was measured by a dynamometer.
- Right, and that's something we have here,
we use 'em all the time, OTs especially do,
so we're measuring it accurately.
- Why don't we show how to use it,
then I wanna tell a little bit of the story
about my golf too with this, Brad.
So let's get into the device itself.
So you could start off, you're a beginner,
you can actually just grab one loop,
and you're gonna go ahead
and put it underneath your shoe like this,
and you're gonna take the other loop
and put it underneath your shoe.
Now the thing is--
- Now before we go on,
'cause we jumped over a lot of stuff,
the only way to use this is in a seated position.
- Right, exactly, there's no-- - You have to be in
a firm chair works the best,
and just like Bob said, then we're gonna work it,
and I'm gonna do the same thing,
I'm gonna use one loop because that's
a good way to start. - Good starting point.
- Yep, yep.
- And you're gonna kinda spread your legs apart
a little bit.
But now you're not doing this, right Brad?
- Yeah. - This is what people think,
you're gonna do curls with it, but you're not.
You're actually keeping the forearms completely still.
- Right.
- So they're gonna get supported somehow.
I like to go on the inner thigh,
you actually go right over the top of the knee,
don't you, right Brad? - Yep, that's the way
I like to do it.
- So either way is fine.
So we got the forearms are already in their stable position,
and now the movement is just occurring
from the wrist or the fingers.
See how, Brad, I got a problem over on my left side.
- Right. - With the Dupuytren's,
but Brad can show how he's actually curling up,
yep, watching how he curls it all the way up,
and so he's working on grip strength
and on forearm strength, too.
- The problem with squeezing a ball
or one of those handheld spring strengtheners,
they're good for the grip, but they don't get the--
- The wrist or forearm. - The wrist,
particularly with the motion of the wrist.
So this combines it and that's the beauty of it.
- All these muscles, they come down
and they go into the hand or to the wrist,
and they're, play a large role
in how much grip strength you're gonna have.
And the other thing, what's nice about this,
so you're gonna start with that direction,
but then you can actually go off to the side like this.
And so now we're strengthening up the wrist
into this direction,
and that's getting some different muscles now.
So I go ahead and put my fingers underneath like this, Brad.
Maybe you have it that way, already.
- [Brad] Yep.
- [Bob] My forearms, again, are stable,
and I'm bringing it up like this.
- So now if I point my thumbs up,
you can see now this is called radial deviation.
- Right, and what I've found with this one, Brad,
'cause I've been using this for months,
is that this one's harder.
I mean, I can't do as much resistance on this one
as I can with the others.
- [Brad] You know, you could just go to one loop,
that's the beauty of it. - You could go to one loop,
exactly.
- And then,
you know, that varies the resistance.
- So now, you start off with that,
you're off to the side like this,
but you still get the resistance like you need to get.
Now the one that I've found that fatigues the fastest, Brad,
is the last one.
So now we did wrist flexion,
now we're gonna go ahead and do wrist extension.
This is the one where I get a burn,
it seems like, pretty fast,
when I'm doing these.
And I actually use all four, Brad,
I'm to that point already.
- [Brad] Mm-kay.
- Some of 'em I use three, some of 'em I use two,
but I'll go like this, I support,
and then I go like this, and boy I'm working.
And you're getting resistance all the way through.
It's not like if you're taking a bar, a dumbbell or a bar,
where you're, you know how it is,
you get to that lever point and you go over it,
and it gets easier.
- Right, it's got that, like you said,
the leverage, the physics of it, where with this,
the higher you go, actually,
it gets more and more resistance.
- Work an extension with this one
and so what I usually generally do, Brad,
is like 10 to 12 reps, repetitions,
and I'll do three sets.
So, and usually what I'll do is I'll work on,
I'll first do the flexion.
- Mm-kay.
- Do my three sets of 10 to 12.
Then I'll go right into the radial deviation,
and that one I, again, I cut down to two.
And I go radial deviation.
I'll do my three sets, or I mean, one set of 10 to 12,
and then I go ahead, jump right into my last one,
and I'm goin' ahead and do a wrist extension.
- There ya go.
- And I do my set of 10 to 12.
- Yeah.
- And I take a breather.
And then I go and do the whole cycle again.
- Okay.
And I just wanted to point out you can see how,
the one thing that we didn't mention yet
is you can vary the resistance,
like if I'm doing this,
oh and it's getting kinda easy
but I'm not ready to jump into
using four loops around my feet,
if I just spread my feet out wider,
that right there increases the resistance.
- Yeah there's a lot of different ways
to increase the resistance or lessen the resistance.
- Right.
Boy I really notice it this way.
I have not been working this,
I don't have any activities
where grip strength is really important, like Bob's golfing.
And he didn't, you mentioned that, did you mention?
- No no, so yeah, what happened,
last year, the year before last year
I had started using this already.
'Cause we were working on prototypes of this for years.
And I noticed my, I'm not a very good golfer,
but I noticed that my, I was hitting my drives farther,
about 10 to 20 yards.
And I thought, oh maybe I had just changed my technique
or something, and I thought,
you know, maybe it was the grip strengthener.
I was starting to out-drive my brother sometimes.
It was a big deal.
So I stopped using it, though.
And then I started up again last summer,
I started, I'm like, my drives were way worse.
I'm like, holy crap, so I got back on this right away,
and within an month or two,
I was back to where I was.
So it was this that made the difference,
and I'll tell ya, you know,
I would sell my soul in order to hit the ball 10 more yards.
(laughing)
I mean for me, it's well worth it,
and I just throw it into my routine.
I do it like twice a week.
- Right.
- You don't wanna do it every day, that's too much,
almost. - Well it's just
like anything, you have to let the muscles recover.
- Recover, right, otherwise it's just too much.
I do it along with whenever I do my curls.
I go ahead and I'll,
in between curls I'll do a set of these.
So it works out really good.
We're really proud of this.
It's really well made.
These are high-quality bands.
- Yep, they are gonna last.
- They actually are the most expensive part of the unit.
And this is a metal pipe in here.
- Yes it is. - Along with some
really solid grips.
So this thing is, you know, it's gonna outlive me,
that's for sure. - You could run over this
with a car and it's not gonna bother it.
- That's exactly right.
So we got a link down below.
- We should do a video on that.
- Yeah, strong like bull, put it under the car,
run it over. - We're gonna do that.
We'll do a little Instagram.
- There you go.
- So thanks everybody for watching.
(Brad laughs)