- All right, Bob, this video is for people
who are interested in buying a massage gun,
but not sure what to buy.
You want to make sure you get something that's
gonna fit your needs, the price is right,
and the quality is there.
We've got 10 things.
Answer all these and-
- You want it all.
- You'll know more than you wanna know.
- Right.
- So hold on 10, 9.3 seconds.
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- Bob, I've looked on the internet
as both you and I have.
We've worked with many, many massage guns.
- From the beginning.
- From, yeah, from years ago,
you can get ones from $30 to $400.
- Right.
- What's the difference?
We're gonna show you the details of this.
- There's some junk miles.
- There are and then there's some good ones.
- Right.
- How do you know.
Let's get to point number one.
Oh, before we get to point number one, Bob,
I need to mention where you're gonna find this information.
If you go online and you look at it.
You look at the details of the gun.
Sometimes they give this information.
Sometimes they do not.
If they do not,
maybe that massage gun doesn't offer this benefit.
- Right.
- That'll be explained.
- It should be offered.
- Right. Exactly.
- Do you wanna mention in here about price range?
- Yeah. If you're gonna buy a $30 to $40 gun.
- It's gonna be $30 to $40.
- It's probably gonna be loud.
It's not gonna last very long.
You get what you-
- A junk.
- Yeah. At that range,
it's you know, maybe that's all you want.
You only want it to last for a couple weeks
or whatever.
But yeah, that is pretty low.
You're gonna, but you don't need to spend $400, right?
I mean, you can't-
- The high range.
No dice.
- Yeah. So if you're buying a massage gun
for a deep massage, which many people are.
In other words, you're gonna use it for muscles
to get that tightness out.
You wanna make sure you get a reciprocating massage gun.
So here we got four of them that we represent
cuz these all work very well.
If you look, can you zoom in on this?
The head of a massage gun has to reciprocate-
- Back and forth.
- In and out and how far it does.
Oops. That one just popped out.
How far it reciprocates is important to know.
We're gonna get into that in just a little bit.
So following up on that, how far it travels.
I call the travel.
A lot of times it's called-
- Amplitude.
- Amplitude. A little more technical term.
Just think, you know, if you got a tape measure
and you can measure how far it goes
in and out from one extreme to the other.
Now all of them that we recommend
because I think you need to have at least 5 millimeters.
- Right.
- Ours have 8 millimeters to 10 millimeters.
And we're coming out with one that has 16.
- 16. Wow.
- That's a lot.
That's pretty, you know,
that's for certain people get into that.
That's for people with large multiple.
- Bulky, right.
- You really want to get it deep.
Most people won't need that much.
- Right.
- Again, 8 to 10 is a good distance
and you should be able to see that easily on the description
of the massage gun.
All right, let's go to the next point.
The next important point is the heads.
You should get at least 4 heads.
A round one.
You really need to have a smaller, light-
We call this a bullet one.
It really gets into specific points.
It's pretty aggressive.
Okay. There's one like this.
So it has a smooth
and it's, you know, it's like a plastic sometimes.
- It's all clothing, right?
- Yeah. And that is very helpful.
There's this one.
And you'll see other ones like this.
I don't think that-
- Not a big fan.
- They can be helpful.
But it's not a priority at all for us.
- Right.
- The one that really is nice,
that a lot of guns do not have is the air cushion one.
- Right.
- The reason this is so important
and useful is that if you're working a muscle
and you wanna get close to the bone
where the tendon is off the muscle-
- You don't have to worry.
If you hit with a hard plastic one,
you hit the bone by-
- Aye Yai Yai.
- It hurts and it's not fun.
- Right.
- You're safe with the air cushion one.
The air cushion one costs more I believe.
That's why they don't have them in their sets.
But it's worth the extra money in our opinion.
And we use it all the time.
- Yep.
I concur.
- Say no more.
The next information is pretty technical,
but it's right up my alley.
Electric drives. This is a little electric motor.
It's a DC motor.
I used to repair motors way back in the day.
If it's a brushless, it'll say brushless, DC motor.
What that means is there's no carbon brushes.
Carbon brushes are in old DC motors.
They've been around forever,
but they're inferior to the brushless.
So brushless will last longer.
They're quieter.
They're more efficient.
Everything's better about 'em.
If it does not say brushless in the description,
it probably isn't.
- Right.
- So look for that.
If it says it,
that's definitely a worth, a valuable-
- A positive
- Yeah. Very valuable asset.
Next point is the noise level.
How noisy are they?
And that's important cuz you wanna keep 'em quiet.
- Right.
- Especially if you're watching TV
or you have children around, or parents, or whatever.
55 decibels is a good quiet level.
If you've got less than that, that's good.
They almost always put this in the description.
And if there's nothing in there about noise,
it's probably a noisy one.
- Put it up to your mic, Brad.
- So I'm gonna turn this one on all the way wide open,
highest thing and see if you can hear that.
Okay.
- No?
- The little one's quieter.
- I didn't think that was a big deal
until I heard one that was bad.
- Yep.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah. If you get a loud one-
- You'll know it.
- You don't really want to.
- Right.
- And they're probably not gonna last years long.
They're loud because-
- The earphones.
- Yeah. The quality of 'em is not good.
- Right.
- All right. Let's go on.
Important aspect is the battery,
the quality of the battery.
So there's two things you can look at.
How long it takes for the battery to charge.
Typically it's-
Let me see where is it.
Three, three and a half hours is very typical.
That's what we have on ours.
And that's typical.
That's not a big deal if they take longer to charge
cuz charge it overnight.
- Right.
- But usually the better batteries take less time.
And then the battery life.
How long it lasts.
Now, this is where you gotta be careful
because they'll put that it lasts for six hours.
Well, is that loaded?
In other words, are you using it
or is it just sitting here
and without any load on it.
A load means you're pushing into it.
- Right.
- And they usually put non loaded time
or battery life, which is pretty useless.
It's the loaded time which you have to search for
to get like ours last
from one and a half to three hours-
- Loaded.
- of loaded while you're pushing on it.
If you just leave it-
- Are these like the slow battery.
- I'm not sure.
- I thought Alex said that.
- It very well could be.
And I didn't look that detailed
into the battery composition.
Physical size
of the gun is something you really wanna be aware of.
We've got, you'll see the mini one.
That's really nice to hold in your hand.
Not as much travel, not as much power.
- But it's powerful.
- Yep. This is kind of the average size.
This is the bigger size.
Each one is bigger and more powerful.
- This is my favorite.
- Yeah. Actually that is for me too.
But if you're young and you really want it in,
you may wanna go with this-
- Power!
- And there is a bigger one coming out than this.
We'll have that out probably by Christmas-
- The blaster.
- In other word, you know,
all the competition has similar models.
They're all probably made at the same factory.
I don't know.
(laughing)
But I take that back.
That's not true.
So keep in mind
and the weight.
You'll see the weight,
but the weight really isn't a big factor.
- Can you put this in your pocket or your purse?
- Yeah. That is a nice one for these minis.
And these minis are a lot stronger than you would think.
- Right.
- At least this one.
- It lasts a long time.
- That one is.
We would've never accepted that
if it wasn't top of the line.
We love it.
The next point is something known as stall force.
In other words, how much force it takes
to stall the motor out.
This is really important
particularly if you wanna get deep into your muscles.
We've gotten these brand new
and you can push and you can stop 'em with your hand.
None of ours can you stop with your hands.
And we're not weak.
No, but it-
- So he said.
- There is measurements for that.
And actually if you can find the measurements anywhere
from 13 milligrams is what that is.
This one has 20 milligrams of stall for us.
And that's more than adequate we feel to sell 'em.
RPM.
You'll see anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 RPM.
They're variable.
That's more than adequate for the average person.
So keep those points in mind, particularly the stall force.
The last one is not a real big deal
but if you've got a good quality gun,
it's gonna have a timer inside.
Like these are set for 10 minutes to actually turn off.
- Right.
- And then it's a protective mechanism to the gun.
- So it doesn't overheat.
- It doesn't overheat.
But they'll turn right back on.
You can keep going.
If it does actually overheat,
there's a thermal mechanism in there as well.
That's gonna turn it off.
And then you may not be able to turn it on
until it cools down enough
and it closes and you can get it back going.
So it's one of those things
you are not gonna find very easily.
Ours have good thermal protection as well.
So, you know, good luck on that.
- You like our guns.
- Oh, I, yeah, we really do.
It's a fun thing to brag about.
Well, you know.
What the hell, I'm gonna be blunt.
My filter's gone.
- Oh hey.
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