Gear Lab: How to Use a Theragun

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Theragun trainer Chris Howell demonstrates how to utilize the Theragun Liv and G3Pro pre- and post-workout on senior editor Brittany Smith.

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00:00My name is Chris Hau.

00:09I'm a Theragun trainer.

00:11Today we're going to talk about some of the benefits of percussion therapy.

00:14Brittany, so this is the Theragun G3 Pro percussion therapy device.

00:18We have the power button and then we have the two speeds.

00:21And so you turn it on, it's going to be the lowest speed first.

00:24So you can try this, Brittany.

00:26Yeah, it's soft, right?

00:28And now we're going to go into the next speed.

00:30Try that.

00:32That's percussion therapy right there.

00:35So for a workout, we always like to recommend pre-workout.

00:39You just want to hit those 30 seconds on those muscle groups and that just kind of wakes

00:43you up.

00:44Now, anything north of two minutes, that'll start to say to your brain, hey, you know,

00:49we're relaxing.

00:50That's going to be downregulating your system.

00:51So we're going to be doing a post-workout recovery, starting off with Brittany's upper

00:57back and then working all the way down to her feet.

01:00So we'll start up here.

01:01So I'm going to be using the second speed.

01:05I'm just letting it float on her.

01:07I'm not pushing down.

01:09The post-workout, when you're spending all that time on those big muscle groups, you're

01:13going to draw the blood in and those nutrients to start the repair, the muscle building process

01:18to maximize that recovery process.

01:21And we're just going to be going down both sides, right next to her spine.

01:25And then we're going to go down the side of her glute here and then her hamstring.

01:29We're going down to the calves here now, and this is like one of my favorite spots up next

01:35is like the bottoms of the feet.

01:40When you're applying the G3 Pro or Theragun to someone else, you don't know how hard you're

01:45actually pushing.

01:46But the best thing is if they're like, hey, I don't feel anything or that started to help,

01:50but really didn't, let them do it.

01:56All right, so, yep, move it up the side of your leg.

01:59Yep, and you know your body best.

02:02So you come down, you want to spend a little bit more time in different areas, feel free

02:06to stop at that point, go once or two over, and then move on to the front of your quad,

02:11your leg.

02:12Cool.

02:13Now take it with your right hand and let's go up to your shoulder, yep, and get that

02:19chest and then move into your shoulder, front of your shoulder, the side of your shoulder.

02:24And then at this point, we would just switch hands and then we would do the same thing

02:27on the other side.

02:28Feels so nice.

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