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29 people found this helpful
Problems with your neck or back? Try this thing. I'd swear by it.
By Harlan Kanoa Sheppard on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2016
I've struggled with an injury from a cervical whiplash. For a long time. I've been in and out of physical therapy, had an anesthesiologist stab me in the spine with needles a bunch of times and taken enough pills that they could be piled high on a dinner plate. Mmmm. Painkillers and NSAIDs. It's what's for dinner. To understand not what this does by why it has worked for me, it takes a little bit of examining what it does. This is a flexible flat bar. You cause it to oscillate by inputting energy into it, causing it to wiggle around (like that Shake Weight thing, but with less lewd gestures). The amount of effort that you put in is directly proportional to how much of a workout you get. If you stop wiggling it around, there's not much of a penalty to it. Why is this important to me? One unfortunate side effect of an injury to the neck is that one or both of your hands might spontaneously rebel against you during the day. This is tragic if you're in a laboratory, carrying some glassware or a thousand dollar microscope at the time. This is outright dangerous if you are trying to lift weights or anything where you're investing lots of energy into a system. If you're holding on to a rubber band under tension, it could snap out of your hand. If you're holding those weights? They could drop on you. The beauty of this is its simplicity and its scalability. I mean sure, you could accidentally whack someone with one of the ends of break a pane glass window if you lost control, but it's considerably less dangerous than other things I've tried. If you start to get weak, there's no penalty for it. If you start to get tired, it'll wiggle less and it's more difficult to overdo it. I've been told by nice people whose names end in M.D. that I'll deal with pain for the rest of my days. It's much more tolerable if you can maintain some semblance of the strength and ability that your body once had. For me, the Bodyblade has been a wonderful step in the right direction. Added bonus, I found this in my Physical Therapists office. It had survived use in a commercial setting for or four years and still looked like brand new. I'm pretty sure it'll last a lifetime.
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22 people found this helpful
In my opinon, not a total body workout. But where useful, very effective.
By waterdog on Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016
Use the body blade for shoulder therapy and it works great. Even love to use it for triceps work outs as well. The DVD that came with it (and part of the high cost) was too warped to paly in DVD player so had to send the entire kit; blade, poster, DVD, to get DVD replaced. Same issue with the 2nd DVD. It looks like the way the blade/DVD are packaged, the edge of the blade lies on across the DVD and over time in storage/shipping, etc... the blade bends the DVD. The Blade itself: They promote the body blade as an overall body work out piece of equipment. I think that's a bit of a stretch. The blade does not really engage your legs or abs to maintain stability. Yes doing squats or sit ups with the body blade does, but so does doing them without it. It is used in my physical therapy location for shoulder exercises and does an excellent job of firing the muscles stabilizing your rotator cuff. Also does a good job with getting your triceps to burn, more than any other exercise I've tried. The bicep exercises did not do much for me. Bottom line: If your looking for a total body workout from this, It's a reach and would not get it. I bought it specifically for shoulder PT exercises my physical therapist, and shoulder guru, had me doing. For this I would recommend it (and triceps exercises) but look to see if there's anything cheaper than this first.
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