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Speaker 1: Hi, welcome back to Bounce Forward with Me your host

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Speaker 1: TIF Paul, I'd like to acknowledge your traditional custom into

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Speaker 1: the land in which I'm recording this podcast, the world.

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Speaker 2: Under people of the Cooler Nation.

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Speaker 1: I came my respects to Elder's cast, and as president,

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Speaker 1: Jake popped up with a great question. Hey, TIV, wanting

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Speaker 1: to look into some good wearable tech to track my

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Speaker 1: exercise and my training, but I'm not really sure what

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Speaker 1: I need and what is best. What type of wearables

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Speaker 1: do you use and what would you suggest for both

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Speaker 1: someone who's just enjoying their gym sessions compared to like

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Speaker 1: an elite athlete. Now, this is such a great question

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Speaker 1: because there's so many tech options out there and you

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Speaker 1: can get really high tech with it. I love wearing

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Speaker 1: the Apple Watch, but for more serious elite athletes, I'd

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Speaker 1: recommend the Woup band.

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Speaker 2: But let's take a look at both, because.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to really analyze anything that I haven't

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Speaker 1: used or I haven't looked at.

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Speaker 2: There's also the Aura rings, which are really good.

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Speaker 1: My dad uses an Aura ring which tracks your sleep

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Speaker 1: and your recovery and everything, so a ring can be

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Speaker 1: a great option as well. But I really like the

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Speaker 1: Apple heart rate monitor. It's found in the Apple Watch,

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Speaker 1: and you've got the band, which has different functionalities and

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Speaker 1: focus areas. So I thought i'd just compare them a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So the Apple Watch is a smart watch.

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Speaker 1: It includes wide ranges, you know, features beyond tracking, such

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Speaker 1: as notifications, apps, integrations and stuff. So it's very versatile

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Speaker 1: and it's very good for every day where as well

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Speaker 1: as everyday sort of fitness activities. So you're running your

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Speaker 1: indoor cycling, your outdoor cycling, your strength training, your hit sessions.

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Speaker 2: Whereas the Wop band is a.

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Speaker 1: Fitness track of focus specifically on performance optimization. It really

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Speaker 1: does track your sleep as well as your recovery, which

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Speaker 1: the Apple Watch doesn't do. Doesn't really tell you much

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Speaker 1: about your recovery. It does not have a screen or

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Speaker 1: traditional smart watch features. It is literally a band and

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Speaker 1: it's designed to be minimalists and geared entirely towards continual

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Speaker 1: health tracking. Now I really like the Root band as

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Speaker 1: well because of that recovery aspect. You can see how

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Speaker 1: recovered you are and when you're ready to go again

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Speaker 1: with the training. As far as the fitness tracking goes,

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Speaker 1: the Apple Watch has your heart rate monitoring, your activity tracking,

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Speaker 1: your additional features such as ECG app and blood oxygen monitoring,

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Speaker 1: and integrates GPS really well when you're outdoors, which is great.

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Speaker 1: The WOP band has heart rate monitoring, provides twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven heart rate monitoring with a focus on variability

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Speaker 1: your HIV to gauge recovery and readiness for training.

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Speaker 2: So it's a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: And it's also got the activity tracking which is great

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Speaker 1: for looking at impact on the body, calculating strain scores

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Speaker 1: that can help users decide how hard to train based

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Speaker 1: on how well they're rene covered, which is a really

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Speaker 1: great I'll use the word holistic holistic approach again because

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Speaker 1: it is about your mental physical readiness to go again

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Speaker 1: in exercise. The recovery focus is great, so it emphasizes

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Speaker 1: recovery metrics including sleek quality physiological data and optimized performance.

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Speaker 2: And I really love that.

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Speaker 1: It is a little bit different to get used to

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Speaker 1: because the Apple Watch, you know, you've got your full

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Speaker 1: color display and it's all very beautiful. But the WOOP band,

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Speaker 1: it's got no physical display. It is just a band

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Speaker 1: and you get it all the information on your smartphone. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the woop Band also has a longer battery life which

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Speaker 1: I really love, up to five days, which is really cool.

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Speaker 2: So there's no hassles with like charging or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But the main difference is that with the Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: it's just a one time purchase, but with the woop

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Speaker 1: Band it operates on a subscription model, so you've got

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Speaker 1: to be ready for that and to you know, commit

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Speaker 1: to a membership plan. Look, the analytics is really good

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Speaker 1: for the wop Band, but I think it's it's quite

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Speaker 1: elite as far as like a day to day thing,

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Speaker 1: tracking your steps, tracking how many calories you're doing in

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Speaker 1: a workout, you know, just different types of workouts and

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Speaker 1: your heart rate. The Apple Watch is great. I really

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Speaker 1: don't think you need to get more techy than that.

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Speaker 1: If you are looking at training for a marathon or

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Speaker 1: wanting to take your training to a next level, then

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Speaker 1: you do need to look at your recovery. You do

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Speaker 1: need to look at your readiness for the next workout,

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Speaker 1: and that's where the woop Band comes in handy and

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Speaker 1: maybe more suited to your needs because it's about performance

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Speaker 1: and training optimization and that recovery. So it really is

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Speaker 1: depending on your goals and where you're at with your

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Speaker 1: health and fitness journey. But they're two of my favorites

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Speaker 1: and I hope that's helped a little bit. Steph came

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Speaker 1: to me with a great question, Tiff, I've been doing

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Speaker 1: some research and shopping around looking for decent recovery products.

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Speaker 1: I've seen massage guns in kmart and even some red

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Speaker 1: light therapy belts. What would you recommend that's good to

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Speaker 1: use at for home recovery and does it matter if

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Speaker 1: you have a cheaper version of them? Oh, such a

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Speaker 1: great question, because my lord, some of the massage guns

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Speaker 1: can be like one thousand dollars twelve hundred bucks. So

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Speaker 1: the percussive therapy device's massage guns have become very popular

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Speaker 1: for muscle recovery, enhancing performance and reducing pain amongst fitness

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Speaker 1: enthusiasts as well as elite athletes. And there's some key

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Speaker 1: benefits to using one of the massage guns. So it

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Speaker 1: reduces lactic acid build up, which is really great after

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Speaker 1: intense physical activity. It breaks down the accumulated lactic acid

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Speaker 1: in the muscles, which can bring about that soreness and

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Speaker 1: that stiffness if not a So they're really helpful in

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Speaker 1: that respect. It increases lymphatic circulation and increases blood flow,

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Speaker 1: and you really want to look at circulation because the

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Speaker 1: vibrations and the pulsations from the massage gun can really

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Speaker 1: target areas to enhance that blood flow and deliver oxygen

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Speaker 1: and nutrients needed for muscle recovery, and that reduces inflammation

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Speaker 1: and therefore reduces the delayed onset muscle soreness. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to get the stiffness and the domes the delayed

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Speaker 1: muscle soreness, so using something like a therapy gun and

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Speaker 1: massage gun will help stop that and break down the

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Speaker 1: muscle tissues and help you feel a lot better and

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Speaker 1: less stiff. And it also can improve range of motion,

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Speaker 1: so it can give you better flexibility and help those

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Speaker 1: and scar tissue, and they can be really helpful for

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Speaker 1: improving flexibility, which is great as well as what my

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Speaker 1: husband uses it for to alleviate stress and tension.

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Speaker 2: It's relaxing the rhythmic hammering.

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Speaker 1: You can put it like on your traps and in

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Speaker 1: your neck and it acts as a deep tissue massage

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Speaker 1: which is really therapeutic and relaxing and helps with overall

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Speaker 1: body stress. And you know, you really elite athletes use

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Speaker 1: it a lot to prevent injury, so it's part of

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Speaker 1: their warm up routine. It really reduces injury by increasing

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Speaker 1: that elastacity in muscles and really making sure you stimulate

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Speaker 1: the muscles before and warm them up before you train.

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Speaker 1: It's portable, it's convenient, and you know, some of them

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Speaker 1: are cost effective. I wouldn't mind getting a cheaper one, honestly,

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Speaker 1: they're so good now. Back in the day they were

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Speaker 1: super expensive and there were no cheap alternatives. But now

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Speaker 1: I reckon that it doesn't matter which ones you get,

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Speaker 1: a cheaper alternative will work just as well. You also

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Speaker 1: asked about red light therapy belts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great.

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Speaker 1: They're just like having a bit of a sawn on

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Speaker 1: your tummy or wherever you want to put the belt.

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Speaker 1: Red light does help with muscle soreness as well with recovery,

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Speaker 1: detoxing the skin a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I think they're great.

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Speaker 1: I would give them a go as far as the

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Speaker 1: essentials for home recovery, Like if you needed a home

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Speaker 1: recovery kit, I would just go a pham roller. Old school,

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Speaker 1: but works so well, a massage gun. Absolutely go for

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Speaker 1: the cheapest. It doesn't have to be elaborate. And some

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Speaker 1: tennis balls for some trigger point therapy are really the

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Speaker 1: easiest things you can do for a home recovery kit,

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Speaker 1: and it would cost you under fifty bucks and that's

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Speaker 2: So Steph, don't go decadent.

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Speaker 1: Don't waste your money on the best of the best

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Speaker 1: recovery tools because honestly, it can be a five dollar

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Speaker 1: pham roller from Kmart and it will work just as

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Speaker 1: well as a thousand dollar a therapy gun point therapy.

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Speaker 1: You know, you get these knots in your muscles, they

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Speaker 1: can be really painful, and if you get the right

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Speaker 1: spot with a tennis ball and work into it, oh

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Speaker 1: the release is so sweet. And you need to stay

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Speaker 1: really hydrated because the muscle can release a lot of

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Speaker 1: toxins when you get into that trigger point. All you

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Speaker 1: need to do is for thirty seconds on thirty seconds off,

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Speaker 1: just roll yourself on the ball. So maybe you're working

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Speaker 1: into your glute, so you just roll over the glute

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Speaker 1: the area that you want to release, or maybe it's

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Speaker 1: your shoulder, So I'd lie down on a tennis ball

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Speaker 1: and roll against that, or sometimes you can get the

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Speaker 1: tennis ball and put it against a wall and roll

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Speaker 1: against the wall to release the trigger point, and your

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Speaker 1: body is amazing. It's made up of all these trigger

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Speaker 1: points that can really make you feel quite unwell if

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Speaker 1: you have severe muscle soreness. So working into those trigger

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Speaker 1: points can really help alleviate stress and tension as well

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Speaker 1: as make you feel amazing because they release the toxins

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Speaker 1: that that muscle's holding on to so hard. Thanks so

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