No one will ever convince me that the shake weight is anything other than an inside joke about cranking a hog that spiraled wildly out of control into a successful product.
So scientific trails don't count? Believe me I was thinking the same but the scince doesn't match. Ive linked scientific trails above...now you don't have to believe them but find a trail that proves it does nothing...ive not found one.
Fun fact: the neck slimmer can actually be very useful, but not for slimming necks. I’ve used it to help improve epiglottic inversion on patients with swallowing difficulties. It mimics an exercise we perform called the shaker maneuver, but the neck slimmer allows us to add resistance to it.
I was already working in gyms and training college and junior and pro hockey players in the off season. I don’t know what I found more annoying, fitness infomercials or today’s fitness influencers. Nope - it’s the influencers.’
The shake weight was 2009. I know because my father bought one despite my protest. I now keep it in an acrylic case in my gym as a shrine to stupidity.
I disagree that the Shake weight doesn't do anything. There are so many dudes with asymmetrical arms from masturbation, it's even a joke in Family Guy. I became an ambidextrous masturbator for this reason myself.
The body blade and the jawsercise idea (post jaw surgery) are rehab tools that marketers decided would be good for the general healthy population. Like the little resistance bands used in PT, they aren't for overall fitness.
I like my jawsercise I feel it's beneficial my thought process is food is to easy to chew nowadays that's what sold me on the idea although I eat plenty of meat sometimes I only eat ground so although mike is funny he really didn't even give it a chance or use it properly especially since the one he had should have been heated and fitted
why do you feel the need to strengthen your jaw muscles? i believe you technically can but theres little to no point. since spot fat reduction doesnt work its not going to make a jawline more visible either@@user-uq5gb5ro8t
@@user-uq5gb5ro8t Not necessarily disagreeing, but I think the majority of people would be better off with a very tough sugar free gum. I buy Falim gum myself, but any sort of mastic gum should be fine.
My therapist had the body blade for my torn rotator cuff. I picked one up for $20. It actually does work to warm up your joints pretty well. I get a quick burn in my shoulders. But it is the full size, not the mini that Mike used
Just pop a few almonds or walnuts in throughout your day. Or if you want less fat just eat an apple or a raw carrot. Get your jaw exercise AND vitamins at the same time.
I found an old 6 seconds abs machine in my grand-parents' house when I was about 10 y old. 10 reps made my abs strong enough to break the machine. Best abs workout of my life.
My grandparents had this one machine that you pressed AGAINST your abs, so you had ton really tense your abs. It looked like a a weird plane there was also some sit-up aide that was just a plastic seat thing. I DO however have a ab roller with a spring in it that really works, makes abs burn. I'm to weak to use a regular one
I bought one of the electrified ab belt things when I was like a freshman in high school, so probably 2001 or so. This one you had to apply a gel to the reverse side (to prevent electrical burns lol) and then you strapped it on against bare skin. It definitely caused mild involuntary contractions (more like spasms) but also shocked the shit out of you even with the gel. I ended up throwing it out, not because it didn't get me a 6 pack (it didn't), but because using it was terrifying and painful.
Yea that thing was INTENSE, and you could have up to 4 individual zappers on the same belt. The first jolt always 10x more powerful so you sweated hard bracing for the jumped every time you had to start it up..
When I was in school to become a physiotherapist I went to an internship in a hospital where they used something like the bodyblade to improve balance in elderly patients with Parkinson's or who were rehabbing from strokes. I made makeshift sandbag by rolling up ankle weights and had them throwing them around. They enjoyed it a lot more and their balance metric improved greatly.
@@jerediahgonzalez2315 Brother, what let they did you do? L-Sit-Cruzifix rotations with a stick or body blade is something I do for my Boxers to fix posture and rotator cuffs. But I guess when your rotators are already injured not the best idea.
Mike should react to old supplement ads. Like those old muscle tech ones which guaranteed 1,000,000% testosterone. Or even to see how golden/silver era practices and recommendations hold up today
So disappointed Mike didn’t reference the South Park episode, “Crème Fraîche,” that centered around Sharon Marsh getting the most out of her Shake Weight.😂
I remember at that time a lot of people implicitly trusted whatever was being shown to them on the TV and there weren't the easily accessible sources of information we have today to counter the crap or to give people good fundamentals. (Without getting a trainer, going to school, finding the right book, getting a gym membership, whatever) So when someone came along and looked healthy and successful, showed their fake clients looking healthy and successful, and selling an easy solution that cost a few bucks and promised to solve your problem without any effort from yourself, people ate it up.
Similar to RU-vid influencers now, most don’t know much more than you could learn on a few hours google, take hormones, looks decent, build a fan base of fanboys, profit
People are always going to want maximum results with minimal effort. Thus, I don't see this ever going away (as HKFinn wrote, the newest iteration is influencers)
I’ve learned so much foundational in-depth knowledge from this channel and yet… This is by far one of my favorite videos. Just look at his face! Dr. Mike looks happier than a kid on Christmas morning as he receives these gifts and debunks all this nonsense. It warms my heart the exact same way as when my nephew opening up presents on Christmas morning 🥰
The bodyblade (or something like it) actually is used as a rehab device. It was part of my shoulder rehab when i had a very minor partial tear. Along with bands, light weights, cables. And my name on s wall with i miniature heavy skate 12 weeks later and my shoulde was recovered.
I was hoping to see the gazelle. My dad was obsessed with those commercials and bought one. It was so fun as a kid to swing around on, and my dad used it maybe one time. My sister in law has one now.
I didn't realize the shake weight was that old, it had a resurgence around 2010. I was hoping to see the EZ-Crunch make an appearance; it was similar to the 6 second abs, but it used giant rubber bands so you could actually adjust the resistance.
I got one from mine for my shoulder, and it was like $130. I found it helped doing overhead in one arm for my overhead mobility, but it’s kind of just like stretching or doing hangs. There are probably other movements I could have done for free that would have had the same results or better
For people who have shoulder surgery it’s a good way to get them moving again. I use to play baseball and they were apart of a lot of pitchers warmup routines as well
Used it to rehab my shoulders after both rotator cuff surgeries. Not in any way the promo video shows, but it has some good value with the shoulder stabilizers which need high rep low resistance to strengthen.
Oscillating with the body blade allows you to co-contract all 4 of your rotator cuff muscles. It's actually a good tool for post-op shoulder patients, especially those who do a lot of overhead activity.
The body blade helped me after shoulder surgery. It didn’t make me jacked but it did make my shoulder feel more stable and is a great warm up. Maybe it’s all mental but it worked for me.
My physical therapist told me anything that gets adequate blood flow in my shoulder area is all I need to start my workouts so aside from the strengthening workouts he has me do, it seems like it would be perfect. Also my baseball pitchers used something similar in their warmup
Mike the body blade is legit! They still use it for physical therapy - improved my shoulder pain and gains under the instruction of a Pt with that a while back
As a physiotherapist I say this; the body blade is pointless bullshit. Most likely all the other modalities you did actually helped your shoulder (even just time spent recovering from the injury)
Jawzrsize really helped me because before the age of 13 I ended up having my jaw shattered and titanium plates put in my jaw and I babied the left side for so long yet still was able to build muscle to the point that they couldn't take the plates out when I turned 18 and several years later I came across his video post motorcycle accident and it really really helped me out but it's not for everybody. It gave me the opportunity to be able to bite into an apple without paying it also gave me the ability to yawn without struggle because imagine yawning and your mouth having to have close itself which gets rid of the on and then it comes back and you are in a never-ending cycle of trying to finish it because you can't open your mouth up far enough and the muscles were atrophied enough that it would instinctively clamp down halfway through the range of motion
OH WAIT this is genius! I haven’t chewed on my left side in almost a decade and I’m really feeling the consequences. I make an effort to switch sides but I HATE IT
Yea, my one therapy center was using a very long body blade for therapy. It was for helping my shoulder become more coordinated since it had been injured.
"Vibration and inertia: nope, neither one of those are forces. ... This is perfect bullshit." Thanks, Dr. Mike for the chuckle and an entertaining walk down memory lane. I remember those commercials. 😊
I saw a neat article years ago that showed how the shakeweight has been re-invented multiple times in history as a health device. I guess people really just do like shaking.
LOL, Amazing! Let's get the modern one next; with the stepper, the "prison" version of Sandow's squeezable dumbbell, the new 6 pack electric shock trainers with the "secret navy seal" technology, the iron chest master, and some kind of bar with band attachments.
I SWEAR that Shakeweight has been on the back table of this backdrop for forever, finally decided to use it. I'd imagine a LOT of the sales for Shakeweight is for gag gifts. They also didn't play my favorite part of the "Neckline Slimmer" product...it's a "spot reduction" tool for ladies with "turkey neck", truth. Find the infomercial...it was one of my favorites.
The thing about the 90's, people were super busy and always in a hurry. They needed to workout anywhere and everywhere and workouts needed to be quick. And also, springs!
What do you mean that the shake weight has no progressive element? You just shake it harder and harder. You can even count the number of reps/sec to have an objective measure of progression. Which exercises your brain, too! Also, it trains you to homogenize just-peanuts peanut butter or quarts of paint (as an alternative to stirring).
Had the thigh master and the vibro belt back in my (lazy) attempts to lose weight and get fit.The thigh master I thought worked (copium from actually moving) but all the vibro belt did was shock me repeatedly.
That jaw thing is probably horrible for your teeth. I'd appreciate a review of the under the desk cycle, the sciatic nerve anklet thing, and the teeter fitspine.
My moms 6 second abs got me into bodybuilding, because I got my first bicep pump following the dvd while she was at work. I can only rate it as my favourite tool ever.
God I love Dr. Mike I just smile and laugh every damn time and I’m getting great information for the most part , this video being maybe the only exception
Oh man I was with this girl a long time ago and we saw a shake weight commercial on tv. I said "who the hell would be dumb enough to buy that shit?" and she told me that her mom had one. I immediately kms.
That "Vibro Shape" belt looks like a newer version of the famous Walton Belt machine. You know, that one that jiggled your belly fat around and was popular in the 1950s-1960s, even though it did nothing.
Recently, I was forced to use a pen for 5 or 6 hours, and I had fucking DOMS for 3 days. I'm a climber. I can dead hang for multiple minutes off of a 5mm grip with 20kgs of gear in a rucksack, and writing with a pen gave me pretty severe DOMS in my hand and forearm 😅 So, to everyone that complains about their ergonomic keyboards, try a pen for a day, then give that keyboard some sloppy apology lovin'
On a vibroshake note, driving horrible roads in Kyrgyzstan did not make us thinner. But it did make every Apple Watch think we were getting 8K steps a day - while just sitting in a vehicle.
My most fond memory from the 90's commercials are "The Sauna Belt" - which is kinda like a hot electric WWE-belt that you put around your waist to get rid of the subcutis fat and those damned lovhandles.
Something that happens with a lot of as seen on TV products is that they're actually a way for manufacturers making products for people with specific needs to leverage the economies of scale by selling to a wider market while being of dubious utility to the able bodied. By far the largest portion of these are kitchen gadgets where a lot of them are designed around weak grips, poor motor function, etc;
I'm pretty sure I once saw Robin Williams make fun of the Vibro Shape machine on one of his live comedy shows: "I'm getting six-pack abs by knocking my testicles around!"
Lets not forget that vibrating workout machines have been around since the 60s. There were machines that had a belt that would just shake your waist while you stood there.
Mike. I'm laying on my living room carpet and i'm unable to move. I want to thank you for giving me some inspiration to do my leg day correctly. I also have to go and buy a car with an automatic transmission, because i'm physically unable to press the clutch after my leg workout.
