Road Test: Therabody RecoveryAir
Want to avoid sore muscles after exercise? Try squeezing the bejesus out of your legs with these compression boots.
Golly, have you broken both your legs? No, I’ve just finished a workout and slipped into these thigh-length compression boots. Kinky, eh?
Compression boots? Yes: an automatic pump fills a series of internal bladders with air, starting with the feet and working upwards until it’s squeezing the bejesus out of your entire legs. Then the pressure is released and the cycle begins again.
Why? Such “Intermittent Sequential Pneumatic Compression” – only a cynic would suggest Therabody put some big words together to justify the $989 price tag – is said to help prevent sore muscles and stiffness after exercise. All I’ll vouch for is that it feels lovely.
Really? Oh yeah. And all you have to do is sit there. Therabody calls it “passive recovery” and suggests you “work, read or scroll” as part of your post-exercise leg-squeezing regimen. I ate an entire family-size pack of Doritos, but whatever.
$989, theragun.com
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