I often get sent free products from various trainers and companies that want me to check their stuff out and give it an endorsement. Usually I pass, but this has been sitting on my shelf for a few months and I figured it deserved a closer look.
This is the Arm Shaper from Dynaflex Pro.
Coach Rylan
hilarious!
LOL — I just looked at their website and they say “Fitness and Fun in the palm of your hand”.
Yet another piece of crap to clutter our closets! That said, do you think it would have any benefits for recurring tennis elbow? I’m told it’s actually a wrist injury, very hard to eliminate. Seems the stretching and exercises prescribed for it just make it worse. What do you think, Rylan?
Hey Shelly,
Actually, this would be one of those instances where this gadget would be useful. Tennis elbow (or Lateral Epicondylitis) is basically an injury that happens by one of the muscles that extends your wrist (bends it backwards) rubbing against the outer bone of your forearm near the elbow. By strengthening these muscles what happens is that your backhand doesn’t ‘punish’ that muscle into fatigue. The stronger your wrist extensor muscles are, the more resilient you are to tennis elbow. And because the Arm Shaper works all of those forearm muscles really well (just not the upper arm muscles – as I mentioned) then it would be a great tool for you.
Coach