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This Muscle Massage Tool Makes Recovery Easier Than Ever

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I ran sprints in college. I was mediocre in every facet except for getting injured, in which I was spectacular. I spent most of the time recovering from one injury or another. Like a (strange) amount of other sprinters, I’m bow-legged and my feet point out when I walk like I’m an especially waddle-y duck. So I’ve been beset by shin issues my entire life—ranging from nagging months-long dull pain to contusions and strains so sharp I could barely walk.

I’ve tried massages, acupuncture, ice, and a lot of stretching. My body had decided long ago that it did not want to be "elite," but I was determined to wring the towel as hard as I could on whatever was left. I found a janky massage device on Amazon, something that looked like someone had taken a chunk out of a massage chair and slapped a handle on the back of it. It was ugly, but it worked: I loosened up my muscles, brought some blood flow to the area, and, combined with a lot of ice and stretching, I was back in action sooner than I had been before. It was easy and I could do it at home at night, which meant I was 10 times more likely to stay consistent with it.

A few years later, I discovered the Hyperice Hypervolt. Like all of the other Hyperice products, takes a core physical training concept, improves it, and makes the product look 10 times more attractive than the other medically-inspired equipment out there. They’ve got shoulder slings that work better than ice packs, and back wraps that work better than regular heating pads. And they’re good enough for guys like Russell Westbrook and LeBron James, who each put so much pressure on their knees every night that mine would probably just explode if they were subjected to the same thing.

But of all their products, the Hypervolt is the best. It’s a massage tool, but one so powerful and easy to use that you don’t need a trainer to make use of it. It’s wireless, but puts out a just-shy-of-unbearable amount of power at its highest setting, making it easy to dig deep and stay there. It’s hard to apply pressure on your own body, but the HyperVolt is so powerful it barely requires anything out of you at all. Keep it in one spot, and you’ll feel a surge of vibrations doing work on your muscles.

One of the cruel realities of staying active after your early 20s is that you can get serious injuries while playing sports at a very non-serious level. If you’re constantly shaking off some back stiffness or suffer a micro-tear after hoofing it too hard on the local track, the HyperVolt is worth every single penny. Even if you just like a back massage every here and then, it delivers relaxation just as well as it delivers rejuvenation. Plus, it’s quiet compared to other massagers, which sound like jackhammers hitting a pillow.

There are four tools for different massage types. Each will compel your dumbest friend to make a vibrator joke. (What do people think vibrators even look like?) But when I have a group of pals over, it’s almost inevitable that it’ll end up with everyone trying to work out a kink somewhere in their body with the HyperVolt. It’s just that good.