What training tools do you use?

For older folks like me and Cheung, there's the massage gun that's really helpful for faster muscle recovery. It's used by many pro tennis players. This pic is one of them, but one can get less expensive ones on Amazon.


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Badminton players still use it nowadays. I often see it on Instagram's athletes posts.

 

There's a video on youtube titled "380LBS STRONGMAN DOES BACKFLIP", where the world's strongest man of 2017 Eddie Hall, shows how he uses a manual portable car wash machine thing for massages.. at 5min 30sec in. Eddie Hall's attire is a woman's gymnastics outfit of some sort so i've blacked it out. And I don't know why they can't use it on themselves rather than each other particularly if just demonstrating it.. He is serious re the car wash thing though..






Also, Firas Zahabi(guy on youtube that runs an MMA gym and gives lots of coaching tips to people and analysis of MMA fights), he advertises the Tim Tam, and is fairly ethical so I think he believes in it too. Similar concept.

That video mentions some advantages of a massage gun. Firas says he's given them to Olympians.

There are cheap massage guns on amazon, as visor mentioned.

 

you say for older folks

They are not exactly older folks.

You made a great post re massage guns, and cheap ones on amazon.. though I differ with you on the 'older folks' part.

And probably most people using them are athletes that aren't old.

Firas explains that it's helpful for quickening muscle recovery time between one workout and another.

So for example Firas Zahabi gets guys to try them in his MMA gym. And he has also used them on Olympic level athletes. It's good to look at other sports when it comes to fitness, 'cos other sports are way ahead of badminton people when it comes to fitness and strength and muscles.