Theragun Elite, $298 (Was $399)
This is Theragun’s high-end model. It’s powerful, durable, and versatile enough for professional athletes, but that doesn’t mean it won’t make your neck and shoulders feel way better after a marathon Xbox session. Massage guns rapidly jiggle your muscles in order to achieve a few benefits. It can redistribute fluid in your fascia in order to prevent your muscles from feeling stiff and inflexible. A good massage gun will also evict lactic acid that builds up in muscles during a workout, reducing soreness that would come on later. The Theragun Elite offers five attachments and runs at five different speeds, so you can make the treatment as tame or intense as you can handle. I personally like to use my message gun with a relatively broad tip to spread out the impact, and I select a medium setting because I’m too much of a wimp to crank it up more than that. The Elite’s triangular shape makes it easy to hold in a variety of orientations and allows inflexible humans (such as myself) to reach spots that may otherwise be out of bounds. This tool is built for long-lasting treatment, so you won’t have to worry about replacing it before you have to replace your actual joints.
