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Now's a good time to make sure you have the best tools for muscle recovery in your arsenal, whether you're returning to a fitness center after the easing of pandemic restrictions or investing in home exercise equipment, online classes or fitness subscriptions. To achieve true workout recovery and achieve your fitness goals, you'll need a blend of nutrition and physical manipulation, but you can also take advantage of high-tech recovery tools meant to minimize muscle soreness (including the hard-to-resist CBD-infused activewear). If you're looking for a workout tool with science on its side to soothe aching muscles, consider a massage gun.
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A massager gun uses the force of percussive therapy -- also known as vibration therapy -- to manipulate your body's soft tissue. They're essentially backed by the same extensive scientific research that supports massage therapy as the optimal tool for treating a sore muscle after a workout. Everyone from recreational gym-goers to professional athletes and people with chronic pain -- they all love percussion therapy from these powerful massagers for many reasons.
Percussive therapy is said to help muscles recover faster while reducing muscle pain, muscle fatigue and lactic acid buildup. They can also help prevent delayed onset muscle soreness. A percussion gun allows you to focus on a certain muscle group or muscle knots for immediate pain relief. They can also improve your range of motion and flexibility, encourage blood flow, help with muscle stiffness and more. Percussive therapy may even help with stress and sleep. Also, not that you should invest in a muscle massage gun for this reason alone, but the slow-motion videos of massage guns punching muscles look insanely Insta-worthy. Just be careful with using a massager gun if you have any injuries beyond a muscle ache from a tough workout.
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We've tested over 30 massage guns at this point and the following six are CNET's picks for the best massage gun options in 2021 for muscle recovery and pain relief. We'll continue to update this list.
The Theragun Prime is part of the fourth generation of Theragun massage guns. Its prior equivalent was the Theragun Liv, which used to be in this list of best massage guns, and is also reviewed in-depth here.
The Theragun Prime's main impressive feature is that it's much quieter than its now-defunct counterpart. In fact, the Prime rivals the famously quiet Hypervolt Plus in terms of volume level -- that's a massive improvement from the Liv.
The improvements don't stop there, though: Where the Theragun Liv only had two preprogrammed speeds and came with two closed-cell foam attachments, the new Theragun Prime has five built-in speeds (from 1,750 rpm to 2,400 rpm) and comes with five closed-cell foam attachments.
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At $19, the Theragun Prime is pricey, but doesn't induce sticker shock quite like the Pro G4 (below). It sometimes goes on sale for $19, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
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To me, the improvements make the Theragun Prime seem well worth the price. The competition to the Prime, to me, is the original Hypervolt: These two massage guns have many similar features and hover around the same price range. The choice is yours for the making!.
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