Falling in love with the new trigger point therapy balls

I don’t recommend products often

I’d say I’m a “get off the beaten track” type. Most ubiquitous signals like pop culture fly past my radar unnoticed. Add a decade living away from home (Australia) and a personality interested in making more than consuming. The result =>

• I don’t own a lot of physical stuff.
• I usually stick to essentials so I can pack my bags at any moment.
• Its rare for me to love things I buy.
• Rarer still to enjoy a purchase beyond a couple of years.

So kudos to the brains behind www.tptherapy.com. While everyone else seems to screw up initial success, I can’t think of another product reimagination that totally exceeded expectations.

How could they get any better?

I already loved the old balls so much, that at first glance, I felt defensive! After all, why would they fix what’s not broken?

But I’m always up for trying new things and once I got my hands on one, it didn’t take long to realize I’d mistakenly judged a ball by its cover.

TPT Balls + Rollers range

I have doubles of everything TPT have released. Unlike this pic, these guys are usually scrambled in different rooms through my place for quick’n’easy access. I probably spend an hour plus, daily with one or the other.

Generally speaking, the green balls are harder than a tennis ball, and the red ones are much harder than the green.

Here is the old and new side by side in both:

The plasticky appearance next to the original elegant stitching made me wonder if the new were a TriggerTheropy-X market play.

One of my favorite features had been thrown out the door. The irregular shape allowed the pointed side to apply focused elbow-like pressure with ease.

Sold after day 1

I don’t know how they did it. How much science can really go into tennis ball sized spheres? After a few hours I was in heaven 😂👌

A closer look can see some great engineering going on. Paying attention and feeling the different colors, reveals different materials of differing density that can achieve even greater force that the feature I thought I could not live without.

Even a bigger game changer is the high friction surface. Enabling far smoother and controlled transitions as you roll out knots and tightness.

I might be sounding like a nutter. Perhaps I’ll share another time soon why these guys play a huge role in my daily routine. Even without my more extreme circumstances, most typing at a computer all day would build tension in the same areas.

The evolved design enables traversing the tendons up high across the top of the shoulders where things get really tight if you squint at your screen with shoulders raised closer to your ears vs dropped when you sit back and relax.

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I highly recommend and still love both makes. If you are curious, recommend this post and email me your shipping address. I’d be happy to Amazon Prime one your way out of my own pocket.