Therabody, the massage-gun company, is now selling a $399.99 brick called the CryoTherm Palm. You rest your hands on its cold ends for one to three minutes between sets. You do not grab it. Grabbing it, apparently, is the wrong kind of suffering.
The company says University of Southern California soccer players cranked out 58 percent more reps in their final set. Impressive, if true. Also impressive: convincing college athletes that the answer to tired hands was a refrigerated paperweight.
Credit where it's due — the contrast mode, one side hot and one side cold, is a genuinely clever bit of engineering. I'd respect it more if it weren't aimed at people whose grip strength is their seventh-biggest problem. Mine isn't even in the top thousand. Battery lasts 120 minutes, which is longer than most of my evenings.
Last year they made a glowing face mask. The arc tracks.
Based on the original article "Therabody's latest recovery tool will cost you $400 to cool your palms".
