It used to be called rest, and it was whatever happened between two workouts. Today it is a separate part of the gym, a separate booking and separate revenue — with devices a member knows by name before they walk into your facility.
Most facilities have twenty or so square metres that do nothing — a corner by the exit, space next to the changing room, the corridor to the wellness area. Too small for machines, too short for group classes. That is exactly the space a recovery zone needs.
Members already use these devices. The only question is where. Theragun is one of the few products in a gym that a visitor has probably already held, or at least seen. That changes the job — you don't have to explain what it is for, only make it possible to use it at your facility.
Therabody started with one device, and today covers three areas that are charged for separately in a facility and bought by different people.
Theragun, JetBoots, Wave rollers, RecoveryTherm and CryoTherm, RecoveryPulse sleeves. What goes in the gym, next to the strength zone and after training.
Mask, Mask Glo, TheraFace PRO and Depuffing Wand. What goes in the spa, wellness area and beauty salon — and is bought by an entirely different department.
Massage, heat and light around the eyes, and guided breathing through the app. The part hotels grasp fastest, because their guests arrive tired.
Personal training needs a person. A recovery zone doesn't. A member books a slot, takes a device, does twenty minutes and leaves — and you have charged for space that was a passageway until yesterday.
A cart with three Theragun Prime Plus devices and attachments. The devices are tethered and charge on the cart itself, so there is no hunting for chargers or missing attachments — Therabody calls it a solution that “removes the worry of lost and damaged parts”.
Eight kilograms and 1120 × 600 × 442 mm. It is wheeled to where it is needed and locked when not in use. For gyms that have no floor space for a permanent set-up, or do not want to leave devices unsupervised.
Wireless compression boots. No unit on the floor, no hoses across the walkway, nobody who has to connect anything. The member puts them on unaided.
They come in two versions — Prime and PRO Plus. This is the current line; RecoveryAir is the previous generation, so only the JetBoots name is used on the new site.
In a hotel they work even without a gym: the guest collects them at reception and uses them in the room. It is a service you charge for that takes up not one square metre of the wellness area.
If it is only thought about once the gym is finished, it ends up in a corner with no socket, no light and no reason for anyone to sit there. That is why recovery goes into the floor plan together with the machines — with room temperature, sockets and seating considered.
This is the part of Therabody that gets you talking to someone who has never needed you before. The club buys the Theragun Cart, the spa buys TheraFace. The same supplier, two departments that rarely meet.
In spa and wellness, Therabody works in two ways. With the device, the therapist shortens and intensifies a treatment they already perform by hand — percussive therapy, heat and near-infrared LED in the same device.
The other side is treatments the client does alone: an LED light mask in a quiet room, twenty minutes, without a beautician for every appointment. It is a service that fills slots in the dead hours.
For a beauty salon, TheraFace is an addition to an existing service that needs no new room and no new skills.
The business guest arrives after a flight and meetings, the tourist after a drive. The wellness area offers them a sauna and a pool, but rarely anything for legs and back after travelling.
Therabody is unusually rewarding here because it needs no space: JetBoots and SmartGoggles go to the room, and Theragun to the gym. It is charged by the session or included in a higher-tier package.
The difference between models is not only power but how many therapies the device combines. We send full specifications with the quote.
PRO Plus is the top of the line: percussive therapy, near-infrared LED, vibration, heat, cold and guided breathing. Heat works at 45, 50 and 55 °C, cold at 5, 10 and 15 °C. It has a built-in biometric sensor and five guided routines on the screen, and the battery lasts up to 150 minutes.
Prime Plus is the model that goes in the Theragun Cart — powerful, simple and built to be used by twenty different people a day.
Mini fits in a bag. For sports clubs that travel and for guests who ask for it at reception.
The model in the Theragun Cart. Durable, with fewer menus and less that can go wrong in someone else's hands.
The smallest in the line. For the bag, for away fixtures and for guests who borrow it at reception.
Standard ball, dampener, thumb, wedge and micro-point, plus attachments for heat and vibration.
Instead of compresses and ice — a device that straps to the knee, back or palm and holds a set temperature.
An LED light mask. A treatment the client does alone, in a quiet room, with no staff alongside.
A cold and a warm attachment for morning puffiness. The smallest step into the beauty line and the easiest item to sell at the counter.
Home versions are ordered on request, with delivery and warranty like everything else. The difference from a commercial set-up is not quality but how many hours a day the device runs and whether it has to cope with being used by someone seeing it for the first time.
The devices are the easy part. The harder part is where they will stand, who charges for them and how they are explained to a guest seeing them for the first time.
Devices, warranty and parts through the authorised distributor. Not grey imports, and not a device with no service after a year.
The recovery zone is drawn in together with the machines, with sockets and seating — not afterwards into whatever corner is left.
Reception has to be able to explain the session and demonstrate the device. Without that the service does not sell, however good the equipment.
The same supplier covers Theragun in the gym and TheraFace in the spa, so there is no negotiating twice and no waiting for two deliveries.
Our own technicians, based inland and on the coast.
Machines, flooring and recovery on the same document and with the same installation date.
Send us the floor plan or a photo of the space. After a conversation we put together a quote for the recovery zone, with equipment and price — and a calculation of how many sessions a day that corner can take.
Tell us what kind of facility it is and how much space you have. We put together a set-up for a club, hotel or spa — from a single cart to an entire room.
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