First a little history. Hydrotherapy has been around for ages. In fact the therapeutic use of water was used by ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations. Other cultures noted for a long history of hydrotherapy include China and Japan. The Japanese are still enjoying their famous hot springs, and for good reason. Indeed our ancestors knew what we still know today. Hot Water is great for the human body.
As far as Modern History goes... In 1956, the Jacuzzi® brothers invented the first portable hydrotherapy pump, later to be known as J-300, and could turn any bath tub into a spa-like atmosphere at the flip of a switch. Their invention came about because a child in the family was receiving hydrotherapy treatment for arthritis in Berkeley, California which was miles from the child’s home. As you can imagine, the invention of the J-300 saved the family hours of traveling and discomfort.
In the 1960’s, the first home hot tubs started to appear in the form of old wine vats, tanks, and barrels in the wine country of Northern California. Folks would take these old discarded vats and fill them with hot water. Later, in 1968, Roy Jacuzzi invented the modern whirlpool bath he called “the Roman.” It had fully-integrated plumbing, jets, and 50/50 air-to-water ratio bringing the portable hydrotherapy pump to the next stage, and we were on our way to what we know today.
Hydrotherapy is the use of water to treat a disease or to maintain health. The theory behind it is that water has many properties that give it the ability to heal. Chief among them, its ability to carry and store heat and energy. Hot water promotes blood flow and also has a calming, soothing, relaxing effect on people. So let's get you in Hot Water. Here are just a few of the ways hydrotherapy can help in your daily life:
When your body is comfortably warm, you tend to fall asleep quicker and rest through the night with fewer disruptions. We all know that quality sleep is essential to feeling well. Good moods, mental alertness and physical energy are improved by good sleep. A little time in the Hot Tub before bed will warm you right up and help you drift right off.
At Brady's, we've been committed to Hot Tubbing for over three decades. It is our experience that hot water, massaging jets, the feeling of weightlessness, absorbing led lights and the pleasant sound of water really help you to chill out. It's absolutely amazing what a few minutes in your Jacuzzi® from Brady's can do for your attitude.
Lactic acid is what causes much of the soreness you feel after exercise and sports. By soaking in a Hot Tub your body will experience increased blood circulation, helping to do away with built up lactic acid. Your muscles and joints will feel less sore and stiff and more flexible. So you're not as sore from today, and ready to go again tomorrow.
It has been noted that people with knee injuries that consistently use Spas and Hot Tubs experience less pain and recover faster than those that don't use hot tubs. How does improved range of motion in less time, and using less pain medication sound? According to a recent study hot tubbing helps in both areas.
Several published medical studies have demonstrated that hot tub therapy has both short and long-term benefits for people with lower back pain. Neck, upper back and shoulders benefit too.
According to a publication from The Arthritis Foundation entitled Spas, Pools, and Arthritis. “Regular sessions in your hot tub help keep joints moving. It restores and preserves strength and flexibility, and also protects your joints from further damage." I don't know about you, but that sounds great to me. I'd like to keep moving freely for a long time to come.
That's science and medicine. Now when you first dip a toe into your Hot Tub, walk down the stairs as the steam rises to great you, then immerse yourself in the hot, relaxing water—you start to feel what hydrotherapy is really all about. Seriously, there is nothing like total body immersion. A hot shower is great, but doesn't even come close.
After a day of skiing, mountain biking, horseback riding, after the softball or hockey game, (before the game to loosen up is great too) your body and mind will start to unwind. Not only does warm water therapy help your blood vessels dilate, promoting increased blood flow and preventing soreness and stiffness as we mentioned above—it feels absolutely wonderful. All over. Say it slowly, "All over."
There's another benefit to owning a hot tub too, a communal one. Busy lives, busy schedules... We don't always have enough quality time, so we have to make the most of it when we do. A soak in a hot tub with family and friends offers a time to slow down and enjoy each other's company. Great conversation or silence for that matter; submerged in comforting, hot water. I'm in!
Come into Brady's in Idaho Falls, (still serving Pocatello) or Twin Falls and see our enormous selection of today's most advanced Hot Tubs from Jacuzzi®. No other hot tub brand provides better hydrotherapy, offers a longer warranty or is easier to maintain. We have Jacuzzi® starting at just $6999. Click here to see the entire Jacuzzi® lineup. Give us a call at 208-522-6763 if you have any questions. We're open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed Sunday and Monday.
Let Brady's get you into Hot Water.
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Think about the health benefits you would enjoy from a daily, low impact workout, then a hydrotherapy massage all from your Brady’s Swim Spa. Increasing blood flow to heal past injuries and lowering cardiovascular stress while Swimming, rowing, Pilates, running and more in your own clean, temperate water.
Imagine your convenient escape from the day to day pressures – relaxing, building muscle and improving the quality of your life all year-round—at home. Music? Sure. Just the sound of you and the water? Why not. Re-energizing your body and treating your soul. All this and more can be yours with a Brady’s Swim Spa.
As with all the products at Brady’s, we carry the finest swim spas available, Jacuzzi® and Vita Swim Spas. Catalina Spas introduced the first Swim Spa in 1980 and continues to innovate in the Swim Spa industry. With many models to choose, you’ll be able to get the features, size and price to fit your family and space.
Swimming has long been known as the ultimate zero-impact exercise and is widely prescribed by physicians to shape, tone, and rehabilitate the body. Why not take advantage of this great workout year-round with a low-maintenance Swim Spa by Jacuzzi® or Vita Swim Spa from Brady's. Add in the Super Swim Pole (see video) or Exercise equipment to give yourself the total fitness package.
The
benefits of swimming are well known. Aerobic, low impact, easy on the joints, enjoyed by
young and old alike. Athletes have for years utilized swimming to aid
in injury recovery, to stay strong and to maintain fitness. Let’s
briefly look at some other benefits of swimming courtesy of
LifeHack.org's Sarah
Hansen.
(Full article here)
Swimmers gain muscle strength throughout the entire body. It’s a total body workout.
Rats were put in three groups: running, swimming, and a control group with no exercise stimulation. While running still showed the highest increase in Bone Mineral Density, the swimming group also showed benefits over the control group in both BMD and femoral bone weight.
Swimming requires you to reach, stretch, twist, and pull your way through the water. Repetitive stretching found in your various strokes also helps with flexibility.
Research also indicates aerobic activities, such as swimming, reduce inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis build-up in the heart.
Did you realize swimming can be just as efficient as running on the treadmill. Depending on the stroke you choose and your intensity, swimming can burn equal or greater calories than running.
Swimming allows you to breath moist air while you train. Not only does swimming help alleviate asthma symptoms, studies have shown that it can actually improve the overall condition of the lungs.
Swimming is calming and meditative, as the sound of your breathing and the water rushing by helps you focus inward and drown out all other distractions. This lowers stress and depression naturally.
Exercise is great for the mind, but can swimming actually make you smarter? Research from Australia focused on kids who took swimming lessons compared to a control group of non-swimmers. The results showed that kids who regularly participated in swimming were able to master language development, fine motor skills, confidence, and physical development sooner than the control group.
Researchers at the University of South Carolina looked at 40,547 men, aged 20 to 90, for over 32 years. The results showed that those who swam had a 50 percent lower death rate than runners, walkers, or men who didn’t exercise.
So there you have it. Live a longer, healthier life by incorporating swimming into your fitness efforts. Swimming is great fun and great for you. Swimming at home year-round in a Catalina Swim Spa from Brady’s is the best way to enjoy swimming at your convenience.
Visit our Swim Spa page or Call us now... 208-522-6763. We’d be happy to start working with you to insure you get the most out of your home’s square footage. Contact the Swim Spa experts at Brady’s today. We'll transform your yard or home into a healthy, relaxing oasis in which you'll love spending time. Brady's Idaho Falls, (still serving Pocatello) and Twin Falls.
We want to get you in Hot, Healthy Water.
]]>If you like a good game of billiards, you might want to consider picking up a Presidential Billiards table from Brady’s to play with your friends and family at home. You will definitely enjoy your spaces more with a high-quality table in your home. The money you spend on a quality table may actually help you save money on entertainment. Once your family can play entertaining games at home, you may find that you prefer fun nights in, over expensive nights out.
A billiards table, can also help family members of all ages improve their physical and mental health in addition to providing economical, family-friendly entertainment. Read on to learn how a billiard table from Brady’s can benefit your family's health.
If you're like most adults, you've told yourself that you should exercise more, but you've grown tired of going to the gym or finding it difficult to keep to a workout plan because of your crazy schedule. Now this is cool—If you play billiards on a regular basis, you may not realize that you're actually sneaking in some enjoyable exercise while having fun!
The average player walks around the pool table 100 times during a two-hour game of billiards. The total distance traveled by those 100 trips is approximately three-quarters of a mile. So, if your objective has been to fit a one-mile walk into your daily schedule, know that if you play a game of billiards every day, you are more than halfway there before you even step outdoors or hit your Landice Treadmill from Brady’s.
Billiards also helps you, regardless of age, strengthen your arms, back, and legs, as well as enhance your overall flexibility and balance. While the health benefits of billiards are useful to both adults and kids alike, they are particularly advantageous to the elderly, who often struggle to find healthful activities to participate in. Activities that aren't too strenuous. In fact, if you have a senior relative who suffers from arthritis, asking them to play pool is a terrific approach to assist them receive some good physical activity while avoiding uncomfortable joint stress.
Playing billiards with your family is not only helpful for their physical health, but it may also benefit their mental health. If you have any youngsters in your family who have never learned to play billiards or have merely "played around" on a table a few times, it is a good idea to introduce them to the game. A lifetime game.
While playing billiards, children of all ages can enhance their hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills by having to think long and hard about how to make one of the more difficult shots. Children can even learn about geometry as they plot their shots and observe how the balls bounce off the walls. Younger adults, too, need to engage their brains on a regular basis, and research has shown that learning new things as an adult can help prevent cognitive decline later in life. If you have already mastered one billiards game, such as the famous Eight-ball, start learning new games like Nine-ball or One-pocket after you acquire your pool table from Brady’s, and you will immediately realize how mastering a new game may improve your mental sharpness.
Shop our selection of Presidential Billiard tables online at www.BradysBunch.com/billiards/presidential-billiards or come into our showrooms in Idaho Falls and Twin Falls. Talk to us about your choice of felt, accessories and white glove set-up and delivery. Only the best Billiard Tables and Games in the world available at Brady’s, where we service what we sell. Come see us and discover all the benefits of Billiards at home.
]]>The arrival of fall brings with it “Prime Time” for some of our most popular products at Brady’s in Idaho Falls, (Pocatello, a short drive) and Twin Falls. Make the most of cooler temperatures and increased indoor time. Hot Tubs, Swim Spas, Jacuzzi® Infrared Saunas, Exercise Equipment, Billiard and Game Tables, Darts and in the Idaho Falls store, a huge line-up of sewing and quilting products.
With our cool nights pretty much year round; we’re lucky to live in an area that provides us with four season hot tubbing weather. That being said, fall is a great time for daily or nightly soaks in hot, soothing Jacuzzi® hot water from Brady's.
Hydrotherapy
has a wide range of health benefits.
The heat itself promotes
circulation and speeds up
removal
of lactic acid
, while the buoyancy of the water lifts
the effects of gravity and takes the pressure off joints for
pain
relief
.
Hydrotherapy and hydromassage can be used to relieve the symptoms of a multitude of maladies including stress, arthritis, sleeplessness, fibromyalgia, lower-back pain, post-exercise soreness, and leg cramps/restless legs syndrome.
The benefits of hydrotherapy have been well known for centuries (read more here) and at Brady’s, we carry the best spas in the world from the world’s number one brand, Jacuzzi®. Design, Quality, and Performance. From the perfect placement of PowerPro® Jets to the optimal positioning of the body in ergonomic seats, a Jacuzzi® Hot Tub delivers the ultimate hydrotherapy massage. Sore back, aching muscles, tired feet, stress... All part of an active, productive life, are no match for hot, relaxing Jacuzzi® hydrotherapy. (Click here to see the entire Jacuzzi® lineup)
Everything else is just a hot tub; there’s only one Jacuzzi®, and you’ll only find Jacuzzi® Brand Spas at Brady’s.
Another product from Jacuzzi® and Brady’s that is beyond wonderful for your body year round, but especially in the fall, is the Infrared Full Spectrum Sauna. Learn how Clearlight Sanctuary Full Spectrum Saunas®
offer advanced near, mid and far infrared technologies. Our robust True Wave™ Full Spectrum heating system provides all wavelengths 100% of the time to optimize your sauna session. The Sanctuary sauna line is available in Western Red Canadian Cedar and North American Basswood.
Imagine being able to capture the radiant heat from the sun, without the harmful UV rays, or the soothing heat from warmed sand on the beach. That’s infrared. Now imagine focusing that comfort on your sore muscles and joints. In fact, do more than imagine, make it yours today at Brady’s. Also, we’ll let you in on a little secret...(don’t tell anybody) According to the Journal of the American Medical Association , regular use of a sauna imparts a similar boost on the cardiovascular system as running. So there’s that. You’ll probably sleep better too. Get into full spectrum Clearlight Sauna® infrared technology by Jacuzzi® at Brady’s—your body and soul will thank you.
Keeping yourself in shape is a little different these days. As the temperatures drop, and some training shifts indoors, see our huge lineup of top-quality fitness equipment at Bradys in Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls. Take yourself to Cardio Town with Treadmills, Ellipticals, ZeroRunners, Spin Bikes, Recumbent Bikes, Rowing Machines and more. Don’t let yourself go because you can't get into the gym. Get in here and get setup for fitness.
Tell you what, nights get pretty long around here. Why not take advantage and turn those long nights into “Game Nights!” The whole family will enjoy time together so much more with Arcade Quality Games like Darts, Ping Pong, Shuffleboard, Foosball, Air Hockey and beautiful, Presidential Billiard Tables, the best the industry has to offer at Brady’s.
With the right setup from Brady’s, the end of summer is no cause to lose your stoke. In fact, you might just start looking more forward to fall year after year. Come see us at Brady’s today and we’ll help you turn your home into a year-round resort.
1445 E. Lincoln Road, Idaho Falls | 305 Shoshone St. S., Twin Falls
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You see the ad on TV or hear it on the radio… Sounds like a huge hot tub sale with multiple top hot tub brands and tons of selection. The deals sound outrageous… Thousands of dollars off or as much as 50-80% off of “retail price.” Is this for real or is it gimmicks and false advertising? We at Brady's are here to break it down for you.
First and foremost, it’s important to distinguish whether the event is hosted by a local company or if it is an out of town company doing a “traveling show.” If it’s a local company then it’s worth pursuing although “the deals” may not always be as good as you would think. If it’s an out of town company then we would suggest steering clear. Furthermore, it’s important to determine if you are looking for a good deal on a hot tub or if you are looking for a good hot tub that’s also a good deal. In the first scenario it’s easy to fall into the trap of buying based on price or thinking you’re getting a good price based on gimmicks and consumer ignorance. In the latter scenario you're researching and educating yourself on brands, models, and dealers then trying to find the model you like at a good price. When purchasing a hot tub we would always suggest doing at least a little bit of homework before pulling the trigger as it can save a considerable amount of time, frustration, and money down the road. Or go with trusted friends like Brady's and brands like Jacuzzi and Catalina!
Will these, "Super Sales" be here after the sale to take care of you? |
Many of the traveling hot tub shows use misleading advertising that suggests that the best savings on hot tubs can only be had this weekend at this “spa show.” This is simply not true. Consumers are fooled by over inflated regular prices and massive discounts which give the appearance of huge savings. It’s these gimmicks and false advertising that trick consumers into thinking that they are getting a deal when in fact they are overpaying. We are confident that if you don’t get caught up in the hype and do your homework, then you can find a similar quality or better quality hot tub equipped the same way for less from your local hot tub dealer, Brady's. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself if you're absolutely prepared to hand someone from out of town, that you just met, thousands of dollars of your hard earned money without taking a little extra time to shop and compare to make sure you are, in fact, getting a good deal. Many customers that buy at these events are given the impression that they are getting a great deal and buying from a big local company that’s going to be there for them every step of the way but eventually come to the conclusion that they just made a large purchase from a company several thousand miles away with no real local service or support. Below is a list of questions we would recommend you ask before purchasing or putting a deposit down on a hot tub;
Does this company have a local store in the area that you can walk into if there is any sort of issue or conflict before, during, or after delivery? Is there a warranty? If the answer is “no” then I would steer clear. If yes, then, how long have they been in business? We would suggest a local dealer with at least 3 years in business and good reviews. Also steer clear of answers from out of state dealers like “we have a local service company that takes care of our warranty support” or “we have a local delivery company that handles our deliveries.” These outsourced companies are inferior and generally give poor service as they do not get paid much to handle this type of work. It is important to note that the profit is always in the hot tub sale and not in the service especially while the hot tub is under warranty and that many dealers subsidize their service and warranty expenses from the profit in the hot tub sale. If an out of state dealer (hot tub show promoter) makes all of the profit on the sale but outsources the delivery piece to a local entity then you can generally expect very poor customer service.
Is there somewhere you can “wet test” the spa in order to try it before you buy it? We would highly recommend a wet test and if you purchase a hot tub from a traveling show over the weekend and they pack up and leave on Monday then where do you guy if you want to take it for a test run if there is no local store
In today’s internet and digital age, information is available at your finger tips. Research is not only easy to do but it can be critical in making a good decision or a bad one. Take for instance the links below from Yelp, Google and the Better Business Bureau. These are just a few of the reviews and information on traveling hot tub shows that have taken advantage of consumers. This information can be invaluable to would be customers so that they don’t make the same mistake.
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pissed consumer review
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HOT TUB DEALER IN IDAHO FALLS, POCATELLO AND TWIN FALLS
At Brady's, we’re known throughout Southeast Idaho and Western Wyoming for quality spa products, unbeatable prices, and exceptional customer care. Our hot tub, swim spa, and sauna dealership has convenient locations in Idaho Falls: 1445 E. Lincoln Rd. and Twin Falls: 305 Shoshone St S. If you’d like to have a closer look at one of our many products for sale, feel free to stop into one of our stores any time, and one of our dedicated spa experts would be happy to assist you. We have a wide selection of hot tubs, swim spas, saunas, accessories, and other backyard living essentials for sale. In fact, we even offer hot tub and swim spa service. So if something isn’t working quite right with your Brady's spa, one of our dedicated team members can help. We've been serving the area since 1965, so you know you can count on us being here to take care of you after the sale. Buy Local. Better for your community, better for you. Brady's
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It turns out the SPA SHOW isn’t really a SPA SHOW at all. It's a 3 day high pressure sales event put on by a traveling spa sales company that doesn’t even have a store in IDAHO. |
By the way—If you purchase from the Spa Show, Spa Show, Spa Show! Here is what you will find next week, or next month, or next year, or 5 years from now when you go back and need them to stand behind their product. |