Not content with their stranglehold on the creepily suggestive fitness equipment market for women, the people behind the Shake Weight are now marketing the same product…for men.
Shake Weight For Men [Official Site] (Thanks, AreYouConfusedYet?HowAboutNow?)
Shake Weight For Men [YouTube]
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Sounds like someone got cheap parts from a now discontinued product and put this together last minute
It looks like they were all glazed in Vaseline for the video
@johnarlington:
That’s because AFTER the video they’re going to shake weight on each other. Just without the weight. Wait, unless that weight is man-on-man action.
@johnarlington: That isn’t Vaseline.
@johnarlington: Don’t you know that all big-muscle guys ooze their own glistening body oil?
Either that or the media lies, and that would never happen.
Rotate the Shake Weight 45 degrees each way (preferably outward), then we’ll talk creepy/suggestive.
@dasunst3r: HA! Love the suggestion.
Why am I reminded of those Interactive Male commercials?
What in the world is a TRIPLE money back guarantee?
@ReverendBrown: From their website:
What a deal!
@agb2000: I can’t afford NOT to get this product!
@ReverendBrown:
If you can catch them, you get 3x your money back. AFTER the other creditors of course, if there’s anything left.
See, 3x. You ask, they ignore. You ask, they say, sorry, no money, we’re bankrupt. you ask, the judge says, sorry, the creditors they duped first (who don’t need to be reimbursed in the first place because Chase lent them billions any way) get paid.
3x.
If this exercise worked then every guy in the world would already be ripped as hell.
@gamabunta: someone give this dude a star… that is the greatest comment EVER!
@gamabunta: zing.
@gamabunta: You get a heart! Nice one!
@gamabunta: Only on one side or the other, though, I think. That is, unless you’re ambidextrous…
@jeffbone: well played good sir, heartclick for you!
@rickhamilton620: edit: that was for the OP but what the heck, works with jeffbone too i guess! :p
I knew there’d be a comment like this somewhere on this article, just didn’t expect it to be first lol.
@gamabunta: The joke was inevitable, but the execution was better than I’d hoped for.
@gamabunta: I hate to go all technical and point out the flaw in your logic, but there’s usually only momentary dynamic inertia with the personal shake weight. Ain’t no man I know that can do 240 reps per minute.
@Michael Belisle: How about half-speed for twice the time? Would that work? Multiple sessions pre day?
Gotta love the background music that sounds eerily like Doom or Quake … !
@PsiCop: Nothing justifies this. Not Even Doom Music.
@skrolnik: You got hearted for that, was just thinking NEDM.
@PsiCop: Not to mention the idea of this thing looks like it’s training people how to do a darse or rape choke on somebody. The logic behind this product seems flawled as well as once you get to a certain point (1000 reps?) and can’t increase the weight what do you do then? Go to 10,000 reps?
I’d take hours grunting and slamming weights at the gym than a few minutes looking like goober with this thing. Even if no one was watching. It just doesn’t jive.
@Binaryslyder: LOL,,that was great. I haven’t heard or read “It just doesn’t jive” in years. Good one. I used to say it too.
As for this thing? Even if it did do any good to your body, it may work for a week or two, but soon your body is going to need for you to “ramp it up” on weights or else you’ll be in the plateau and never achieve what these guys have. Here is a good site to check out the myths on health, sickness, supplements: [www.quackwatch.com]
Created by a doctor.
Hahahahah “I haven’t had a pump like this for a long time.” That’s what they all say, sunshine.
@Julius Seizure – Canuck: I’m normally all for the powerful thrust, but this was just silly.
I never thought something could come close to the hula chair.
@xenth: i would like to see a video of someone using this while on the hula chair.
later we could play connect the dots with their bumps and bruises
I’ll gladly test this to see if it works. Anyone want to donate? lol
@montusama: There’s still time for Shake Weight to be brought in for the Manhattan Consumerist Meet-Up. But only if Ben ACTS NOW!
Whoever makes these things, WHY?
Now I can say this without any guilt: Wow. That looks gay.
@MostlyHarmless: Wasn’t there a post about an ad campaign about not saying that? =)
@Nick1693: There was. And the point of it was to not use “gay” to mean “lame”. But in this case, I used “gay” to mean “homosexual”.
@MostlyHarmless: I got the joke, just forgot to add /sarcasm.
@MostlyHarmless: and based on the popularity of mens fitness magazines in the gay community, they may have finally found the right audience for the product
@MostlyHarmless: As a person with a current foot injury, I’d take offense at your use of the word lame, but since I’ve already hearted you in the past I guess you can be in my small club of people to whom I bestow permission to use the word.
Otherwise I’m all totally offended and stuff because I’ve learned in recent years that if one could possibly be offended by use of a word, even in total absence of any malice on the part of the user, then one MUST be offended. Also, I would probably be required to invoke Nazis on the user and then have Godwin called on me.
@Nick1693: I’m gay, and I must say that looks like something from gay porn (both the models in the infomercial and the peculiar way one uses the device.
@MostlyHarmless: That is where I was going with my comment above, but it seems that no one else got it. I guess people don’t watch Comedy Central really late at night. Lol
@MostlyHarmless: Brüno is SO bummed this didn’t make the final cut for his movie.
Is there a Baby Arnold version?
I think the “inventor” finally convinced marketing that they had the wrong target demographic.
That commercial was borderline gay pr0n.
The man version premiered on the Ellen show, she featured the first one (in her why the hell do they make this segment) and likes to have her guest stars *ahem* play with them.
I will not directly link it because the commentary is definitely NSFW but for a cheap sleazy spoof of the device with the video of the original one for women, google “rodquake 3000″
@GearheadGeek: Husky Twinkle Balls!
Yeah, sure… covered in sweat. You keep telling yourself that.
“Did Comcast accidentally cut in with a porn clip again?”
“Nope, that’s just the Shake Weight.”
/fully a joke, of course.
Why is the men’s one $10 more than the women’s one? Is there an actual difference other than that the men’s one is black where the women’s one is white?
@TCama: It looks like Ellen has answered my question: it’s bigger and longer.
@TCama: But really, isn’t that what all men say?
“Short, powerful thrusts”. Nice.
Shake Weight + Fleshlight = PROFIT!
the perfect workout for guys who surf the internet often with one hand.
FINALLY, you can rid yourself of that pesky asymmetrical forearm and bicep!
I actually cried laughing at this, it was that funny.
“I would like to return my vibrator.”
“That’s not a vibrator, sir. That’s a exercise device.”
“No, it’s a vibrator.”
“No, it’s a exercise device.”
“No, it’s a vibrator.”
“Sir, Permission Interactive does not sell vibrators. It’s a exercise device.”
“Fine. I’d like to return this exercise device.”
“What’s the problem?”
“It failed to get me off.”
Splurfffp’wahh ha ha ha ha ha haaahhhh.
Bastards. They owe me a new keyboard.
So, this looks like the perfect Xmas gift, perhaps in combination with the “Fleshlight”… I mean, as long as someone here’s broached the subject of gay pr0n.
Um…Tested up to 4,000,000 reps they say. Get up to 240 reps per minute they say. That’s 277 hours of use. Less than a year at an hour a day. No wonder they only want you to use it “minutes a day” – gotta stretch out that warranty!
@Kevin411:
But they recommend using it only 6 minutes a day. Which if you work out is roughly 7.6 years so not too bad.
I believe there’s a free version of this excercise that gets you money back as well.
“This revolutionary, new technology called DYNAMIC INERTIA…”
Um, I’m pretty sure that’s neither new nor revolutionary. Any physics folks out there to help me call BS on this one?