The Plunge Review (Don't Buy, Until You Watch This)
– Today, I’m gonna share all the things that you need to know about the Plunge, and is it worth your money? Some of the things were unexpected that they don’t mention in their marketing. How this thing gets arrived is it’s gonna come in a massive crate, so you need to make sure that your doors are wide enough. Luckily, here, Louisa has very wide doors. One, two, almost three feet of space. So this unit itself probably starts about here. One, two, about three feet. This side will obviously not be on. The water cooler comes separately. But
the tub without water will arrive, they’ll be able to bring it up to wherever space you’re in. And you’ll place it, whether it’s inside or outside. If it is outside, there is a cover that I highly recommend you get, just to make sure that you protect the water inside because it’s gonna get dirty and you don’t want bugs, leaves going inside the water ’cause that’s just gonna make it not as exciting to use the cold Plunge very often. This is the standard tub. So we’re about, you know, 5’11”, six feet, and we’re going to sit
in this tub, and this is like up to six feet tall as the standard. Anything above, they recommend the XL. There are also a ton of add-ons that you
we set up Louisa’s tub here. And they’re gonna give you a little water filter thing that you’re going to put on top of your hose to fill this. Since this is inside of an apartment and we don’t have a hose, what we did is we came to the sink here and we actually unscrewed this little piece and we just went to the hardware store, actually Louisa went to the hardware store, and she got a hose that attaches to this, and it was like long and flexible. We drew the hose from the sink all the way
to the tub, and we filled up the tub with water. And because this is inside, as soon as you turn the water on, some black stuff is gonna come out of the filter. So I highly recommend that you try to spill a little bit of the water out first and then fill it up. Smart thing to do is put one of these down, a towel. There is a new like bin basket Plunge is offering with the Plunge All-In So especially if it’s inside or anywhere where you don’t want to get a lot of water everywhere.
– Oh my god, I knew that was gonna happen. – What? – What have you done? – What? This is the best we could do. When it comes to actually filling up the pipes, there is going to be a section here that needs to be set up. So you need to add in the water filter right there. That will need to be replaced for maintenance. There’s a power units in here that need to be plugged in. There’s extensive videos on the website that show you how to walk through the setup process, but there is a
little bit of a setup process. And the water cooler is outside of the tub. So you will need some space next to the tub just to be able to have the water cooler, the piping, and this magnetic housing to kind of protect and cover it all. You can set the temperature of the water cooler to what you want. It’s at 43 right now and you just wanna make sure you attach these hoses. They are labeled. It doesn’t look very professional, but these kind of just like regular PVC pipes, they’re insulated so there’s no condensation. I
think that’s really important. I’ve had one of those inflatable tubs and the condensation will just drip and it gets the wood flooring soaking wet. All right, Ethan, what was the question that you had about the water tub? – How much does it cost and how much does it weigh? – I think it weighs a 1,000 pounds. The water makes it extremely heavy. So the weight empty is 150 pounds. How much it weighs when you add water? – 250. – It weighs 800 pounds. – Whoa, whoa, whoa. With this? Just because of this? – So when
you add the water, it’s gonna go up to 800 pounds for standard, 1,200 pounds for the XL. So if you’re putting this in your apartment, I highly recommend you double check that your apartment can support that amount of weight in the small area, ’cause you don’t want your tub falling through the ceiling. You gonna try to lift it up? Let’s go. Dead lift. – Do some dead lifts. – Do you get anything? – Nah. – Make sure you do it right because if you plug something in the wrong spot or you don’t add water at
the right time, things can go wrong and you do not want to run the water cooler when there’s no water circulating through, ’cause it could damage your water cooler. So just be mindful of those little intricacies. So now the real question is how loud do you think it is? I’m gonna run this app on my watch and it’s gonna tell us the noise levels. All right, this is Shervin talking really loud. We’re saying some stuff and now I’m gonna stop talking. So it’s not extremely loud, but I think if you were to say in terms
of decibels, it’s gonna get you around 60 to 70 decibels, which is not ideal. Could you put this in your bedroom? Probably not ideal. – No, definitely not in your bedroom. – Okay. – Definitely do not put in your bedroom Temperature. Ethan, is it cold? – Yeah. – Can you confirm or deny? – It’s cold. – It’s cold. – Why don’t you dip your hand and give us a little reaction? How cold is it? – Oh, ice cold. – Yeah, so right now it’s set to the temperature says 43 degrees. So you’ll be able to
see the temperature right here. You can set it, change it. I think the max is 39, but this massive water cooler device is gonna cool the temperature. But one thing to keep in mind is now that it’s cooling the water, it’s gonna emit a lot of heat. So do you feel any heat coming from anywhere around the tub? – To be honest, no. – ‘Cause it’s on the other side. – Oh (laughs). Yeah, yeah, yeah. – You feel a little? – Yeah, I feel some heat on the ground that I’m standing that’s right next to
the tub and just a little bit on like my ankle. – Yeah. – But it’s not bad though. – Oh yeah. So like here you can feel a little bit of a breeze. – Yeah. – Okay, so let’s set up the thermal camera and show you what it looks like. What’s cold, what’s hot? Ready? One, two, three, boom. So that is the coldest temperature. It says 34 degrees Fahrenheit right now, even though the unit’s at 44, but that’s what the cold water looks like. You can obviously see the outside of the tub is a little
cold. You can see there’s the in the lights, the water flowing. It’s pretty well insulated. So the outside of the tub does not look cold. It’s gonna prevent condensation. You can see here, this is what looks cool. Check this out. You can see that the heat is being emitted from the side. So like this part’s really warm. All right, Ethan, you ready? – No. (Ethan grunts) (Shervin laughs) – No hesitating. You gotta keep going. Yeah, there you go. – Oh my god. – Put your hands on the side and slowly sit down. – Oh my
God. Oh, whoa. (Shervin laughs) Whoa! (Ethan yells) – So what are your impressions so far? – Cold. – Do you feel recovered and like an elite athlete? – Yes. – What about the slipperiness of the bottom of the tub? – No, that’s fine. – That’s fine? – That’s fine. But when you put your body in it and especially like above your upper torso, it’s another level. Another level. – Yeah. What did you feel when you got in? – Just like I felt electrocuted in a sense. Like shocked. I felt shocked. – You feel awake and
alive? Like what’s going through your head right now? – I’m alive. I felt like I just drunk a coffee or something. Whoo! Your turn. – Here we go. Oh my God, it is so cold. Oh! Oh my God! Oh! So obviously the easy way out is just to get in, keep your legs straight. If I do that, I can lean up against this thing and I still have a little bit of space. I think I have shorter legs than most people, but if I want I can also slide my legs all the way to the
front and then now I got some space to lean back. It just feels a little slippery. That’s one thing to know is like in these lay down tubs, especially if you don’t keep it clean, it’s gonna get more slippery but it kind of feels like you’re sliding through. So I would like to have like handles and stuff. There also is like an iPhone mount that they’ll give you or a phone mount that’ll suction cup on the outside and you can mount your phone and see time. I like to have my watch, but this is kind
of how I fit. I could bend my knees and go in a little bit more. The issue with having a tub inside is if we want to increase the water levels, we could, but there’s just a higher probability that you know, me as a larger human, the more volume you have and when you get in, it’s gonna increase the water more and water’s gonna spill. So for this specific tub, I think Louisa had decided to keep the water levels low to minimize the probability of it spilling over and come outside. And if it’s like at
night or like you like to have a light, there’s a light in here so you can keep that light on and off. And then there’s always water circulating. There’s a filter to keep it clean. And then there’s external things that you can put in it to also keep the water clean and the acidity of the water at the right level. We can show all the cleaning supplies, the maintenance, but you do have to rebuy these supplies, testing the water, making sure the water’s clean. So there is a maintenance process to that. Maybe like once a
week, once a month, depending on how often you use it. If you shower before using it, like you’re less likely to make the water dirty. So all those factors, you know the number of people that are using it, how often you’re using it, how clean or dirty you are before getting in can impact how often you have to change out the water, change out the filter, change out the cleaning supplies that go in it. How do you empty the Plunge? – This? I’m gonna empty this, wash it, and then just keep- – And then just
go back and forth. – Yeah. – How long does that take? – A good hour. – Good hour? – I put my music on and I just get, it’s therapeutic. – Wow. An hour just to empty this? – Oh, I don’t know. – That’s insane. – Maybe I’ll get you guys to do it. – All right, so this is the bowl. – This is the process. Okay, we go over here and we do this and then we do that about 150 times. It’s actually great. You can measure the amount of calories you burn and it’s
pretty much like exercise, whoo! And my legs were swollen. I was out. I think I walked like 10 miles one day just for work. I was so (indistinct). I’ve gone in and this just, it was like- – Perfect. Yeah, no, this is really good one, but it… Can we use that? It was recording (laughs). – Yeah, as long as my face isn’t in it. – So how much does this cost? It’s $4,990, unless you use code SHERVIN. Discount code and link is down below that helps support the channel. That’ll save you some money. If you
want to get different kinds of upgrades, for example, accessories, a cover, the larger tub, that’s just gonna increase the price as you go. So they kind of start there and they go up. Do you think that’s expensive? – For this? I think it’s a fair price. – Yeah, you gonna buy one? – I think it’s a fair price. Maybe in a year. – In a year? – Yeah, maybe in a year. – What’s gonna change in a year? – My money. My money will be up in a year and I’ll use code SHRIVEN. – Do
you think it’s worth $5,000 to have a water cooler and a tub? Like why not just buy ice? – I think it’s definitely worth it because if I work out a lot and I run a lot, definitely worth it. If I’m an athlete, 100% worth it. If I’m not, then no, I would probably just buy the ice. – FaceTime Mike Hannah. How much did you spend on ice per month when you were ice bathing at home by buying ice? So average 10 pound bag cost between $1 and $3. In New York it actually cost $5.
– What? – So I would say you have to be someone who ice baths consistently. Don’t buy this. – Yeah. – Unless you already have the habit of cold plunging. – Ice is freaking expensive, man. It’s basically $300 a month. – $300 a month on ice if you spent $10 a day for 30 days. How many pounds of ice was $10? – Three to five pounds. And I was trying to get, at one point I was trying to be economical and I was like, oh, how much can I get away with like one bag, two
bags? I think after doing it for a month or two, I ended up just doing cold water (laughs). – All right. Thanks for picking up. So Scott, fun Scott. Guys, it was amazing. I know I’m dry and I’m not wearing a swimsuit, but I loved it.
