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Teeter Hang Ups EP-960 vs. Contour L5 Inversion Table Comparison

November 6, 2013 By Steven Kirchhof

Teeter Hang Ups EP-960 Inversion Table — Teeter Hang Ups EP-960

We have been fielding questions about the differences between the Teeter EP-960 and Contour L5 Inversion tables lately, and thought we would publish a quick comparison between the two. To see a comparison of over 10 of the most popular tables, check out our best inversion table review and comparison article.

Background

The Contour L5 is sold through retailers whose sales are primarily local (brick & mortar), while the EP-960 is sold through online and offline retailers. It is not uncommon for B&M retailers to have access to exclusives. This helps them compete against online merchants who frequently have better pricing due to their low overhead. And with heavier items, such as an inversion table that weighs around 70 pounds, many consumers would prefer to have it delivered to their door rather than have to pick it up (especially for those with back pain). Keep in mind while reading that Better Health Innovations carries the EP-960, but not the Contour L5.

Feature Comparison

The two inversion tables share the same bed design, foot clamping, and tether, which are critical parts of an inversion table. So, back and foot comfort will be identical on either table. In addition, operation of both tables is identical.

The L5 has a unique mechanism where the rotational speed (basically an adjustment for the center of gravity) of the table can be set with a dial. On the EP-960, this must be set by removing the bed from the frame. While this may seem important, the rotational speed setting is typically only set twice during the life of the table. Having dealt with thousands of inversion table customers, and having used inversion tables ourselves, we have found that this is set once when the table is set up and maybe one more time once the user gets used to inversion (by speeding up the rotational adjustment).

The L5 sports a different frame design with a more curved look. We will leave it up to you on the attractiveness of the table vs. the EP-960. We have not had experience folding the L5, and we are not sure if the leg design would effect storage. The EP-960 folds up very well. Both tables accept the accessories that came out for the 60 series earlier this year.

Warranty is the same for both tables – 5 years on everything. I am absolutely sure that the L5 has comparable quality to the EP-960 and other Teeter inversion tables. Teeter doesn’t mess around with quality, and I have never seen a poorly design table from them. Both tables carry the UL Mark and have passed UL certification testing.

Looking at the manual for the L5, assembly appears to be pretty much the same with the same components being pre-assembled (such as the frame and mainshaft)

Strangely, I cannot find any statements for money back if the table does not work for you. With the EP series, Teeter offers a 30 day money back, allowing you to use the table for that period and return it used for a full refund.

Conclusion

So, which is the best inversion table? Whether the rotation adjustment improvement and the leg design warrants a price tag $100 to $179 higher than the EP-960 is debatable. Currently (subject to change with time), the EP-960 price is $399, which includes a 110% price guarantee. Advertisements for the L5 indicate a $499 to $579 price tag. If money were no object, you may consider it, but even so, with the L5 it appears there is not a trial period and the BHI Inversion Coaching Program is not available. From that perspective, you are actually getting less value for more money. Based on this, I very much recommend the EP-960.

When available, you can find the Teeter L5 by clicking here.
We have a lot more information about the EP-960 or to buy: clicking here

How To Adjust a Teeter Hang Ups Inversion Table

August 21, 2013 By Steven Kirchhof

We get a fair number of questions about how a Teeter inversion table is adjusted for height. With Nadia joining us for the summer as an Intern in our video production department, we thought that is would be a great opportunity to show how a table is adjusted. Nadia is 5’5″ tall and I am 6’7″. As you can see in the video, adjustment is very easy and fast.

The model used is a Teeter Hang Ups EP-960, which can be purchased on our Better Health Innovations site. Click here for more information or to order on Amazon.

Motorcyclist Guide To Back Pain

April 5, 2013 By Steven Kirchhof

As you know, back pain can be debilitating to the point where you cannot pursue the lifestyle that you may have had in previous years. The act of sitting in the same place for a period of time can produce intense pain and discomfort. Coupled with a relatively fixed position for the arms and legs, vibration, and the occasional pot hole, and motorcycling can become impossible for those with back issues.

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Back Pain Solution: How To Use An Inversion Table Correctly

January 31, 2013 By Steven Kirchhof

Solving back pain! In this video, I discuss the importance of having someone who knows what they are doing coach you through your inversion therapy experience.

Because most people do not hang upside down prior to getting an inversion table, we strongly recommend doing it with someone who has. Our Inversion Coaching Program, gives you just that; a person you can contact by phone or email to answer questions and help you through the first 90 days of your inversion experience. Watch the video for details!

More information at Better Health Innovations: http://www.betterhealthinnovations.com/Teeter_Hang_Ups_Inversion_Tables_s/22.htm

TRANSCRIPT:

Believe me, I know, you just want to get rid of your back pain, been through it myself. I have relatives, including my wife, who have been through it. Severe back pain to the point where you just can’t function, you can’t play with the kids, you have trouble doing basic things at work, basic things at home. You stand up for too long, your back hurts. You sit down for too long, your back hurts. You lay down for too long, your back hurts. There’s little doubt at this point that inversion therapy definitely can help a lot of people with back pain. The simple act of hanging upside down for a few minutes a day has helped out thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

When you buy an inversion table, you might be a little bit overwhelmed about how to use it, how to put it together, even where to store it, how often should it be used, and for how long should you be using your inversion table? Do you hang on it for an hour? The answer’s no. Do you hang on it for an hour? Do you hang on it for a few minutes? Is it better to do it in the evening and in the morning or just one shot sometime in the middle of the day? There are an awful lot of questions when it comes to using inversion therapy. A couple of years ago, we launched an extremely successful program called Inversion Coaching. When you purchase an inversion table from betterhealthinnovations.com, a Teeter Hang Ups Inversion Table from us, you receive the services of an inversion coach, an actual person who will coach you through the inversion process. As part of this, you receive assembly instructions and receive information right up front before you even receive your table. The coach will walk you through based on your pace, using that inversion table. You get that inversion coach’s personal email address and you get that inversion coach’s personal phone number here in our offices, so whenever you have a question about inversion, you can certainly just give that person a call. You have an actual person’s name.

A little disclaimer here, we’re not doctors. We can’t provide any sort of medical advice to somebody using an inversion table or somebody who is looking for a back pain solution. We can coach in the mechanics of using an inversion table. What, in our experiences, either personal experiences or experiences in working with thousands of other customers, what, in our experiences, has worked the best for inversion table users.

I really encourage you, before running out and buying an inversion table, consider Better Health Innovations, consider our longstanding Inversion Coaching Program, so that you get a well-trained person, who knows how to use an inversion table, along with you as you start out. We launch this program, and it will last for 90 days, but certainly on the 120th day you can still call your inversion coach. When we launch this program, it will last for 90 days, to get the person up and running. We also have a 90 day trial period, so within that 90 days, if inversion isn’t working out for you and it does happen on some occasions, where for whatever reason, either you’re not using the table or it’s causing another issue or whatever, if you want to return that Teeter Hang Ups Inversion Table with us, unlike virtually anybody else that I’ve ever seen, with us you can return that for a full 90 days and you get all your money back. We donâ€™t charge a restocking fee. We donâ€™t try to reclaim the original shipping cost or anything like that. You contact us first, obviously, and then you ship it back to us and you receive a full refund from that, so the 90 day trial program coupled with the Inversion Coaching Program, it’s done very well for us and it’s done very well for thousands of our customers.

If you have any questions whatsoever about the program, about inversion in general, you can watch our other videos. We have several up about Teeter Hang Ups and about hanging upside down and inversion therapy. If you have any other questions, certainly leave them down there in the comments below. Definitely recommend that you subscribe to this channel as well, as every once in a while we will pop out another video about inversion therapy and other things that can help you out. Until then, take care everybody and have a great day.

How Does The Teeter Hang Ups EP-560 Inversion Table Stack Up Against the EP-550?

June 1, 2012 By Steven Kirchhof

It seems like we’ve been putting out a lot of Teeter Hang Ups videos and blog posts lately. In this video, I review the features of the new Teeter EP-560 inversion table and also walk through the differences between it and the Teeter EP-550. As of this post, both models are available, and I hope that this helps you decide which is right for you.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Speaker 1 (STEVE): Back pain. If youâ€™re watching this video then youâ€™re probably suffering from back pain. You may have looked at all the different options that you have to address that pain. You may have looked at or even tried injections in your back; pain injections in your back, going to a pain clinic once a week, or once every other week, to get pain injections.

You may have looked at surgical solutions. You might have already had a surgical solution. Really, you just want that back pain to go away. You just want to get your life back.

If youâ€™re watching this video then youâ€™re probably pretty far down the road of looking at an inversion table. When you look at inversion tables around the market itâ€™s pretty simple, or pretty easy, to come to the conclusion that you want a Teeter Hang Ups Inversion Table. Before I get into talking about the two that are right here, a quick little bit about Teeter.

Teeter is the only company thatâ€™s been making inversion tables continuously for 30 years. Theyâ€™re the only company that offers a five year warranty. They are the only company that puts their inversion tables through a 30,000 cycle test to achieve UL, or underwriter laboratory certification. You know, I wouldnâ€™t plug in a toaster in my home that didnâ€™t have the UL mark on it. Lord knows, I wouldnâ€™t hang from my feet from something that didnâ€™t have a UL mark on it. It was tested to extremely high quality levels.

When you go shopping for an inversion solution there are a lot of options out there. There is, of course, the cheaper import brands, and letâ€™s just dismiss those for now anyway, because we are looking at Teeter. Weâ€™ve made the decision that Teeter is the preferred solution.

Teeter offers a number of different inversion table models. Theyâ€™ve been improving them over the last 30 years, and continually introducing new models. Back in 2008 they came out with this table, the EP550; the EP series. A wonderful table; really, really took off. They did quite well with this table.

Earlier this year or actually just about a month ago or so, they came out with the EP560 series. It’s offered as a 560. It’s also offered as a 560 sport. What might be making your decision of how to go a little bit confusing, and we talk to a lot of folks on the phone, that this is exactly the cases, â€œHey, what should I buy?â€ Youâ€™ve got the EP550 for $299. You have the EP560 for $299. Thatâ€™s what it costs at BetterHealthInnovations.com today.

I’m going to do a quick run through of the features on the new table; how thatâ€™s changed from the old table. I’m going to call it like I see it. There’s a lot of things that I really like about the EP560. If I were to put one in my home it would be a split decision though, because there are a lot of things that I also like about the EP550. Both currently are being offered for sale. I assume that Teeter is going to phase out the EP550 at some point but right now, the date I’m uploading this video, you have a choice. It’s a choice that fortunately, it will be difficult to make a bad one â€¦ a bad decision on this. Both are great tables. Both will give you years and years of service. I have an older Teeter in my home that I’ve used for probably about 10 years. This particular table right here, weâ€™ve had this here in our offices since 2008 and weâ€™ve got people hanging on it all the time; people of different heights, different weights, and different body build. It’s performed very well. Obviously, similar construction with the new EP560 series. This is going to provide years of good service as well.

Letâ€™s quickly hit the new features on this table, on the EP560. A lot of things remain the same. It still has a very smooth rotation. It still has the same tether strap in the back to set your angle of inversion, which I really like. I think that the biggest thing on this table that theyâ€™ve changed and they introduce this as formerly available on the EP950 only, is they put in this ergo-embrace system for your feet. This ergo-embrace system is much more like wearing gravity boots in your invert. It’s not quite â€¦ and I would say that if youâ€™re going to be doing exercises and that sort of thing on the table, moving around a lot, take a look at gravity boots. Conversion kit. It goes for about $100 if you want to convert the table over, or you could just go with the EP560 sport. These ergo-embrace tables, they will grab your feet from the front, in from the back, as opposed to the EP550, and weâ€™ll turn and take a look at that now. As opposed to the EP550 series, which is going to grab your ankles from the back and grab the top of your foot. You do feel secure in either table. I would say that I, personally, I feel a little bit more secure in the EP560 but it’s certainly like I’m not going feel like I’m going to fall out of it, in the EP550.

Another change to the table. The back has been redesigned to accommodate accessories on the EP560. There are two accessories currently available. They have acupressure nodes, which you can place in the back. Weâ€™ll be doing a video on these accessories at some point, or you can just go to BetterHealthInnovations.com and learn all about them.

Thereâ€™s also a lumbar bridge which puts a nice pressure right in the small of your back, right in the lumbar region. If youâ€™re inverting at 60 degrees it really, really feels nice. It’s a very popular accessory, even though weâ€™ve only had this table out for about a month. They also have some hand holds now that they built in. The hand holds, I guess, theyâ€™re good if you want a full on inversion or even partial inversion. You can reach over, grab one, do a little bit of manual stretching, manual twisting of the back.

If you’re looking at the two tables it might just come down to ascetics. The EP560 is in a silver/grey finish, a powder-coat finish. The EP550, they had the frame in a powder-coat black. It really might depend on just what your preference is. We offer a lot of gym equipment in different colors. I think that silver is probably the most popular.

One thing that youâ€™ll notice when youâ€™re looking at the two tables side by side is, for years Teeter had talked about the triple chrome-plated main shaft. The reason it is chrome plated is that chrome is an extremely hard plating and it’s not going to wear out. Youâ€™re not going to wind up with any kind of scratches from moving in and out of the back. Thatâ€™s really only an issue if you have multiple users in the home, where youâ€™re going to be adjusting that frequently. Thatâ€™s when you have multiple users at different heights. If youâ€™re going to be using that main shaft, or rather adjusting the main shaft on a frequent basis you might want to steer towards the EP550 with the hard chrome triple plated main shaft. They went to a powder-coat in the EP560 series. There is a case to be made that â€¦ that might actually look a little bit more pleasing if you have it set up in your living room, for example. You donâ€™t have a big shiny piece of chrome. I think the chrome does go nice with the black frame with the EP550 though.

Other parts, just to know what weâ€™re talking about, our plating and finishing. They did stay on parts that are moving for everybody. They did stay with a hard chrome finish.

There’s a couple of smaller enhancements on this table as well. For example, the back which is a little bit tough to see in the video. The back of the A-frame, you can reach down, there’s a hand-hold there that you can grab if youâ€™re going to the full inversion. Prior to that, you would reach to the sides of the â€¦ with the EP550 you would reach to the sides of the table, grab the A-frame to stretch or to come back into a full position.

Again, that was an extremely quick run-down of the EP560 and the EP550. Like I said when we started out, you’re not going to go wrong with either table. If you purchase it through Better Health Innovations, go ahead and use the thing for 90 days, and if you donâ€™t like it, give us a call. You can send it back and get a full refund. Thereâ€™s no restocking fee within 90 days.

Of course, we mention this in every video. We help you along the way. We have a coaching program; an individual one-on-one coaching program with a member of our staff. I’m a coach for several people, for example. Where you get somebodyâ€™s phone number or you get somebodyâ€™s email address. We also email out some helpful inversion tips on how to use your inversion table.

If you have any questions about the tables certainly give us a call. Visit our website. We have a lot more information at BetterHealthInnovations.com/Teeter. A lot more information on the site that we could fit into a relatively short video. I wouldnâ€™t really elect the decision between the EP550 or the EP560 slowing down at all. Either way, again, you’re going to be making an excellent choice. Again, it’s really risk free when you’re purchasing from BetterHealthInnovations.com

Again, I encourage you to contact us with any questions you might have.

Everybody, have a great day!