Foam rolling is an essential piece of every workout AND every off day when you don’t go to the gym. You should be doing it everyday. Why is Foam Rolling Important?
Excerpted from the ACS Manual (just one part of the AMD system)
* Improve ROM (and subsequently execution of movement patterns) of a joint by lengthening and flattening scar tissue, removing adhesions (remodeling fascia), reducing tension / tightness and neurological inefficiencies * Use in conjunction with your static, dynamic, ballistic and PNF stretching protocols to improve muscle length, flexibility and mobility * Improved recovery and diminishing the effect of DOMS * Should be utilized along with other restorative soft-tissue therapies usually grouped as self-myofascial release (SMR): trigger point therapy (golf balls, tennis balls), trigger point therapy, active release technique (ART), the Stick
How Foam Rolling is Changing?
Recently I’ve been incorporating more flowing movements not only to our workout, but our pre-workout routine for not only my athletes, but for myself as well. And it is paying off big time. I can now full squat (after battling a knee injury from high school and a subsequent botched surgery for 20 years), jump, lunge and many other movements.
What we are doing is, in addition to our conventional foam rolling, using a small, dense medicine ball to roll on.
It is denser and has a more focused application to the massage (exactly like tennis ball and lacrosse ball applications). But that is not the coolest thing!
Linear movements on a conventional foam roller now become flowing movements across your cross the body and multiple muscle groups and kinetic segments. If we attack tension and inefficiencies at multiple angles across each joint.
This is very important because we don’t not absorb impact, decelerate or even accelerate linearly. Our bodies act in 3D and we move treat them and improve the function of them in 3D.
Remember, slay the dragon don’t play with Barbies.
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