check the site "rogue fitness" europe
Just get some PVC pipe and lacrosse balls and you're g2g.
I've heard good things about lacrosse ball. I assume they're brutal.
Cross fitters aren't smart enough to foam roll.
Two tennis balls taped up together works pretty good.
Worth a try
This :http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rumble-Roller-Black-Full-Size-Sti-Extra-Firm-36-S1-/261379380307?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdb6cd453and this :http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rumble-Roller-Beastie-Bar-w-Stands-2-X-Firm-Beastie-Balls-BRXT2-Massage-Stick-/390639814563?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5af3f287a3Two best things you can have. The beastie bar you just grab that sucker like a rolling pin and work it away up and down the thighs or hamstrings. Awesome.I once took a class for two months here when I was taking a break from weight training that incorporated a DDP Yoga style with foam rolling. That class was great!!! I wish that instructor had not moved (or at least they found a replacement). I would sign up for it again. Absolutely nothing easy about this class.
Foam roller and "The Stick" are very good tools for any athlete's tool box.
Anyone try "fascial planing" which Parrillo advocates. I did it on my stretched thighs on monday and they are bruised like crazy. Used the beastie roller menntioned above to massage the stretched muscle.This is "planing"I don't know if it does anything, just thought I'd try it
When Franco Santoriello came over to compete in the uk in 89 he trained at our gym and told me about fascial planing,so i agreed to let him do it on my calves,he had me do a couple of sets of calve raises then he measured them ( he measured them before the workout) and then did the planing on 1 calf.The only reason he did 1 calf was because the pain was unbearable.I did 1 more set and the calf he planed was half inch bigger than the other.
Do any of you foam roll? Regularly? so painful
not sure about this crap, used a foam roll to loosen up a tight back, pissed blood for a month had to see a doctor. hadn't rolled since. coincidence? who knows??
Waste of time. I have never had one injury, not stiffness, tightness, nothing.
That can happen if you dont try hard in the gym.
If you had to pick one, which would you choose. I'm guessing the roller and not the bar?