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Three Exercises That Will Help Far More Than Foam Rolling
To stop feeling tight and sore, do these things instead!
If you’re looking to fix your tight muscles and find sustainable pain relief, it’s time to put the foam roller aside. While it can potentially assist you in warm-ups and cool-downs, its scope of benefits is shockingly limited compared to the colossal hype it receives.
The reality is, foam rolling doesn’t release scar tissue in your muscles. It simply plays around with mechanoreceptors to alter the tone of tissues for a short period of time. While this can help improve your range of motion before a workout or maybe even reduce delayed onset muscle soreness by a fraction, it’s not a sustainable solution for feeling less pain and tightness.
Today, I want to introduce three simple exercises that will blow your current rolling technique out of the water. We’ll be zooming in on the midback, glutes, and calves as these are areas that are commonly foam rolled with little success. Not only are these movements quick and accessible to virtually everyone, but they’ll also go beyond decreasing your pain by strengthening and boosting functionality at the tissues you need to develop the most.
Without further ado, let’s jump into it!
