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Do you have any links you'd recommend on how to do what you did?
by kenjackson 10y ago
Do you have any links you'd recommend on how to do what you did?
- CuriouslyC 10y agoTake a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1z3usHseU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1z3usHseU Those PVC pipes are ~$8 at your local home improvement store. I don't roll the way he does though. Instead, I try to move my body through various movements (squat, arms behind back/overhead, etc), and when I feel tightness or pulling sensations in the muscle I'll mark the spot. Then I place that spot on the roller, and just lean all my weight into it; I will roll around a tiny bit just to try and find the most tender spot, but once I find it, I hold still and press on it until it "lets go" and it no longer feels tender. Once I had been using a PVC pipe for a while, I started doing the same thing using the shaft of a barbell - with weights on the end, it works a lot like a foam roller. This really hurts, but the results are amazing. I really should make do a youtube video of this because almost all of the foam rolling/self myofascial release stuff on the internet is kind of bad. The barbell trick doesn't seem to be something people know about either.
- DrScump 10y agoWhy is the video called "foam rolling" if just plain PVC with no foam covering is used?