How to Use a Foam Roll
A foam roll, or foam roller, is a useful training tool to use as part of your recovery or regeneration plan. Sizes vary, but this cylindrical piece of tightly packed foam is roughly 5 inches in diameter and typically between one and three feet long. How It Works Foam...
How to Choose a Foam Roller
Foam rolling is a style of self-myofascial release (SMR) that targets tense and overworked muscles. It's like myofascial release, a typical technique in massage, otherwise referred to as deep-tissue massage. Masseuses use their hands, elbows or different tools to...
Foam Roller Exercises that Focus on Opening Your Shoulder and Stretching Your Shoulder Muscles
Enhance your body-mind connection with foam roller exercises and shoulder stretches that open your shoulder muscles. You'll ease the load of the world on you shoulders! The body-mind connection is incredibly strong and once you do these exercises, this connection may...
Foam Roller Exercises that focus on Hip Opening and Stretching the Hip Muscles
The muscles of the hip tend to have more issues for woman in comparison to men. The reason being, is that for woman, the hips are the strongest emotional center. (The men have their own problems with the shoulders, their stronger emotional center, that I discuss in...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Hip Adductor Muscles (Groin Muscles of the Inner Thigh)
Foam roller exercises for the groin muscles will increase your understanding of the body-mind affiliation and how well you're holding it all together! The adductor muscles of the hip are the muscles that are within your thighs. They are more commonly called the groin...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Upper Arms – Biceps and Triceps
Self myofascial release through foam roller exercises will enhance your body-mind connection! When you foam roll your muscles, you perform self myofascial release. Concentrate on the hot spots and muscle knots, or the areas that are sore. As you foam roll focus on the...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Trapezius Muscles
Foam roller exercises will be a form of body-mind-soul exercises, as I have mentioned throughout my foam rolling pages. Foam rolling the trapezius muscle isn't any exception. The trapezius muscles at the top of your shoulders, are one of the most too used and...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Pectoral Muscles that focus on Chest Opening
Foam roller exercises for the pectoral muscles will assist you with tight chest muscles. The chest is the guardian of your heart. Chest opening will open your heart and convey you healing of the body-mind-soul! The pectoral muscles are the big muscles of the chest...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Iliotibial Band (IT Band) and Tensor Fasciae Latae (TFL) Muscles
The Iliotibial band isn't a muscle however a fibrinous band. It is on the surface of the thigh from the top of the iliac crest (hip bone), down the side of the thigh and attaches to the outside of the tibia (shin), just under the knee. The Iliotibial band helps keeps...
Foam Roller Exercises for Your Iliopsoas Muscle (Hip Flexors)
The foam roller exercises that I will focus on during this article involves the iliopsoas muscle complex. It's indeed a complex group of muscles that are typically known as the "hip flexors." The iliopsoas muscle is the muscle that bends the hip, by lifting up the...
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