Foam Rolling

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  • Sam_I_Am77
    Sam_I_Am77 Posts: 2,093 Member
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    All the research is about pre-exercise rolling; I've found benefits for recovery & DOMS prevention after working out, any thoughts on this?

    I’ve found a good roll out can help my performance, especially where a given muscle (tibia anterior) tightening up would have been a limiting factor.

    Hunh, interesting! I wonder why that is...

    Altered Reciprocal Inhibition. If your muscles don't function correctly then you will not move correctly and if you are unable to move correctly you will not perform correctly in an exercise or sport.

    Thank you!

    That's why it's so important to be careful in understanding the population of some of these studies. A study with college athletes for example; those athletes are in really good shape, likely have a strength & conditioning coach, and have few dysfunctions and few to none that limit performance. So to expect foam rolling to improve their performance is silly because they're likely mobile enough to only need a dynamic warm-up or AI stretching at most. Now you take an office worker that sits on their *kitten* 50 hours a week and goes to the gym 3 or 4 days, now there's a good chance that foam rolling will initially improve their performance because there will be less limitations in their kinematics. Although over time if they're consistent with their mobility work, then the performance improvement will probably diminish because their movement will be consistently good or better.
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