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2. 3 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Foam Roller

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   Physical therapists Dan Giordano and Winnie Yu explain how you can use foam rollers to enhance your mobility practice.

3. How to use a foam roller to release tension in your entire body

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   Foam roller exercises for back, legs, feet and glutes. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium ...

4. Trainers Say These Foam Rollers Can Help Relieve Tight Muscles

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   For the past several years, Men's Health's fitness editors, led by fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S., have been testing the best foam rollers for pre-workout stretching, post-workout ...

5. Myofascial release - Wikipedia

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   Myofascial release (MFR, self-myofascial release) is an alternative medicine therapy claimed to be useful for treating skeletal muscle immobility and pain by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood and lymphatic circulation and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles.

6. Foam roller - Wikipedia

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   A foam roller is a lightweight, cylindrical tube of elastomeric foam used for massaging one's own muscles. [1] The roller is placed between the target muscle and the ground, and is rolled back and forth, using body weight for pressure. It may be used for many reasons, including increasing flexibility, reducing soreness, and eliminating muscle ...

7. Being flexible could help you live longer, a new study ... - AOL

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   Krupa also recommends foam rolling, a form of self-massage that involves using a foam cylinder to apply pressure to tight or sore muscles, breaking up tension and knots and improving blood flow ...

8. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   Bridging exercises are done with a flexed knee to lessen the stretch on the hamstring (a knee flexor) and focus the hip extension work on the gluteus maximus. In that same respect, the reduced knee flexion makes plantar flexion work comparable to a seated calf raise, due to the lessened stretch on the gastrocnemius (like the hamstring, also a knee flexor).

9. Stretching - Wikipedia

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   Studies have shed light on the function, in stretching, of a large protein within the myofibrils of skeletal muscles named titin. [12] A study performed by Magid and Law demonstrated that the origin of passive muscle tension (which occurs during stretching) is actually within the myofibrils, not extracellularly as had previously been supposed. [13]