Learn how to use a Foam Roller for Flexibility

This is a total body rolling session, using a foam roller and yoga mat. We cover both anterior and posterior positions, incorporating some upper body strength and core work.

The benefits of rolling are:

• Promotes long lean muscles.
• Promotes Myo-fascial release; useful for treating skeletal muscle immobility and pain by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood and lymphatic circulation, and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles.
• Fascia is a thin, tough, elastic type of connective tissue that wraps most structures within the human body, including muscle. Fascia supports and protects these structures.
• Creates a sense of well-being while working intrinsically (from within).
• Improves flexibility in the skeletal muscle system.
• Engages the deep core muscles, strengthening them.
• Rolling could also improve your workouts by literally warming your muscles.  Warming up your muscles before exercise helps loosen up the tissues and joints and increase range of motion—which helps you move better during your workout and protect you from injury.
• Will improve your posture.
• At the end of the day, remember that just like any other workout recovery method, foam rolling should be used as a tool to help you feel better during and after workouts. That means that you can and should tweak your rolling habits to whatever works best for you. So don’t stress about sticking to a strict schedule—start with rolling when you feel like you need it or simply when you have time, and take it from there depending on what feels right.