E ven as a moderately to highly active person, it took me a long time to get on the foam roller train. I used to be a purist, ...

Continue for about 30 seconds.‌ Quadriceps: If you sit a lot, your quads spend a lot of time in a shortened position. The foam roller will help loosen tight fibers surrounding your leg muscles.

Knee pain is a common cycling ailment—this is what happened when I recently felt soreness, and how our expert personal ...

She focuses on similar areas (the mid-back, outer thigh and quads) — since they are large areas, they can feel immediate relief after foam roller use. Lester recommends about 20 minutes of foam ...

Ah, the foam roller. It is both savior—and arch enemy ... When you want to work out sore quads and calves without getting down on the ground and using your body weight, the Tiger Tail is ...

Pairing foam roller exercises with stretches will open ... For example, if your quads are tight, chances are they are doing more work than they need to, and your hamstrings—which can help ...

To use your foam roller for lower back pain ... Instead, when foam rolling your legs, roll out your calves first and then your quads separately, avoiding the knee area. Foam rolling may help ...

This process is typically accomplished with a foam roller (aptly named ... your ability to engage the other—for example, if your quads are super tight, you’ll have a tough time engaging ...

on a Trigger Point foam roller, to massage out knots, roll out my thighs, and stretch out my tight quads. And while it wasn’t necessarily easy or comfortable (it’s a hurt-so-good thing), it ...

so I could get even more out of my next workout instead of half-assing my squats because my quads are so sore. At Tone House, I spent 30 minutes rolling out my entire body with a foam roller.

Any foam roller should be able to release trigger points by loosening up these tight spots in the muscle fibers, but some will feel firmer than others (a plus if you like a deeper massage), and ...

Fortunately, there are some great post-workout recovery tools that I’ve found to help tremendously — foam rollers being one of the very best. Foam rollers come in various shapes and sizes ...