Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Long Road to Recovery

For the past three days now I have been feeling under the weather. My road to recovery is almost complete and I am getting back at it tomorrow.

The subject of recovery got me thinking about YOUR recovery after a intense workout. So what do you do now to help your body recover?

I can sure tell you what a large scale of people do day in and day out. Do you know what it is?

NOTHING!

Yes, absolutely nothing, the exercise and feel that is it. Well, guess what they are wrong!

If you are not actively pursuing a proper post-workout regiment, you really need to start TODAY!

Your solution.

Self Myo-Fascia Release or as it has commonly become known as, foam rolling.

Your muscles through repition and overuse start to form adhesions or trigger points of muscular tissue. These small knots need to be broken up and released and can not be resoloved by common static stretching.

So your solution?

A foam roll.

Don't have one? Visit

www.performbetter.com

Next week I will show you a video on how to use your foam roll.

Dedicated to your fitness,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

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