Are they worth it? What size/type to get?
Foam Rollers
Leo Wilson
Other urls found in this thread:
gaiam.com
amazon.com
youtube.com
twitter.com
Anthony Howard
Works great for me.
I use them after my 2nd warm-up set in squats.
I also use them on just about everything on Sundays... (provided I'm off work, or late shift).
If you don't weigh more than 200 lbs, you should get the green one from a company called GAIAM. Affordable and effective.
If you're closer to 250 lbs, check out the blue RumbleRoller.
>feels good when it's over
Luis Long
yes, but also get a thicc PVC pipe because foam rollers are dope but if you want to get that beast mode muscle smashing, you need
>the pipe
Levi Bennett
pvc pipe + grippy tape
infinitely better than shitty soft foam
Aaron Jones
Thanks. I'm ~170, so is this the one you meant: gaiam.com
I am tryna get the pipe
Landon Green
Is PVC pipe better than high density foam like this: amazon.com
Charles Kelly
Tennis balls
Isaac Powell
Medicine ball, tennis ball, plastic water bottle (Filled up and then freeze it, won't explode), baseball (If you're really masochistic), you can use the edge of a counter or table if you can relax your weight to press your back into it, a LOT of objects work for SMR.
Robert Reyes
You have no choice in diameter, they're all the same in that, just length.
Sounds like a great way to bruise the living shit out of already stressed muscles and fuck your shit up for a week and not be able to train -- or even move around.
The problem with pretty much all of these rollers is you have no choice in the outside diameter. Unless you're a skinny little cardio bunny, they're all too small a diameter and it places too much pressure on too small a cross-section, which can actually fuck your shit up worse.
Ian Smith
How so you even use them? My gym got them, but I've never seen anyone use them.