Have you been rolling?

Hi guys, it's Mitomo from mnbks fitness =]

Today, I want to express my feelings about the importance of foam rollers!

The foam roller, like traditional stretching, is a great tool for lengthening and elongating muscles, but its benefits are especially helpful for runner, who often suffer from tight and fatigues muscles. Instead of simply lengthening the muscle, a foam roller massages muscle intensely, much like a massage from a physio, but using your own body weight and agility. 

The main benefits are as followed:

• Improved blood circulation throughout your skin, fascia, muscles, and even tendons and ligaments where you can access them with a foal roller.
  
• Through improved blood circulation, more efficient exchange of nutrients and waste products at a cellular level, leading to better overall cellular function and inter-cellular communication.
  
• Lengthening of short (tight) muscles, tendons, and ligament.
  
  Some muscles (e.g. hip flexors) and ligaments are prone to shortening, and are difficult to effectively stretch and apply therapeutic pressure to using standard massage and trigger point therapy techniques. But with a foam roller, you can apply deep pressure massage to such areas and lengthening shortened tissues, thereby preventing physical imbalances that can predispose you to injury
  
• promotion of optimal spinal range of motion. You can accomplish this by slowly rolling your spine against a foam roller and pausing whenever you feel restrictions around your joints and surrounding tissues to stretch.

So go out there, buy one of these amazing equipment and roll away!

Be fit, Be happy =]