[quote]infinite_shore wrote:
I haven’t tried it before lifting but isn’t foam rolling essentially a poor man’s version of getting a proper sport massage?
If that is true, then I find it strange to actually do it just BEFORE training.
Afterwards or on off days, makes perfectly sense to me since most prof. athletes do it that way.
Thoughts?
ps: for making the squat “easier”, I found the squat-specific stretch/mobility exercises (“opening the hips”) suggested on MWOD very useful.
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I do both, foam roll everything then move on to bodyweight squats and squat stretches if needed, though since I started foam rolling I have needed to squat stretches a lot less. Now if I forget to foam roll, warming up feels a lot harder, even when I am doing what used to work before I started foam rolling. I keep a mini-foam roller in my duffel bag.