Anyone recommend a specific foam roll?

Anonymous wrote:Try sticking a needle inside a muscle aka dry needling. But it works!

Yes dry needling does work!!!!

But whew that shock

How often do you foam roll? Once a day? A couple times a week? After every class or workout?

Peleton has some good rolling classes under stretching. Hannah Corbin and Matt Wilpers have some ten minute ones.

It is horrifying the first time or two, but better after that. The tighter the muscle the more the pain. A I get older the more my muscles tighten up.

I suggest you commit to doing the recommended 5 minute post ride stretch after every Peloton ride you do. These really helped me and my body feels so much better since I committed to doing them. If I skip them my muscles feel tighter almost immediately. You may not need to foam roll so much, and it may not be so painful, if you commit to stretching regularly.

Or a Theragun

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you need a softer roll.

+1

It gets better pretty fast. Only painful in the very beginning if you are super tight.

It's painful because your muscles are tight. It's probably more painful today because you are older and your muscles are not in shape.

Try sticking a needle inside a muscle aka dry needling. But it works!

Yes. It gets less painful when you do it regularly.

Maybe you need a softer roll.

It's pretty much always painful for me unless I am really disciplined about using it. The worst is my IT band. But it's sort of a "good" hurt to me.

And does it get less painful?

My quads and hips have been super tight and sore from, I suppose, my daily walks (?) and Peloton. I've been doing some foam rolling on my quads and am shocked by how painful it is... and lumpy. I used to foam roll pretty regularly when I was running more, and I don't remember it being so painful.