Self Care- what to do to help your workout and results

WITHOUT working out more……

Self Care- a term I think is not used enough in the fitness industry. We typically only think about it once we are injured, but the amazing thing is, if we practiced self care, we could avoid most injuries.

Self Care basically means taking care of yourself and when you check wikipedia, there is a very clinical, disease based definition. For our fitness purposes, we are mainly talking about stretching and myofascial release (in laymans terms…. self massage). And when things get bad, icing and controling inflamation.

Today’s first recommendation is the foam roller It has definately made it’s way into our lives more but I definately see peeps walk past it in the gym simply not knowing what to do with it. Basically, if you have a tight spot ROLL ON IT. You get to use your own body weight for compression. You control how deep it goes. And rather than rewriting the fabulous info on it…..check out this link with specific foam roller exercisesand pictures to follow.

It will change your life. Especially if you have tight IT bands. check it out.