How to Foam Roll Your IT Bands
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The next muscle group we’re going after is the outside thigh, or what’s commonly referred to as the IT band, by T band. This is a stretch of tissue connects just below the knee travels along with the thigh and into the hip. It’s a long tangent muscle that could that takes a lot of force. If you push on the outside you lay you’ll probably feel it’d be more dense, and you push on the inside leg. That’s because when you walk, the body rotates and a lot of force goes on the outside of the legs is a good one to go after. But it’s going to take some fine tuning. If you just double stack your feet on here and go after it man, you won’t be here for very, very long, you’ll cringe your fighter. You never want your muscles to go into a defensive mode, which the extension up that’s the opposite of what you’re going for. So I’ll use my top foot and planning firm here, making use that as a deep pressurizer to my leg, but also use my hands in that same position. And I’ll start high or low and I’ll slowly roll down. Again, if I find a spot that’s too tense, I’ll lift off or put more pressure more gravity if I can continue to move down that leg. Now find a tough spot and I’ll stay there small rolling through the roller, small shifting of my pelvis or small rolling of my body. And again any of these techniques can be used to help and allow your muscles to soften and relax and force rehydrate. Therefore, release and not grab on to other surrounding tissues and move more freely.
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