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The fascia truth: foam rolling buys range, not performance

Roll for range and recovery feel. Not for power.

SWe reviewed the research on it.Injuries, tendons and coming back

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How to use it

Foam rolling gives a large short-term increase in range of motion and helps recovery feel. It hasn't been shown to make you more powerful.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

Sources

Skinner et al. 2020 · Cheatham et al. 2015 (meta-analyses).

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