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foam roller — Stretching my body and my mind.

foam roller — And spent the evening foam rolling...

foam roller — Heather started things off with the excellent pump-action inflatable neck-stretcher.

foam roller — And the award for best late-night Amazon purchase goes to...

foam roller — ...INFLATABLE NECK STRETCHER!

foam roller — Got my foam roll on...

foam roller — Did some foam rolling on the balls I always travel with.

foam roller — Super-into this bad boy. Not for the faint of heart but great at loosening up tight erector spinae muscles.

foam roller — Hey hey! Guess who got a NEW BACK TOY?

foam roller — Got this very excellent bad boy delivered on Wednesday. 10 out of 10, great for breaking up muscle knots in your back - especially between your shoulder blades!

foam roller — NEW BACK TOY ALERT!

foam roller — Let my relatively new Nintendo Switch in the taxi by accident (wah!)...but otherwise it was nice to get home and do some foam rolling for my airplane back.

foam roller — Sometimes in the winter months, I like to dig out a box of old stuff.

foam roller — Yoga and a swim after breakfast.

foam roller — A day of guitar, napping & foam rolling.

foam roller — Stayed up late foam rolling my sore-from-driving back.

foam roller — I spend like 20% of my waking time on a mat.

foam roller — A peek into my Monday morning foam rolling tools! lol. Luckily my mom is also a foam-rolling maniac so she has a whole library of toys to augment the ones I brought down with me.

foam roller

foam roller — ...and doing my stretches and foam rolling.

foam roller — Morning foam rolling session.

foam roller — People tell me I've got a lotta balls.

foam roller — The Roll Model is my foam rolling bible. Got it ON on Monday.

foam roller — Rolled around on some balls to shake off the plane before bed.

foam roller — Rolled around on these new foam balls courtesy of...

foam roller — ...the very excellent Roll Model by Jill Scott. It's a picture book that helps you figure out how to find the knot in whatever muscle is hurting you.

foam roller — Who likes myofascial trigger point release more than this guy?

foam roller — Got home to find the brand new foam ball I'd ordered had arrived!

foam roller — Oh, you know just sitting around, foam rolling, playing guitar...

foam roller — Stayed up late watching some Netflix on my laptop and rolling driving knots out of my back with a lacrosse ball.

foam roller — Morning foam-rolling routine.

foam roller — Five hour drive? You KNOW I brought a foam roller along.

foam roller — ...we had a myofascial trigger point party and used foam rollers and lacrosse balls to find all our horrible muscle knots. (I do this for at least an hour every day).

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