Morning MN, I'm a regular exerciser, but certainly not super fit - I (slow) run approx once a week, do a circuits class weekly, see a PT fortnightly, and a yoga class weekly. In between I try to get out for walks of 30-60 mins.
I've been having some lower back issues, which unfortunately seems to be getting worse with yoga rather than better, so saw an osteopath last week. We're doing a number of things, but one thing he stressed was the importance of foam rolling.
So I'm starting to try to foam roll daily. At the moment I'm only doing my calves (they've always been quite tight, and I think were the cause of a long sting of plantar fasciitis, which eventually eased after near daily calf self-massages), but I thought I'd check the hive mind of MN on your foam rolling technique.
Will my calves always hurt when foam rolling?
The osteo is targeting one of my glutes as well (well perhaps the piriformis muscle, which I'd never heard of until I started googling), and I'm doing an adapted pigeon pose on one side only to help elongate that muscle.
I'm really knotty all over, have had more massages in the last year than in my lifetime (not loads, maybe one every couple of months), and they're so painful. Is this just what being 45+ feels like??? If I'm religious about the foam rolling and stretches, will everything start feeling effortless again? Has anyone else had tangible results from foam rolling?