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The Best Foam Roller Exercises For Your Legs

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6 of the best foam roller exercises for your legs! Reduce soreness and prevent injury with these lower body foam roll exercises
Let’s face it – if you’ve ever been active you’ve probably been sore.
 
Whether it was running, weight lifting, walking, hiking, or just trying to keep up with the kiddos – chances are you’ve done something active and felt some muscle soreness the next day.
 
Now – don’t get me wrong – that’s a great thing! Your muscles need to be stressed to heal and repair and grow. Problems arise when we do it too much or don’t give them adequate recovery time.
Today I wanted to share with you 6 of my favorite lower body exercises you can do on a foam roller to stay healthy, mobile, and active!

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The Best Core Exercises For Strength

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As a doctor of physical therapy, I see a lot of patients in my clinic for a lot of different reasons.

Sure I see my fair share of sprains and strains and bumps and bruises, but by far the most common condition I treat is low back pain.

It’s estimated that 80% of us will experience some episode of low back pain in our lives. Think of it – that’s 4 out of every 5 people!

Keeping a strong core is crucial not only to performance enhancement and activity, but overall function as well. In fact – many of my patients with back pain would likely not even have their pain if they kept their core strong and healthy.

That being said, today I wanted to share with you the 5 core exercises that I recommend more than any others. These are exercises you can do everyday to strengthen your core, feel healthier, and even mitigate some pain.

New video instruction included – let’s try it out!…

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