Many people now like to stretch their muscles after training, but many people want to use equipment to relax their muscles because they are not strong enough. Nowadays, there are two fitness equipment, foam roller and fascia gun, to help us relax our muscles. So which one do you think is more effective, foam roller or fascia gun? Let’s go take a look below!
What are foam rollers and fascia guns
Fascia gun, its full name is muscle fascia deep massage gun. It uses high-intensity vibration to release the fascia deep within the muscles. It has an excellent effect on clearing blood circulation and relieving muscle cramps. Foam rollers have a shape similar to a mace. Currently, foam rollers have also begun to be upgraded to foam rollers with electric vibration, which are also expensive. Its use requires that your own weight must be pressed on the foam, and the foam roller can only loosen the superficial fascia and muscles. It is not as effective as the fascia gun for deep fascia and muscles like the deep thighs.
Which is better, foam roller or fascia gun
Both can help relax muscles and have the same effect. Foam rollers require you to take the initiative to exercise to help relax your muscles. The fascia gun is electric and placed on the area that needs massage. The fascia gun has a certain effect on relaxing muscles, because the fascia gun is mainly used for high-frequency impact physiotherapy for fascial relaxation. Compared with our daily use of foam rollers for relaxation, the fascia gun relaxes muscles and fascia more deeply and accurately.
How to use a foam roller
The foam roller is a deformed product of the fingers, so the method of relaxing the foam roller is not to roll it, but to press the pain point, which is the adhesion point, and then move the limbs to let the adhesion muscles move, while pressing The fascia cannot move, which separates the adhering fascia from the muscles. ——The vast majority of people have problems with the way they use foam rollers. Most people use rolling, which feels like a rolling pin. Rolling only relaxes nerve control and cannot separate fascia and muscles. The correct method is to find the "pain point" and press it, then move your limbs.
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