Noplace Like Foam

Need a tension fix? Enjoy love-hate relationships? Meet the foam roller.

This petrified pool noodle gives an unyielding but convenient massage. If you are a runner, you probably already have one, in same corner as your knee tape and lacrosse ball.

If you’ve never used one, you pretty much pretend you’re a flat sheet of cookie dough rolling across a pin.

REI has a solid intro. The athletes in their videos can be intimidating but you don’t need to look like them - the simplicity and self-serve nature of the foam roller means that anyone can use it. After a few awkward tries, you’re sure to find a way to ease your stressed and knotted bits across it to find relief.

Eventually.