Welcome to the quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

A little while ago, Liz wrote to me and said,

Hi, I'm a new listener, slowly working through the backlog of episodes.

Has there ever been an episode that highlighted foam rolling?

I'm new to that also and pretty sure I'm making mistakes.

Help?

Well, great question, Liz.

But before we get a rolling, there are a few things that I should probably explain.

Each of us humans is made up of about 70 trillion cells, including neurons, muscle cells,

and epithelia, which generally all work in relative harmony.

Fasha is the biological fabric that literally holds us together in our human meat sack form.

Fasha itself has been described as a 3D spider web of fibrous, wet, and sticky proteins

that bind us together and help us maintain our proper alignment.

When your body's fascia is working properly, it is elastic and stretches and moves in all directions with the rest of your body.

But, often because of hard workouts or maybe bad posture, or some strange movement patterns,

or even emotional and physical stress, and other lifestyle factors,

well, our fascia can become tight and stiff, which restricts our movement

and can cause us pain. When people feel tightness or stiffness, they usually whip out their

yoga mat and do their best to stretch it out, but conventional stretching and even some hardcore yoga on its own doesn't do much to release

really tight fascia. What does work is direct pressure from a massage therapist or a tool like

a foam roller or even a lacrosse ball. And I believe all of you get fit people already know how important it is to have

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