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Tag Archives: foam rolling
Weekend Posts (6.29.13 ARWOD + 6.30.13 MWOD)
Saturday (6/29/13) Recovery
Sit all day? Try this stretch to regain hip/lower back/shoulder mobility.
Sunday (6/30/13) Mental Work
- Check out this great article from the blog “High Existence,” giving a high level overview of the different levels of meditation.
- Meditation is a very powerful tool to enhance our training as well as our everyday existence.
Weekend Posts (6/1/13 ARWOD + 6/2/13 MWOD)
Saturday (6/1/13) Recovery
- Sweat out that hangover with some steamed foam rolling followed by hot yoga
- Literally douse your foam roller in water and toss it in a microwave (if you can find one big enough to hold it)*
Sunday (6/2/13) Mental Work
- This is one of the most fascinating articles I’ve read in a while. It touches upon the science behind “willpower,” discussing its direct correlation to brain glucose levels.
Also, watch this TED talk about willpower. Note at 7:37, she equates developing your mind to ‘lifting heavy weights.’ Seriously! your mind is another muscle that needs to be worked as well.
*Just kidding
5.22.13 ARWOD
Recovery
Motivation
- Check out this vlog from Layne Norton about motivation and passion–pretty inspirational stuff.
5.18.13 ARWOD
Recovery
Motivation
- Team SwoleFIT will be doing the Chicago tough mudder on this fair day; for those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s a 13 mile obstacle course designed by British Special Forces. It’s a test of your strength, especially your mental strength and is guaranteed to increase the size of your proverbial (and literal) cajones.
- There’s races all over the country; check out the video to get a glimpse of the event:
5.4.13 ARWOD
Recovery
Motivation
- I found this awesome channel on youtube called “Buff Dudes.” It’s essentially a bunch of clips of these bodybuilders running on beaches, playing with animals, and planting gardens*.
- Here’s a video recipe for what looks to be some scrumpdiddlyumptious “protein peanut butter cookies.” Imma make me some o’ these bad boys this weekend. DERICIOUS.
- Should be an outstanding, on-hand energy source while I’m at the bars flirting with disaster, squatting ass to grass on the dance floor to show all the young ladies my outstanding range of motion and explosiveness from the ground.
*Sort of
5.1.13 ARWOD
Recovery
- Standard SwoleFIT Recovery
- Remember to stay carefree. Live, laugh, love. Life is about the nights you’ll never remember and the friends you’ll never forget. “Dance like no one’s watching.” -Gandhi
- Boys are cheats and liars, they’re such a big disgrace, they will tell you anything to get to 2nd– baseball, baseball, he thinks he’s gonna score, but if you let him go all the way then you are a– horticulture studies flowers, geologist studies rocks, all that guy wants from you is a place to put his– cockroaches, beetles, butterflies and bugs, nothing makes him happier than a giant pair of– jugglers and acrobats, a dancing bear named chuck, all he really wants to do is– forget it, no such luck : ) (The Hot Chick, 2002)
Motivation
I present to you the latest and greatest in tank designs I’ve been working on:
4.27.13 ARWOD
Recovery
Motivation
- It’s here, guys. Quite possibly the greatest movie that will ever be made (I haven’t seen it, but I’m 100% sure already). Marky Mark “Yeah I put on 40 lbs of clean muscle in 7 weeks” Wahlberg and Dwayne “Climbers who have scaled Mount Everest can’t scale DEEZ TRAPZ” aka “The Rock” Johnson headline a star studded cast with what looks to be the game changer of 2013.
- Check out these behind the scenes articles/videos:
4.24.13 ARWOD
Recovery
Motivation
- Blake Griffin gives his past self some advice on getting swole in this refreshingly entertaining Kia Optima commercial:
4.17.13 ARWOD
For those new readers of the blog, ARWOD = Active Recovery Workout Of the Day
Recovery
- 20-30 minutes of cardio (optional)
- 15-20 minutes of foam rolling
- 20-40 minutes of Broga
If you’re just starting to check this blog out, get used to seeing this recovery workout. Old Faithful, as I like to call her, never fails to help me get rid of any lingering soreness.
Depending on how you feel, you can opt for some light to moderate cardio. Basically anything that gets your heart rate up will suffice including but not limited to: yogging, biking, swimming, running stairs while swinging a sledgehammer, running after random people on the street while swinging a sledgehammer, running away from the police while swinging a sledgehammer.
Do about 30-50 rolls on each muscle group using the foam roller. This is going to hurt considerably in some areas, and you’re going to want to stop. Don’t. Instead, repeat the following #SwoleFIT mantra in your head: “Please sir, I want some more.”
Broccoli + Yoga = Broga. This is not only delicious but also helps relieves tension in the muscles. My go-to broga routine is the 20 minute one on the “Simply Yoga” app combined with a single head of raw broccoli, which is fairly basic but still does the job.
Motivation
- This is the geyser Old Faithful below after doing some foam rolling.
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