Avoid Injury with These Foam-Roller Exercises

If you've been in a gym recently, you have probably seen them: fellow fitness fanatics rolling around on the floor with a foam cylinder. Have you wondered what exactly what they were doing? Foam rolling is a really important way to help protect your muscles from injury when you have been exercising.

So if you've traded in serious couch-time for serious treadmill time, check out our foam-rolling exercises. The best part is you can even do it in front of the television--you get the benefit of the workout and the latest episode of Girls at the same time. What could be better than that?

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