Leg Exercise - How to Foam Roll Your Quads
Commonly Used For: Knee pain.
Video Transcription: I'm going to show you how to foam roll your quads, which is the muscle in the front of your thigh here. It helps to relieve tightness here which commonly causes knee pain especially right below the knee cap there. So what you need is a foam roller which you can get online or in most sporting good stores [here's one at Amazon.com]. You're going to put it down perpendicular to you, come forward so that the foam roller is on your thighs; start just below the boney parts of your hips and then slowly roll yourself forward making sure that you don't roll over your actual knee cap. If you want more pressure just on one thigh to make it more intense, just pick your opposite foot up and cross it over your other leg and then again don't go over your actual knee cap. So that's how you foam roll your quads.
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