So I made you a First 48 Hours Post-Marathon Soreness Survival Guide: Quads, Calves, and Hamstrings Edition.

yup, coming out of the gates haawwwt.

I was thinking about this while running this morning: we're in this weird in between stage right now.

The internet rides the hype-bus of early to mid fall marathons (Sept through October) but then completely forgets about November marathons. (kind of rude in my opinion, but the internet didn't ask me...)

So regardless of the internet losing it's mind over pumpkin spice turning into peppermint mocha...

I wanted to make sure you had the tools you needed to help recovery after whichever fall race you're running or pacing.

(technically, these exercises work GREAT for long runs too.)

Because another things that continues to bother me (and just ignore me if you LOVE these tools): but I just shake my head over foam rolling and massage gunning.

If they work for you, wonderful! But they're so easily over priced and bulky and hard to travel with...

And I know a lot of runners do destination races or would like to do one in the future.

So that's why this week I did another deep dive into using the muscle flossing band.

(again, not trying to sell you anything. I do not have a link, code, or a million dollar sponsorship.)

But I love how affordable it can be ($14). And it can fit in your gym bag, carry on, even stuffed into a running shoe!

And I feel it "works better" than other tools.

It creates this compression around a joint and muscle which is then coupled with a dynamic, but easy exercise.

It temporarily blunts blood flow IN; you don't enter a true ischemic state, but the exercise does create a pump-action where it pumps out the waste products.

When you release the band, you get an influx of fresh blood and oxygen. All of which help speed up recovery.

But the coolest part, I think, is that this compression directly talks to the proprioceptive organs in both our joints and muscles.

And when we talk to our neuromuscular system in this way, we can decrease hypertonic muscle tone, or guarding, or good old fashion REALLY uncomfortable muscle tightness that doesn't go away with stretching.

So in my brain: stretch 15x in one day and still not feel any better.

Or use the muscle flossing band for 2 mins and still feel relief all the way till bed time? (true story, by the way).

So let me drop the link below to my latest article and let's go check it out together. And make your first 48 hours post-race a LOT more comfortable ;)

Dare to Train Differently,

Marie Whitt, PT, DPT //@dr.whitt.fit

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