This Homemade Foam Roller Massages Tired Muscles Perfectly
Foam rollers are cylindrical pieces that use your body weight to massage sore and tight muscles and can also aid you in strength training . You can buy them at any sporting goods store, but today you’ll learn how easy it is to make your own durable foam roller for under $ 20.
Before you do that, we must warn you: this particular homemade foam roller is really very durable because it is basically a wide polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe, a material that is often used in construction. So if you’ve never used a foam roller before, then something as hard as PVC pipe will be excruciating (in a good way). A yoga mat or kitchen cabinet lining as suggested here might soften it, but only slightly.
If you are happy with that, all you need is a PVC pipe of the right length; but if you decide to make it “softer,” you need a kitchen cabinet lining (or yoga mat), a precision knife, and some kind of glue like spray or rubber glue.
You will find PVC pipes at your local hardware store. Choose a white hard drive with a diameter of at least 6 inches and ask the employee to cut a little more for you than you think. Most foam rollers are 9 “to 36” long, but I would recommend making this around 12 “for versatility. If you plan to wrap the PVC pipe with a liner, make sure the width of the liner is wider than the length of the PVC pipe, then just glue and roll the PVC pipe like a sushi roll. For images and clearer instructions, check out the article at the link below, which also goes into detail about the Styrofoam rollers and how to use them.
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