After realising what my knee/leg pain was coming from (ITB syndrome) and doing a fair bit of research on it I discovered the best way of working this out was through the use of a foam roller. So, straight onto the web and soon ordered a neato roller from a local place for $30 bucks. I also looked at the following video which was hugely informative on how to use it.
Naturally my roller will take a few days to arrive, but I'd seen reference to using a soccer or volleyball as a 'make do' roller, and that I had - So on getting home last night I grabbed a ball, pumped it up a bit and started to experiment with the exercise.
Well, I'd chuckled when in the above video the presenter indicated that you could "feel free to scream at any point".... But my chuckling stopped in the first 10 seconds. OH MY GOD!!!!! The pain through the thigh was excruciating and it wasn't long before I was regarding this exercise and piece of the equipment as the first 'obstacle' in my TM journey - which I will forever now refer to "The Ball Tearer"....
I was literally crying out in pain at some points of that exercise, but I knew it was the right thing to keep doing it. When I played with the other leg the pain was nowhere near as bad so I knew it was the right thing, but geez.... This is going to be a brutal part of my training regime.
I guess therefore that these exercises are going to have two benefits for the upcoing Mudder - Both improving my leg but also increasing my pain threshold!!!
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