I know people recommend you dont stretch to hard before exercise so as to night create micro tears and then exacerbate them while working out.
What about foam rolling. I am gonna swim later, hamstring is tight as hell, so should i go swim, use pull bouy and not kick and do foam rolling after. Or foam roll the legs off myself and then swim with no danger of making any damage/breakdown caused by the foam rolling of the knots getting worse.
Does it matter?
I asked a similar question to a personal trainer at the local YMCA last week. I told her my left hamstring was getting seriously tight and asked if I shouild roll it before or after I run.
She said “Hmmmm, you could try both ways and see which one works best for you”.
Gee, thanks for the advice. Glad I wasn’t paying for it.