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Thanks. Looks promising for travel.

For home use, do you prefer the foam roller or the tiger tail, or is each tool superior to the other for certain areas?

Foam roller superior for hamstrings, ITB, glutes and back. Tiger tail superior for quads and lower legs. Sitting or lying with the foam roller close to COG is easy, sitting or lying with it farther away is harder. Quads are probably a wash, actually, now that I think about it. But for lower legs, Tiger Tail ftw.

How does the tiger tail compare to the foam roller in terms of efficacy?

From my ten minutes or so messing with the thing, it has pluses and minuses.

Pluses: you can really control where you're applying pressure and how much pressure you're applying; it's portable
Minuses: it's awkward to reach and apply enough pressure to some places (hamstrings, for example) because of the angle you have to work with

The upshot is that it seems like a really useful tool with some limitations.

Thanks fellas.

In other news, I used a "Tiger Tail" last night for the first time. Gonna have to get me one of those at some point. For the time being foam roller + lacrosse ball works great but the roller is, um, kind of hard to carry around. I continue to love my gym. Cool people all around.

http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Tail-Rolling-Muscle-Massager/dp/B000FE82QU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1281714837&sr=8-1-catcorr

I cannot comment on how well rated he is, but those were some sick dunks, for a fool of a Took, that is.

By underrated I mean that no one talks about Scottie Pippen as a great dunker cause he never won any contests or anything. But as an in-game dunker he was a god damn menace.

And even when he was in contests, he got fucked over by the judges. Case in point, this filthy free-throw-line jam from the 1990 Slam Dunk Contest did not get a 50, while Jordan's more stylish and more famous but shorter dunk did:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSme4QmiLcs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSme4QmiLcs</a>

Joe pretty much nailed it with that Madonna picture. POW camp status, coming up.

Big Chief is such an awesome song.

warm up
perfunctory foam roll
played catch (baseball)
jump rope
mobility

ankle rehab

work
trap bar DL 3x8x290
BSS 3x12x80 -- like the high reps
row x500m to cool legs down
core x2
--front plank x60s
--side plan x30s/ea

cool down
stretch

Perhaps you should do the pullups, rows and pushups before the endurance test?

Yeah I meant for it to come last. Good point.