AMR Answers: Foam Roller v. Massage Gun; Training for a Backyard Ultra

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Athletes looking to be smart with their post-workout recovery will appreciate the hosts’ answer to Ellany’s question about the difference between foam rolling and using a massage gun. Runners considering a backyard ultra, like Jennifer, will be intrigued by the insightful training advice Coach Dimity offers. (Here are the marathon plansshe references.) And anyone doing an early spring cleaning of their workout-wear drawer(s), including Cortney, will benefit from Sarah’s purge-advice. Before Sarah reads the first Q at 4:40, the hosts talk about Dimity swimming strategically. Please call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771) to record your question. Sign up to Go the Distance. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to AMR answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:08.3	And this is Dimity McDowell coming to you from outside of Phoenix, Arizona.
0:14.0	Can you tell? Do you see my blue dots somewhere, Sarah? It's not in my home office.
0:19.4	If I have you on Find My Friend, that's what I should do, right?
0:23.5	Where's Timit? Is she working?
0:25.8	What's going on? Yeah, yeah, I'm down in Arizona, getting ready for the Mammoth March,
0:30.1	which is coming up this weekend. We won't talk about that. But I'm here at my parents' place,
0:36.3	working on my book and also swimming a little bit, which
0:40.6	has been very fun.
0:42.7	I haven't swam outside in a very long time, so it feels good.
0:46.7	I'm envious.
0:48.0	And don't even begin to tell me it's an Olympic-sized pool.
0:50.5	That would really just crush me.
0:51.8	It's not, but it's a saltwater pool.
0:53.6	Oh, nice. Okay. So you don't
0:55.9	smell like chlorine for the rest of the day. No, although it does give a nice straw-like quality to
1:02.4	your hair. I will say that. We haven't turned out our cameras yet. You haven't seen me.
1:08.8	Like these little writing retreats are great i like live in a little
1:12.0	bubble but like i mean i'm wearing the swain pair of sweat pants i've had on for four days like i haven't
1:17.4	really i have brushed my hair but you know yeah yeah but it's lovely i brought my snorkel my swim
1:24.9	snorkel which um you know makes me a verified nerd and um brought my plbuy, my swim snorkel, which, you know, makes me a verified nerd, and
1:29.0	brought my pull buoy down here. And so I've got both of those things. And I've swam for, I've
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