You’ve seen that colorful tape all over college and professional athletes. You even saw it at the summer Olympics a couple of years go. You weren’t really sure what use it could be to you since you don’t play a sport. However, you’re an avid runner and protecting your joints and reducing injury is really important if you want to keep running every day. Those colorful streaks are known as Kinesio tape, and it can really help you!

First of all, the tape has a ton of benefits compared to traditional athletic tape. It can speed up your recovery if you’re injured by allowing your injury to have the completely free range of motion that older athletic tape doesn’t allow. It can help you handle your pain and keep you from further injuring yourself. The tape protects your muscles, tissues, and joints, which are all things you need if you want to be the best runner you can be. You can even use it if you’re not injured and it’ll still provide all of those body parts with protection. Additionally, it’s much more comfortable and flexible than traditional athletic tape.

Applying Kinesio tape is a little different than putting on traditional athletic tape. It’s more than just sticking the tape on your ankle and wrapping it around several times. You have to put the tape over your entire muscle in way that doesn’t prevent you from moving it. There are classes you can attend and even videos you can watch online to learn how you can apply the tape to yourself, or how you can have someone else do it for you.

So, you’re not injured yet, but you want to prevent injury in any way you can. That’s great! Kinesio tape is perfect for this! Once you learn how to apply it, you can put it on and keep yourself from getting hurt.

Are you ready to take a leap of faith and try it? Great! You can purchase Kinesio tape at your local sporting goods store, or you can buy it online. You want to make sure that you’re buying authentic tape and not a knock off. Know what size is best for you, pick the colors you like, and order away! If you’re really excited to get your tape and you want to use it on your run tomorrow evening, have it shipped to you overnight.