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Recovery & mobility
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Yes, as a cheap warm up aid, less so for recovery. A pooled analysis found rolling gives a small short term boost to flexibility and sprint readiness before training, and a small drop in muscle pain after, so real but minor effects. It is cheap and lasts, so the bar to justify one is low.
Understand the training question behind the kit. These articles are background reading, not endorsements of a product.
No. You can build muscle without being sore, and be very sore from a session that did little for growth. Soreness mostly signals that you did something new or harder than usual, and it fades as you adapt. Judge a workout by progression over weeks, not by next day soreness.
Delayed onset muscle soreness is normal, temporary, and not a scorecard for your workout. Most remedies do a little for how sore you feel and not much for performance. Sleep, enough food, and time are the low risk foundation.