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Sore hip flexor
Topic Started: Dec 30 2007, 08:07 PM (525 Views)
Caber McJock
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So I've been squatting more, and heavier lately; good news, my right knee has not felt this good in ages, the bad news is me left hip flexor feels left out and is sore as a motherfuck.

It bothers me during my warm-up sets the most, I don't even notice it when I do my heavier sets- i do stretch hips before squatting, and don't notice any particular discomfort or tightness there.

Any ideas? I seem to recall someone lying on a tennis ball for something similar, don't know if that's a good idea or not.
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Thrand
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Some questions:

- How do you squat? High bar or low bar ? What kind of stance and style?
- Do you use shoes with a raised heel?
- What kind of warmup do you do? When you say you stretch your hips before squatting, I take it you mean light dynamic stretches ?
- (If you do them) Do you also feel this discomfort on the recovery phases of the snatch and clean?
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Caber McJock
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I squat sort of a medium high bar- not right up on the neck but not down below the shoulders either. Slightly wider than shoulder width- regular cross trainer type shoes.
For warm-up I do a couple of sets on split squats and BW squats, then I do this stretch:

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I don't do snatch or cleans anymore, so I couldn't say. I don't notice it deadlifting though. or at least I don't recall feeling it recently anyway.
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Thrand
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Difficult to say without seeing you do the movement in person, but I would advise the following, if possible:

- Use weightlifting shoes with a raised heel. They are good for your style of squatting. The whole body positioning will greatly improve.

- Eliminate the split squats and those stretches from your warmup. Just do some more sets of bodyweight squats or of the squat itself; or you can warm up with complexes like for example: 3 snatch + 3 front squat + 3 push press etc...
The point is: warm up with exercises which use both legs at the same time.

Let me know how it works out.
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Caber McJock
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I will give that a try- thanks for the advice.
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Shaf

How's that YRG stuff treating you? You did get the package, right?
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Caber McJock
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I did, I e-mailed you- I've been doing it and ashamed to say I've not gotten fully through the 20 minute one doing everything- I feel great afterwards.
I did get close the Sunday night though. I'm getting there.

I am constantly distracted by the black girl's boobs though.
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Shaf

In the 30 minute workout, there's a girl, Gillian, next to Page, who falls out of her damn clothes through out the whole thing.

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Caber McJock
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Ok, I'll run that one tonight- I haven't even looked at the 30 or 60 yet as I suck at the 20 so bad.
If I was able to do these consistently for a year, I wonder where I'd be at physically.
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Shaf

The 30s not harder than the 20, just longer.
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