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Hip pain from squatting

Posted on 2/14/23 at 5:05 am
Posted by NolaLovingClemsonFan
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 2/14/23 at 5:05 am
So I was on a heavy squat day yesterday in the 21 to Party program (21 sets between 5 and 1 reps each), and about halfway through I got a mild but sharp pain on my outer left hip. I didn’t feel any limitation in mobility or strength. It didn’t seem to hurt or get aggravated based on moving or walking or bending in any particular way so I finished up the days workout and got all my sets in. I wouldn’t feel it at all during the squats, but it was maybe a 2.5 out of 10 pain after each set. Again, it was sharp, intermittent pain but not difficult or severe at all.

This morning I woke under and it’s now a dull, fairly constant but barely noticeable pain, probably 1 out of 10. It’s almost like a got tackled on that side or had a slight fall. No bruise.

Never really thought about hip muscles or tendons. Is there such a thing as hip sprain or tweak? Should I ease up, or is it nothing? Is there a way to stretch whatever this ligament is?

I never know whether to work through certain things or take time to ease up. I’ve done the latter at times, but sometime it feels like it makes it even worse. I was making no progress and getting weaker when I was taking time off bc of golfer’s elbow and then found the do a million pull-ups treatment on here, and it totally set me right again so I’m now bought-in to working through certain things if possible.

Any tips / thoughts? This is the most consistent and heavy I’ve ever been in squats in my life so I’d really like to not take a break, but I also don’t want to really have a setback and have to take serious time off. TIA!
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19122 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 6:32 am to
Do some lateral hip mobility exercises. May just need to loosen up a little. Sometimes you can have some tightness that doesn’t show until you’re under a heavy load. How long have you been squatting heavy? Maybe take a week or so with a lighter load. Or you may have a kink in your squat form that wasn’t present until now. You may want to have someone look at your squat for you.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
38022 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 7:27 am to
i would do like deaf said and do lots of hip mobility and take a lacrosse ball or something similar and kind of roll the area out and see how it feels.

never want to do something that is causing pain, sometimes the exercise hurts while working through something but in this case with you hurting today, it prolly aggrevated some muscle there and prolly is inflamed.

i would take 4 advil and do mobility and rolling
Posted by NolaLovingClemsonFan
Member since Jan 2020
2123 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 1:20 pm to
quote:

How long have you been squatting heavy?


About 2 years, atleast consistently.

I played football all through high school, and we had squatting in our weightlifting program but I mainly fricked around and avoided squatting (bc I’m a dumbass)
Posted by NolaLovingClemsonFan
Member since Jan 2020
2123 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 1:22 pm to
Makes sense. I do yoga 2-3 times a week so I feel like I have decently mobile hips, but I could always do more. I also think I need to warm up more. I workout first thing in the morning and really do nothing other than a 100 yard or so jog and then start with warmup sets. Probably not sufficient given I’d just been asleep all night.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
38022 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 2:23 pm to
quote:

Makes sense. I do yoga 2-3 times a week so I feel like I have decently mobile hips, but I could always do more. I also think I need to warm up more. I workout first thing in the morning and really do nothing other than a 100 yard or so jog and then start with warmup sets. Probably not sufficient given I’d just been asleep all night.



looks like we found the real issue.

try agile 8 or limber 11 before squat days.
Posted by Tiger Ryno
#WoF
Member since Feb 2007
108309 posts
Posted on 2/14/23 at 2:26 pm to
Agdeed
Seems simple. If he just stops doing the squats he should be pain free in no time.
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