Do you warm up and do dynamic stretches before you train? If not theres your problem unless you have a pre exisiting injury. I see it all too often where people DO NOT WARM UP OR STRETCH before training...
Koing
Ok, some guy at the gym just told me I was doing squats incorrectly, but every single thing he told me is contrary to everything I've read.
The first thing he advised was to put the bar on my neck and look at the ceiling. Isn't this dangerous?
The 2nd thing he advised me to do was to put my arms as far apart as possible. Aren't you supposed to keep your arms as close together as possible to build shoulder strenghth?
He also had me doing weird things with my legs. Since I was looking up while he re-arranged my legs I had no idea what he was doing down there.
Since he was telling me to lift less weight (I was lifting 195) with more reps ( I was doing 5 reps) I'm tempted to ignore everything he says, but I would like to cure my left groin pain.
Today I did ellipticals for 2 and a half minutes (enough to sweat), the stretch Burns advised (squatting down and holding your knees open), and These stretches right here from Stronglifts
I still felt a tug on my groin, but no pain.
Knightbreed, I'll go ahead and go light on the squatting for a bit. Any suggestions on how light I should go?
My friend didn't bring his camera today, but he promised to bring it next Tuesday. Then you guys can critique my form.
I'll go ahead and just do Bar Squats until then.
One thing I did notice today at the gym, my left groin "clicks" whenever I do leg swings. Anyone know the cause of the clicks? Should I be worried about them?
The problem is the wider the stance, the harder it is to keep your knees aligned with your toes. The natural tendency is to squeeze inward with your groin and hip flexors, which causes unnatural strain on your groin, hips, and knees when you press upward, causing lots and lots of pain.I'm certainly no expert, but I had the same problem doing while doing 5x5. I narrowed my stance a little, and the pain went away. I believe that my stance must have been too wide, because after changing I started to feel the squats a lot more in my ass.