So I had some leg injuries (unrelated to lifting) that caused me to take a break from working out and to make a long story short, when I started working out again, I took it easy on leg related stuff, especially squats and deadlifts.
I continued progressing on my upper body lifts. My press, rows, bench presses all became stronger, all the while I kept a steady weight and rep on squats and deadlift until I felt better.
So now after all this time, I have no pain in my leg that was injured but now I can't squat worth shit. I don't know what happened but I'm barely repping 135lbs for 5 reps before my quads and ass start to hurt.
My form feels strange, to get more comfortable, I've been moving my feet closer and closer together now they are only 1 feet apart to feel comfortable squatting ATG, anything more and I feel like my inner thigh will tear.
So now I'm "that" guy who works out all upper body and hardly any lower body. You can even see it on my body where my upper body clearly looks bigger and stronger than my legs.
Question to you all is, have any of you ever been in this type of funk? Am I just being a wimp with my squats? I even got a set of lifting shoes (Nike Romalas II or something) to help with feeling comfortable with my squat but nothing seems to help. Squats just feel like shit even with no weight on the bar.
Help!
I continued progressing on my upper body lifts. My press, rows, bench presses all became stronger, all the while I kept a steady weight and rep on squats and deadlift until I felt better.
So now after all this time, I have no pain in my leg that was injured but now I can't squat worth shit. I don't know what happened but I'm barely repping 135lbs for 5 reps before my quads and ass start to hurt.
My form feels strange, to get more comfortable, I've been moving my feet closer and closer together now they are only 1 feet apart to feel comfortable squatting ATG, anything more and I feel like my inner thigh will tear.
So now I'm "that" guy who works out all upper body and hardly any lower body. You can even see it on my body where my upper body clearly looks bigger and stronger than my legs.
Question to you all is, have any of you ever been in this type of funk? Am I just being a wimp with my squats? I even got a set of lifting shoes (Nike Romalas II or something) to help with feeling comfortable with my squat but nothing seems to help. Squats just feel like shit even with no weight on the bar.
Help!