About 8 weeks ago I started to feel tightness in my right top of the hamstring/bottom of glute during my 2nd set of 5x5 deadlifts, I competed the rest of the workout as normal with not too much discomfort until I got out of my car following the 10 minute drive home.
When walking, standing or training I’m 100% pain free. But after sitting for more than a few minutes the pain becomes severe, especially when driving. It is recently begun to start waking me up several times through the night.
Should I just keep training as normal? I stopped doing the cardio part of the GPP a few weeks ago (12 week strength) as the pain the evening of/the following day from using the assault bike seems to be worse.
Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer.
If you have no pain at all while training, that seems to make a musculotendinous problem less likely.
With the prolonged sitting being an issue, maybe you have some sort of ischial/ischiogluteal bursitis. Since you have no pain w/ training, I’d obviously continue to train and it may improve on its own over time. You might try a short course of NSAIDs (if you can safely take them), and perhaps some sort of cushioning the affected area when you do have to sit.
Thank you Austin, I’ve been taking ibuprofen for the past few days which have made a massive improvent in pain reduction (I realise his may be due to the pain relief aspect of them as aposed to actually injury improvement). I’ve actually not woken through the night since starting these but I’m worried once I stop this short course the pain will continue to disrupt my sleep.
I may have been unclear on my first post re pain free training. One exercise which does cause some discomfort (5/10) is RDL’s/SLDL’s during the warm up sets but seems to ease off slightly once fully warmed up (4/10). Squats etc are fine.
Ive tried using the cushion for sitting but the pain doesn’t seem to be caused by the compression of sitting, but more of a “tightness” feeling.
I know self diagnosis is something people should probably avoid, but I’ve been reading about “high-hamstring Tendinopathy” and the symptoms seem to match mine e.g. laying on my back tucking knee to chest and trying to straighten my leg causing an intense pain.
A lot of online advice for high hamstring Tendinopathy seems to stretch, ice etc. Should I try these or avoid as I know yourself and Jordan tend to not generally recommend these?
Stretching is unlikely to provide significant benefit for tendinopathy, especially compared to gradual re-loading. If you can squat and deadlift without pain, I’d continue to do that, and skip movements like the RDL/SLDL that irritate it for now.
If you are finding that the symptoms are limiting you from being able to complete the 12WS program, than you can try switching. If not, I’d carry on.