Hi doctors, hopefully you can give me some guidance on this. A few weeks back just after finishing my squats I had some fairly intense pain in my right hip, just in the crease where the top of the thigh meets the pelvis.
The pain was bad enough that I could barely squat an empty bar in the following days. I decided to take a break from the squats for a while, occasionally trying a light rep or two to check for pain.
In total I took about 5 or 6 weeks off from squatting, (doing leg press instead which didn’t cause any pain) and I’ve been easing myself back into them over the last couple of weeks, but the pain is coming back.
It’s nowhere near as severe as it was, and I can squat through it but I’ve a feeling that’s a bad idea. Do I keep going, or cut the weight right back and keep it light for a few weeks, or do I rest it completely?
Thanks in advance, Steve.
Hey Steve, sorry to hear about your current situation but hopefully we can provide the guidance you’re looking for. Squatting in some fashion will probably be more beneficial than resting it completely. Beyond cutting some of the weight, have you tried making any other modifications in your squat, i.e. depth, stance width, tempo, etc? And, were/are you running any particular program?
Many thanks for the response Mike.
At the time of injury I was on week 2 of The Bridge, prior to that I had completed my novice LP and then run through the 7 week hypertrophy template twice in order to lose some weight.
Since I posted the OP, I have squatted a few more times but the pain has returned to the point where now even bodyweight squats are quite painful. I haven’t really tried any other modifications, although the pain only seems to kick in when approaching full depth. I haven’t tested this with a bar but I reckon half squats would be doable without any real discomfort.
Steve.
Thanks Doc, in today’s workout I tried pin squats a few inches above parallel with a reasonably heavy weight and although there was some pain it was much better than before and definitely tolerable. Likewise the split squats didn’t cause much pain, so this seems like a good plan. Thanks again Mike.