Hi all you HST'ers! Hope everyone is fighting fit and training hard.
Well, it's been a rather longer time away from posting in my log here than I anticipated. It's been a good five months!!
For the past couple of weeks I've been getting over a nuisance left-groin injury and a right forearm strain. The left-groin issue (in region of gracilis or adductor brevis/longus origin) meant any form of squatting was painful. Prior to that, I'd had two weeks away from any training and before that, training was patchy. Not good. :-/
The groin strain was a little disconcerting as it's a sharp pain when it happens. It happened on three successive sessions: each time I thought I'd waited long enough for it to heal but evidently I hadn't. I only allowed a couple of days the first time before trying some light squatting. Worked up to 70 kg without any obvious pain but then at 85kg, zing, it went again, and rather than dump the bar I stood up with it which probably didn't help. The pain occurred about half-way between the bottom position and standing, just around or slightly above parallel.
Anyway, after a couple of days rest, I did a bunch of rehab movements over the following days including SLDLs and a good deal of stretching and rowing, and I am pleased to say that it seems to be sorted now. My hunch is that it was due to a change in my form for snatching. I'm gradually improving my bottom position but I'm also improving my first and second pull positions. I was experimenting with a more knees-out pull which translates to more force applied to the floor on the outside of my feet. It's seems to be a more powerful position but I think the forces on the muscles are distributed differently and a weak link got pulled. I think it happened when snatching with 70kg for triples, followed by front-squatting with only 100kg. Using the same form for squatting was the straw that broke this camel's ass!
I've been neglecting my rowing for warming up which was also dumb, especially at my age (49 any day now) so I'm going to make sure I always do that. I'm messing with my form on that too: regular rowing and then rowing knees-out, like a frog, which puts more emphasis on the adductors. I'd never row like that in anger but it's good for warming up.
The weather is improving here and I need to get back to some consistent training and into PR territory again. I'll post my session from last night a bit later.
Well, it's been a rather longer time away from posting in my log here than I anticipated. It's been a good five months!!
For the past couple of weeks I've been getting over a nuisance left-groin injury and a right forearm strain. The left-groin issue (in region of gracilis or adductor brevis/longus origin) meant any form of squatting was painful. Prior to that, I'd had two weeks away from any training and before that, training was patchy. Not good. :-/
The groin strain was a little disconcerting as it's a sharp pain when it happens. It happened on three successive sessions: each time I thought I'd waited long enough for it to heal but evidently I hadn't. I only allowed a couple of days the first time before trying some light squatting. Worked up to 70 kg without any obvious pain but then at 85kg, zing, it went again, and rather than dump the bar I stood up with it which probably didn't help. The pain occurred about half-way between the bottom position and standing, just around or slightly above parallel.
Anyway, after a couple of days rest, I did a bunch of rehab movements over the following days including SLDLs and a good deal of stretching and rowing, and I am pleased to say that it seems to be sorted now. My hunch is that it was due to a change in my form for snatching. I'm gradually improving my bottom position but I'm also improving my first and second pull positions. I was experimenting with a more knees-out pull which translates to more force applied to the floor on the outside of my feet. It's seems to be a more powerful position but I think the forces on the muscles are distributed differently and a weak link got pulled. I think it happened when snatching with 70kg for triples, followed by front-squatting with only 100kg. Using the same form for squatting was the straw that broke this camel's ass!
I've been neglecting my rowing for warming up which was also dumb, especially at my age (49 any day now) so I'm going to make sure I always do that. I'm messing with my form on that too: regular rowing and then rowing knees-out, like a frog, which puts more emphasis on the adductors. I'd never row like that in anger but it's good for warming up.
The weather is improving here and I need to get back to some consistent training and into PR territory again. I'll post my session from last night a bit later.
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