Originally Posted by
Travis Chambers
G'day fellas and ladies,
I'll start off by saying thanks for all your contributions to strength training.
I'm a long time listener, first time caller who bought the book a million years ago and recently purchased the app.
To cut a long story short I was about 6 weeks into NLP after about a 6 year lay off, getting some serious work in, and starting getting real tight nagging pain in my upper thigh/quad from squatting. Basically when your hands hang by your sides, everything you can grab by your palms was flaring up. Initially just my right side but now both.
So I did what any sane man addicted to the gainz would do, I fucken cowboyed up, threw caution to the wind two days later and went for another all time PR of 125kg for 3 sets of Fahve. Hurt like a mother fucker, however I'm not one for falling prey to being a pussy so I decided I'd rather get stapled than rack early. And so I got stapled, on rep 3. Getting pinned didn't really do anything other than make me look silly but it seemed as though I'd really reached my limit on the day, and the pain was present throughout.
So that brings me to now. I'm 4 weeks later and the pain isn't constant but it's positional and loading it is a problem. I can air squat and squat with a bar, but as soon as I get into the 70/80 KG range I got problems.
I can post a form check if that's the done thing, however just wanna know if this sounds familiar to anyone and what to do about it.
I got a 'sports massage' and all that did was hurt.
Been to a physio and the guy, and I'm not kidding, shoved a needle in my ass and electrocuted me. Not sold.
If I foam roll, which I know you guys will all say is bullshit anyway and I'm sure your right, I get some minor relief but nothing miraculous.
I just wanna squat, you can take literally everything else away from me other than my family, my house and my job, but just let me damn squat to depth and work on getting it stronger and I'm a made man.
30years old, 87KG, who sleeps and eats food.
Cheers,
Travis