Small Hamstring Tear

[Daniel Cavallari]

Hi Coach,

I'm doing a 4-day split program and, during Friday's deadlift session, I felt a small tweak on my left hamstring during the last rep. The area hurt a bit at the time, but I went on to do my scheduled light squatting and, while it hurt a bit, it didn't really restrict range of motion. It is now a little sore and it hurts a bit doing certain movements, although it has not restricted my movement at all and it has no bruising. I assume I have a tiny tear on one of the hamstring muscles based on the fact I had a pec tear last year (which I successfully rehabbed doing Starr's method) and the pain is the same, except for scale.

All that being said, my question is: should I do any specific rehabbing for this to avoid scarring, or just training through it will take care of things for such a minor injury? I'm scheduled to do volume squatting on Tuesday and the plan is to see how the warm-up feels and decide whether to do the planned workload or not.

Thank you in advance,

Daniel

[Mark Rippetoe]

If there is no ROM problem and no bruising, just train through it. This isn't the last time you will have to do this.