You could probably let your knees come a little further forward by the time you are halfway down, but I don't see anything injurious in what you are doing. Have you been stretching a lot recently? Not stretching at all?
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Squat form check
Hello lately I have a pain in my right hamstring that is getting worse day-by-day. Yesterday I could only do 3 reps in squat before I quit. I couldn’t even do a single warm up rep in deads as I could not set my back without pain. The location of pain is in my right upper hamstring near glute area. I don’t feel it when I walk or doing everyday stuff. When I squat I can unrack the bar without problem but as soon as I approach the bottom position it hurts like hell. So I thought to post my yesterday set to see if there is a problem with my squat technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXYB0P0_mc
The same video in slow motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y959hgu2rMA
Thanks a lot
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You could probably let your knees come a little further forward by the time you are halfway down, but I don't see anything injurious in what you are doing. Have you been stretching a lot recently? Not stretching at all?
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This probably won't help you much but i'm dealing with the same kind of pain in my left hamstring/upper glute. Never missed a rep though, and the pain starts when i rack the bar and just stand up.
I guess it first started when i was squatting my PRs. I didn't do any streching before the injury but i'm going to try and roll the area with the tennis ball, or something.
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Thanks Tom for the review. Lately I was thinking that I do not set the knees as forward as I see others do but I don’t know if this is due to bad technique or due to my anthropometry. Sometimes I try to set them more forward but then I feel that I have to set my back more vertical to keep the bar over the middle foot. As for stretching I do not stretch at all. Not now not before. Do you think I should start?You could probably let your knees come a little further forward by the time you are halfway down, but I don't see anything injurious in what you are doing. Have you been stretching a lot recently? Not stretching at all?
In my case it started when i was squatting 110Kg but nothing serious to bother. It became pretty bad when i reached 125. I don't know though if the responsible is the squat as lately i am thinking that all started from deadlift.This probably won't help you much but i'm dealing with the same kind of pain in my left hamstring/upper glute. Never missed a rep though, and the pain starts when i rack the bar and just stand up.
I guess it first started when i was squatting my PRs. I didn't do any streching before the injury but i'm going to try and roll the area with the tennis ball, or something.
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This would be correct. Try it. See how it feels.Originally Posted by DimDimak
I would start some gentle stretching. Perhaps try sitting on a lacrosse ball over the point that it hurts the most. See if after two weeks of that if anything improves.
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Ok today i did a major reset to fix my squat and eliminate the pain. I tried to bring my knees more forward than before.
Here is second and third set.
Second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZESBo6eooo
Pretty bad set. I was not tight enough resulting in bar going forward and backward.
Third: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ykC3sgv9I
Much better. After watching the second set i tried to stay more tight sit back and not go so deep.
What's your opinion?
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Third set looked very good. A few reps may have been a half inch high, but otherwise, very nice work.
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