Sep
22
Written by:
Ali Herreygers
9/22/2008 1:32 PM
Country and western 'classics' aside, I've somehow injured my inner thigh/groin. I've been very lucky with my leg training up until now. I squat and leg press heavy almost every week and I've never had any major knee or hamstring issues. My legs have made good progress because I've smashed them week in, week out. It first started about 3 week ago, and became noticable when doing little things like raising my leg out of bed. Nothing serious, it just felt like a light pinch. Leg training that week really irritated it. It is the kind of injury that you can work through. After a couple of intense sets the pain is gone, thats the scary part. Obviously I don't want to make it worse, but I don't want to loose any size in my legs either.
So for the last 3 weeks I've trained through it, finally realising that its not going to go away on its own accord. I spent a good 20-30 minutes stretching on saturday morning which I think has helped. I've been meaning to start stretching my hammy's regularly anyway, they're starting to get quite tight. I've had more shoulder injuries than I'd care to remember so I know how to deal with them, and get on top of them without doing too much damage or sacrificing entire workouts. However, this groin has me stumped. If anyone else has some suggestions on how to fix it I'd appreciate it.
As for how it started? Well thats a sexy story that will have to stay in the vault ;) At first I was thinking "gee I'm getting old, hurting myself while getting freaky." However I'm sure that when I'm an old man being told by the doc that I can't have sex for a month due to an unrelated ailment I'll be looking back fondly on this injury thinking "I used to cause injuries by having crazy sex... Ahh the good ol' days."
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