Pain around groin area during squats

[kimokalihi]

When I do squats I feel a good deal of pain in my groin area. Kind of on the inside of where my thighs connect to my torso but more on the front on each side of my crouch.

I think it's a combination of two things. I'm lacking strength in these areas and I'm not stretching or warming up properly. These are my guesses.

Does this sound right?

All I do to warm up is ride the bike for a couple mins and then pull my feet up behind me to stretch my quads. Then 2 or 3 warm up sets with just the bar.

What should I do about this pain?

[JordanMcC]

When I do squats I feel a good deal of pain in my groin area. Kind of on the inside of where my thighs connect to my torso but more on the front on each side of my crouch.

I think it's a combination of two things. I'm lacking strength in these areas and I'm not stretching or warming up properly. These are my guesses.

Does this sound right?

All I do to warm up is ride the bike for a couple mins and then pull my feet up behind me to stretch my quads. Then 2 or 3 warm up sets with just the bar.

What should I do about this pain?

I get this pain, is it just where the leg joins the body?

I've had it for a year now, its more annoying than painful. Is it just when you squat ?

[kimokalihi]

Yeah it's right where your legs join your torso but more in the front than on the inside but it hurts in both areas. Actually it's not quite in the front of your legs nor is it completely in the inside but rather right in between.

The only time I notice it is when I'm doing squats. But I remember it hurting sometimes when I run hard or once in a while for no apparent reason it'll pop up out of nowhere when I'm just walking around.

I think I might start this warmup routine before doing legs. It seems pretty time consuming but probably worth it.

Click the first video - MATT BRUCE AND HIS PRE LIFTING WARMUP ROUTINE.

http://www.aceathlete.com/hatch/video.htm

[K11]

I have the exact same thing, and apparently it's a pulled/strained illiopsoas, along with tight hip flexors. I think it happened when I was pulling sumo awhile ago. It ultimately started to feel a lot better, but I tweaked it again when I went for a long run. I have since taken up a much more disciplined warmup routine of foam rolling and stretching, ice afterwards, and in the meantime am just squatting a little high. Leg presses, good mornings, and conventional deadlifts don't irritate it so I do those as well. A thorough warmup + ice and lifting a little lighter for a couple weeks will make a big difference.

[kimokalihi]

I think it's got a lot to do with my poor warmup routine...if you can even call it that. If you watch that video, that olympic lifter kid does an extensive warmup routine that would probably help me a lot.

You ice afterwards? I've never tried that although I've thought about it for my shoulders after workouts because I think I tore my rotator cuff several months back and it hurts every day and I can no longer do shoulder workouts or presses with more than the bar.

[Fire8085]

Tight hip flexors.

Stretch them with lunges and reverse lunges.

[kimokalihi]

The lunges helped. I didn't experience the pain this last time I did squats. Took a couple weeks off due to a strange pain in my left knee/upper shin after the last time I did squats. Didn't hurt after doing them but after a day or 2 later and then for about 2 weeks it hurt.

It's fine now though. After doing a minute on the bicycle and walking lunges my quads were burning already. Then I went and did squats with only 95 lbs but went all the way down until my thighs basically hit my calves. As far as I could go down. My quads are really sore right now.

[anmol_khanna]

When I do squats I feel a good deal of pain in my groin area. Kind of on the inside of where my thighs connect to my torso but more on the front on each side of my crouch.

I think it's a combination of two things. I'm lacking strength in these areas and I'm not stretching or warming up properly. These are my guesses.

Does this sound right?

All I do to warm up is ride the bike for a couple mins and then pull my feet up behind me to stretch my quads. Then 2 or 3 warm up sets with just the bar.

What should I do about this pain?

Could be
- Osteitis Pubis
- Sports Hernia
- Hip flexor
- Adductor issues

My advise is to not ignore and get it checked

[kimokalihi]

Now I do warmups with dynamic stretching, the bicycle and a straight bar warmup excercise and I haven't had those pains since. I think it was just tightness and not warming up properly and stretching whatever was hurting too much when squating when it wasn't ready.

[rhino1964]

When I do squats I feel a good deal of pain in my groin area. Kind of on the inside of where my thighs connect to my torso but more on the front on each side of my crouch.

I think it's a combination of two things. I'm lacking strength in these areas and I'm not stretching or warming up properly. These are my guesses.

Does this sound right?

All I do to warm up is ride the bike for a couple mins and then pull my feet up behind me to stretch my quads. Then 2 or 3 warm up sets with just the bar.

What should I do about this pain?

I've had a recurring groin strain for several months. It would probably be gone by now if I had just rested, but I did several things to keep irritating it (like heavy rack pulls).

See your doctor and have it checked out.

[braindx]

For a strain you're going to have to constantly stretch it out to keep it from becoming tight BUT not excessively so that you make it worse. Anti-inflams would be a good idea. Natural ones like fish oil work.

After this, focus on primarily eccentric exercises starting very light with slow progressive loading as you get stronger.


For example, here's a bit of hamstring strains.. just adapt it to hip flexors or adductors or groin or whatever.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=115638201

If you need help knowing what exercises work the area (and then doing the eccentric portion) go to a site like exrx.net.