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Owie leg
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I've been working out quite regularly for a bit now and for about the last month or so my leg hurts when I work on my legs. I do different muscle groups each time so theres always a good amount of days inbetween the times I work out my legs.
However when the days for my legs do come around I get a real bad pain in my lower hamstring afterwards. It lasts probably 3 days or so. I've even let it go a bit over a week of leg rest, thinking I just pulled or strained something and it just needed some rest, and the next time I worked out, it hurt again.
Any ideas on how to cure this? I stretch before and stretch real good after and always warm up and cool down.
I tried to make Ed massage it one night and I don't think I've ever been in so much pain!
And its hardly like I overwork, when I do work out I'm such a slacker
However when the days for my legs do come around I get a real bad pain in my lower hamstring afterwards. It lasts probably 3 days or so. I've even let it go a bit over a week of leg rest, thinking I just pulled or strained something and it just needed some rest, and the next time I worked out, it hurt again.
Any ideas on how to cure this? I stretch before and stretch real good after and always warm up and cool down.
I tried to make Ed massage it one night and I don't think I've ever been in so much pain!
And its hardly like I overwork, when I do work out I'm such a slacker
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Also a little tip, stretching will weaken the muscle if done prior workout. Just do a couple of light warm up sets.
Lemme ask you, you seem all smart on the workout stuff, I'll walk for about 25 minutes, then just stretch out the calves and legs a bit, I'm a sucker for getting sore after, then I do my stretching at the end, is that too much?
However, are you warming up properly before starting? It could be that. I get like that if I don't warm up the muscles before activity.
Stretching the muscle after walking is alright. Usually the case in which I fell in is that I was stretching to hard, & this was making me ache.
I only do legs about once a week. I don't do it till failure, I do 3 sets of 10 at a weight that I can complete all 3 full sets at. I mix and match the exercses, doing only 3 at a time though. Last time (Thursday) I did the machine that targets the hamstrings, one that does the quads and one for my butt. But it changes, like maybe next time I'll probably do the one for the hips, (couldn't tell you those names to save my life) some calfs and some deadlifts, it changes.
Also deadlifts could be another factor. I think if I was you I wouldn't train legs for a while just to let them recover. But saying that how much aerobic activity do you so? Running etc. can have the same effect.
Thank you very much