illmortalized
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FYI,
When you pin your ventro-glutes… do not pin at an angle, pin directly in / perpendicular to the muscle.
Like an idiot, two mornings ago, I pinned my ventro at an angle, the needle pointing more towards my buttcheeck than straight/directly in.
Soon after pinning, I headed to the gym, it was chest day. Besides using the powerlifting form for flat barbell bench, the only other time I used my legs, was during my weight dips setup. Squatting down, strapping the chain to the plates and back onto the belt, then pressing my legs down to stand up with the heaviest amount of weight being 135lbs strapped to the belt.
About 3 hours after gym, sitting down, I start feeling sort of like a pinched nerve, pain radiating from my hip down to behind my knee. Perplexed, I stand up, and to my surprise my fucking leg feels as if I was cutting blood circulation to it, so I was getting pins/needles and numbness for a few seconds with a deep bruise feeling in my hip. Not at my ventroglute, or at least in the area I pinned, but to the side of it, toward my buttcheek.
At first I didn’t put the two together, I thought I finally some how fucked up the balance between my quads and hams or something causing a flare up in my IT Band to my TFL.
But the symptoms of an inflamed ITB is pain in the outer knee, which wasn’t the case, at all. It was directly behind the knee and the pain was more like the feeling of restless leg syndrom.
All of a yesterday walked with a limp, couldn’t go to the gym, it was leg day, same with today. Though today the pain is nearly gone and it’s only at the hip (TFL).
My only conclusion is… knowing that I pinned at an angle and didn’t think twice about it, the oil went straight to the TFL area and added some pressure, enough pressure that it caused my significant pain.
tldr; I pinned ventro at an angle towards buttcheek, ended up in pain from hip down to behind knee, walked with a limp for two almost three days now. The conclusion is that because I pinned ventro at an angle, the oil must have landed right in the TFL area, adding unnecessary pressure which caused significant pain from TFL down through ITB. Could easily mistaken the pain for IT band issues.
Also going to add a tip regarding IT band: Don’t foam roll your IT band when some asshole fucking idiot (massage therapist) tells you its very tight. What you should foam roll are all the muscles surrounding it, including the glutes. The IT band only needs static stretching.
When you pin your ventro-glutes… do not pin at an angle, pin directly in / perpendicular to the muscle.
Like an idiot, two mornings ago, I pinned my ventro at an angle, the needle pointing more towards my buttcheeck than straight/directly in.
Soon after pinning, I headed to the gym, it was chest day. Besides using the powerlifting form for flat barbell bench, the only other time I used my legs, was during my weight dips setup. Squatting down, strapping the chain to the plates and back onto the belt, then pressing my legs down to stand up with the heaviest amount of weight being 135lbs strapped to the belt.
About 3 hours after gym, sitting down, I start feeling sort of like a pinched nerve, pain radiating from my hip down to behind my knee. Perplexed, I stand up, and to my surprise my fucking leg feels as if I was cutting blood circulation to it, so I was getting pins/needles and numbness for a few seconds with a deep bruise feeling in my hip. Not at my ventroglute, or at least in the area I pinned, but to the side of it, toward my buttcheek.
At first I didn’t put the two together, I thought I finally some how fucked up the balance between my quads and hams or something causing a flare up in my IT Band to my TFL.
But the symptoms of an inflamed ITB is pain in the outer knee, which wasn’t the case, at all. It was directly behind the knee and the pain was more like the feeling of restless leg syndrom.
All of a yesterday walked with a limp, couldn’t go to the gym, it was leg day, same with today. Though today the pain is nearly gone and it’s only at the hip (TFL).
My only conclusion is… knowing that I pinned at an angle and didn’t think twice about it, the oil went straight to the TFL area and added some pressure, enough pressure that it caused my significant pain.
tldr; I pinned ventro at an angle towards buttcheek, ended up in pain from hip down to behind knee, walked with a limp for two almost three days now. The conclusion is that because I pinned ventro at an angle, the oil must have landed right in the TFL area, adding unnecessary pressure which caused significant pain from TFL down through ITB. Could easily mistaken the pain for IT band issues.
Also going to add a tip regarding IT band: Don’t foam roll your IT band when some asshole fucking idiot (massage therapist) tells you its very tight. What you should foam roll are all the muscles surrounding it, including the glutes. The IT band only needs static stretching.
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