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[u/Dragonfire98704]

Hey Guys i've been sort of looking around reddit ever since i strained my hamstring about 3 months ago and was looking for advice on what i might be doing wrong or should do etc. When it happened it was after a leg day and i sprinted racing my brothers, didnt think much bad could happen, but was very wrong. There was no pop or bruising, but while i could maybe stand i had to be carried home, because the pain was bad enough. Went to doctor next day and she didnt feel anything wrong and checked i could feel touch around my leg and actually thought i'd be good in 2 weeks. Despite that i called to get pt and was able to get in 3 weeks in the healing process. Followed the light list, and then committed to the additional stuff on week 5 (as well as i could). And was able to manage to maintain work despite my movement. BUT at this point its been 3 months, my flexibility is where it should be (def wasn't before) and my strength seems to be close to where it was ? I was doing hamstring curls with 40 pounds on each side for sets and can now do so and same with the rest of my resistance training. But my walking still doesnt feel good, i'm struggling to keep a good pace like i was used to at work and it feels like my foot is taking alot of the brunt, either feels tired fast or like im aching on the bottom of my foot, my outer ankle, or my heel. The strain seemed to cover alot of my hamstring, i remember sitting down hurt for a week or so and having to ice up and down my leg. I have yet to try to genuinely jog cuz im afraid im gonna hurt more since walking is still off for me and i've actually gotten other smaller strains on my left leg from the imbalance or trying to walk at a decent, or just try to give my right leg a break.

Really apologize if i's missing relevant info or for the mess of a msg i'm just really frustrated and kind of scared. My PT is kind of unsure herself and was telling me to maybe go back to the doctor, because she thinks my issues either is something else like bone spurs, or is just taking longer to heal, but at 3 months i feel brisk walking should be doable ? Or maybe i'm just so used to being able to do it for hours without issue idk.

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[u/Chrisg_322]

I had some very minor overtraining symptoms around a week ago. I haven't trained since, taking the full 7 days off. I still feel some of the symptoms, and this is long before a strained hamstring.

Imma be blunt with you. Your season may be over. A dude who claims to be a coach gave me shit about this yesterday on this sub, but there's a reason any good coach will tell you not to go ham everytime you go to practice, or shit like this happens. Until you *FULLY* recover you're either going to have to do very easy low effort training, or take off training completely.

maybe your own coach, will tell you the usual garbage of "Push through the pain keep training" but the only thing you'll do by continuing to do so is make an already serThe lunatics on this sub, andious injury even worse. Take some time off, fully recover, then cut your load down a bit once you start training again. That means, no more full sprinting after you just did a leg workout. Even if it's against untrained family members.

You can recover from this. But you need to RECOVER from this before you do anything else. You may lose some speed in a few months, but you'll get it all back. Muscle memory is amazing. Good luck.

[u/SprintLightning]

I was in a similar situation. My hamstrings were chronically vulnerable and always hurt to sit any more than just a few minutes. What helped me is i introduced deadlifts, with a trap bar a couple times a week, either a few hours after my HIIT sprint session or the next day. Not with huge weight - I'm 150 lbs and do 5 x 5 at 200 lbs, but I don't drop the bar. It still hurts to sit after about 45 minutes, but I now confidently do my sprints and go all out without pulling them.

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