Minor injury ...

GBX

Lads .. only started doing Muay Thai a few weeks back. Been going training twice a week up to now. woke up the other morning - hadnt been training in a few days and have a slight twinge in my right outer thigh. I think its from the kicks and knees...
Anybody know why this has happened or a solution .. tips?? I do stretch a fair bit before and after training.
GBX

RedRaven

GBX wrote:

Lads .. only started doing Muay Thai a few weeks back. Been going training twice a week up to now. woke up the other morning - hadnt been training in a few days and have a slight twinge in my right outer thigh. I think its from the kicks and knees...
Anybody know why this has happened or a solution .. tips?? I do stretch a fair bit before and after training.
GBX

Well its either 1 0f 2 things!!

1.Your leg muscles are hurting because they havent yet adjusted to the Thai style.
2. Thai kicks are all shin, so when you get kicked it will deaden the area of impact.

The answer lies in the training, basically just rock on and get use to it and block those kicks with a smile!!!;)

TapouT

You could also have hurt it stretching prior to training. You shouldn't stretch a cold muscle, never!.

If you think of a cold muscle as having the consistancy of cold chewing gum (yes I know it doesn't but for the argument lets say it does). If you stretch cold gum, what happens?. It tears!. Now warm up the gum, make it nice, soft and warm and it'll stretch 10 times better and won't rip, get it?.

Thats the example I've used with people before regarding stretching.

So prior to training, gently warm up the muscle, then stretch, then train and the same in reverse, warm down and stretch.

But most likely what your experiencing is a slight injury from taking kicks to the thigh. But its worth remembering what I wrote about stretching prior to training.

Bronco

Never do static stretching before training, always do dynamic stretching.

Static stretching shuts down the inhibitory mechanisms in muscles. These are the muscle protectors.

And no ballistic stuff either.

Try hot and cold treatment, 20 mins hot with 7 mins cold.

Some deep tissue work and gentle passive stretching after will help the affected area.

Cake Fiend

Could be nerve damage rather than a muscle injury. Ask the other lads in the gym if they've had the same problem in the past.

Bronco

nerve damage would have symptoms such as tingling, pins and needles, heat , numbness,

I am not so sure that this is the case here.