So hemmroids again flaring up and I keep trying to find a decent leg workout that won’t cause a flareup… Squats, stiff leg dead lifts and now the super squat machine are all no good and cause a flareup… Extension machines are fine, but I’m looking for suggestions for some sort of exercise that targets the leg like the squat does without causing a flareup… any suggestions?
Is it the exertion causing the flare up?
I believe so, I got a flareup back in feb, this was after a 2 day sitting in a chair all day class along with low fiber diet and doing still leg dead lifts, which I stupidly did the deadlifts again during the flareup and my external one took about a month to go down, I started doing super squats about 2 weeks ago and it seemed the last leg session aggravated it and it reappeared.
Sled pushes and lunges, maybe? Although it sounds like it’s less the motion/ position and more the hard brace. If that’s the case, I’d consider lightening the load and getting into higher rep ranges. I don’t know that I’ve got a great answer, other than you might have to experiment a little. Some great advice I heard once, when dealing with injury, is try things up to about 80% effort of what you think you could do and then evaluate over the next couple days how you feel.
I dealt with this for the longest time, it held me back so much on LP when starting out. I kept backing off on things like squats and then as soon as I started pushing the intensity again it would flare up.
I wouldn’t go down the path of substituting exercises. Over the long-term as soon as the weights get heavier, most exercises could end up a potential risk unless you solve it. You really need to figure out a way to brace without putting so much tension in that pelvic region. Really focus on holding that brace higher in your belly with the pressure being put against your tongue on the roof of your mouth. For so many flares to happen, you are straining too much where you shouldn’t be. I understand that sometimes it feels unavoidable, especially on grinders, but you need to dial this in and not look for ways to avoid it. You won’t solve this overnight but you should really spend a couple of weeks with the weight much lighter on these movements and focus on bracing in a way that this won’t happen regularly.
Also buy some psyllium husk. Like, right now. It’ll make the pooping experience 100x better for you. It softens the stool making it glide through you like little angels as the heavens open instead of like razorblades and a murder scene aftermath.
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