Yeah I have heard that box squats might help. What do you do??? Do you just sit a box or bench right to the height that makes your legs parallel and then go down until you hit it and then stand back up??? How do those work for sure?
When I first started lifting I found myself pulling, pushing, curling stronger with my dominant side, right handed, especially when power lifting. I found it was basically mental. There are words like concentration and strict that fit the bill here.
Curls get done with a straight back as if against a wall, no body movement and you concentrate on the weak side, make it lead. Deep squats, many people don’t recommend them any way or they should be used sparingly.
When you’re pushing your body you tend to loose form and concentration. Form, form, form, concentrate, lower the weight to where you do not twist and start back up slowly.
If you’re twisting to the left you’re pushing harder with your right leg. Make sure your anatomy is even your hips are square. Good luck.
I am extremely interested in the answers here as I have a very similar issue. I can expand a little more with mine though (please let me know if you have the same symptoms):
- I often have a pain in the right side of the hip, hip flexor, lower back etc (all in the right hand side).
- often when the pain is not there, there is always an unnatural/awkard feeling, as if the right side is weaker, or not help properly etc.
- doing running, or cycling (most cardio) aggrevates the pain or akward feeling. Recumbent bike does not for some reason.
- when I squat, I feel myself twisting too. Even if I start with feet apart and perfectly in line, by the end of a set, the right foot always ends up behind the left and twisted outward more (no matter how much I try stop this consciously).
A few months back I went to a chiro who did quite a lot of work. He said it was all originating from imbalance and inflexibility in the hip, groin, hamstring and lower back. Furthermore, the pains and uneasy feelings were coming from pressure on the sping (specifically L5 and something 1 - cannot remember exactly). He did quite a bit of work on that point and it helped, though temporarily.
I stopped training for a few months due to shoulder surgery but now that I am starting to get back into it properly, the back pains and akward feelin in the right side is coming back (especially when I do any leg work).
Cheers,
X
Bodies are strange things sometimes. After doing a lot of training for 10k runs my knee started killing me. A friend said you’ve got to run through the pain…nonsense! Someone else suggested a podiatrist for knee pain? He suggested my big toe was flexing up and down causing stress on a ligament attached to my knee. A foot appliance stopped to knee pain.
The Box squats force you to keep most your body aligned you can still twist at the hips, in addition the box prevents you from over flexing the knee.
I reread your note about how your foot continues to twist out no matter how you concentrate. This is your subconscious trying to protect your knee, your foot or maybe your hip joint or groin by taking the stress to the other leg and other parts of you quadracep. Pay attention to where the pain starts. In the back in the foot maybe there’s a muscle spasm some where.
Then again you could have a pinched nerve in your back, the L5 the practor worked on. Pre and post stretching may help to find the offending muscle or muscle group.
Lift lightly