Difficulty With a Deep Squat? Check Your Adductors.

There are a number of reasons why you may have difficulty achieving a deep squat. Usually it’s your ankles. If you feel like you are going to fall backwards during a squat, it’s your ankles. However, if you feel strain in your groin or inner thigh, it may be your adductors. 

Adductors get stiff. Often. Your femurs at rest are in a shortened position, even in standing. If you don’t take time to mobilize your adductors, then they stay stiff. When you squat, the femur has to flex and abduct which takes up the slack in the adductors. 

Try these three things to mobilize the adductors, then retest your squat: