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I had a weird cramp on Monday. Did my 'maintenance' squats, having had a week off whilst on holiday. 3 sets of 5, no big weights. The only activity I'd done on holiday apart from walking and 'quality time', was daily stretching.
As I semi-crouched to disassemble the weights and put them away, my right adductor went fucking mental. I stood up and gingerly limped around until it subsided - for a second, I thought it was going to cramp up so tight it would tear or something.
Stretching was fine afterwards, but I was aware of 'post-cramp pain' until sleeping it off. Thankfully the only remaining discomfort (a few days on) has been DOMS in both adductors. Weird, as I don't squat in an ultra-wide stance or anything :/
I think it's something to do with the stabilising role of the adductors whilst stretched, but I've only ever experienced adductor DOMS after sumo deadlifts in the past.
Anyway, a rigorous adductor stretch has now been added to my routine.