Problem with squat since injury

[furball]

Well its been years since I was able to really squat well...back in college squat was my best lift and I loved doing it...I ended up pulling a hamstring in a flag football tournament and it took months to repair...I took probably 6 months off on legs because of my fear to re-injure my hamstring...

ANyway, I can't seem to get back into it...I went from squatting for reps in the 400s, to not even being able to get 185 up without a severe feeling that my groin or hamstring are going to tear....I don't know if its psychological or physical...but I just can't seem to get passed it...no problems with any other lifts...I warm up and stretch too...but nothing...any ideas???

[AARS]

I dont have much advice, all I can tell you is that I have some sort of hip problem, and if I dont REALLY warm up alot before I lift, I have problems. I also have to squat slowly, and only increase the weight a few pounds at a time. I will squat 295 until I can do three sets of 8, and then I will move to 300 and just do three sets of 4, then just slowly move to higher sets from one workout to the next. If I dont do it this way, I have bad hip problems, I have also found that if I am doing a lot of high intensity cardio that I will have hip problems during squat no matter what I do.
So even though our problems are different, maybe that will give you some ideas to work with.

[jimmyv]

How do you do with stiff-legged deadlifts, good mornings, and other exercises that stretch your hamstring?