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I'm on day 52 of my diet. Down from 77 kg to 73.35, so about 500g per week. Seems like my initial estimate of my maintenance calories was pretty much spot on. I also got to eight pull-ups today, my PR.
Personal trainers are nice, but also have weird blind spots. I've had three, and none really could help me find my squatting stance, I had to spend a couple of evenings I was stuck at home with a cold to experiment with the stances. Turns out I prefer a quite narrow one, with my feet barely a shoulder width apart, it's the best stance for my knees. I now get a weird pain in front of my hip joint the day after the leg day, though, is it rectus femoris ligaments complaining?
It's impossible to tell without a more detailed description, and probably seeing your squat in person. Sounds like it might be something getting pinched or impinged from your more narrow stance. If that's the case, in the words of the GOAT Ed Coan: "open your taint." The extra external rotation should relive pressure near the head of the femur as well as reduce twisting strain in the knees.
It can also be hard to tell whats going on while you are changing body weights. The angle the tendons pull at change as your body changes. Some very minor tendon related discomfort can go away as you move away from random highly disadvantageous leverages. Either because you fat leverages change, or muscle growth changes the angle of pull on the bones. Do not ignore acute or chronic tendon pain though, that's a recipe for a very long and sometimes irrecoverable setback to training.
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