49, New to Lifting. Bit of Knee and Back Soreness

[kleggo]

Hey, I’m new to lifting and selected Stronglifts. I’m 49, 5’8", 170. Always been fairly trim despite many sedentary office job years. Ran in college but not much exercise since.

After 8 weeks, my squat is 180, BP and rows 130, DL 225, and OHP 100 (feels like I’m stuck here). Not great stats, but I’m seeing muscle gain and overall feel much better than 2 months ago.

Question is, when walking up stairs, my knees are super sore. I would think the squats would be helping. I’ve had my form checked, and the font feel sore any other time. That seem normal?

Also, I have chronic back pain on one side. Doctors say my right leg is a big longer than my left, causing compression in my iliosacral area. When I move around a lot or lift, it feels fine. Laying around or sitting a lot makes it worse. Anyone have experience with this? Should I keep pushing through it, trying to stay more mobile?

Thanks!

[elliottjamesfit]

So with the knee’s dunno about you but when i first started working out stretching was never a thing so accumulated stiff knees from just not warming up properly (atleast thats what my physio told me) one thing that fixed that for me was doing lunges to warm up a long with also doing like 10 of stretches and knee sleeves, knee sleeves worked wonders for me!

Now with the back i couldn’t really say? i personally had one side hurting which was my left and that was from having tight glute’s and from that i was receiving lower back pain, i could suggest doing glute stretches in the morning when you wake up and before you sleep and just see if that relieves any tension.