My wife has shit tier posture. It drives new up the wall. I decided to get her into barbell exercises as a low key way to help fix it. (Also help her with general fitness and losing weight after having our first son)
Her posture is most certainly equivalent to the left photo.
Anyways, I have her doing squat/overhead/deadlift/bench. So far it’s been an okay experience. She can deadlift perfectly fine, and ironically enough during the lift she exhibits perfect posture. With bench and overhead she does alright. Overhead, her posture isn’t particularly great, but she does the lift in a way that I think is okay.
Now the last thing, the squat, has been a huge fucking nightmare. Because she slouches so bad, it seems I can’t coach her to pick the bar up properly. Her shoulders are rolled too far forward, and her upper back is way too rounded to properly pick up the barbell. I own Starting Strength, and I low bar squat myself (so I know what her holding th bar should look like), but for the life of her physiology, she can’t push her chest up enough to properly grab the bar and set it under her scapular spine. She always has extended wrists during the lift and carries the weight through her arms, and is now having pain in her elbow “because holding the bar hurts.”
I’m at my wits end. Should I drop the squats in favor of things she can do? Or is there a way to work into proper position?
And finally, what exercises will help strengthen her to help her posture not look like shit?
Thanks in advance.
