soliloquy
Well-Known Member
So much wrong with this.
1. You shouldn't be feeling any pain in your upper back. Check to see if your bar placement is correct, and the bar is resting on your traps or traps and rear delts if you're doing low bar.
2. Your wrists aren't supposed to support any weight at all. Keep them in line with your elbows. If you allow the bar to be supported by your wrists you will snap them in no time.
3. Squeeze your scapula together tight while setting up under the bar. You don't want the bar to be resting on your spine.
I feel no pain while squatting over 4 plate. I simply stay tight and keep the bar on my body, not my wrists or spine.
i mean doing hack squats. my fingers cant hold that much weight. even if the weight is being supported by the arms, the end is being held up with your fingers.
its the same problem i have with deadlifts, though i can support more weight with alternating grip. even if your legs/lower back are lifting the main weight, your fingers are doing the 'holding up of weights'.
so if my body can do about 285lbs in deadlifts, my fingers will only allow me to do 250lbs before they drop the weights, or i reset my grip after every other rep.