Can't get low bar position

[pieromaldi]

Hello
I am new to strength training and I am having a challenge squatting with low bar. My problem is that my wrists are nowhere near straight and it makes the whole exercise very uncomfortable. I really don't feel that the bar is seated either safely or correctly. What can I do?
Any constructive comments gratefully received.
Thanks

[bolla]

Widen your grip

[Leot]

Also do shoulder dislocations, your shoulder flexibility goes way up in only a week or two.

[Van]

Long arms and minimal flexibility meant I would have to grind away at shoulder dislocations, scapular wall slides and external rotations for three months. All this time, squatting gave me pain which went from my thumb all the way back to my shoulders! Even though I no longer have any pain or problems with low bar position, I still continue to do the shoulder dislocations.

As bolla suggested, you can and should widen your grip for now, but close it in a bit as the weeks go by. For the first 2 months of stronglifts I did high bar squats then deloaded a couple pounds and worked on form for low bar. within two weeks i was back up to the same weight just with low bar position, so don't worry about your squat numbers suffering.
Plus, you get to try out high bar which I believe is how the olympic squat is performed.

Keep your elbows back and high. when your elbows drop to your sides, thats when your arms are the only thing holding the bar from falling. that's a lot of stress on wrists/arms/shoulders and will make the pain worse.

One more thing, rows help to build up those rear delts where the bar should be resting, as you progress on the program, the bar will find the right spot and sit more comfortably.

[pieromaldi]

Thanks all, appreciate the help. WIll 20 shoulder dislocations per day do it or do I need to do 100's?

[Leot]

3 sets of 10 daily is recommended if you are really tight, narrowing grip as you can handle it. If you aren't too bad or not in a hurry just do them as part of your warm up (I personally always do 1 set of 10 to warm up my shoulders).