| in my experience when people say the bar is hurting when they squat, it is because the bar is to high on their shoulders. although the correct placement feels very strange try dropping the bar down your back a bit more so its almost in line with your posterior deltoids and it is resting right at the top of your rhomboids. it will feel like it is really far down but this is where you need to be if you want to stop whingeing about your shoulders hurting. if i even attempted to use a towel to wrap round the bar in my gym i would be laughed outta town! no gloves, no straps, no bench suits and no bloody towels |