Originally Posted by
mitchless
How many boxes do you have available? Do you have saws and drills available?
When coaching my dad (64, overweight, Type-2 diabee-tuhs, fascioscapularhumeral muscular dystrophy) to depth, I found success by gradually lowering the box. He had a similar problem where he would fall backwards as he approached the bottom.
I programmed sets of 10, starting with 3 then growing to 5. When he was able to get 5x10, we chopped half an inch off of the box. I started out stacking bumper plates, but he felt more confident squatting to a wooden box. Eventually we worked the box down to depth.
Also critical was coaching that he touch the box, but not settle on the box.
No bar, push her hips back and knees out, touch the box and immediately come back. If she can do that, and the box is set so that she is hitting depth just keep it there. It will give her confidence to have something to catch her. Squatting to a box is better than not squatting.