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If I may ask, which weight lifting exercise caused the problem?
by onecooldev24 8y ago
If I may ask, which weight lifting exercise caused the problem?
- Xcelerate 8y agoRedacted (was just sharing for a few minutes)
- Hnrobert42 8y agoI am very sorry for your accident. Thank you for sharing though. I feel like it will make me a safer lifter.
- amelius 8y agoCould you repeat the information? It seems the original poster deleted it for some reason?
- foota 8y ago@amelius, while I understand the curiosity I think that would be an intrusion of the poster's privacy, when they specifically removed it.
- amelius 8y agoYeah, it's an awkward situation, I understand, but the user is scaring the crap out of people, then retracting part of the essential information. I'm still hoping they will post the information somewhere in an anonymized form, so the bodybuilding community can learn from this accident.
- Xcelerate 8y agoSorry, didn’t mean to scare anyone. I mainly removed it because it was kind of embarrassing. The injury was caused by trying to set a barbell down on the ground myself rather than calling for help when doing bench press. Not something that would happen to most weightlifters.
- throwaway37585 8y agoJust wanted to say there's nothing wrong or embarrassing about sharing our mistakes. Take heart in the likelihood that, by sharing this, you've probably saved a reader from a similar injury.
- ggg9990 8y agoCould you have pushed one arm up and rotated the bar to one side of you? What should one do if one calls for help and it doesn’t come?
- joncrocks 8y agoDepending in the lift this may or may not be possible. I don't know which lift the author was performing (and would ask you not to repeat it if you do know), but of the popular lifts which could cause a problem if you fail: 1) Bench press. Have a spotter or don't use clips (the things that hold the weights on the bar). Some benches will have safety bars which can help as well. If you don't have clips you can tip to one side and dump the weight off the end of one bar, then the bar should roll of you (albeit painfully/noisily). People have died benching alone in a gym, don't get caught out. 2) Squat. Have spotters and/or squat in a cage/safety rack (with parallel bars either side of you). It can be dangerous if you fail, have no spotters and aren't in a safety rack. i.e. you can dump it, but this can be dangerous to you and those around you. Stay safe everyone.
- bpizzi 8y agoGood advices. And we should repeat this: there's no need for putting extreme weight on bars. Repetitions, series and rest time are golden here. You can do wonders with 50-80kg deadlifts (not when starting weight lifting), no need to go after 150/200kg. Same goes, for example, for bench press: failing alone (which should not happen) under 30/50kg is very manageable, but the same under 150kg can cost your life.
- joncrocks 8y agoI would agree with you, up to a point. I agree that one doesn't need to put oneself under undue strain every time in the gym, and you can get a good workout from doing lots of reps for light weights. But naturally by virtue of not increasing the weight on the bar one will reach a point where one ceases to get stronger (measured by the amount of force you can produce). There are limits to what more reps will do for you. So don't deadlift your 1RM every time you go to the gym, just slowly increase how much you lift in a safe and structured manner.
- IAmGraydon 8y agoWhy would you delete the name of the exercise that injured you?