horror stories benching ?

[Parabellum]

I was pushing 405 on Bench and about 75% complete with the 2nd rep...I arched my back and my foot slipped...my wrists buckled and the weight fell straight past my thumbs and landed on my chest. The spotters were not at fault....they were very surprised and wanting to take me to the hospital....

I rested a few minutes and pushed 415 for 1 rep....

The next morning, I had trouble breathing and was forced to leave work and go to a clinic. After examination and an x-ray the prognosis was that I had a badly bruised sternum. Physician told me to keep lifting weights. I have done that to this day with a slight different perspective on the importance of form. The pain finally subsided after about 3 months.....tough lesson.

WOW.

That's why I bench press in a power cage.
I dropped 365 on me and 400+ was heading for my head, thank God for safety bars and a big belly. I leave the bars below my gut and if I something happend all I have to do is falten out and suck in and I'm safe.

 

[WildGuy09]

My buddy was doin reps with 300, he has a tendancy to roll his hands to almost a verticle position when he really really strains, and on the last rep he rolled em a lil too far and the bar fell out of his hands, bounced off his chest, and rolled down his ribs. School made him go to the doctor and run a bunch of tests, nothing really wrong with him except a bruised panchreas and a gigantic hospital bill!

 

[H_T_]

it was on the news about a month back, this guy got pinned with 215 and in the process of trying to roll it off, his shirt wound around the bar, so he basically strangled hisself.........personally i've had quite a few scares, the benches are kinda short in the gym i'm at, so it's a near tea-bagging when you get a lift off.

 

[TrevMill]

the benches are kinda short in the gym i'm at, so it's a near tea-bagging when you get a lift off.

Bwuah hah hah!!!!!!!!! My high school gym was like that!!!

 

[NoPainNoGain]

I used to get stuck when i was benching at home and had to do the "roll it down your chest thing" it sucks.

had a friend benching, didnt wrap his thumbs around the bar, dropped 185 from full extension onto his chest. it bounced like 6 inches. i think he bruised his sternum or something but nothing serious.

one time i was spotting a different friend while he was doing bench with a really close inside grip, as he was bringing it down he just couldnt handle it and dropped the weight on his forehead. it was pretty light so no major damage but he had a lump there for a bit and was pretty pissed at me for a while

 

[JohnnyCoho]

Walked into the gym one day, thought no-one was around till I heard someone weazing. Looked over to see a 15 yr old kid (gym regular and huge for his age. Mother was a Pro BB'r back 15 or so yrs) Anyways kid was blue in the face and lips were actually purple. Checked the kid out and once he got his breath back asked what happened. He tried maxing without pins to spot himself and got stuck, said he rolled the bar off himself and actually blacked out. Scarred the snot outta all of us. Since then kids under 18 are no longer allowed in the gym without adult supervision. Kinda makes ya wonder, does that Liability release form everyone signs when joining the gym release the gym owners if its a kid under 18? I doubt it.

 

[silver_shadow]

man some pretty scary shit- touch wood i've had no problems so far.

 

[Vash]

I havn't had any major accidents myself. At school last year this kid on his first day of ever lifting decided he could do 225 on the squat. It wasn't a pretty sight either. If someone had been spotting him they would be dead at this point. The moment he lifted the bar up he fell backwards, the bar bounced off the very back of the cage and landed a good 3-4 feet behind the cage.

Had some younger kids at the gym I go to and they had a spotter on each side of the bar which isn't all that smart in the first place. The kid benching began to tilt to the left, the spotter pushed the bar up causing the weights on the other side to slide off landing on the other kids feet (about 35lbs) then the other side being heavier sunk and the light end smacked the kid in the chin putting him down for th 10 count. The other kid avoided the weights.

My scarriest thing was when I was doing leg extensions the clip snapped and I almost gave my knees a new hinge joint in the front although it was just a scarry experience I was never harmed. Next one I was doing bench in my garage and I was doing a warm up set of 135 when the bench just snapped. Lucky for me it did it when I had lowed the bar almost to chest, otherwise my elbows would be royally screwed from the reaction to the fall.