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I had a guy drop a bar on his face while I was spotting him. I consider it his fault. As a spotter I'm there to help him if he cannot lift it, and assist in racking the bar.
What did this guy do?
He was doing reps<benching> with 225, does about 10 or so, and then literally throws the bar into the upright. It bounces out and lands on his face.
I tried to explain to him that he must make an effort to rack the bar in a controled fashion.
Ok, maybe I was more like WTF!!!!!
He doesn't train with me anymore.
What did this guy do?
He was doing reps<benching> with 225, does about 10 or so, and then literally throws the bar into the upright. It bounces out and lands on his face.
I tried to explain to him that he must make an effort to rack the bar in a controled fashion.
Ok, maybe I was more like WTF!!!!!
He doesn't train with me anymore.
psychedout
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I saw a kid benching 185.... or more like doing lockouts with 185 lol...
Anyways, he couldn't get it up, and he didn't have clips on the weight, and all the weights crashed off of one side, then they came crashing down from the other side, it was quite funny.
Anyways, he couldn't get it up, and he didn't have clips on the weight, and all the weights crashed off of one side, then they came crashing down from the other side, it was quite funny.
way back when i started benching i got a shitty little bench in the basement and always tried to outdo myself......
first attempt...185lbs with clips on both sides. And no spotter, so i lift and lower the weight to my chest, and all of the sudden i realized that i had royally fucked myself. Although it wasnt pressed against my throat, i couldnt figure out what to do, so let it rest on my chest for a minute while i contemplated my own stupidity. So i began to roll it slowly down my chest (i couldnt throw it to the side) and as it got to my waist i sat up and scooted, yes scooted away from it so as to not separate my scrotum from my body. I had bruises all over my chest for the next week.
Seconds attempt...one week later.....185 with no clips, i didnt want the same thing to happen so i chose not to screw the clips on...so as i lifted it and lowered it again slowly i had realized that i learned nothing over the past week. The weight would not move off my chest. So i did the "smart" thing and dropped my left shoulder, letting all the weights on that side hit the ground...Little did i know the force of the bar comming upward when the weights fell, and the bar flew in the air, and as the other weights dropped the bar cracked the celing fan light, broke the light and made the most awful noise when it got jammed in the fan blades. With wood splinters flying i dove for cover in pitch black darkness... When the shitstrom stopped i ran upstairs, and when it got light outside i realized all the damage i had done...about 60lbs of broken weights on the floor, wood shrapnel just about everywhere, broken glass, and a cracked flooring.
From that point on i realized i needed a spotter
first attempt...185lbs with clips on both sides. And no spotter, so i lift and lower the weight to my chest, and all of the sudden i realized that i had royally fucked myself. Although it wasnt pressed against my throat, i couldnt figure out what to do, so let it rest on my chest for a minute while i contemplated my own stupidity. So i began to roll it slowly down my chest (i couldnt throw it to the side) and as it got to my waist i sat up and scooted, yes scooted away from it so as to not separate my scrotum from my body. I had bruises all over my chest for the next week.
Seconds attempt...one week later.....185 with no clips, i didnt want the same thing to happen so i chose not to screw the clips on...so as i lifted it and lowered it again slowly i had realized that i learned nothing over the past week. The weight would not move off my chest. So i did the "smart" thing and dropped my left shoulder, letting all the weights on that side hit the ground...Little did i know the force of the bar comming upward when the weights fell, and the bar flew in the air, and as the other weights dropped the bar cracked the celing fan light, broke the light and made the most awful noise when it got jammed in the fan blades. With wood splinters flying i dove for cover in pitch black darkness... When the shitstrom stopped i ran upstairs, and when it got light outside i realized all the damage i had done...about 60lbs of broken weights on the floor, wood shrapnel just about everywhere, broken glass, and a cracked flooring.
From that point on i realized i needed a spotter
wannabebig1
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same shit happend to me, with no spotter there isnt much u can do.....I believe it was an old wives tale, but there is the story of the kid who worked out in his basement alone and put 315 on the bar for (probabley) the hell of it. He did decline and the bar ended up right on his neck. His mom eventually went done and found the kid purple. Appearently he couldn't get it off and he killed himself.
Ovid151 said:
may be an old wive's tale, but i believe it could happen. you drop that shit and it's got nowhere to go but your neck.
my embarassing moment....my workout partner hadn't arrived yet and there was this hottie on the bench next to me. thought i would impress her and loaded up 350, well within my limit, at the 8th rep felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and dropped the right side clank..clank..clank..then the left. while i was laying there groaning ms. hottie came over to see if i was ok. got her digits. now i'm married to her
Parabellum
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Ovid151 said:
That happened to me about 15 years ago... no one in the gym and I was stuck. Luckily someone walked in after a lot panic on my part and helped me out.
Ditch Digger
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A couple of years ago I was attempting to bench 365 three times. On my third rep about half way up i was really straining and the bar rolled out of my hands and hit me in the chest. It did not hurt me too bad except for my ego and a little bruising. Since then I wrap my thumbs around the bar instead of leaving them under the bar.
Did a real dumbass move a number of years back. Was psyched for a good workout and was starting out with just the bar trying to get loose. I came up off the bench really fast, knocking the bar off the supports with my forehead. It crashed to the floor and I'm in a daze , trying to look cool and hoping nobody noticed
Imnotdutch
butler monkey
The spotters job is to keep the lifter safe. Simple as that......so you have to take some responsibility for the accident.
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callthedoctor
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This is hard to explain...but I was benching heavy a few years ago and I heard a slight pop after a VERY strenuous 3-4 rep, no pain though.
I racked the weight and then had some really severe pain in the center of my right pec. I took off my shirt and saw that I had a few muscle fibers that had (I'm guessing here) like dislocated..they had like twisted over each other and I had this fibrous line pooching out across my right pec...
I pushed (massaged) them back in and 'CLIC' the popped right back in and the pain subsided but the memory didn't...
Very sick feeling....
I racked the weight and then had some really severe pain in the center of my right pec. I took off my shirt and saw that I had a few muscle fibers that had (I'm guessing here) like dislocated..they had like twisted over each other and I had this fibrous line pooching out across my right pec...
I pushed (massaged) them back in and 'CLIC' the popped right back in and the pain subsided but the memory didn't...
Very sick feeling....
Mabey it was a riB? haha
I started benching in my basement also and have had the weight fall on my chest probably 3 times now i have pretty strong abs though so i roll it down while being assisted by kinda curling motion so its not to heavy and odesnt bruise then just do a sit up and from that point its easy.
I started benching in my basement also and have had the weight fall on my chest probably 3 times now i have pretty strong abs though so i roll it down while being assisted by kinda curling motion so its not to heavy and odesnt bruise then just do a sit up and from that point its easy.
the guy on the couch
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while benching my max with dumbells, i brought the shoulder up too high, heard a "pop". dropped the weights a few inches from my face. luckily, I had only run the bone across the ligament (nothing tore, but still sore for a couple of weeks) but it scared the hell out of me.
androjunkie
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I was in the gym about 2 yrs ago doing declines with 225 on a very old decline bench, the kind with no self spotter on it, and on the eighth rep I brought it down and got stuck. It was about 1am so I was the only person in there and I was already so fatigued from my prior training that no matter how long I rested I couldn't get it back up, luckily my friend who owned the gym came in because he forgot something but I had sat there for close to an 45 minutes and I had a bruise across my chest for weeks. I was the laughing stock of the gym for a while.
Aerojaxx
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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.
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.
Parabellum
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aerojaxx said:
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
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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!
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.
NoPainNoGain
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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
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
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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
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man some pretty scary shit- touch wood i've had no problems so far.
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.
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.
