He seemed pretty spry stumbling away. 
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Right? It’s chilling how he got up and then collapsed.
Oh! I must have lost the vid on my phone! I never saw the collapse until going back to look at it just now, on my computer. I was outside when I watched it before, probably the wireless interrupted.
Never mind about the “spry” comment. I thought he was able to walk away. Yikes.
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You were right though. He got up in a hurry and then fell right back down, making it even scarier for some reason.
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Makes a nice case for pink dumbbells!
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I’ve been getting the itch to rewatch some of the Dr Who series but it’s all off steaming currently. So I bought the dvd set at Walmart and dug out my dvd player from when I was younger. Talk about a blast from the past
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Which Dr is your favorite?
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It’s always surprising to me that people don’t use spotters or safety equipment when going heavy.
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Overall, Peter Capaldi. I really enjoyed his take on the character and he had some good stories throughout his run
The 9th is a close second. I loved almost every episode of his season and he got me into Dr Who. Plus he has the gas mask child story which scared the shit out of me when i first saw it at 8
I like 10th and 11th but Capaldi combined my things I liked from both of them
I’ve never watched enough original Dr Who to have any opinions on them. I watched the first 2 episodes of the 15th doctor and they were fun
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Exactly! I wonder if that was an easy weight for him and he wasn’t taking the precautions because he underestimated it.
Yeah maybe, or a poorly equipped gym. It’s important to remember that easy weight after years of training is still enough to cause a literal crushing death uncontrolled. At certain point it makes sense to look for gyms with competition or at least high grade commercial equipment for sure.
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Really good points.
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When I was just a runty little kid at 65 lbs. the assumption was that you should be able to bench press your body weight. So on to the wobbly old Weider (with real naugahyde!) I went, and got splattered. I still had my hands on the bar, so it wasn’t a free fall, but it hit across my stomach and I thought I was gonna puke my gutts out.
Lesson learned! I can’t believe people still use suicide grip.
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I think it’s a case of him relying too much on precautions.
I had a kid in my high school die in his basement because he has benching on a Smith machine and got it stuck on his neck and couldn’t tip it off - but a Smith is “safer.”
We’ve all seen how bad a bad spotter can be.
I think clips are a terrible idea because if you’re tilting so far a weight falls off the bar, you have a bigger issue.
Obviously this is not the case.
It’s the illusion of safety that’s the really dangerous part.
First time I went to the gym my 145 lb 15 year-old ass got pinned by the bar after 1 rep and this million out of 10 female trainer lifted the bar off of me with one hand.
That was motivation.
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There was a graduate from my high school- an NCAA shot putt and discus thrower, who would come in to use the high school gym during her college breaks.
Me & my bros are impressing each other with 1 plate reps & whatnot, then she starts shaking the whole damn Universal Gympack doing overhead press.
Us: eek!
I’ve almost always trained at home, started with the usual plastic sand filled set, and wobbly fold away bench, progressed to 1 inch metal plates.
Went to a gym with no idea and loaded up the barbell with my usual bench weight, lift, lower, virtually pinned with no safety and no one around, fortunately the thought of needing rescuing gave me enough adrenaline to do an absolute 1rm. Turned out the olympic bars are heavier than my 5kg 1 inch 5 foot barbell set home!
Also got pinned at home and needed rescuing by my girlfriend (now wife - clearly that didn’t put her off).
These days I use safety straps, which allow me to set PRs or die trying do a roll of shame
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Did we watch the same video? I’m curious which precautions he relied on. Definitely wasn’t a wrapped thumb or a spotter.
We did not. I clicked on the link again and it took me to a different one. The first time was a guy in a black shirt with a spotter who had his head turned when the bar slipped. The second time was the guy in a white shirt from a different angle.
That is a terrible way to go.
Ah. But he was probably all thumbs.
I haven’t had many injuries in years of lifting. But really, all they take is a brief moment of inattention. A few days ago, I was doing overhead shrugs on the Smith machine. And the last user had the bench there since they were doing pelvic things. Instead of moving the bench properly away, I just kept it behind the Smith so I could rest between sets.
I worked up to 320 pounds of weight added to the bar. Since it was my last exercise, I underestimated my fatigue. I lost my grip on the bar and it pushed me back and went crashing to the ground. Fortunately, it was the Smith - so the bar hit the restraints at the bottom. But I ended up tripping backwards over the bench too. A bit embarrassing, but escaped with just a swollen finger. These things can happen very easily.
Dr. Pepper? Dr. Scholls?
(You don’t have to be a real doctor to sell foot pads. I’d be willing to buy those from Mr. Scholls.)
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