Accidents with Weights that are Too Heavy?

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[quote]BantamRunner wrote:
Same way someone spots a heavy bench to failure…it don’t take much unless you are WAY out of your league with a weight. Dude gets behind you and looks like he’s bum raping you. He pushups UP at your lats or possibly with one hand wrapped around to the chest and one on your back.

Yes, it looks gay. Yes it is effective.
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So it looks as heterosexual as donkey calf raises then?

Not the best of exercises to do between someone homophobic and a ghey spotter…lol

Surely though, if you’re failing with a weight, it is “out of your league” at that particular point in time?

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[quote]its_just_me wrote:

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
When he was asking about dumping the weight, he is talking in the event of a failed lift. Trying to baby step with it probably aint the best idea.

First, if you have anyone spotting, you don’t dump the weight, stay with it and let them help you finish the lift.[/quote]

Ah, I see. The squat is one of the only exercises where I don’t go to failure on (just near).

Curious, how is just one spotter supposed to help a person up (if the load’s 500+)…without looking like they’re trying to bum rape you…and then probably fall to the ground with you too?

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
If you don’t have people spotting, I wouldn’t recommend dumping the weight forward, you can knock yourself out doing this.[/quote]

Could you elaborate? (my simple mind doesn’t comprehend lol). I wouldn’t lean forward with my back, mainly my legs/hips…[/quote]

If your spot is incapable of assisting you up with the weight, he/they shouldn’t be there.

dumping forward as in letting the bar roll forward and ducking under it to get out of the way or dumping it backward where you let it roll off your back. Obviously sometime your don’t have much choice in the matter and the bar goes where the bar goes.

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happened to me last week attempting to squat 365, got the first two reps well enough on the third I didnt drive my heels straight down my back bent forward and the bar rolled off my head as I fell. I wasnt embarrassed its happened before…but its a main reason why I only squat at the squat rack…it could of been bad.