Is there a meathead alive that hasn’t done the roll of shame at some point?
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What’s the highest weight anyone has done it with?
I’m weak enough that I’ve never had to roll of shame more than 75kg/165lbs but there must be a point where it becomes impractical/too dangerous.
I roll of shamed with 90k. That hurt. Weird thing was my max at the time was like 120k. It came down and just didn’t want to go back up.
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I’ve had ones in the 270s before.
Best though was when I was doing floor press on a power rack that was attached to a platform elevated from the floor. Failed on the final rep, went to just let the weight hit the floor, and suddenly a barbell is on my neck. I try to take the pressure off at first, but I’m not in any sort of mechanical angle to do it. I try calling out for help, but every single person in the gym has ear buds on and it ignoring me.
I finally recall all my jiu jitsu training, sweep and pull guard on the barbell, freeing myself just in time before losing consciousness, thus marking the second time jiu jitsu saved my life.
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Oh, the nice one, huh!?!
It took me and my brothers pooling our Christmas paper rout money to get one of those, but we got it. Incline, leg thingy, the whole shebang!
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Is the first classified info?
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Naw the bar was just a pipe with the plastic sleeve
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Those were great, weren’t they?
After a while you’d end up with divots down the bar from cranking the collars extra tight.
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Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago except it fell near my ribs and I tried to control the fall causing me to tear a tendon in my wrist. Took ~8 months to heal fully and I haven’t floor pressed since.
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