I did something like in the original post a couple of weeks ago. I promised the superintendent where I am that my home weight lifting set would do NO damage to the apartment, particularly the hard wood floor. That was almost 2 years ago and I generally have done well. But this one time I was unloading the bar when I got lightheaded. Up goes the bar. I thought. “FUCK!!!”
Ok, the collar was off and when the upended bar hit the pristine hard wood floor, there was a single layer of foam matting and the 50lb plate easily slid off the bar and had a larger surface area to contact anyway. Barely a dent, thank fuck, but there are marks on the drywall.
My favorite is when guys bench without using collars and the plates slide off one side followed by the other. Use to happen at my old gym, almost always happens when some kid is trying to half bench more than he can, and it never gets old, idiots.
i do that on purpose. it means it is easier to roll the bar off me so i’m not pinned for too long if i fail. if i can’t bench it symmetrical enough to keep the weights on the bar… i don’t deserve to get the rep either…[/quote]
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At least two of the guys in that video have been posters on this site
I do remember when I was 17 or 18 the first time I saw a barbell that you loaded plates on( I’d seen a York set with those plastic-covered cement weights) I got my buddy to hold the other end down as I put a 45 on because I thought it would tip.
So I was a little stupid too, but in a safer, more logical way…I mean the bard does sort of look like it might tip when you have a 45 on one side and nothing on the other end.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’ve never seen that happen I think I’d freak out. I won’t take more than a 45 off each side at a time and never off the side away from some one else just in case it does flip. I can’t belive the lack of common sense here.
My favorite is when guys bench without using collars and the plates slide off one side followed by the other. Use to happen at my old gym, almost always happens when some kid is trying to half bench more than he can, and it never gets old, idiots. [/quote]
Back in high school when I first started lifting I was lifting at the YMCA with two buddies. I was doing incline bench, and they were spotting me together, one person lifting a side of the barbell.
I was straining to get one last rep, and in my exertion accidentally spit in the face of one of my buddies, causing him to drop his side of the bar. All of the weights came sliding off. Unprepared for the shifting weight, the other spotter dropped his side of the bar, and the rest of the weights fell off. Moments later some dude walked over, and without saying anything, handed us a pair of collars and walked away.