[quote]pomofo wrote:
I had the same thing happen to me when doing jerks. Let the weight come down too quickly onto my shoulders, and my core wasn’t tight enough, felt like my back was going to break. Ended up dropping the barbell on my sawhorses and put a permanent bend in them.[/quote]
Sounds almost like the same thing that happened to me. What are sawhorses?
Yesterday I did a set of 20 on tire flips and felt like I was going to die. My head felt like someone took a baseball bat to it. I almost puked.
But seriously, I have done the same thing with a log press. It felt behind me and I arched my back big time. Luckily I was okay too.
[quote]MachineAZ wrote:
Yesterday I did a set of 20 on tire flips and felt like I was going to die. My head felt like someone took a baseball bat to it. I almost puked.
But seriously, I have done the same thing with a log press. It felt behind me and I arched my back big time. Luckily I was okay too.[/quote]
Yeah, one of the only times I ever managed to lose a split jerk backwards, I didn’t know what to do-- I went halfway into a backbend before I dumped the thing, LOL!
I was feeling tough one day on a deloading week and thought i would put all my weight on the bar and go for the squat. It was like 335, and my previous best lift was 315. I went down for the squat and briefly started back up.
Instead of ditching the barbell back at the sticking point, it tackled me to the ground. The 335 hit the ground fast, but I managed to slip my head under before it crushed me. Had a big bump on my head for like a week, but I was lucky to get out uninjured.
Moral of the story: I need a cage instead of just a rack, max lifts without a spotter are a bad idea, always check your ego at the door (its that one time you don’t, the iron is going to get the best of you)
Have to agree with the sentiment - respect the iron. you forget, and you will regret it, guaranteed.
Just today my friend was joking around about how bad it would hurt if he just punched me in the face before a lift. My friend pulled his fist back like he was going to punch me and I flinched my face forward to show him I wasn’t scared. Of course as I flinched forward he punched me right in the face accidently. I thought for sure he had knocked one of my teeth loose because blood was flowing out of my mouth. We work out at the Y and there were tons of people staring. A guy next to us proceeded to say “I wouldn’t take that.” My friend was scared shitless that I was going to knock him out, but since it was an accident, I didn’t. Moral of the story? Don’t be an idiot.
When I first started training, doing barbell lunges and stepped back too fast, planted my feet, and my upperbody just kept going backwards. I went down to one knee and just dumped the weight.
This didn’t happen to me but it was at a competition I was at. The guy was benching, new shirt i believe, and had around 530lbs on the bar. Brought it down and tried to touch and the bar hovered then shot back towards his face. Young spotters were morons and did not catch it in time. The bar landed on the guys chin and rolled back into his mouth and sat for a few seconds before the spotters grabbed it. Saw him the next day, big ass cut along his chin and lost a couple bottam teeth, he was lucky though considering how bad it could have been had he hit his neck.
One time when I was walking home from the gym, there were a bunch of people leaving this house. Hella T-vixens everywhere! And this guy, the most jakced guy I have ever seen, rips a stop sign out of the ground and starts chasing me.
I was doing heavy front squats for sets of five… and woke up on the floor after the third rep.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
One time when I was walking home from the gym, there were a bunch of people leaving this house. Hella T-vixens everywhere! And this guy, the most jakced guy I have ever seen, rips a stop sign out of the ground and starts chasing me.[/quote]
Sorry about that I was drunk.
For me I guess it was about 25 years ago, I had a fractured wrist (revenge on two guys that beat up my kid brother, I won) and had a cast up to mid upper arm. I trained at a OL club so squat was the only thing to do, I did that three times a week!! Well, one day I went a bit heavier and got stuck in a “good-morning” position, couldn’t get up and was forced to dump the weight forward, over my head. Not very pleasant, thought I had fucked the wrist up again.
Moral of the story, don’t fight. It might screw up your squatting, there’s never any reason NOT to squat.
Claes
Ps. I STILL have problems sometimes with my wrist.
I remember about a year ago when I was first learning how to use my legs when I was benching, I tried a max (it was only like 90kg or sumthin) and as i pushed with my feet my arse came shooting up and this totally threw me outta my grove. The bar ended up flying towards my throat only for my spotter to grab it about an inch before it hit.
Scared the crap outta me!
A while ago, I was spotting someone who was squating in the littlest, shittiest power rack. He had 300 on the bar, and he unracked it. Then he just fell straight back. All of a sudden I had 300lbs and a power rack falling comming at me. Some how I managed to get out of the way before it killed me. They guy I was spotting got lucky amd just fell on his ass. Then he bitched at me for not spotting him correctly. that dumbass
[quote]malonetd wrote:
One time when I was walking home from the gym, there were a bunch of people leaving this house. Hella T-vixens everywhere! And this guy, the most jakced guy I have ever seen, rips a stop sign out of the ground and starts chasing me.[/quote]
LOL. Nice. =P
I just remembered another. The PL-ers at my old gym (greatest guys EVER!) were allowing another dude -strong but inexperienced- to work with them. This guy was squatting a triple with 405+ while the vet PL-er spotted from behind. As the squatter missed his 3rd rep, he let it slide off his back. The biggest problem was that the vet already had his hands on his lats trying to get the guy out of the hole. The whole 405 landed across his forearms and forced him to do an unexpected and instantaneous Zercher with the entire barbell, well, at least for a second. The end result was massive bruising to the forearms but no broken radius/ulna thank God! What a dumb fucker he was, too!
At the gym I lift at, we are forced to olympic lift in a cage. Problem is, when I miss the catch on a snatch, I throw it behind me…
If I do this, it will either come back and land on me, or hit the cross bar behind me and take off my feet.
I’m scared everytime I snatch…
Years ago I had my entire leg in plaster. But it did not discourage me from gym workouts. I did what I could.
One day, I got stuck, or rather pinned down with a bar while doing incline bar press.
Nobody in the gym to call out for, too heavy to roll it down, can’t move because of my leg in plaster.
that was the most stupid thing I could do!
Anyway, I lowered it to one side, pushed away and jumped away from it on one leg watching the entire construction of two addjustable racks and bar going down.
need advice - do not do it at home! Get a spotter!
[quote]malonetd wrote:
One time when I was walking home from the gym, there were a bunch of people leaving this house. Hella T-vixens everywhere! And this guy, the most jakced guy I have ever seen, rips a stop sign out of the ground and starts chasing me.[/quote]
Ha ha! I bet veins were everywhere…
this happened 2 years ago.i was doing deadlifts.my friend who is 225 lb. and benches 340lb.jump in.as i started deadlifting 350 for triples quite easy and i am like 190lb. and fat,he wanted to beat me.but he is upper-body body builder,so he couldnt do 350 for a single.
he went berserk and tried to pull the weight any way.he did,but with flexed spine,purple in face,with the bar whole feet from his legs.this lasted 5-6 seconds.i decided not to add any more weight,cause i didnt want my friend in the wheel chair.really scary,i tell you!!!
three stories
First when I was in high school I was doing flys and some one left a weight under the bench I was on and I smashed the hell out of my finger, almost took it off but now it is still kinda flat.
Second I am doing behind the head standing military like Marius Pudjanowski were I jerk it up and 225 went up easy but I didn’t realize you are supposed to squat with the weight to bring it down easy and I tried just bring it down with my shoulders. Well anyways I dropped it right on the bone at the base of your neck were I got a little light headed and still have some bumps from the grip on the bar.
Third I am squatting 600 to parallel with three later found out retarded spotters. This was the first time and I only had some neo prine knee wraps and a belt. Well I go down fine come up fine but when I try and return the bar one spotter takes it upon himself to put me in the rack and grabs the bar lifts and pushs before I am ready or the other spotter. I later realized how I could have been seriously hurt.