What was he thinking! o.O

The jackass probably figured that since he could lift it out of the resting position, then he was capable of actually pushing that much weight. Moron.

That had me loling, no dont catch your dong johnson under it!!

Lets hope for the betterment of society that gave him a vasectomy.

I'll let you all have a laugh at my expense by admitting that what happened in the above video has happened to me too.

Now let's be fair: The dude was in pretty good shape, so I doubt it had anything to do with him not knowing what the hell he was doing. Even the best weightlifters sometimes overestimate the amount they can lift. That's why you need spotting partners when you do certain lifts, especially the bench press. That was his mistake, i.e., not having a spotter. And that was my mistake too when it happened to me once. (cue laugh track)

Here is one tip you can take from me if you insist on doing bench presses with a barbell and without a spotter: Don't use collars to hold the plates in place. Yeah, they'll wiggle around a little bit, but if you use good form you can keep that to a minimum. Why keep the collars off? So that if you get pinned like this poor sap you can at least do this:

1. Rest the bar on your chest, where it probably is anyway because you overdid it. (Yeah, it will hurt, but you're kind of fucked anyway)
2. Tilt the bar to one side or another. It doesn't make any difference which direction you choose. Even with weakened arm strength you should still be able to tilt the bar by rolling on your back a little to one side or another.
3. Keep on tilting the bar until the plates slide off one end.
4. Then be prepared for the bar to rapidly tilt the other way because of the imbalance, and then the plates will slide off the other end.
5. Put the bar back up, and try to learn from the whole damn experience.

Sure, plates hitting the floor will make a hell of racket, but it's better than rolling a barbell over your balls (or if you're a chick, over your tits).

Also, if you start pushing the barbell up in a press and KNOW you can't finish, tilt the bar right then to slide the plates off, before you have to endure the weight of that son of a bitch laying on your chest.

Lastly, if you HAVE TO roll the bar down your body like this dude did, DON'T post a video of it on YouTube. There's always some a-hole who will post it somewhere just so they can have others laugh at your misfortune.

hahahahahaah fukin meatheads. Try taking first grade biology and physics instead of turning yourself into a GI Joe.

Lol that you filmed it and didn't delete it immediately. Or was this your boyfriend playing tricks with a hidden camera?

This made me laugh so hard I will probably go to hell now.

Jeez. Poor guy.

Boring.

Taking everything previously said into account:

I think the main problem this guy has is trying to lift weights whilst having an erection.

lol, yup. Been there done that. EVERY one can, and has, overestimated. At least those that are serious about the sport. And absolutely, please follow kronosposeidon's advice; it's not fun being the dough under the rolling pin.

why didn't he just slide the bar? fuckin' moron. Slide or push down on one side and push up on the other. Let gravity work its magic.

^gravity is overrated.

how much weight was that?

>> ^rottenseed:
why didn't he just slide the bar? fuckin' moron. Slide or push down on one side and push up on the other. Let gravity work its magic.


I don't know why either. At first to me it looked like there were collars on the barbell, so I thought he couldn't slide them off. However now that I reviewed it, I see he wasn't using collars. Maybe he didn't know about sliding the plates off.

I actually had a friend of a friend die this way -- he dropped the bar on his chest and crushed his ribcage. Not so good.

This is why I do bench work in a medieval breast plate.

Even with a spotter, I have a friend who broke his jaw by dropping it on his face. Good form, I know. People's arms can give out unexpectedly sometimes, I guess.

Those pulley machine bench presses aren't bad if you don't want to waste time spotting.

"Anyone involved in physical fitness is a meathead."

Mink's facts o' the day!

Testiclees, Lord of Sacks, is most displeased with one of his minions crushed like that.

Monkey bars > weights

Monkey bars are a bitch now that I'm older. It's not at all as easy as it used to be.

Camera. "Too much" weight, but not really. No sideways escape. Over acting. Posted to youtube.

Fake.

Actually, if you roll enough weight down your stomach and onto your genitals, you can cause a pretty serious condition.

Happened to a kick at our high school, they wouldn't tell us any details of the condition, but he did this exact thing and spent 2 nights in the hospital taking care of his jimmy.

Fake.

Agreed. No shirt = twink attention whore.

> how much weight was that?

Depends on the acceleration of gravity there.

>> ^deathcow:
> how much weight was that?
Depends on the acceleration of gravity there.


Yes, because it would vary by up to 0.008% depending on where on Earth you are (and the density of the parts of the earth closest to you)

The mass should be constant though, how much mass was it?

at least he didn´t kill innocent creatures with it (maybe aside from a few crabs) like this guy...

If the big one is a 45lbs and the smaller ones are 35, then that's probably 415 lbs (including a 45lb bar)

However, I'd say it looks more like two 35 lbs and eight 25s for a total of 315.