Bench Press accident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpOZthGnWs - For those who think I have no business trying to bench 305lbs, here's a vid of me getting 295lbs a few minutes before this accident.

I was very lucky: no broken bones, no internal injuries, just a badly bruised chest. I took two weeks off from bench pressing, but I was squatting two days after this accident.

It was NOT the spotter's fault, it was my fault. He let go quickly because that's what I told him to do. He wasn't expecting me to take the bar off the rack so quickly. Also, yes, I was using a dangerous grip. I used the thumbs-under grip for many years with never so much as a "close call". Needless to mention, I have changed my grip to wrapping my thumbs. But I'll still get tons of comments about my grip from all the illiterate "experts" out there. Probably 1% of the commenters will read this.

I am not an ego lifter, as far as I can help it anyway. This lift was part of a friendly lifting contest a group of gym regulars/friends devised. I really couldn't care less about my max. Please try to refrain from the "what's with skinny guys trying to lift so much wah wah wah?!" commentary. My personal best on the bench press, single rep, is 340 lbs. At the time I weighed 30 lbs more than I did in this video.

Why was I recording? I had my camera in my bag, we were having a contest, just figured "why not?". It actually came in handy reviewing some of the other lifts.

Oh yeah, for the Ku Klux Kommenters (heh, just made that up off the top of my head) - I will promptly remove any comments with racial slurs. Might as well keep it to yourselves.

This video aired on "World's Most Amazing Videos" - http://www.spike.com/episode/24809/startsWith/2915932

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• bench
• press
• weightlifting
• accident
• crush
• chest
• ouch

[satinderjit4]

That's a one way ticket to snap city. :p

[FFreeLevant]

Is the bar ok?

[eliasmoney12]

everytime i watch this i laugh because his thumb is not wrap around the bar

[Jasondmichel]

Suicide grip... whatever people. Some grip with their thumb around the bar and some don't. He didn't drop it because his thumb wasn't around it - he dropped it because his form clearly sucks. Not saying he does, saying his form does, because it does. Clearly. When bench pressing one would be much more likely to have a wrist give out than they would to have the bar just slide out of your hands. I bench with an open grip. No way in hell it would just slip all of a sudden.

[Ammo1174]

and this is why you don't use a thumbless grip kids

[koyakoy1]

Did he live?

[jonbw12]

That was bad, his hands slipped and he didn't have his hands tight around it.

[aNOAHlater]

Hey fags, read the description and quit giving this guy crap.

[lamilumag]

first rule of benchpressing: lock it with your thumb ;)

[lagundafire]

ball sympathy...

[Animexduo]

@addictedto80s1 Therefore it's useless. Using lighter weight even if the chest is isolated more (which it probably isnt with such a small change to the grip) will not recruit as many muscle fibers as when lifting heavy with a normal grip. Therefore less pec growth. Also its dangerous. Just use a thumb grip and lift heavy and leave the thumbless grip to those who don't mind risking injury for little to no benefit.

[addictedto80s1]

When u grip the bar with your thumb on the same side of your fingers it isolates ur chest more. Takes the use of your smaller muscles aiding in the press. Try it urself and you will see what I mean. However, when u do try it, lower your weight because you will NOT be able to bench as much as you do with a full grip.