Today i nearly died...

KERSPLAT!

So, today I nearly died.

I met a personal trainer last week to get me started with free weights. Everything went fine, she created a programme for me and off I went. Today was my first morning for the programme. Got to the gym at 6.45 raring to go.

Got myself warmed up with 10 minutes on a cross trainer and a few stretches.

First up, chest press. Loaded up the weights on both sides, slid under the bar, rolled the bar off the rack and BAM! the bar was stuck to my chest. Little did I realise that the weight of 35kg (don't slag, I'm only starting!!) Was to be spread across both sides, not on both sides... It took everything I had to lift the f**king thing off me!! I really thought I was fecked!

Managed to lift it and took a few minutes to access what had just happened. I had nearly died. Decided to just do 2 x sets after that instead of the 3 x that I was supposed to do :rolleyes:

On a positive note, I was informed after that I now have a PB of 70kg excluding the bar \o/

So, AH, you had any close calls?

suicide_circus

Do you even...oh.

harry Bailey esq

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

So, today I nearly died.

I met a personal trainer last week to get me started with free weights. Everything went fine, she created a programme for me and off I went. Today was my first morning for the programme. Got to the gym at 6.45 raring to go.

Got myself warmed up with 10 minutes on a cross trainer and a few stretches.

First up, chest press. Loaded up the weights on both sides, slid under the bar, rolled the bar off the rack and BAM! the bar was stuck to my chest. Little did I realise that the weight of 35kg (don't slag, I'm only starting!!) Was to be spread across both sides, not on both sides... It took everything I had to lift the f**king thing off me!! I really thought I was fecked!

Managed to lift it and took a few minutes to access what had just happened. I had nearly died. Decided to just do 2 x sets after that instead of the 3 x that I was supposed to do :rolleyes:

On a positive note, I was informed after that I now have a PB of 70kg excluding the bar \o/

So, AH, you had any close calls?

The irony, kersplat goes out with a kersplat.
Glad your ok chief.

awec

You didn't think when putting 35kg on both ends of the bar that this might be a bit heavy?

Mena

Hmm, that could be me in the gym next week, first time since leaving the military 22 years ago so I expect pain. I have a trainer as well and pretty sure the guys going to kill me.

And that's where (in the military) my close calls would be. But if I told you, you know...

Mr. CooL ICE

Try not to overdose on creatine OP.



One time while not sober, I was sitting on a wall with a 6-7ft drop on the other side. I fainted, fell backwards and landed on my head on concrete and broken glass. Hospital confirmed I just had some neck muscle strain. I'm lucky I don't have enough brain cells to damage.

mansize

nearly died when I collapsed in school at 17, woke in Beaumont 2 days later!

Fun times!

myshirt

90 kgs in total so?

biko

I almost got crushed by a bus.

Luckily I saw it well in time and just didn't step out onto the street. Disaster avoided.

gozunda

Too many to even enumerate - though only resuscitated once as far as I remember.

mansize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtfZbj4J71A

Tigger

myshirt wrote: »

90 kgs in total so?

Seems a lot to lift on your first go
When I get stuck I normall stick one end on the ground and scoot out

KERSPLAT!

myshirt wrote: »

90 kgs in total so?

Not sure tbh. I'm told the bar is 15/20kg?

@awec, it did seem a bit much but it was about 7am, I was still in sleep mode or I thought I was He-Man

failinis

Being born was kinda risky cause I did die then to be revived and about 5 cardiac arrests in 3 weeks - so I have been told.
Had misdiagnosed scarlet fever as a child which left me in hospital for a bit too.
Other than that been very lucky.

ancapailldorcha

Thank God someone else here is puny. I refuse to go near the bar any more.

topper75

myshirt wrote: »

90 kgs in total so?

No different to levering some drunk challenger off you in a pub car park dustup then.

KERSPLAT!

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Thank God someone else here is puny. I refuse to go near the bar any more.

I prefer beginner!

Skylinehead

Couple of years ago near Finglas Clearwater, I was walking across the Finglas Road just at the lights there when the filter was on.

Teenagers joyriding in a Fiesta come flying up the bus lane unseen at about 70mph, break the lights, miss me by a whisker and plow into an Avensis that was turning into Tesco. They reverse, car barely hanging together, and drive away. Guards found it abandoned in a field a few hours later.

Roll of shaaaaame

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I grew up on a farm. Well not on an actual farm, but my dad had a farm we were on a lot. I've had many close calls. Mainly because I never learn my lesson.
When I was two I stuck my hand into a tractors fan belt, top of my finger was chopped off (but they sewed it back on), I probably wouldn't have been killed but the Drs were surprised I hadn't lost my hand.

We were putting bales into the shed and we had this escalator thing for getting the bales to the top of the shed. I was about to climb down it when my brother went to start it just as I was getting down. The chain thing caught my jumper and pulled my arm towards it. Luckily my dad was close by and managed to hit the lever and turn it off.

Climbed a massive tree that was growing apples, I was up near the top of it and my brother who was scared of heights kept throwing apples that had fallen, at me to try knock me out of it.

My dad had put me standing in a gap on my neighbours farm when they were trying to get a cow in, I was scared and moved the first time and she got away. They got her back and put me back in the gap with the strict instructions not to move but to shoo her away, and not let her pass me. The poor cow was terrified and kept running straight for the gap (and me) and I was standing there, more afraid of my dad than the cow, and she ran straight at me, missing me by cms. The neighbour and my dad got such a fright, they were sure I was going to be trampled.

Fell off round bales when I was climbing them in the shed, and got stuck down between them. Luckily my brother was out with me playing and when I fell he went to get my dad, who got me out. Had I went down upside down I'd have broken my neck or suffocated.

When I got older,
Sitting on the back of a bale lifter while my brother was joy riding the tractor around the field. He hit a dip in the ground and the pin ended up coming out of the lifter, trapping me under it, and getting pulled along a little bit. I was 23 so old enough to know better. I ended up needing an op, and have 2 plates, a pin and a rake of screws in my ankle, and had a dislocated bone as well as 4 broken ones.

Myself and my brother were in a car accident where he turned the car upside down. I got a fright, and apart from being cut by glass when he was pulling me out of it, I wasn't badly hurt.

ScumLord

That happened to me once, I have a bench at home so I'm always conscious of having to stop before I nacker my arms to much.

I was at a party as a young lad off my head on yolks and there was a weight bench in the middle of the party. I put everything on it (maybe 90kg) and went lifting it like a mod thing. Luckily the other people at the party stopped me before my heart jumped out of my chest and started a fight with someone. I was in agony the next day though, I could barely lift anything at all for the next week.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Also don't feel bad about being weak OP. I once pulled a muscle putting an 8lb turkey in the boot of the car.

Tigger

topper75 wrote: »

No different to levering some drunk challenger off you in a pub car park dustup then.

It's very different

KERSPLAT!

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Also don't feel bad about being weak OP. I once pulled a muscle putting an 8lb turkey in the boot of the car.

I'm a beginner!!! :mad::mad:


:pac::pac:

Zillah

...how...how do you get past the initial "HOLY SHIT THIS BAR IS HEAVIER THAN I AM" reaction that should have happened the instant you tried to lift it off the rack?

Good lord.

35 + 35 + 20 is 90kg.

NiallBoo

I would guess that was supposed to be 35kg total - ie. 7.5kg on each side of the bar.

Surprising the PT didn't go through a set with you?

Anyway, glad you're alive.

Akrasia

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I grew up on a farm. Well not on an actual farm, but my dad had a farm we were on a lot. I've had many close calls. Mainly because I never learn my lesson.
When I was two I stuck my hand into a tractors fan belt, top of my finger was chopped off (but they sewed it back on), I probably wouldn't have been killed but the Drs were surprised I hadn't lost my hand.

We were putting bales into the shed and we had this escalator thing for getting the bales to the top of the shed. I was about to climb down it when my brother went to start it just as I was getting down. The chain thing caught my jumper and pulled my arm towards it. Luckily my dad was close by and managed to hit the lever and turn it off.

Climbed a massive tree that was growing apples, I was up near the top of it and my brother who was scared of heights kept throwing apples that had fallen, at me to try knock me out of it.

My dad had put me standing in a gap on my neighbours farm when they were trying to get a cow in, I was scared and moved the first time and she got away. They got her back and put me back in the gap with the strict instructions not to move but to shoo her away, and not let her pass me. The poor cow was terrified and kept running straight for the gap (and me) and I was standing there, more afraid of my dad than the cow, and she ran straight at me, missing me by cms. The neighbour and my dad got such a fright, they were sure I was going to be trampled.

Fell off round bales when I was climbing them in the shed, and got stuck down between them. Luckily my brother was out with me playing and when I fell he went to get my dad, who got me out. Had I went down upside down I'd have broken my neck or suffocated.

When I got older,
Sitting on the back of a bale lifter while my brother was joy riding the tractor around the field. He hit a dip in the ground and the pin ended up coming out of the lifter, trapping me under it, and getting pulled along a little bit. I was 23 so old enough to know better. I ended up needing an op, and have 2 plates, a pin and a rake of screws in my ankle, and had a dislocated bone as well as 4 broken ones.

Myself and my brother were in a car accident where he turned the car upside down. I got a fright, and apart from being cut by glass when he was pulling me out of it, I wasn't badly hurt.

There's a podcaster called George Hirab (http://www.geologicpodcast.com/) and he does a section on people who escaped death multiple times. I reckon you'd be on the top of his list.

I grew up around farms and played on them too. Apart from the few falls out of trees and being chased by herds of bullocks and and the obligatory fall in the hay barn, I never got hurt.

I was almost run down by 3 mopeds once. I was crossing the road at the bus stop in Maynooth, across from the Glenroyal hotel. The Lights were red at the junction on the bottom of the hill and traffic was backed up all the way to the hotel. I was crossing in between the cars and when i got to the middle of the road, I was looking left for oncoming traffic when a moped zoomed past me just behind me, then another one flew past just in front of me, and a third one flew past behind me.

Harry Palmr

Weights! Narcissistic bunkum. Do it properly - roll a car through a hedge.

Ruu

Have obtained secret footage of Kersplat! Glad you are okay mate (at least you didn't do a Chris Duffin and have the weights fall off both sides of the bar!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8F2axDvmU

The Backwards Man

Propping up bars takes years of practice and dedication, let this be a lesson to you.

KERSPLAT!

Zillah wrote: »

...how...how do you get past the initial "HOLY SHIT THIS BAR IS HEAVIER THAN I AM" reaction that should have happened the instant you tried to lift it off the rack?

Good lord.

35 + 35 + 20 is 90kg.

I didn't much time to think, as soon as I lifted it off my first thought was "Oh ****"

NiallBoo wrote: »

I would guess that was supposed to be 35kg total - ie. 7.5kg on each side of the bar.

Surprising the PT didn't go through a set with you?

Anyway, glad you're alive.

She did but I didn't see what weight was on each side, she was adjusting it each time to get the right weight I assume.

35kg + the bar is right I think, I did 2 sets after my near demise and it went pretty well

ancapailldorcha

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I prefer beginner!

So do I but let's be honest...

jester77

Ouch, painful way to start :eek:

A little late now, but you should use safety spotters, they are the bars the come out from the rack. Adjust them to the right height so they can take the bar if you can't get it back up.

Plus, the bar itself is 20kg before you put on weight, so if they say you should press 35kg, then you should be putting 7.5kg on each side (7.5 + 7.5 + 20).

Keep it up, a couple of months and you'll be smashing that weight for reps.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Akrasia wrote: »

There's a podcaster called George Hirab (http://www.geologicpodcast.com/) and he does a section on people who escaped death multiple times. I reckon you'd be on the top of his list.

I grew up around farms and played on them too. Apart from the few falls out of trees and being chased by herds of bullocks and and the obligatory fall in the hay barn, I never got hurt.

Reminds me of once crossing a neighbours field with bullocks in it. Myself and my brother. Im the oldest one and he was a horrid wimpy child. We were running across the field, they're naturally curious and ran after us. He was crying, screaming, absolutely terrified. We were almost across the field but he was getting so upset and frightened he wasn't able to run.

So, being a good big sister I told him to keep running and I ran at the cattle shouting and waving my arms, which scared them, and they scattered, so he's out under the fence waiting for me, the cattle have ran away and I'm sauntering back like a boss.

Shoulda let them eat him. Oh if I knew then what I know now :pac:

Mint Sauce

Lost control of my bike a couple years ago training for race. Deliberately crashed into a ditch to avoid being hit by a car, went over the bars, picked my self up, and thought I was a very lucky lucky boy.

Went our seperate ways after making sure both okay, got back on my bike, after a few miles after the adrenaline wore off, checked my self and bike over, few cuts and scraps, rips in my gear, thought to my self again, lucky lucky boy.

Couple days later, brusies came out to arms from the wall lining the ditch,, abdomen from the handlebars, inner thighs from the cross bar, and shins and calfs from the pedals. Thought again, you are a very, very, lucky, lucky boy.

cbyrd

Did you not have someone to spot you?
Beginners should always have someone to spot them... Makes sure they don't do stoopiid stuff like load on the weights 
Still 90kgs is impressive.. I would've laughed though if I witnessed it..

On a side note, I ate curry once.. woke up 2 hours later in a&e after going into heart failure... Anaphylaxis..

maudgonner

I nearly got killed by a flying bath.

Sitting in traffic approaching a roundabout, a van + trailer comes off the roundabout a little too quick. Trailer was full of building supplies, including a bath that wasn't tied down. Trailer makes the turn, bath keeps going straight on. Missed my car by inches.

OK, I wouldn't have died, but I can't imagine it would have been an easy one to explain to the insurance assessor!

Stealthfins

Bet you didn't bath an eyelid ðŸ˜႒

Irishcrx

Haha don't worry about it OP , your not the first one to that on a chest press. I did it years ago when I was starting out in the same fashion , didn't realise how much weight I had loaded until it was off the rack and planted on my chest.

Had to roll off the bench with the weights clattering behind me while I'm on the floor trying to pump oxygen back into my lungs , swear I was turning blue by the time I got free.

Luckily , I now know how to correctly rack the weights! Onwards and upwards...

cowboyBuilder

Just use the machine no ?

much safer then the bar ..

OldGoat

6'1" of me, 6'2" of water. Tippy toe, tippy toe...

Conor Bourke

About 8 years ago I flipped my little Peugeot 106 onto its roof and skidded down a narrow country road for about 20 yards... Climbed out without a bruise or a scratch! If I'd met another car on the road I'd be brown bread for sure.

Ush1

I much prefer dumbbell bench press.

Much better ROM and stretch, also safer.

GLaDOS

Scumbag decided to introduce my head to a golf club a couple of times.

I probably wasnt close to dying but its the best I got :pac:

When I was about 8 or so I fell out of a tree. My jumper snagged on a branch and I was left hanging. My friend raced inside to get help but once there she saw that our parents were sitting down to a feed of sausages. Her very favourite food! She was momentarily distracted by this and chomped her way through one before remembering the emergency at hand. She blurted out that I was hanging and my parents ran outside where they found me blue in the face and barely conscious!

TerrorFirmer

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

So do I but let's be honest...

To be fair pressing 90KGs is an absolutely huge amount for any beginner. That's about 15 stone. Most people starting off find about 40kg challenging enough. I'm not into weights at all anymore but I used to be huge into it. My PB was 120kg and that was after two years of training. Anyone who can do a rep of 90KG on their first attempt is the furthest thing from puny.

KomradeBishop

Yep, safest way is to use a power rack with safety bars
I try to be ultra-paranoid about such things, as there are a lot of ways to permanently injure yourself with weights (and a handful of ways to kill yourself - bench pressing without safety bars or a spotter, being the most common way).

agent graves

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Climbed a massive tree that was growing apples, I was up near the top of it and my brother who was scared of heights kept throwing apples that had fallen, at me to try knock me out of it.

all kids climb trees,, slim to none chance of dying from falling out of it.

failinis

agent graves wrote: »

all kids climb trees,, slim to none chance of dying from falling out of it.

I know there are a few chances of it happening, my dad seen his childhood friend fall from a tree and die on the spot - rare but does happen.

Edit: not saying I am one of those "children should never climb trees" people - they will climb trees when out of sight of parents and there is a small chance of death or life changing injuries from it, same with many activities.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

agent graves wrote: »

all kids climb trees,, slim to none chance of dying from falling out of it.

I personally wouldn't like to be someone who fell 20 odd foot out of a tree!

Rhea Rose

Been there once or twice. Kinda.

I got stuck under 45kg before, by stupidly thinking I'd be 'grand for a few more reps'. Anyway, I was pinned there trying to get someone's attention 'eh bit of help here?!', but no-one could hear me (or no-one gave a ****:o). I tried rolling it off but it got jammed at my hipbones.

Eventually, this guy saw me and came running over to lift it - and he couldn't! He was a bit of a skinny minny in fairness, and it was awkward to lift it off, but I can imagine it was a bit embarrassing. Another dude saved the day in the end, but I still get the 'cringes' just thinking about it.