Bro, is this close to his life last lift?"

[u/meme-modiibazz]

[u/Crzywilly]

This guy is an idiot.

[u/GoodShark → u/Crzywilly]

Yup. When you're doing bench press, specifically with a max weight, don't put the clamps on. That way, if this happens, you roll to one side, and all the weights fall off.

This guy is DEFINITELY an idiot.

[u/adoodle83 → u/GoodShark]

How about you get a proper spotter too. Or multiple spotters with weight that heavy

[u/Krimreaper1 → u/adoodle83]

When your spotter weighs less than what your benching you might be in trouble.

[u/eat_your_oatmeal → u/Krimreaper1]

took the words out of my mouth, 💯this

[u/nedal8 → u/GoodShark]

And be under the damn rack. He was wayy too far forward.

[u/VET65 → u/GoodShark]

Don't ever put collars on for bench.

[u/toxicatedscientist → u/VET65]

I was taught that one side gets collar, depending on which side might have traffic

[u/BAF_DaWg82 → u/GoodShark]

Could tell hes an idiot by his little LFG pre lift bit, and also im pretty sure that form is very incorrect.

[u/HeatEmUpBois → u/GoodShark]

Also, why is there a girl helping him? Have a fellow body builder?

[u/RemLazar911 → u/HeatEmUpBois]

Maybe the girl is a fellow body builder

[u/hakujin214 → u/GoodShark]

This is a good way to catapult a 20kg metal bar across a gym and potentially really hurt someone or yourself. It drives me crazy when people give this advice because it is so incredibly foolish. Use a spotter, or two or three if you are moving that much weight, and the safeties.

Turning exercise equipment into projectiles is never a good idea.

[u/SpiralGray → u/Crzywilly]

So is the guy who wrote the title of this post.

[u/lilbittygoddamnman → u/SpiralGray]

No kidding!

[u/ThrustTrust → u/Crzywilly]

So is the girl. Take a damn class on leverage.

[u/BeGoku → u/ThrustTrust]

I could be wrong, but that looks like a sister or daughter. 13 at the eldest? No workout clothes, barefoot, completely clueless about gym equipment ( nothing wrong with any of this, until you ask them to spot you )

[u/ThrustTrust → u/BeGoku]

You might be right. so blurry on my phone I can’t tell

[u/xpsycotikx → u/BeGoku]

You can be clueless about weightlifting and still understand how a lever works.

[u/kurotech → u/xpsycotikx]

And you can weigh 95 pounds and not be strong enough to lift 95 pounds. This is on weight bro not the person who he has spotting them. If you think your spotter can handle helping you then you take that risk 100% and when you trust someone who has never spotted before like is evident here, then you are responsible for your safety and them not being able to safely spot you.

[u/th-grt-gtsby → u/ThrustTrust]

I think she is his wife. I don't blame her. Whether she is capable as spotter or not should be known by the guy. Moreover, she seems to go in panic mode. No physics or math would work when you go in panic. She doesn't seem to be very strong as well. All in all, the guy is an idiot, ego lifter and put him and his wife in dangerous situation.

[u/fatkiddown → u/ThrustTrust]

Finish him!

[u/Magoo1985 → u/fatkiddown]

😂😂🤣🤣🙂‍↔️😏🤤

[u/-Joka → u/Crzywilly]

Came here to say that. Enjoy the upvote.

[u/nonstopflux → u/-Joka]

Go away

[u/-Joka → u/nonstopflux]

After you

[u/poncho5202]

why ask her to spot him? were there no toddlers available? maybe a paper cut out of a person?

[u/thedudefromsweden → u/poncho5202]

Runs away like it's a bomb

[u/CharlieParkour → u/poncho5202]

Could a toddler pull it back so it was over his neck instead of his chest?

[u/downvotethetrash]

Wow this is so much dumb in one video

[u/johnnyxx4321 → u/downvotethetrash]

including op. never heard of anyone filming in the gym

[u/Castille_92]

If you're gonna have someone spot you at least make sure they're not a stick figure

[u/LongJonSlayer → u/Castille_92]

Even a stick figure is fine if you're only going 5-20 lbs over your limit (and they know what they're doing).

[u/Wheloc → u/LongJonSlayer]

This was a salvageable situation... if they knew what they were doing.

[u/KAHLYP90 → u/LongJonSlayer]

Exactly, any time I’ve pushed past my max my buddy has been able to help me get it up using two fingers on each hand, if your buddy needs to take off more than 30 lbs of weight you had no business trying it in the first place

[u/Ubivorn → u/LongJonSlayer]

Also would've helped if the stick figure at least knew to pull upwards instead forward towards his neck 😵💀

[u/Tru3insanity → u/Ubivorn]

She prob weighs less than the weights.

[u/You-get-the-ankles → u/Castille_92]

"Let me pull this off your chest onto your face and neck."

[u/Sancticide → u/You-get-the-ankles]

"Shhhh, it'll be over soon..."

[u/SwallowsOnSundays]

People often film themselves working out

[u/Keebster101]

Incredibly dumb video but it's very obvious why someone would be filming. Tons of people film gym lifts, especially if they're going for a PB.

[u/0RGASMIK]

This is what my girlfriend thinks is gonna happen when we go to the gym together. In reality shes probably stronger than me.

[u/RednocNivert]

“Never skip Neck Day” he says as he sets that onto his windpipe

[u/Swankenstein89]

What in the actual fuck was that?? I love how the tiny woman steps away as to not get in the way of him decapitating himself….

[u/JbotTheGamer → u/Swankenstein89]

And then proceeds to pull it over his neck, like christ

[u/Shadow950hun]

Why did the guy ask a girl with stick arms to be your spotter? If he couldn't lift those fucking weights, how was she supposed to?

[u/Lisa7x]

This was clear from the first second, he couldn't even lift it up himself

[u/Arding16 → u/Lisa7x]

It’s not super uncommon to have someone help with the lift. It lets him conserve his energy for the actual rep. Now in this case, this guy is an egomaniacal idiot, but had he been doing a sensible max weight and completed a rep or two, the lift off would have been fair enough

[u/shartnado3 → u/Lisa7x]

This guy is an idiot, yes. But sometimes this is a psychological trick. Back when I was playing football, and working out a lot we’d always try to increase our max lifts (personal challenges). I remember going for my personal best on bench press and having another really strong dude spot me. He “helped” the bar lift off and I did two reps and set it back down.

Afterwards he told me he didn’t touch it at all and it was all me.

Not sure that is what this guy was going for, but he should have definitely had someone that could at least help him stop it from choking himself to death

[u/coko4209]

What did he think she could do exactly? Does he not understand the function of a spotter?

[u/CleanHead_]

Im not a professional body builder, but I'd think a more effective spotter would help.

[u/VET65]

Always be able to dump weights

[u/dpr_jr]

The whole point of a spotter is they can lift the weight when needed lesson learned for sure

[u/guiltybyproxy]

"If he dies, he dies"

[u/rcmacman → u/guiltybyproxy]

I understood that reference

[u/lsizani]

Placebo spotter

[u/MkLiam → u/lsizani]

Yeah, isn't your spotter supposed to be able to lift what you are benching?

[u/lsizani → u/MkLiam]

Based on the video, I'd say it's most sensible that your spotter will be able to lift the weight.

[u/IndoorMule]

I’ve said “no” to spotting at Planet Fitness on a smith machine. No chance I’d entertain this nonsense. I know my limits.

[u/Sellswordinthegrove]

And this ladies and gentlemen is why you don't secure the weights on one side.

[u/yulmun]

This video oozes stupidity

[u/Bammalam102]

Just dont put the clips on! If you fail the weights will slide off and you are left with only a 45lb bar.

[u/Ibraheem_moizoos]

I have to downvite you because this does not belong in this subreddit. They were filming their lift. People do it all the time.

[u/22switch]

Obvious answer, filming because it's a big lift.

[u/saintpumpkin]

missed darwin award

[u/interestingfactiod]

You need a spotter that knows what they're doing. This girl didn't, and it's obvious. If you can't lift it and it's on his neck, pull the pins and clamps off and pull the weights off.

[u/artgarfunkadelic]

Honest question....

Would the thing to do be to remove the pins on one side and remove the weights?

[u/GauruBeard → u/artgarfunkadelic]

I never use pins on my benchpress. It's not much due to humeral osteosynthesis with a titanium plate (308lbs/140kg for 2 reps, 130kg/4, 120kg/12 reps) but it is enough to choke me hard or brake a neck. With pins it's much harder to roll barbell down to stomach as long as all the initial weight is still there.

[u/artgarfunkadelic → u/GauruBeard]

So you let the weights, idk, "free float"? So if this happens the weights can fall off as soon as it tips to one side?

[u/GauruBeard → u/artgarfunkadelic]

Yeah, if I measure my reps/weight ratio correctly nothing happens, maybe just a little movement, but in case of emergency I tip barbell over to one side to drop off plates.

[u/artgarfunkadelic → u/GauruBeard]

Thanks for the explanations

[u/bradleyone]

Remember: he did this, AND THEN he posted it to the internet.

[u/Patient-Profit]

I want to know how that conversation went afterwards

[u/IWouldntIn1981 → u/Patient-Profit]

Yeah... even if he is a solid dude, there was definitely a second where he looked at her like "wtf?" before having to admit that he made a series of poor choices.

If he's a prick, he might still be screaming at her.

[u/stickystax → u/IWouldntIn1981]

At best...

[u/stickystax → u/Patient-Profit]

Looked like he was jumping up to yell at or hit her at the very end tbh

[u/pwnasaurus253]

lol why would you put the collars on and have basically no spotter. Death wish.

[u/adognameddanzig]

She's was holding down that bar, trying to get some insurance money.

[u/mrobins345]

Looks like she was trying to kill him pulling it closer to his neck. 😳😝

[u/therealsoggi]

You Allrad know he’s stupid wearing a belt during bench press

[u/chrisr3240]

He was like ‘fuck it. I’m gonna die. She’s coming with me…’

[u/Embarrassed-Towel-19]

Not her fault. He should've had a real spotter. Glad he lived.

[u/Zepp_BR]

Mission failed agent 47

[u/RayAlmighty13]

Learn to pick your spotter better my dude.

[u/theresidentviking]

Ego

100% ego

[u/potholio]

Muscle head doing muscle head things

[u/Gothic_Mist]

There is always an idiot among lifiters who overestimate their strength

[u/nerforbuff]

Ego lift, many a man has fallen victim to such a phenomenon

[u/Huy3ko]

Less braincells than less Muskels.

[u/ANAL_DRAGONS]

Maybe dont ask a woman that much smaller than you to spot you on a weight you clearly are unable to do yet?

[u/thrown6667]

Seems like it might have been a bad idea to have someone who couldn't lift even 1/4 of he weight spotting him. I'm not a gym bro by any means, but I'd like to know, especially when benching, that the person I have spotting me can move the weight off of my throat. That's just me, though. Some folks are into that kind of thing.

[u/Gorfo_Kif]

I feel like this doesn't really match the purpose of this subreddit. It's obvious why they were filming.

[u/darkkerknight]

The weights weigh more than the girl....what was he thinking? Spotter doesn't mean "lookout if someone is around".....it means help me if I fuck up

[u/Vegetable_Burrito]

I think we all know why he was filming…

[u/sdw318_local194]

God that had to be scary

[u/Double0]

ZERO

[u/asalerre]

What a buddy

[u/you_matter_]

Indian ego unmatched

[u/O__boy]

Maybe it was the belt

[u/joeyb1b]

OMG still laughing!

[u/bradleyone]

I sure hope he yelled at her. Looks like the kind of guy who might.

[u/Bidcar]

Real life Final Destination

[u/fetusauce69]

He later hugged that girl and cried

[u/flav512]

This was attempted murder

[u/calangomerengue]

When you set a plan B, make sure plan B works.

[u/sinkocto]

I bet he drives a jeep wrangler.

[u/dukerenegade]

Why did she haul ass out of there right when he started?

[u/poopsnorkle]

Women

[u/lunarson24]

Why would someone be benching and having a spotter that can't help with the one situation in which you need a spotter for?....

[u/tokyoxplant]

Dumb and dumber. Take your pick as to which is which.

[u/chaosifier]

she made it worse

[u/Skygoing]

Well... DB Press from now on, I guess!

[u/Eyeluvflixs]

Never have a spotter weight less than the weights your trying to lift.

[u/terminalxposure]

Which is why I never lock my weights in

[u/JansherMalik25]

Looks like it's probably india. At this stage, if he doesn't know to have clamps removed and have a real spotter, then it's better to stick to scamming people.

[u/MinnieShoof]

Not seen: the next 5 seconds and the reason they were filming: him hauling off and slugging her.

[u/The_Anonymo]

Darwin likes that! Wtf.

[u/blind_squash]

The following day was the best day of that dudes life

[u/Dr-Lipschitz]

Moron. Let's just jump on top of the weights.

[u/Artistic_Taxi → u/Dr-Lipschitz]

??

She’s trying to deadlift the bar it seems.

[u/ccpedicab → u/[deleted]]

Look closer at what?

[u/thedavidmiguel → u/[deleted]]

Lmfao this is absolutely not AI wtf? Haha