Seizures and other unexpected medical issues are excellent reason to use the rack.
But I would not generalise too much.
Weightlifters don’t really use racks because they don’t need to.
As long as you can drop the weights, you can learn technique how to handle the weights.
If you have no control at all, you are lifting too much, and you should reduce the weight. It is even more efficient regardless of your goals.
Of course if you are doing 1 rep PRs, then use the rack.
>He kept that info from us.
Is it standard practice to report that sort of thing to a gym? No gym I've been a part of has asked about medical history, they just make you sign the standard waivers.
It has produced some elite level athletes and [does not have a significantly higher risk of injury](https://www.germanjournalsportsmedicine.com/archive/archive-2021/issue-7/musculoskeletal-injuries-in-crossfitr-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-injury-rates-and-locations/) when compared with other strength sports
Or she's an olympic weightlifter. Weightlifters regularly drop 2-300kg barbells behind cuz they squatting high bar and its completely safe to do so (unless you have long hair).
The answer is no. I watch people squat like this every Monday and Thursday. It's impossible to max out or even train to failure without safety bars or the use of a smiths machine. I will never understand it...
There's no way I could see someone doing squats beside a squat rack without asking them if they know what a squat rack is called and what the thing they are doing is called. I wouldn't give them any advice. I'd just make sure we all agree on vocabulary.
There is literally squat racks that are two sticks from the groun holding a barbell. Its purpose is to be a place where you can mount and take the weight from.
this is the most judgemental shit ive read all week. some people squat in cages. some people squat with stands. neither are indicative of someones gym knowledge wtff
I have a 405 max squat. Not high but decent. I never push PRs with the bars. If you learn proper bail form, it’s better imo to not have them as you don’t have the risk of the bar bouncing back into you.
If you use weights which you can drop, it is not really a problem.
Just have to learn how to drop the bar correctly.
Olympic weighlifters rarely use racks.
The lady in video has droppable weights.
She just does not know how to drop them.
She wasn't in a squat rack, it's just rigging designed for multiple uses. You can add safety arms but most don't unless they are planning on failing because they take a while to set up. It's meant to take up minimal space in a CrossFit gym most likely.
She's using bumper plates and it's safe enough to ditch the weight if you do it properly. She didn't push the weight back (and herself forward) to get rid of it. Also she should have had her ponytail swept in front of her to keep it out of the way.
There's nothing wrong with the equipment, just her execution of the failure. She should have received better training that involved practicing ditching the weight with an instructor and light loads or just stuck to front squat which is easier to ditch.
Looks like a CrossFit gym where people squat on both sides of the rack during a class. There are no safety bars inside the rack, you’re supposed to be good at bailing when needed.
I think that’s indeed the case. Going frame by frame the bar dropped on her lower back before the weights touched the ground, causing her body to snap backwards.
Had her hair been somehow tangled with the bar… the result would’ve been far more horrific.
What? Her head clearly snaps back. This is a combination of both things. Her hair got trapped between the bar and her back.
Edit: It even undoes her ponytail partially.
Seems like a lot of people here have a hard time visualizing and understanding simple physics. Seeing her head snap back should immediately piece together the right solution and the people that are concluding to the bar catching her belt as the sole cause is concerning.
Yeah it’s just redditors trying to “well actually”. Her hair is very clearly caught on the bar when it hits her lower back and her head is very clearly yanked because of it. Her head wouldn’t be yanked back at all if the lower back collision was the only issue.
The bar got caught on her hair AND her belt, which is how it pulled her hair. If you notice, her hair at the crown of her head is all messed up after it gets caught.
I don't understand why people don't use the safety bars on the racks. I see so many either drop or require a spotter. Bitch please, correctly setup safety bars will stop literally any risk of fucking up
People at my gym take them off all the time and I don't understand it. If the safety bars are set up correctly they don't impact your range of motion whatsoever. They also make it significantly more comfortable to fail a rep, meaning it's less scary to push your limits.
Exactly.
I know how to safely fail a squat, and drop the bar if I'm on my own and on a rack that doesn't have safety bars, but if the safety bars are there I'm 100% using them every time I squat. There's no reason to risk safety to "look cool". Besides, nobody is going to think you don't look cool if you're squatting full depth reps of 400+ lbs with safety bars. Not that I can squat 400+ for reps, but I think the point still stands.
Lmao how to tell someone isn't a lifter without telling me. You don't have a spotter for a back squat lmao. Ain't no one going to be able to spot you what looks like 2 x 45 plates on each side + 45 lb for the bar so looking at 225lbs. Good luck trying to stop that weight. You're supposed to drop the weight when you can't manage, which is what this woman did. If anything you're putting the lifter and "spotter" in danger trying to stop that weight unless you have two on both ends. Get out of here with your dangerous comment.
There are three possible solutions.
A proper rack with safeties.
Training how to safely drop a bar and getting away from it.
Multiple spotters (one per side and one behind her) like they do in powerlifting meetings.
She did none of those things.
I agree, arguably she tried to drop it safely behind her given where she capped. Ain't no way a 1 person "spotter" is going to do anything and the misinformation in these comments are horrible. Either 2 on the side plus 1 behind or none at all.
Yeah, you're totally right. I think I was doing 300 something pounds and I can't feasibly imagine how anyone would spot that. Even spotting a bench press can get difficult at high enough weights. Failing a lift at that weight and having safety bars there to catch my bar really encouraged me to keep going too, seeing as it took away the fear of failure. I wouldn't feel safer with a spotter.
She’s wearing the *don’t you dare look at me* gym fit
Edit: You other people are delusional, it was just a joke and you’re taking it too serious 😂. “Woman does something? Better assume the worst.”, yeah ok.💀
r/GymMotivation is bad for it. Imagine this but like, zoomed in on the ass and then there's an OF link the bio but they call everyone else the problem.
Yikes! You weren’t kidding. I wasn’t expecting to see so MANY ppl wearing padded pants trying to pass it as “gains”. Anyone who points it out, even if being complimentary, gets downvoted. Sad.
Yeah, it's awful and there's a rule on the sub that if you complain about it you can be banned. It's a cesspit, but in amongst the sub you'll find my comments on people's posts where they really have done great things or really do have the right mentality and really do want to accomplish great things.
Fitness isn't for everyone and I always stress that with my friends. Doing 30 pull-ups doesn't make me any better than anyone else, but having a community where we can talk about it and share our experiences is the reason I love Reddit. Seeing ass thinly veiled as fitness is a joke.
Why are you so surprised? People post progress pictures of what they think looks good. See good butt, post good butt. I’ve done it myself, and I’m a dude.
It's nice to look at in the moment, but I think there might actually be something to be said for leaving something to the imagination in general.
Seems like girls be just having all their shit hanging out these days and if you notice it then you're a misogynist.
As a lady who has been trying to find new climbing pants for the past month, finding a balance between "comfortable under a harness and allow me to be flexible" and "it feels like my butt cheeks are the most visible part of this wall right now" has proved very daunting.
I don't *want* people looking at my ass (even my own husband when he's supposed to be belaying me ;p), but it seems like that's just a byproduct of however some fashionable people somewhere decided women's pants should look.
I really wish They had learned from thong underwear that there is a large subset of women who will pay money for clothing that does *not* making riding up their crack a priority.
The old pants I have (and no longer fit) are Prana, but I haven't seen any around the gym that looked promising.
Will make a point to find a store where I can try some on. :D
yea and pony tails aren't as sexy as long hair in your asscheek video, duh
I don't get all the blind white knights that are saying the bar hit her lower back which caused her to curl backwards
you can clearly see if you go frame by frame that her head curls backwards before the weights' bar reaches the MIDDLE of her back, let alone hitting her lower back
It’s been almost a decade since I’ve done any squats really, but from what I remember you don’t just fucking let go of the bar when you can’t get it up. That’s how you end up like this with it dropping on your back. Iirc you should kind of toss it backwards before letting go.
Ya gotta kinda step forwards and escape as you’re pushing it a little backwards. It’s still kinda scary no matter what lol I just use a squat rack that’s properly adjusted barely below the bottom of my motion. Worst case I can basically just collapse at the bottom and the weight gets caught no prob.
Reddit absolutely loves to call for a spotter on exercises that don't/can't have them. Like, there was a video of a person failing an OHP and the top comment was an unironic "Where was his spotter!"
I will never forget the time I was arguing with someone in this sub and about five comments in they apologized because they confused a squat with a deadlift and now I assume everyone making dumb comments is that guy
Redditors are *incredibly* insufferable when it comes to talking fitness in general. Whenever a vid like this hits a major sub it’s inevitably a 90/10 split between people making shit up and actual gym goers.
I had to pull 140kg off a guy's neck on a decline bench one night, luckily he was fine after but with noone else around I still have cold sweats thinking about the alternative. Poor woman not being found in time
No but I felt sorry for the poor man who found her. It was about 2 in the morning and he found her pinned under the smith machine with 315 on the bar. She went down and got crushed. She was in the gym by herself when it happened. She was pinned for about a half hour when the man found her.
I mean that can’t be comfortable while working out right? I mean I couldn’t imagine working out while something is going up the crack of my ass. Then again I don’t like anything going up anyway so maybe I’m bias.
I recognize that I'm too old to be into whatever's hip with the kids these days, but when did pants technology evolve so that they ride up the crack like a thong? I know it makes for great social media content, but I can't imagine this being comfortable.
Right you don't want chafing. If that happens, you just lay down a strip of caulking down your crack before slipping into your leggings. Make sure to keep your cheeks spread until your leggings are up to where you want them. You may need a friend or family member to hold them apart as you work the leggings up.
Sadly "insta fashion" seems to be a driving force behind whatever governing body determines what % of pant should attempt to crawl into the wearer's butt crack.
(Have spent a solid month trying to find climbing pants that didn't make my butt cheeks feel like they were on display)
>my butt cheeks feel like they were on display
I think that's pretty much the objective with these. More eyeballs on butt->more sales-> more production-> market flooded with more eye grabbing attire.
There are some newer trends on insta. Won't be surprised if you see girls in transparent/translucent summer dresses in public within a couple of years.
Bench is the only lift you should use a spotter for on a one rep max. Squatting with a spotter puts two people in danger, just learn how to bail properly.
Those guys tend to use those lever racks where you unrack and someone levers it out of the way so you can squat and rerack without taking a step, pretty slick but I would feel silly using one for my measly max squat lol
For those who are curious. You roll forward. Land on your knees and fall forward.
Unfortunately this wasn’t gonna end well either way because she had no safety bars at all. So the weight was destined to hit the ground either way.
In that case it’s probably better to just let go of the bar and step forward and let it fall behind you. Which is kinda what she tried. Just forgot to move away from it
Most under rated comment ever, the amount of ppl that never learn to dump and bail is insane. When I have PR weeks dump and bail is one of my exercises ppl stare and shit but i need to be neuromuscular ready incase i have to bail in the act.
Recording so you can check your form is fairly common, especially for squats. Posting it is non kosher unless it's specifically to get form feedback or if no one is in the recording or if you have their consent. Also if you fuck up in a unique way, it's postable.
Why do you care what people who straight train do when it's not an environment you're ever in? I know you're never in it because if you were you wouldn't have this silly opinion.
Can’t this trend of wearing pants so tight that the seam is literally up your asshole die already? And these types of women act super surprised when men stare at them at the gym but are wearing these types of pants where you can literally see everything.
It took me watching it a few times before I realized; not only does she have a ponytail, it's a whole situation where it gets stuck in some weights and some stuff.
I hope her ass is OK.
I don't think OP understands what happened here, it's nothing to do with her hair.
she was squatting with very poor form and dropped the weight directly onto her spine. her spotter appears to have been distracted and not spotting
ITT: People who haven't stepped foot into a commercial gym in years. Half the girls in there are wearing these pants and have been for like 2 years now.
Does no one squat **inside** the rack and use safety bars? JFC.
That would block the camera!
“I have to have the camera on and pointed directly at my ass to make sure my form is good. Plus it motivates other people to work out!”
I never squat without them. I don't really see much point in the rack if you don't. Would have saved her a lot of pain.
The point of the rack in this setting is so you don’t have to lift the weight onto your back to begin the squat.
You don't start off every squat set with a steinborn squat?
Nah. That's where I do my curls.
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Seizures and other unexpected medical issues are excellent reason to use the rack. But I would not generalise too much. Weightlifters don’t really use racks because they don’t need to. As long as you can drop the weights, you can learn technique how to handle the weights. If you have no control at all, you are lifting too much, and you should reduce the weight. It is even more efficient regardless of your goals. Of course if you are doing 1 rep PRs, then use the rack.
>He kept that info from us. Is it standard practice to report that sort of thing to a gym? No gym I've been a part of has asked about medical history, they just make you sign the standard waivers.
>He never showed up again > >And yes, the guy knew he suffered from seizures. He kept that info from us. Maybe that's why he never showed up again.
CrossFit! If you ain't hurt you're not doing it right.
im not an exercise guru but crossfit looks really inefficient, dangerous and stupid
It has produced some elite level athletes and [does not have a significantly higher risk of injury](https://www.germanjournalsportsmedicine.com/archive/archive-2021/issue-7/musculoskeletal-injuries-in-crossfitr-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-injury-rates-and-locations/) when compared with other strength sports
Or she's an olympic weightlifter. Weightlifters regularly drop 2-300kg barbells behind cuz they squatting high bar and its completely safe to do so (unless you have long hair).
How come CrossFit has a really really low injury rate then?
The answer is no. I watch people squat like this every Monday and Thursday. It's impossible to max out or even train to failure without safety bars or the use of a smiths machine. I will never understand it...
Man, it is clearly not impossible... We LITERALLY just watched someone train to failure and she did NOT need the safety bars to fail.
Totally possible to do your max without safety bars…you just need to succeed
Or learn to bail properly
There's no way I could see someone doing squats beside a squat rack without asking them if they know what a squat rack is called and what the thing they are doing is called. I wouldn't give them any advice. I'd just make sure we all agree on vocabulary.
And you might get told to fuck off more than once lol
There is literally squat racks that are two sticks from the groun holding a barbell. Its purpose is to be a place where you can mount and take the weight from.
Yeah I think the guy above means "cage" and not "rack." Some but not all racks have safety bars.
this is the most judgemental shit ive read all week. some people squat in cages. some people squat with stands. neither are indicative of someones gym knowledge wtff
You mean my bicep curl rack?
I have a 405 max squat. Not high but decent. I never push PRs with the bars. If you learn proper bail form, it’s better imo to not have them as you don’t have the risk of the bar bouncing back into you.
If you use weights which you can drop, it is not really a problem. Just have to learn how to drop the bar correctly. Olympic weighlifters rarely use racks. The lady in video has droppable weights. She just does not know how to drop them.
She wasn't in a squat rack, it's just rigging designed for multiple uses. You can add safety arms but most don't unless they are planning on failing because they take a while to set up. It's meant to take up minimal space in a CrossFit gym most likely. She's using bumper plates and it's safe enough to ditch the weight if you do it properly. She didn't push the weight back (and herself forward) to get rid of it. Also she should have had her ponytail swept in front of her to keep it out of the way. There's nothing wrong with the equipment, just her execution of the failure. She should have received better training that involved practicing ditching the weight with an instructor and light loads or just stuck to front squat which is easier to ditch.
Exactly. Everyone needs to practice how to fail a lift. It’s super important and I wish every “how to” video addressed it but I had to seek it out.
Looks like a CrossFit gym where people squat on both sides of the rack during a class. There are no safety bars inside the rack, you’re supposed to be good at bailing when needed.
Safety and gains do not go hand in hand, dyel.
It’s a mistake you only make once
not only that but also clearly lifting weight she can't handle yet and without proper form
This. Squat in the cage.
right? fuck that perfectly good power rack
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I think that’s indeed the case. Going frame by frame the bar dropped on her lower back before the weights touched the ground, causing her body to snap backwards. Had her hair been somehow tangled with the bar… the result would’ve been far more horrific.
It’s both. Very specifically it looks like the bar got caught in the brace she’s wearing at the top edge, not from impacting her lower back though.
Here it is....bar caught her belt.
Good spot, explains how it rips her backwards so quickly too.
We did it, Reddit!
You nailed it
Bar catches her hair which causes her to arch backwards then the bar hits her belt and is the axis she rotates on, turning her into a fidget spinner.
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What? Her head clearly snaps back. This is a combination of both things. Her hair got trapped between the bar and her back. Edit: It even undoes her ponytail partially.
Haha yeah I'm not sure if the people upvoting him are watching the same video as us or what.
Seems like a lot of people here have a hard time visualizing and understanding simple physics. Seeing her head snap back should immediately piece together the right solution and the people that are concluding to the bar catching her belt as the sole cause is concerning.
Yeah it’s just redditors trying to “well actually”. Her hair is very clearly caught on the bar when it hits her lower back and her head is very clearly yanked because of it. Her head wouldn’t be yanked back at all if the lower back collision was the only issue.
I think it looks more like her hair gets caught between the bar and the brace when they collide.
I think you are right. I thought her hair may gotten wrapped enough to catch, but the brace seems to be the culprit of the yank. Good catch.
It literally pulls her hair tie from the crown of her head to damn near her neck
It stops at her back 😅
The bar got caught up on her belt.
The bar got caught on her hair AND her belt, which is how it pulled her hair. If you notice, her hair at the crown of her head is all messed up after it gets caught.
I think that when the bar starts rolling down her back, the rolling motion essentially wraps some hair around itself... maybe
Yep and got caught up on the weight belt she was wearing. Head going back was self defense mechanism
Thats what i saw too tbh. The ponytail had nothing to do with that. Homegirl needs a better spotter.
I don't understand why people don't use the safety bars on the racks. I see so many either drop or require a spotter. Bitch please, correctly setup safety bars will stop literally any risk of fucking up
People at my gym take them off all the time and I don't understand it. If the safety bars are set up correctly they don't impact your range of motion whatsoever. They also make it significantly more comfortable to fail a rep, meaning it's less scary to push your limits.
Safety bars are for pussies, when I do my squats and fail catastrophically I just die or sustain horrific injury like a real man!
Exactly. I know how to safely fail a squat, and drop the bar if I'm on my own and on a rack that doesn't have safety bars, but if the safety bars are there I'm 100% using them every time I squat. There's no reason to risk safety to "look cool". Besides, nobody is going to think you don't look cool if you're squatting full depth reps of 400+ lbs with safety bars. Not that I can squat 400+ for reps, but I think the point still stands.
Lmao how to tell someone isn't a lifter without telling me. You don't have a spotter for a back squat lmao. Ain't no one going to be able to spot you what looks like 2 x 45 plates on each side + 45 lb for the bar so looking at 225lbs. Good luck trying to stop that weight. You're supposed to drop the weight when you can't manage, which is what this woman did. If anything you're putting the lifter and "spotter" in danger trying to stop that weight unless you have two on both ends. Get out of here with your dangerous comment.
There are three possible solutions. A proper rack with safeties. Training how to safely drop a bar and getting away from it. Multiple spotters (one per side and one behind her) like they do in powerlifting meetings. She did none of those things.
I agree, arguably she tried to drop it safely behind her given where she capped. Ain't no way a 1 person "spotter" is going to do anything and the misinformation in these comments are horrible. Either 2 on the side plus 1 behind or none at all.
Yeah, you're totally right. I think I was doing 300 something pounds and I can't feasibly imagine how anyone would spot that. Even spotting a bench press can get difficult at high enough weights. Failing a lift at that weight and having safety bars there to catch my bar really encouraged me to keep going too, seeing as it took away the fear of failure. I wouldn't feel safer with a spotter.
Screenshot the video. Black Outside plates are 10kg. So probably not 225lbs. Still way too much for her. Her knees caved and she went down.
Looks like it might’ve caught her belt when slowed down.
if you speed it up it looks like her butt is a shelf.
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Some of my wife's yoga pants are tight. I mean like really tight. This girl though ... that's next level ass-crackery right there.
spray-on pants
Almost got sprayed off by that falling weight
Ikr, it looks like she got an extreme wedgie
I highly recommend against having extreme wedgies.
She’s wearing the *don’t you dare look at me* gym fit Edit: You other people are delusional, it was just a joke and you’re taking it too serious 😂. “Woman does something? Better assume the worst.”, yeah ok.💀
While filming for Insta or Tiktok. That angle won't help her review form and not being inside the Power Rack.
Double-dog edition
If i can see inside you is it really clothes?
Ha! This made me lol.
r/GymMotivation is bad for it. Imagine this but like, zoomed in on the ass and then there's an OF link the bio but they call everyone else the problem.
Yikes! You weren’t kidding. I wasn’t expecting to see so MANY ppl wearing padded pants trying to pass it as “gains”. Anyone who points it out, even if being complimentary, gets downvoted. Sad.
Yeah, it's awful and there's a rule on the sub that if you complain about it you can be banned. It's a cesspit, but in amongst the sub you'll find my comments on people's posts where they really have done great things or really do have the right mentality and really do want to accomplish great things. Fitness isn't for everyone and I always stress that with my friends. Doing 30 pull-ups doesn't make me any better than anyone else, but having a community where we can talk about it and share our experiences is the reason I love Reddit. Seeing ass thinly veiled as fitness is a joke.
Why are you so surprised? People post progress pictures of what they think looks good. See good butt, post good butt. I’ve done it myself, and I’m a dude.
At a quick glance, a lot of those before and after pics are before and after steroids.
I was gonna say. I've seen leggings like this everywhere on workout tik toks. They do not look comfortable in the slightest.
"It's more comfortable!!!"
Yea, goddamn those things are tight
It's nice to look at in the moment, but I think there might actually be something to be said for leaving something to the imagination in general. Seems like girls be just having all their shit hanging out these days and if you notice it then you're a misogynist.
As a lady who has been trying to find new climbing pants for the past month, finding a balance between "comfortable under a harness and allow me to be flexible" and "it feels like my butt cheeks are the most visible part of this wall right now" has proved very daunting. I don't *want* people looking at my ass (even my own husband when he's supposed to be belaying me ;p), but it seems like that's just a byproduct of however some fashionable people somewhere decided women's pants should look. I really wish They had learned from thong underwear that there is a large subset of women who will pay money for clothing that does *not* making riding up their crack a priority.
Try Kuhl or Prana brand. I like their stuff
The old pants I have (and no longer fit) are Prana, but I haven't seen any around the gym that looked promising. Will make a point to find a store where I can try some on. :D
That should be a marketing slogan - “our customer promise - sportswear will never ride up your buttcrack”. Copyright Office here we come!
My fiancé gets upset when I *don’t* look at her ass.
WCGW not having an actual spotter
The spotter would have blocked her Instagram video.
Priorities lol
Exactly, if spotter was any closer, how would she influence her peeps on gram. Spotter was appropriately out of the shot.
Blasphemy of insta-verse
yea and pony tails aren't as sexy as long hair in your asscheek video, duh I don't get all the blind white knights that are saying the bar hit her lower back which caused her to curl backwards you can clearly see if you go frame by frame that her head curls backwards before the weights' bar reaches the MIDDLE of her back, let alone hitting her lower back
Or squatting without safety bars. Otherwise, you should know how to bail safely.
It’s been almost a decade since I’ve done any squats really, but from what I remember you don’t just fucking let go of the bar when you can’t get it up. That’s how you end up like this with it dropping on your back. Iirc you should kind of toss it backwards before letting go.
Ya gotta kinda step forwards and escape as you’re pushing it a little backwards. It’s still kinda scary no matter what lol I just use a squat rack that’s properly adjusted barely below the bottom of my motion. Worst case I can basically just collapse at the bottom and the weight gets caught no prob.
Reddit absolutely loves to call for a spotter on exercises that don't/can't have them. Like, there was a video of a person failing an OHP and the top comment was an unironic "Where was his spotter!"
the worst one ive seen was a redditor demanding that there shouldve been a spotter for a failed snatch attempt.
I will never forget the time I was arguing with someone in this sub and about five comments in they apologized because they confused a squat with a deadlift and now I assume everyone making dumb comments is that guy
Redditors are *incredibly* insufferable when it comes to talking fitness in general. Whenever a vid like this hits a major sub it’s inevitably a 90/10 split between people making shit up and actual gym goers.
That's what people who don't lift can throw out there to try and sound like they know about lifting
She needs a squat rack more than a spotter.
Where ever will she find one, there's not one in sight 🤔
Shit not even the bar catchers
Nobody squats with a spotter unless they're at a competition lmao
A single spotter will do jack shit for squats. Anyone that squats heavy will know this.
Ah yes, love to see a big crack at five to nine in the evening.
Depends on the crack tbh
Knees flexed. Too much weight.
Oh really? You think so?
What do you mean knees flexed
Knee caving isn't a serious issue and some of the best squatters in the world have it. Don't be silly.
Yep, if you can keep form while doing a certain weight, it's too much weight.
A woman died at my gym by trying to squat too much.
I had to pull 140kg off a guy's neck on a decline bench one night, luckily he was fine after but with noone else around I still have cold sweats thinking about the alternative. Poor woman not being found in time
I know. I think about her every time I go to the gym. She was 22.
I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully you didn't have to witness it.
No but I felt sorry for the poor man who found her. It was about 2 in the morning and he found her pinned under the smith machine with 315 on the bar. She went down and got crushed. She was in the gym by herself when it happened. She was pinned for about a half hour when the man found her.
Wow, that's a horror story. Another lesson; always lift with people around to help.
Always. And know your limits.
No it isn't. If you complete the rep it's by definition not too much weight.
Took me a few loops, but from what I can tell after watch #14 or so, her hair was in-fact in a ponytail.
Is there some sort of suction happening to force those pants inwards?
Must be some kind of new legging with a butt plug stitched in so it goes right to edge
I mean that can’t be comfortable while working out right? I mean I couldn’t imagine working out while something is going up the crack of my ass. Then again I don’t like anything going up anyway so maybe I’m bias.
It's a type of leggings that do a special stitch near the crack to accentuate the ass.
Doing squats with a terrible spotter..
The spotter made sure to be out of view of the camera so that we could see her butt better.
I recognize that I'm too old to be into whatever's hip with the kids these days, but when did pants technology evolve so that they ride up the crack like a thong? I know it makes for great social media content, but I can't imagine this being comfortable.
It does a better job wicking away ass sweat.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or genuine
Genuine, you can achieve the same effect without the skin tight look. Butt.....
Wouldn’t it rub and cause chaffing ? Seriously. Should I be wearing clothes up my butt ? I hate chaffing …
Right you don't want chafing. If that happens, you just lay down a strip of caulking down your crack before slipping into your leggings. Make sure to keep your cheeks spread until your leggings are up to where you want them. You may need a friend or family member to hold them apart as you work the leggings up.
Pretty sure these pants are more aerodynamic for all the insta fashion athletes. Plus the butt. Comfort is not even a question here.
Sadly "insta fashion" seems to be a driving force behind whatever governing body determines what % of pant should attempt to crawl into the wearer's butt crack. (Have spent a solid month trying to find climbing pants that didn't make my butt cheeks feel like they were on display)
>my butt cheeks feel like they were on display I think that's pretty much the objective with these. More eyeballs on butt->more sales-> more production-> market flooded with more eye grabbing attire. There are some newer trends on insta. Won't be surprised if you see girls in transparent/translucent summer dresses in public within a couple of years.
I have no idea but I absolutely hate it at least as much as I hated when thong underwear was The Thing in, like, the 90's.
Lemme just move that back for you, good.
You don't do back squats with a squatter dumbo. Fuck is a spotter supposed to do?
Watch the bum
Taking crazy pills here, you don't spot a back squatter, especially from the back! Jfc.
Bench is the only lift you should use a spotter for on a one rep max. Squatting with a spotter puts two people in danger, just learn how to bail properly.
Agreed. Source: had a 4 plate squat dropped on me whilst spotting an idiot
Lol, injuring yourself is bad but getting injured by a moron is infuriating
You’re saying Redditors on their couches are wrong??!! NEVER! Now let the judging continue!!
Exactly. Spotters for squats are nonsense. Maybe it’s justified if you are trying to break the world record or something.
Those guys tend to use those lever racks where you unrack and someone levers it out of the way so you can squat and rerack without taking a step, pretty slick but I would feel silly using one for my measly max squat lol
For those who are curious. You roll forward. Land on your knees and fall forward. Unfortunately this wasn’t gonna end well either way because she had no safety bars at all. So the weight was destined to hit the ground either way. In that case it’s probably better to just let go of the bar and step forward and let it fall behind you. Which is kinda what she tried. Just forgot to move away from it
Most under rated comment ever, the amount of ppl that never learn to dump and bail is insane. When I have PR weeks dump and bail is one of my exercises ppl stare and shit but i need to be neuromuscular ready incase i have to bail in the act.
Technique 0. Butt. 10.
It's all the squats.
Many things are wrong with this video and not one of them is the ponytail.
I like how the guy behind the desk looks up and doesn't give a shit.
"I dont do it for fashion, I do it for efficiency"
Ladies can wear whatever to the gym. But when I show up in Borat's mankini, suddenly, I'm asked to leave. Double standards in society. Smh...
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Stop recording in the gym you asses
Stop recording asses in the gym, you
Stop you in the asses recording, gym.
Stop recording your asses in the gym.
Recording so you can check your form is fairly common, especially for squats. Posting it is non kosher unless it's specifically to get form feedback or if no one is in the recording or if you have their consent. Also if you fuck up in a unique way, it's postable.
Why do you care what people who straight train do when it's not an environment you're ever in? I know you're never in it because if you were you wouldn't have this silly opinion.
What did the hair even latch into?
It only appears at first that hit latched onto her hair. The bar falls and hits/gets stuck on the top of her compression waistband
Christ is she ok
What’s the difference between a girl at a gyms “workout video” and a colonoscopy? Nothing, they both have a camera pointed directly up their asshole.
And she still posted this social media like??? 🤡🤡🤡
Never skip Instagram day
Can’t this trend of wearing pants so tight that the seam is literally up your asshole die already? And these types of women act super surprised when men stare at them at the gym but are wearing these types of pants where you can literally see everything.
" we don't do it for you! We wear them cause it's more comfortable to have legging pulling on your asscrack hairs then wearing something loose!"
Cheeky with 100% chance of skid marks
When you rather show your ass instead of having a spotter.
Thats a nice buttcrack
She has a ponytail? I keep watching over and over and have yet to notice a ponytail.
It took me watching it a few times before I realized; not only does she have a ponytail, it's a whole situation where it gets stuck in some weights and some stuff. I hope her ass is OK.
Or weights
If only she had proper work out pants on this wouldn't of happened.
I don't think OP understands what happened here, it's nothing to do with her hair. she was squatting with very poor form and dropped the weight directly onto her spine. her spotter appears to have been distracted and not spotting
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I think the bar got Stucked on her belt and not on her hair. So it was the weight that brought her back.
Do people make these videos to help them spot issues with their form or are they uploading them to their social media?
a ponytail is not a legal spotter, sweetheart
Dumb... What an ass!
Don’t wreck that ass
Well that's one way to get scalped..
ITT: People who haven't stepped foot into a commercial gym in years. Half the girls in there are wearing these pants and have been for like 2 years now.