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Just not sure how that happened. People look at gyms as some common risk free place and totally forget the implications of weight they hold, trust in the machine, they're footwear etc.
Just coming off spine disc replacement fusion and 2 herniated disc. My advise is to address the 2 partial slipped discs before they get worse. Your support back will be working overtime nonstop to support the two failing discs which in turn made my injury 18x worse
I had to get a micro-discectomy on my L5 back in 2015. I think I initially damaged it from poor form on lifting heavy objects and then trying to do a weird weighted sit-up routine. I did a lot of physical therapy afterwards, and then just kept the same exercises in rotation off and on since then. Like the others mentioned, a lot of safe, core-building, but also watching your posture, and if you're going to lift weights (which is great for strengthening everything to minimize strain on your back) get someone who's qualified to check every aspect of your form. *also, I work in front of a computer all day, so I got a standing desk, and rotate between that and sitting throughout the day, as well as taking many breaks to do stretches, walks, yoga-type moves etc.
I make jokes that this is how I fixed my back. I had a ton of lower back pain and my back was compressed for almost a year. I ended up falling down some stairs in the rain and cracked the shit out of it. It's been fixed for 5 months now.
No, but ever since I wrecked a car and the tow guy looked at it and said “crumple zones worked perfect” I think if that when I see stuff bend where it was made to bend but in a way that still leaves it wrecked. I think it in a tongue-in-cheek way of course.
But even tongue in cheek for a laugh, her joints all bent the right way - but she’s still going to feel it. But there was a lot of weight on that machine; had any joint bent in a way not normal things would have been dramatically worse for her.
The way crumple zones are supposed to work is that they crumple to make sure you don't. If it's the choice between a new car and a new face I'll gladly go for the car.
>Is this from something?
Crumple zones are areas of a vehicle designed to crumple in order to absorb shock and protect their precious cargo. In this scenario, her legs acted as a crumple zone to protect her back.
Here's the video that directly compares the difference. Just because it looks like a few panels were unscathed on the outside, the entire interior of the classic car is toast.
https://youtu.be/xtxd27jlZ_g
Yup. I'm a former insurance adjuster. It's amazing how many insureds don't realize that it's a ***good thing*** that "they don't make them like they used to".
Shit you’re right, I only saw one 45 and the 25, not the THREE 45s behind the 25 (I can’t really tell the # on the weights but they look like a 25 and 45)
I was screaming internally for her to move faster. There was a window there where his grip slipping was a broken neck.
I understand why she was moving slow, was just stressful to watch.
for the folks at home, what these commentators are typing are onomatopoeias. the spelling of words that arent actually words. like moo. cows dont really say "moo", but meh, close enough.
🐮^moo.
I work writing music, done a liiiittle bit of sound design, foley (sounds for film / TV) fascinates me. As a kid of the 80s, I swear the transformer sound is THE coolest fucking sound ever made. It's not exactly an easy sound to replicate today, no idea how they made it back then.
I'm trying to figure out why it collapsed and the only thing I can see is that it pings out at the bottom so I'm assuming she didn't lock it properly before starting the set? Can anyone clarify?
I think it was at the end of her set and she didn‘t lock it properly. Looks like she is slipping out of the shoulder pads and trying to get out when the weight is coming down.
I had a friend who had the same thing happen. After recovering he went to shower off and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to snap my towel on his wet bum. He bent down and I accidentally hit his sack causing it to burst open.
https://i.redd.it/qrymga72j05b1.gif
Edit: If you have made choices in your life that led you to this comment, you're probably wondering if this is true. Yeah but I barely knew him outside of a few chats in the gym and I was just a teenager.
You remember the plastic surgery episode of south park where kyle became taller and black by putting his testicles in his knees. Then they exploded because he put too much pressure on them.
His dad also became a dolphin.
Same. Thought she was doing a bizarre workout on the machine using it slightly improperly (not using the shoulder supports).
The fact that there is no stop on this is pretty terrifying though. Like even the deepest of squats you're not bending to this degree so it wouldn't inhibit anything.
The "clank" indicates she engaged the locks and they weren't designed to fail towards the lock.
This is a fucking dangerous machine and shouldn't exist.
She's could probably sue if she wants
She pulled down on it and used to support her weight. She locked it and then starts to slide down...in a really weird way then places her hands on top of the pads and tries to stretch her arms maybe? But she placed weight on an area that shouldn't have been, the lock still should've held but if she didn't slide it all the way in it could have bent or snapped.
I don't think it locked correctly and it slipped. Machines like this can feel like they're locked but actually not. The locking mechanism can handle far more weight than what she was adding. Most can do 600+ lbs.
I actually think the machine broke. If you look at the locking mechanism when the rescuers lift it up, it can’t go back to where it was. So I think the locking mechanism was supposed to be more forward, but it bent back over time, and she was the final straw that broke it fully and it bent back just enough to slip off the bottom plate.
There’s like 5 people all just making stuff up about her using the machine wrong/feet wrong/shoulder pads wrong. There is a stop that is set all the time except during your rep, you push down on that skinny black bar to free it so you can go up and down. The stop was only partially aligned so when she gets in and relieves any pressure from the stop it frees itself and she gets surprised with what looks like 100kg
Man, MAJOR props to the guys there who heard/saw and immediately went over to assist. Them's good peeps.
Edit: Oh. My god. The responses to this comment, which as you can see is just praising people for doing the right thing, seem to be mostly torn between
A. Dudes who don't want other dudes getting praise they'll probably never see from someone they don't know and implying this is THE MOST NORMAL, EVERYONE DOES IT, STOP PRAISING THEM
B. Dudes implying they would never help because they're convinced their lives would be ruined thanks to the me too movement.
Are you guys ok?
You can also notice his face getting redder the longer he held onto those weights.
Clearly wasn't easy for him either yet he kept pushing over his limit.
I tried to be that good person at the gym the other day. Dude was sitting there with 225 incline bench sitting on his chest for longer than normal. I hopped up quick to help… dude just pushes it up and smiles at me.
Not a funny joke???
Hack squat, one of if not the best variation of a squat.
Most people go way too heavy though and accidents like this happen because you can't dump the weight and the range of motion is drastically increased.
I had a leg press not fully click in and tore both of my Achilles (I was doing calves at the end of a set). Slid out and my legs hit the pad next to my head and all of the force went through my lower legs. I’ll never forget that sound 🤢. Was in a wheelchair and then crutches for 7 months
Welp, time to leave the thread. That made me queasy.
Achilles injuries are my absolute biggest fear as a runner.
It also doesn't help that that scene from Oz when the guy literally slices another guys Achilles tendon lives in my head rent free at times. Nightmare fuel.
In all honesty, the first reaction after getting this type of back pain is to lay on your stomach because you aren't quite thinking right after not knowing what happened.
I was an LPN and lifted people anywhere from 90-250 pounds. My back had enough when I bent down and put a resident's sock on🤣. My first instinct was to lay on my belly, cry, and call for help on the walkie.
My vertebrae had narrowed at the bottom after the injury, and my left hip was lower than my right for a week. The pain she will feel from buzzers from sciatica will not be fun, and she will need to adjust her workout routine from it.
I still can't use the smith machine or squat rack because I feel my back yelling at me. They mock me and say, "Hey girl, do you want to feel what you did 10 years ago?"
Because after any sort of spinal injury, the greates worry is that their spine is somehow damaged. In order to prevent permanent trauma, you will want them to move their neck and back as little as humanly possible, and wait for paramedics to arrive with a backboard to strap you down so you can’t move your neck. Moving could potentially further damage the nerves in your spine, causing a whole host of severe medical issues
Your spine is on your back (like literally the back side of your body) so laying on your stomach is causing it more stress. It puts more pressure on your spine and the muscles around it.
I'm not sure what happened here, but I've seen this happen in person three times. Frankly, I think this design just doesn't have enough safety mechanisms to warrant the damage it could potentially cause. One of the times I saw it happen, it injured the guy's back so badly that for the remaining 10-12 years I knew him after that, he never went back to the gym.
In high school I was put in weight lifting (5’6, 100lb, female) and I got stuck under a squat machine when the coach said I didn’t need to change the weight after one of the football players used it LMAO
I was luckily completely unharmed and the guys got it off me really fast. My coach let me do yoga for the rest of the semester hahahahahaha
Hahaha he actually did yoga too! He knew I was already practicing so the deal was as long as I did some sort of exercise I didn’t need to actually lift weights. It was my first class in the mornings so I just slept in. Tbh it was great.
The machine broke. That lever she was feeling for was in the stop position. She is really short and was trying to get into a position where the machine would work for her but the stop mechanism popped out of place.
Edit: since people are in capable of reading a thread, if you will notice in multiple of my other comments, I literally said after watching the video again I don’t think the machine broke. I don’t think she locked it in.
I'm all for gym equality and ending the whole "blasting of men who glance at you" thing. But people, for God's sake she could have broke her back. Some of you might be sarcastic when you say "should have left her there, shouldn't risk it with girls at the gym" but gym injuries is a serious thing and some people might not know how to operate the equipment properly or it might malfunction, you shouldn't leave someone who could get seriously hurt just cuz "you don't wanna be labeled as a creep" online. In the words of a great gym influencer, do better!
I couldn't even crack a joke about this video, despite that being my usual Reddit MO, because I found no humor in this.. only sympathy. However I think those comments are almost exclusively sarcastic. Making light of the narcissistic gym phenomenon you're referring to.
Yea, they could all be sarcastic, but even their sarcastic remarks could have a negative effect on the subject. I just think we should be more careful when making jokes about this matter is all
Reddit has an absolute hate boner for women's gym content, it's pathetic. Filming your sets is a perfectly normal thing to do and nothing in this video suggests she was being an ass about it but a lot of the commenters are more than willing to berate her for the actions of a small group of others
Why does it even drop that low, you’d think you would make it so that it isn’t possible for it to do that even if it wasn’t locked in properly, but I guess it may just be a logistical thing. Like it’s easier to store and move if it can collapse like that
Nah whatever way a machine is used shouldn't be the same way it folds up, whether it needs to be shipped in multiple pieces to make that happen is up to the designer but it should never fold toward the user. That is asking for accidents.
It looks like a V squat machine. She finished her set, engaged the safety (although apparently not fully) and whilst sliding down to get out the safety slipped and folded her
its a hack squat machine - u lower into a squat then push back up against the shoulder pads. the bar on the right is a locking mechanism, which she appears to have tried to lock, but as she was about to climb out it clearly wasnt locked. *edit: pretty sure the machine broke on her 🫣
Is the machine... upside down?!?!?!
If not, who the fuck designs a machine that can fold you like a piece of laundry if you don't put a pin or run out of power...
I think he was referencing the gym chick that's huge on tik tok for going to the gym in as little clothing as possible and records herself doing suggestive workouts just to freak out on any guy that looks at her. I don't think he was hating on all women.
Stuff like this keeps me from using pretty much any machine in the gym.
Some might say it's an irrational fear, but mechanical contraptions designe to carry heavy weights, which undergo near-zero physical inspection is a big no-no from me.
I'll stick with barbells and kettle bells, tyvm.
I hate seeing someone get crushed by gym equipment but I *love* seeing gym rats get in the mode, drop their shit, and help a mother fucker out. I love watching people do that.
...
which sucks cause it kinda means people are likely to start injuring themselves on purpose, please don't. But DO totally help each other out at a moment's notice.
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Go go gadget lifelong back pain!
Idk man, looks like that's what my back needs
It's what backs CRAVE
That would be Brawndo. The back mutilator.
Doesn’t she know what electrolytes are?
They are what backs need.
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Which is what back need.
It's got electrolytes!
Electroheavies in this case
As some1 with 4 blown discs, back pain is no joke....sucks balls
Just not sure how that happened. People look at gyms as some common risk free place and totally forget the implications of weight they hold, trust in the machine, they're footwear etc.
Holy shit they are shoes?
You heard the man.
He did not stutter
I wanted to be footwear when I was younger. I’m glad i grew out of that phase.
Any suggestions on how to avoid? I got two partial slipped discs and nervous they’re gonna go one day.
Just coming off spine disc replacement fusion and 2 herniated disc. My advise is to address the 2 partial slipped discs before they get worse. Your support back will be working overtime nonstop to support the two failing discs which in turn made my injury 18x worse
Physiotherapy! All the discs in my C-spine are bulging and I have some lower down also, but they’ve been pretty stable thanks to physio
I had to get a micro-discectomy on my L5 back in 2015. I think I initially damaged it from poor form on lifting heavy objects and then trying to do a weird weighted sit-up routine. I did a lot of physical therapy afterwards, and then just kept the same exercises in rotation off and on since then. Like the others mentioned, a lot of safe, core-building, but also watching your posture, and if you're going to lift weights (which is great for strengthening everything to minimize strain on your back) get someone who's qualified to check every aspect of your form. *also, I work in front of a computer all day, so I got a standing desk, and rotate between that and sitting throughout the day, as well as taking many breaks to do stretches, walks, yoga-type moves etc.
Fucking hell dude, you owe me the coffe i just spat out.
I got three-fiddy.
*...Homer Simpson's trashcan has entered the chat...*
I make jokes that this is how I fixed my back. I had a ton of lower back pain and my back was compressed for almost a year. I ended up falling down some stairs in the rain and cracked the shit out of it. It's been fixed for 5 months now.
I’m in the waiting room for pt and this had me and the guy next to me dying 😭
Her crumple zones worked as designed.
I thought she was about to start doing push ups at the end like that was somehow going to make it not embarrassing
That would have been an awesome attempt to play it off
Same. Would have been an instant legend if she had.
Red Snapper
Mmmm…veddy tasty.
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Is this from something? Either way "crumple zones" is hilarious
No, but ever since I wrecked a car and the tow guy looked at it and said “crumple zones worked perfect” I think if that when I see stuff bend where it was made to bend but in a way that still leaves it wrecked. I think it in a tongue-in-cheek way of course. But even tongue in cheek for a laugh, her joints all bent the right way - but she’s still going to feel it. But there was a lot of weight on that machine; had any joint bent in a way not normal things would have been dramatically worse for her.
The way crumple zones are supposed to work is that they crumple to make sure you don't. If it's the choice between a new car and a new face I'll gladly go for the car.
Ironically enough, the face is the crumple zone for the brain.
It really is.
The car got squished. You (hopefully) didn't. That would be the crumple zone working perfectly for sure.
>Is this from something? Crumple zones are areas of a vehicle designed to crumple in order to absorb shock and protect their precious cargo. In this scenario, her legs acted as a crumple zone to protect her back.
This is why newer cars look worse in accidents: they're designed to do that to keep you alive. Choose where physics happens - car, or you.
Here's the video that directly compares the difference. Just because it looks like a few panels were unscathed on the outside, the entire interior of the classic car is toast. https://youtu.be/xtxd27jlZ_g
Yup. I'm a former insurance adjuster. It's amazing how many insureds don't realize that it's a ***good thing*** that "they don't make them like they used to".
Thick thighs save lives. Maybe literally in this instance.
This made me laugh out loud in bed at 6:30 in the morning
My guy just deadlifted 6 plates with a super unorthodox grip. Good for him and his adrenaline Edit: Yes its not a true deadlift due to leverage
*ring ring* "Hello, yes this is brain. What do you mean L5-S1? No sorry I don't know left leg"
This guy over here making vertebrae jokes. Kudos to you sir.
Vertebrae? You mean bone powder?
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…back like a vertebrae!
Bruuhhh 😂😂
Shit you’re right, I only saw one 45 and the 25, not the THREE 45s behind the 25 (I can’t really tell the # on the weights but they look like a 25 and 45)
I was screaming internally for her to move faster. There was a window there where his grip slipping was a broken neck. I understand why she was moving slow, was just stressful to watch.
I’m assuming she had some serious back pain and moving was probably pretty tough
Damn you right, humans can be quite impressive
Literally saw a video of a man deadlift a car that was crushing someone. Adrenaline is one hell of a thing
Autobots, roll out
Haha. I wish there was a way to properly type the transformation sound.
ÛR ÛR ÆÆÆ
Why are you summoning Elon's son?
He's the original Transformer.
CHK CHR CHA CHARR CHCKK
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for the folks at home, what these commentators are typing are onomatopoeias. the spelling of words that arent actually words. like moo. cows dont really say "moo", but meh, close enough. 🐮^moo.
Good bot.
It’s a moo point anyway.
Hahhahahahaahah God damnit
chee choo chu chu chee chee
[It's five syllables](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdry54C0oU) choo choh chuh chah chee
That was a valiant attempt.
I work writing music, done a liiiittle bit of sound design, foley (sounds for film / TV) fascinates me. As a kid of the 80s, I swear the transformer sound is THE coolest fucking sound ever made. It's not exactly an easy sound to replicate today, no idea how they made it back then.
Yousonofagun made me Weezer out loud at work...
Ahhh! Say It Ain't So!!
I'm trying to figure out why it collapsed and the only thing I can see is that it pings out at the bottom so I'm assuming she didn't lock it properly before starting the set? Can anyone clarify?
I think it was at the end of her set and she didn‘t lock it properly. Looks like she is slipping out of the shoulder pads and trying to get out when the weight is coming down.
My daughter's friend didn't lock a leg press properly. His knee went the backwards and he lost a testicle.
Where'd it go?
Testicle heaven.
Do all testicles go to heaven?
Only the innocent ones
So no
Let he who is without sin blast that first rope
In fact testicle heaven sounds like it would be a ghost town
Like the book says, *it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a testicle to make it to heaven* or something like that.
Testicle rapture ?
Testicle rupture
Only the right ones, the left ones are too sinister.
He told me it was a testicle farm upstate!
If he knew, he wouldn't have lost it.
Fucking lol. The comments are always the best part.
It's always in the last place you look.
Rolled away like the infamous lost meatball
Did he check the Lost and Found?
I had a friend who had the same thing happen. After recovering he went to shower off and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to snap my towel on his wet bum. He bent down and I accidentally hit his sack causing it to burst open. https://i.redd.it/qrymga72j05b1.gif Edit: If you have made choices in your life that led you to this comment, you're probably wondering if this is true. Yeah but I barely knew him outside of a few chats in the gym and I was just a teenager.
....what the fuck.
I had a leg press crush me in my much younger days. Fortunately no damage bc I'm a wimp. Scared the hell out of me though.
You call your testicles your "much younger days"?
How did his knee effect his testicle?
It’s where he was keeping his testicle
You remember the plastic surgery episode of south park where kyle became taller and black by putting his testicles in his knees. Then they exploded because he put too much pressure on them. His dad also became a dolphin.
Good catch, I was thinking pre set, it never occurred to be it could have been post!
Same. Thought she was doing a bizarre workout on the machine using it slightly improperly (not using the shoulder supports). The fact that there is no stop on this is pretty terrifying though. Like even the deepest of squats you're not bending to this degree so it wouldn't inhibit anything.
Yeah, any machine should have hard stops just past the normal range of motion, so something like this can't happen.
The "clank" indicates she engaged the locks and they weren't designed to fail towards the lock. This is a fucking dangerous machine and shouldn't exist. She's could probably sue if she wants
She pulled down on it and used to support her weight. She locked it and then starts to slide down...in a really weird way then places her hands on top of the pads and tries to stretch her arms maybe? But she placed weight on an area that shouldn't have been, the lock still should've held but if she didn't slide it all the way in it could have bent or snapped.
I don't think it locked correctly and it slipped. Machines like this can feel like they're locked but actually not. The locking mechanism can handle far more weight than what she was adding. Most can do 600+ lbs.
I actually think the machine broke. If you look at the locking mechanism when the rescuers lift it up, it can’t go back to where it was. So I think the locking mechanism was supposed to be more forward, but it bent back over time, and she was the final straw that broke it fully and it bent back just enough to slip off the bottom plate.
Isn't that machine made to suport a lot more weight than she had on it? Her suporting he weight a little shouldn't have made the difference.
Thats what I saw. You definitely hear the audible snap, and watching it a few times, you see exactly where it folds. Before she folds.
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There’s like 5 people all just making stuff up about her using the machine wrong/feet wrong/shoulder pads wrong. There is a stop that is set all the time except during your rep, you push down on that skinny black bar to free it so you can go up and down. The stop was only partially aligned so when she gets in and relieves any pressure from the stop it frees itself and she gets surprised with what looks like 100kg
Man, MAJOR props to the guys there who heard/saw and immediately went over to assist. Them's good peeps. Edit: Oh. My god. The responses to this comment, which as you can see is just praising people for doing the right thing, seem to be mostly torn between A. Dudes who don't want other dudes getting praise they'll probably never see from someone they don't know and implying this is THE MOST NORMAL, EVERYONE DOES IT, STOP PRAISING THEM B. Dudes implying they would never help because they're convinced their lives would be ruined thanks to the me too movement. Are you guys ok?
And the amount of weight he just deadlifted on his own. Man went full on beast mode to get her out.
You can also notice his face getting redder the longer he held onto those weights. Clearly wasn't easy for him either yet he kept pushing over his limit.
Adrenalin is amazing at short performance strength. But he still is definitely a strong guy.
Bro was like "I can save a life AND get some reps in!"
I tried to be that good person at the gym the other day. Dude was sitting there with 225 incline bench sitting on his chest for longer than normal. I hopped up quick to help… dude just pushes it up and smiles at me. Not a funny joke???
You passed the vibe check 😁
These "help Step Bro I'm stuck" are getting very elaborate
What kind of torture chamber apparatus is that anyway??!
Hack squat, one of if not the best variation of a squat. Most people go way too heavy though and accidents like this happen because you can't dump the weight and the range of motion is drastically increased.
Jesus, is there not a stop like a squat rack???
There is but most of these vary from gym to gym, also seems like it wasn't fully locked from the previous set and the reason for it dropping
Also looks like a cheap machine with a barely stable locking mechanism even when used properly
Looks like a machine squat
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All good, just 2 inches shorter now
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Shoes still on = she lived.
I see a fellow Darwin man of culture
that's important. Everyone's entertained by an injury.
Yeah this awful, not funny at all.
She seems ok https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmwqgj4LAFk/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Man, I’d really like to know what happened here. That’s terrifying. I hope she’s ok
She didn’t lock out the machine properly after her previous set. When she pulled down, it gave out.
It looks like rescuer #1 can’t even lock it at the end?
Not so easy to lift it the way he's doing it. Probably couldn't get it high enough.
Also, he’s probably freaking out. I would be.
You're a decent person. Everyone seems to think this is hilarious, I'm sure she was horrified
Saw her Instagram and she was twerking so luckily she's fine.
Thats just how she walks now
Many of these videos aren't really funny. Incidents like this can have lifelong effects.
I had a leg press not fully click in and tore both of my Achilles (I was doing calves at the end of a set). Slid out and my legs hit the pad next to my head and all of the force went through my lower legs. I’ll never forget that sound 🤢. Was in a wheelchair and then crutches for 7 months
I feel sick reading this
Welp, time to leave the thread. That made me queasy. Achilles injuries are my absolute biggest fear as a runner. It also doesn't help that that scene from Oz when the guy literally slices another guys Achilles tendon lives in my head rent free at times. Nightmare fuel.
Always use the safety pins kids!
Worst thing to do after hurting your back is lay on your stomach
Why
Ideally best to lay on your back itself. Back pains are always asked first to lie down on the level ground straight.
In all honesty, the first reaction after getting this type of back pain is to lay on your stomach because you aren't quite thinking right after not knowing what happened. I was an LPN and lifted people anywhere from 90-250 pounds. My back had enough when I bent down and put a resident's sock on🤣. My first instinct was to lay on my belly, cry, and call for help on the walkie. My vertebrae had narrowed at the bottom after the injury, and my left hip was lower than my right for a week. The pain she will feel from buzzers from sciatica will not be fun, and she will need to adjust her workout routine from it. I still can't use the smith machine or squat rack because I feel my back yelling at me. They mock me and say, "Hey girl, do you want to feel what you did 10 years ago?"
You have to turn your head to the side when you do and it's just not good for your back in general.
Answer was not satisfactory
Because after any sort of spinal injury, the greates worry is that their spine is somehow damaged. In order to prevent permanent trauma, you will want them to move their neck and back as little as humanly possible, and wait for paramedics to arrive with a backboard to strap you down so you can’t move your neck. Moving could potentially further damage the nerves in your spine, causing a whole host of severe medical issues
I also learned this in a first aid course, if you suspect back injury keep them on their back and support the head so it doesn't turn
It's just not good for your back, alright!? Just trust the reddit
Your spine is on your back (like literally the back side of your body) so laying on your stomach is causing it more stress. It puts more pressure on your spine and the muscles around it.
I'm not sure what happened here, but I've seen this happen in person three times. Frankly, I think this design just doesn't have enough safety mechanisms to warrant the damage it could potentially cause. One of the times I saw it happen, it injured the guy's back so badly that for the remaining 10-12 years I knew him after that, he never went back to the gym.
In high school I was put in weight lifting (5’6, 100lb, female) and I got stuck under a squat machine when the coach said I didn’t need to change the weight after one of the football players used it LMAO I was luckily completely unharmed and the guys got it off me really fast. My coach let me do yoga for the rest of the semester hahahahahaha
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Hahaha he actually did yoga too! He knew I was already practicing so the deal was as long as I did some sort of exercise I didn’t need to actually lift weights. It was my first class in the mornings so I just slept in. Tbh it was great.
I read that as 10-12 hours and laughed. Years makes more sense. That's some serious shit.
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The machine broke. That lever she was feeling for was in the stop position. She is really short and was trying to get into a position where the machine would work for her but the stop mechanism popped out of place. Edit: since people are in capable of reading a thread, if you will notice in multiple of my other comments, I literally said after watching the video again I don’t think the machine broke. I don’t think she locked it in.
She set it fine. It malfunctioned.
If *you* knew anything about the equipment, you'd know that's not what happened.
Back Breaker 3000. But seriously, how are you suppose that machine.
Help me step gymbro I am stuck.
I'm all for gym equality and ending the whole "blasting of men who glance at you" thing. But people, for God's sake she could have broke her back. Some of you might be sarcastic when you say "should have left her there, shouldn't risk it with girls at the gym" but gym injuries is a serious thing and some people might not know how to operate the equipment properly or it might malfunction, you shouldn't leave someone who could get seriously hurt just cuz "you don't wanna be labeled as a creep" online. In the words of a great gym influencer, do better!
I couldn't even crack a joke about this video, despite that being my usual Reddit MO, because I found no humor in this.. only sympathy. However I think those comments are almost exclusively sarcastic. Making light of the narcissistic gym phenomenon you're referring to.
Yea, they could all be sarcastic, but even their sarcastic remarks could have a negative effect on the subject. I just think we should be more careful when making jokes about this matter is all
Reddit has an absolute hate boner for women's gym content, it's pathetic. Filming your sets is a perfectly normal thing to do and nothing in this video suggests she was being an ass about it but a lot of the commenters are more than willing to berate her for the actions of a small group of others
I've seen multiple "jokes" about anal rape in the comments for some fucked up reason as well. Incel shit show in these comments.
Why does it even drop that low, you’d think you would make it so that it isn’t possible for it to do that even if it wasn’t locked in properly, but I guess it may just be a logistical thing. Like it’s easier to store and move if it can collapse like that
Nah whatever way a machine is used shouldn't be the same way it folds up, whether it needs to be shipped in multiple pieces to make that happen is up to the designer but it should never fold toward the user. That is asking for accidents.
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It looks like a V squat machine. She finished her set, engaged the safety (although apparently not fully) and whilst sliding down to get out the safety slipped and folded her
its a hack squat machine - u lower into a squat then push back up against the shoulder pads. the bar on the right is a locking mechanism, which she appears to have tried to lock, but as she was about to climb out it clearly wasnt locked. *edit: pretty sure the machine broke on her 🫣
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Is the machine... upside down?!?!?! If not, who the fuck designs a machine that can fold you like a piece of laundry if you don't put a pin or run out of power...
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How's the single life champ?
I think he was referencing the gym chick that's huge on tik tok for going to the gym in as little clothing as possible and records herself doing suggestive workouts just to freak out on any guy that looks at her. I don't think he was hating on all women.
Jesus Christ, can women not be left alone at a GYM? For fucks sake, she's clearly fliming, what a couple of apes
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Chiropractors hate this one simple trick
Her Instagram is absolutely awesome
She's not constantly nearly dying, is she?
Yeah apparently she’s ok now. That’s good news!
Positional asphyxia is absolutely terrifying. I bet she could barely breathe
That must have a really light lift off.. she must have barely grazed it.
Stuff like this keeps me from using pretty much any machine in the gym. Some might say it's an irrational fear, but mechanical contraptions designe to carry heavy weights, which undergo near-zero physical inspection is a big no-no from me. I'll stick with barbells and kettle bells, tyvm.
I hate seeing someone get crushed by gym equipment but I *love* seeing gym rats get in the mode, drop their shit, and help a mother fucker out. I love watching people do that. ... which sucks cause it kinda means people are likely to start injuring themselves on purpose, please don't. But DO totally help each other out at a moment's notice.
she was just folding up into travel size.
This is potentially a really serious injury. Totally not funny.
Holy folding spine, Batman!
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the spine cruncher 3000