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Careful going bench presses.

What this happened in New York State somewhere?

I thought it was somewhere in South America.

Oh, okay.

I was okay.

It was a foreign country.

Guy dropped his push-up bar on his chest and died.

He died instantly?

No, no.

He was bench pressing and he, again, in the video, it looks to me like he's using what they call a suicide grip.

Right.

Yeah, this was in Brazil.

Brazil.

What is the suicide grip?

So instead of wrapping your thumbs around the bar, the bars are, your thumbs are on the same side of the bar as your finger.

You can push hot more.

There's really nothing on the front side of the bar holding your fingers. You can push more. There's really nothing on the front side of the bar holding that, and thus it can roll off the heel of your hands, which is what happened to this guy. Not his throat. It did hit his throat. No, no, hit him right in the chest. That's where it usually will kill you. 55-year-old guy. and I mean if if I'm looking at this video and that those are plates on each end, he was pushing 315. Yeah, so. Wow. And nobody's spotting. Nobody spotting. Well, he dropped anyway, so a spot wouldn't actually necessarily catch that. A spot's there to help the guy lift it back up. Yeah. But you're supposed to, if you're spotting correctly, you're supposed to have your hands there from the beginning of the lift all the way down. True. But he drops, he drops it. He might have helped. Even if he took a little force off of it, this guy might have lived. But he pushes the bar off of his chest and he sits up like he's hurt. And then he stands up and, you know, other people are starting to come over like, dude, are you okay? And then he just collapses. Oh, there's video of it? Yeah. Oh, was it a competition? No, no. It was just, it was just in a gym. Oh, they're video from the, uh, the static cameras. Yeah, it's just the gym's security cameras. Right. And it's a gym violation. If you were to go over of that guy and say, can I spot you? You see, there's a lot of weight there.

Hey, do you need a spot, buddy? And no, maybe somebody didn't see him. He should ask for somebody. Well, no, he don't think you're hitting on him. He didn't need anybody. Until he did. Todd's right. I mean, generally, that is the way of the gym. The lifter asks for the spot. You don't go volunteer at a spot for somebody. I've seen guys volunteer and people are accepting of that. Sure. Yeah. But I've seen people do that. No, there was one time a guy. Well, he didn't drop the bar on his chest, but he was struggling. And half the bar was on his chest. And I jumped off the treadmill to go over and help him lift the one half up. Was he a dick about it? Well, he had his earbuds in and it didn't say a thing to me. What a douchebag. Didn't say, hey. Well, a lot of douchebags of gyms. You know that. Hey, thanks. You know, take one earbud out and say, hey, thanks. I wasn't expecting that, but, you know, that's what happened. He might have been wondering how you could see him. He was like, is that guy backwards on the treadmill? When I used to live in the basement, a couple of places I had basement gyms. I would just barbells.

I do, I mean, I'd do dumbbells.

That way it did set those kind of bench presses. That way, if you had trouble, you just drop me. Oh, yeah. If I'm by myself, I'm not going to put myself in that position. No, I don't either. I'm not going to try to max out with no help. I have safety straps that hang between the bar,

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