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Life Support after gym mishap

coldseed

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I did a search...didn't see this posted.

A college student and competitive bodybuilder was on life-support Tuesday night after a weightlifting accident.

Chris Harmon, 20, of Granville has years of experience in weight training. On Monday he was at the gym, lifting hundreds of pounds, when the bar slipped 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.

Those who know Harmon describe him as a young man of exceptional focus and determination.

"Lifting weights and bodybuilding's always been his passion," said Harmon's father Scott Harmon. Click ...Invalid Link Removed for the full story.
 
Damn thats a sad story. Poor guy, poor parents. Man to put so much forth, and in a split second to lose it all...

I cant imagine the kind of pain that must exhibit physically. May he be healed and recover fully.
 
know a guy who took a baseball off a college player on the cheek, shattered it, he's fine now... this is a little more extensive though
 
Wow! Hope he pulls through. 14 years ago I didn't quite rack the bar on incline. It was my last set, fatigued, the bar slowly came down and landed on my nose. I had to rock the bar back and forth to get the weights to fall off. Went to the ER, with just a broken nose. I feel for that kid!
 
Messed up man....remember kids if your going to absolute failure on a could be dangerous set..ask for a spot...It could save your life!
 
THIS IS WHY I LIFT ENOUGH TO STIMULATE MUSCLE NOT TO MAX OUT EVERYTIME.
 
Turns out this guy lives near me (here in Ohio) and they are setting up something at the Arnold to support him if I heard the radio right.
 
As experienced a weight-trainer as Harmon is, his father said his mistake was lifting without someone to spot him.
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People, use a f*cking spotter. Seriously.
 
I have to agree with the post above...use a spotter. If you work out alone, ask someone else. Don't let your ego get you hurt.
 
SilentBob187 said:
People, use a f*cking spotter. Seriously.
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I had a close call last month, real scary, havnt had a good workout since. Scared the living **** out of me. Ill never bench to failure again without a spotter. ****ing hate my gym tho full of ***gots and near on impossible to get a spot.

Very sad

:nono:
 
I dropped a bar with 225 on flat bench from full extension on my chest. Scared the crap out of me. My spotter caught it as it bounced of my chest and slowed it down before it hit me a second time. I still have to go to the chiropractor 3 months later to get aligned. He said I am lucky I didnt crack a rib or worse. My spotter felt like crap for letting it happen but in reality, he didnt expect me to drop a warm up set on myself. I am just glad it wasnt worse than it was.

Hope this guy gets better soon.
 
omni said:
Any updates on this guy?
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If I understand what they said on the news was that he was on life support because some how he managed to cut a bunch of the veins and arteries in his face and it was all draining into his lungs. His dad said they fixed that the day after this happened. (Two weeks ago?) Then he said that he's in a induced coma while they piece his face back together, and will be like that for awhile. I hear these on the radio news updates while I'm working so I'm not sure about everything but I think this was Thursday or Friday last week they were talking to his dad.
 
Nitrox said:
Anyone know if he was pressing with an open grip technique?
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I don't think anyone can know this until he wakes up. He was off by himself in a back corner of the gym. I don't know what a Jone Machine is (some sort of smith machine I think), but that's what he did this on. They were saying he was racking the the weight and it just fell on his face, missed the hooks maybe?
 
i know of a guy here in the uk who lost half an ear from the knurling on the bar when he was warming up on the bench with an EMPTY bar and when he reracked it it slipped on one side and hit him in the side of the head. My friend's son who was about 12 at the time was in a gym unsupervised (long story) and tried to bench maybe 70 lbs and the bar dropped onto his mouth, breaking his jaw and most of his teeth.

Can be easily done. be safe people
 
edwitt said:
I had a close call last month, real scary, havnt had a good workout since. Scared the living **** out of me. Ill never bench to failure again without a spotter. ****ing hate my gym tho full of ***gots and near on impossible to get a spot.

Very sad

:nono:
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i know this feeling. i had a bar when i was benching end up sitting on my chest with my spotter struggling to pick it up as it was rolling to my neck. it had collars on so i couldnt lean to try and get the weights off. i thought i was going to die right there. now i never bench at all, even warm up sets without a legit spotter.
 
I was watching a guy doing benching today and couldn't stop thinking about that kid. Worse than a horror movie.
 
i rarely even do bench anymore. I never really did like the bench press for this reason. And shoulder injuries.

There are so many better ways to build a chest/tris. IMO.

Dips,Pushups, All the safe bench style/smith machines.

Its just not worth the risk to me.

My two favorite compounds are the squat and dead anyways.


Again, prayers for the injured kid and his family.
 
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