Anything can happen

[Bdubb]

http://www.click2houston.com/sports/4307959/detail.html

[blm]

Wow, that's terrible.

[Pumpdogg]

I feel sorry for his two sons that found him, that was a tramatic experience for them. You never know what tomorrow holds...

PD

[Bouncer]

Damn shame. Just goes to show, never lift alone.

[shortz]

Originally posted by THE BOUNCER
Damn shame. Just goes to show, never lift alone.

Or atleast have a rack with pins for safety.

Damn shame though. Suffocating one of the worst ways to die, next to drowning and burning.

[JUICE]

thats a good thing i joined the gym. Before here at home i was going heavy but with no one to spot me. This made me only do 4-5 reps. On the gym with the same weight or more i can do rorced reps with someone spotting me. Its just scary once u cannot bring the weight up.

[pierced one]

just curious how many of you use collars on the bar.

one would think you could shift and let the weights fall off the bar.(hey this is just a theory)

maybe that would save you. i have heard of this happening to people before. i lift alone, again this is something that kinda makes you think.

[CiViC SpiKeS]

Its happened to me before.. never rolled onto my neck though :confused:

When u get stuck like that with noone to spot u just tip the bar and let all the weights crash off. :(

No i dont collar the bar for that reason.. you never know.

[Bdubb]

He had a heart condition and things went wrong when he was lifting so I would question if he had the ability to do anything at all to prevent himself from letting the bar roll back.

[shortz]

Originally posted by Bdubb
He had a heart condition and things went wrong when he was lifting so I would question if he had the ability to do anything at all to prevent himself from letting the bar roll back.

Asphyxiation was the cause of death. So, to answer your question, yes, his death could have been prevented with someone there. It depends on what arythmia he had. I am assuming it wasn't one that put him into cardiac arrest or that would have been cause of death.

There are so many arythmias and only a couple are deadly in the first couple minutes. A trip to the hospital would have had him back to normal in no time.

[meat12]

agh man

[bad14u]

Originally posted by THE BOUNCER
Damn shame. Just goes to show, never lift alone.

:agree:

[buccaneer19]

:(

[BBAddict]

I bought easy collars for the bar before I started lifting, but I reallized it had some safety implications so I have never collared when benching so I didn't pin myself. I of course use them for squatting and other stuff though. That's a real shame-probably not what he was going for. :(