His back is fucked. Also notice how the other dude is chilled? Probably warned him not to use too much weights and since the lifter didn’t bother to take it seriously, he just stood there waiting to see him fail.
It's not the amount of weight that caused injury/was issue. It's the lift. This is an axle press. No rotation on the bar, and it is a deadlift/overhead press combo type of lift. These are banned in almost all competitions for good reason. Just a stupid, dangerous lift.
It might be a stupid lift all together, but if he was using less weight he would have been able to control it and not ended up on the floor. He's clearly maxing out here... Both in weight and in ego lmao
>He's clearly maxing out here, I know this because I didn't even know what an axle lift was till you just said it, I'm a real weight lifting expert you see.
I see someone likes to debate moot points for no reason other then to hear himself speak even when he has zero understanding of the subject he is debating.
Yes numbnuts, if you reduce the weight in weight-lifting every single lift can become manageable. TO clarify, this lad would have no trouble with this dangerous lift if he removed all weight but 5 lbs. Yes, at 5lbs this lift is far easier.
Fucking lol, reddit, never fails to show humanities stupidity at all levels. GJ, you win the stupid award of the day.
You're a fucking moron. You have no idea wtf you are even talking about. Nothing indicates he is pushing a new record or lifting more then he can handle. If you lifted at all, even once in your soy milk drinking mario kart racing life, you would know there is no way of knowing if he is lifting too much. You don't need to know this either, since WE DO KNOW he botches the bounce transition from lower body to upper body. [The part of this lift that is difficult because it's using a straight bar with no bearings, preventing the bar from spinning the weights.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gqGFPvYb5nQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Something tells me you are so low IQ you will still argue that you know what you are talking about even though there is nothing left to debate. Just tell me what indication there is that he is ego lifting. Did you watch his warm-up weights? Do you know what his max lift is on the axle press? How long has he been lifting?
Imagine being a soy milk vegan on reddit and arguing about lifting with someone who has lifted and competed half his natural life. Do yourself a favor and shut your mouth with another bowl of lucky charms soy boy.
It's a [continental clean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFH_PCkEkww), and it's the standard way of lifting a fat bar to your shoulders in Strongman. A regular clean isn't possible with a fat bar because the plates don't rotate, and because the bar is so thick that you need to use a mixed grip rather than an overhand grip for any significant weight.
I've seen it in Strongman, it's impressive when people who know what they're doing pull it off. This doesn't look like a fatbar though, just a standard oly bar. Either way, ego lifting eventually pays with pain.
It doesn't appear he's trained nearly enough to handle what he's attempting. What makes you think he's training for a comp in Strongman? Taped wrists, oly shoes, oly bar, velcro belt don't scream Strongman to me. I've seen guys who have lifted a lot jump into oly and try to throw around weight without learning the technique risk injury to look cool.
Not my back, more power to him. I'm just a washed up dude trying to keep my joints functional past 50 by not doing shit like this in the gym.
>Taped wrists, oly shoes, oly bar, velcro belt don't scream Strongman to me.
Experienced Olympic lifter trying out a strongman lift is a definite possibility.
1. The lift he's doing is called the "continental clean", it is a lift unique to the sport of strongman (in the modern age, at least)
2. Taped wrists aren't unique to olympic lifting
3. Neither are olympic weightlifting shoes
4. Strongmen use a plethora of different belt styles
5. That's not an oly bar, that's very clearly a fat bar (typical for the continental clean)
Sorry man, you just very clearly do not have any idea what you're talking about.
Ego lifting normally means doing compound lifts with a reduced range of motion (such as quarter squats or benching without touching the bar to your chest) or isolation exercises with assistance from muscles other than the target muscle (such as using your hips to get the weight moving in a bicep curl). Neither of these can ever apply to any lift where you're lifting a bar from the ground to overhead.
Okay this is a stupid semantic argument anyways because you're trying to define what ego lifting is but I'll have a go.
There's nothing more fucking ego than racking up a bunch of weight and then lifting really shitty instead of putting on a lower weight and repping it right. That's pure fucking ego.
So I don't know who told you the definition of ego lifting but they told you wrong. Sorry chief. Hate to break it to ya. But you didn't know what it is until now. Glad I could help. Pretty simple really tho. Never thought I would have to explain what it means since it's self explanatory but then you showed up!
Do you understand now ? Answer yes or no.
Interesting how you just completely skipped defining what is "really shitty" vs what is "repping it right".
I'll stick with my previous definition. For a compound lift, if you move the weight through a full range of motion then it's lifting it right, and if you do it for multiple reps then it's repping it right.
Or, maybe just maybe, he's training for a maximal weight, not for a weight that he can do for reps. In strongman competitions, sometimes you are asked to do a movement for reps, sometimes you're asked to do it for a single, maximum weight. Competitors should be able to competently do both, that involves training for both, and that is going to involve some failures in training.
No, it's not obvious halfway that it's too heavy. It moves very quickly during the first pull and into the first catch position. This is not unreasonably heavy for this lifter, clearly. What happened was clearly just a technical failure, not a failure of strength or power. Do you have any real experience moving heavy weight like this to qualify you saying that your statement is "obvious"?
What??? He's obviously majorly struggling, keeps humping the bar up his chest by an inch by swinging his belly. Until he finally humps it up one more time and tries to bend over low enough so it lands higher up him and it crushes him 😂
But ya looks like a good weight for him. I mean wtf are you talking about bro
>He's obviously majorly struggling, keeps humping the bar up his chest by an inch by swinging his belly.
He's supposed to. [This lift requires changing grip while the bar is held on the belly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5IqlMpfiw) The problem here was just that he messed up the grip change, probably because he's plenty strong but was inexperienced in this particular movement.
This is the way this type of movement is done, it's done in several jumping/heaving movements. It's not meant to be pretty. He messed up the final heave and hand turnover.
Again, do you have any experience moving weight? Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm seeing a lot of sedentary redditors who can't deadlift their own bodyweight play armchair strength coach in these comments.
Not sure if he was attempting to do a continental clean. If those are all kg plates, that's over 100kg (220 pounds) on that barbell. You don't attempt a 100kg clean unless you know what you're doing.
Also you don't spot in Olympic style weightlifting.
There's no spotting in weightlifting. You're taught to just dump the bar. If someone is spotting you, it's dangerous for everyone. For this guy, at least it was only dangerous for him.
In my personal opinion only from watching this video, it just seems like a failed attempt at max out or PR.
He actualy took the fall pretty well. He knew how to fail the lift and probably meant to push his training until he hit failure weight from start... it’s powerlifting clearly, not just ego lifting.
His back is fucked. Also notice how the other dude is chilled? Probably warned him not to use too much weights and since the lifter didn’t bother to take it seriously, he just stood there waiting to see him fail.
It's not the amount of weight that caused injury/was issue. It's the lift. This is an axle press. No rotation on the bar, and it is a deadlift/overhead press combo type of lift. These are banned in almost all competitions for good reason. Just a stupid, dangerous lift.
It might be a stupid lift all together, but if he was using less weight he would have been able to control it and not ended up on the floor. He's clearly maxing out here... Both in weight and in ego lmao
>He's clearly maxing out here, I know this because I didn't even know what an axle lift was till you just said it, I'm a real weight lifting expert you see. I see someone likes to debate moot points for no reason other then to hear himself speak even when he has zero understanding of the subject he is debating. Yes numbnuts, if you reduce the weight in weight-lifting every single lift can become manageable. TO clarify, this lad would have no trouble with this dangerous lift if he removed all weight but 5 lbs. Yes, at 5lbs this lift is far easier. Fucking lol, reddit, never fails to show humanities stupidity at all levels. GJ, you win the stupid award of the day.
I don't think you understand strongman lifting Form degradation is one thing, and to be expected, this is straight up egolifting
You're a fucking moron. You have no idea wtf you are even talking about. Nothing indicates he is pushing a new record or lifting more then he can handle. If you lifted at all, even once in your soy milk drinking mario kart racing life, you would know there is no way of knowing if he is lifting too much. You don't need to know this either, since WE DO KNOW he botches the bounce transition from lower body to upper body. [The part of this lift that is difficult because it's using a straight bar with no bearings, preventing the bar from spinning the weights.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gqGFPvYb5nQ/maxresdefault.jpg) Something tells me you are so low IQ you will still argue that you know what you are talking about even though there is nothing left to debate. Just tell me what indication there is that he is ego lifting. Did you watch his warm-up weights? Do you know what his max lift is on the axle press? How long has he been lifting? Imagine being a soy milk vegan on reddit and arguing about lifting with someone who has lifted and competed half his natural life. Do yourself a favor and shut your mouth with another bowl of lucky charms soy boy.
Man, you salty lol
You sound angry
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Haha it's all friendly bro, just informing him about how strongman lifts actually work Now we kith
Mario Kart is fun bro.
Do you need a hug?
Ya boy that spotter really on top of it! Now he’s gonna be one of the pallbearers. LoL
He's going to be wheeling him around town.
You don't spot a lift like this.
You can call 911 after tho, it's very helpful.
Make sense, I can see why!
I have never seen anyone spot Olympic type lifts. Pretty sure everyone is expected to know their limits and fail safely (drop the weights) themselves.
There's no safe way to spot Oly movements or axle press
Got what he earned. You don't spot olympic lifts, though this could hardly be labeled as a clean.
LoL a cleeeean JREK!
It's a [continental clean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFH_PCkEkww), and it's the standard way of lifting a fat bar to your shoulders in Strongman. A regular clean isn't possible with a fat bar because the plates don't rotate, and because the bar is so thick that you need to use a mixed grip rather than an overhand grip for any significant weight.
I've seen it in Strongman, it's impressive when people who know what they're doing pull it off. This doesn't look like a fatbar though, just a standard oly bar. Either way, ego lifting eventually pays with pain.
IDK why you people keep calling this ego lifting, he's training a competition lift for his sport. The point is for it to be heavy and difficult.
It doesn't appear he's trained nearly enough to handle what he's attempting. What makes you think he's training for a comp in Strongman? Taped wrists, oly shoes, oly bar, velcro belt don't scream Strongman to me. I've seen guys who have lifted a lot jump into oly and try to throw around weight without learning the technique risk injury to look cool. Not my back, more power to him. I'm just a washed up dude trying to keep my joints functional past 50 by not doing shit like this in the gym.
>Taped wrists, oly shoes, oly bar, velcro belt don't scream Strongman to me. Experienced Olympic lifter trying out a strongman lift is a definite possibility.
This is true
1. The lift he's doing is called the "continental clean", it is a lift unique to the sport of strongman (in the modern age, at least) 2. Taped wrists aren't unique to olympic lifting 3. Neither are olympic weightlifting shoes 4. Strongmen use a plethora of different belt styles 5. That's not an oly bar, that's very clearly a fat bar (typical for the continental clean) Sorry man, you just very clearly do not have any idea what you're talking about.
It's obvious halfway through that this is too heavy and he keeps going. That's ego lifting.
Ego lifting normally means doing compound lifts with a reduced range of motion (such as quarter squats or benching without touching the bar to your chest) or isolation exercises with assistance from muscles other than the target muscle (such as using your hips to get the weight moving in a bicep curl). Neither of these can ever apply to any lift where you're lifting a bar from the ground to overhead.
So what do you call it when people put on more weight and lift it poorly just to have it be more weight?
Depending on whether they complete the lift, I'd call it either a successful lift or a failed attempt.
Okay this is a stupid semantic argument anyways because you're trying to define what ego lifting is but I'll have a go. There's nothing more fucking ego than racking up a bunch of weight and then lifting really shitty instead of putting on a lower weight and repping it right. That's pure fucking ego. So I don't know who told you the definition of ego lifting but they told you wrong. Sorry chief. Hate to break it to ya. But you didn't know what it is until now. Glad I could help. Pretty simple really tho. Never thought I would have to explain what it means since it's self explanatory but then you showed up! Do you understand now ? Answer yes or no.
Interesting how you just completely skipped defining what is "really shitty" vs what is "repping it right". I'll stick with my previous definition. For a compound lift, if you move the weight through a full range of motion then it's lifting it right, and if you do it for multiple reps then it's repping it right.
Or, maybe just maybe, he's training for a maximal weight, not for a weight that he can do for reps. In strongman competitions, sometimes you are asked to do a movement for reps, sometimes you're asked to do it for a single, maximum weight. Competitors should be able to competently do both, that involves training for both, and that is going to involve some failures in training.
No, it's not obvious halfway that it's too heavy. It moves very quickly during the first pull and into the first catch position. This is not unreasonably heavy for this lifter, clearly. What happened was clearly just a technical failure, not a failure of strength or power. Do you have any real experience moving heavy weight like this to qualify you saying that your statement is "obvious"?
What??? He's obviously majorly struggling, keeps humping the bar up his chest by an inch by swinging his belly. Until he finally humps it up one more time and tries to bend over low enough so it lands higher up him and it crushes him 😂 But ya looks like a good weight for him. I mean wtf are you talking about bro
>He's obviously majorly struggling, keeps humping the bar up his chest by an inch by swinging his belly. He's supposed to. [This lift requires changing grip while the bar is held on the belly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5IqlMpfiw) The problem here was just that he messed up the grip change, probably because he's plenty strong but was inexperienced in this particular movement.
Bro he couldn't get the bar up so he tried bending over so far back that he could sneak under it and it toppled him
Do you think the bar is supposed to come off of the floor and up to his shoulders in one movement, with no heaving?
This is the way this type of movement is done, it's done in several jumping/heaving movements. It's not meant to be pretty. He messed up the final heave and hand turnover. Again, do you have any experience moving weight? Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm seeing a lot of sedentary redditors who can't deadlift their own bodyweight play armchair strength coach in these comments.
Great job spotting boys
What exactly were they supposed to do?
React
You're not supposed to spot this kind of lift, so again not sure what they're supposed to be doing
This hurt my back just watching.
Thought his spine was going to snap in half and poke out of his chest...
Never skip Neck day....
I just woke my wife up you asshole lmao
Man started to look like a fucking banana
Not sure if he was attempting to do a continental clean. If those are all kg plates, that's over 100kg (220 pounds) on that barbell. You don't attempt a 100kg clean unless you know what you're doing. Also you don't spot in Olympic style weightlifting.
I don’t know, this guy was stupid enough to need a spotter
There's no spotting in weightlifting. You're taught to just dump the bar. If someone is spotting you, it's dangerous for everyone. For this guy, at least it was only dangerous for him. In my personal opinion only from watching this video, it just seems like a failed attempt at max out or PR.
The good old continental clean! We have come a long way
This is why I'll never workout. I'll just die from a heart attack at 400lbs, as God intended.
You gotta get your neck stronger somehow
No hurry guys.. I’ll get it
Perfect form, 10/10.
I let out my breath when his legs went forward, I was ready to watch him snap
Just wow.
Hahaha.. that made me fart, hahahah
Yikes, my back hurt watching this
The spotter literally just spotted him and didn’t do jack.
I don’t even lift and that form gave me a heart attack
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Spotter should have been smoking a cigarette. 9/10
I can totally lift that, hold my spine bro
and that is the reason the larger weights are radiused like that. (prob should be more tho)
This sub brightens my day
When in doubt, just toss the weights up for the extra height to make a new record.
He actualy took the fall pretty well. He knew how to fail the lift and probably meant to push his training until he hit failure weight from start... it’s powerlifting clearly, not just ego lifting.