simon666 - 2018-04-07
The guy posted the video from the hospital, according to his Instagram account, so he's alive.

Ugh - 2018-04-07
ribs grow back

Hazelnut - 2018-04-07
I completely agree about the spotter. But what the hell did happen? At first I thought he must have been using a "suicide grip", but no, his thumbs were around the bar. Did they bend back somehow?

Hooker - 2018-04-07
It's too much fuckin' weight.

kingofthenothing - 2018-04-07
It honestly looks like his hands were just sweaty and it all just slipped.

simon666 - 2018-04-07
It's called a bar roll and looks to my eye, though I probably don't know enough about weight lifting to be authoritative, that it is in fact too much weight. Bar rolls can occur with bad/improper hand grip, where the lifter doesn't properly wrap the thumb around the bar. It also seems like it might have been a max lift, though I wasn't able to verify that anywhere. The roll probably could have been mitigated if the spotter were near the bar during the initial down movement, which, if it was a max or near max lift, would have have been appropriate.

simon666 - 2018-04-07
But as you guys know the title was meant to be humorously apt, not descriptively apt.

Anaxagoras - 2018-04-08
Sorry... I wasn't trying to get on your case Simon. I saw something wrong on the Internets & did the knee-jerk "ACTUALLY...." thing.

TheyUsedDarkForces - 2018-04-10
That's around 500 lbs, and the way he unracks it makes it look like he's capable of actually benching that weight (and that guy is huge). 500 is a huge bench, and nothing about it looks bad until he drops it.

That said, I don't see any chalk on his hands, and it's possible that bar is bent, so I'd say those are both reasons.

He doesn't have a belt, wraps or sleeves on, either, so maybe he's trying to win a bet or something.