THE WORST gym injuries (and how to avoid them)
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- In today's video, we delve into some of the most severe and painful gym injuries, from the infamous 1977 World's Strongest Man fridge carry to contemporary mishaps. We explore the types of injuries, their causes, and how to prevent them, supported by data showing that strength sports like powerlifting are relatively safe compared to others like rugby or basketball. Despite the alarming visuals, it's a reminder that with proper technique and precautions, the gym is a safe place to pursue strength training. If you're serious about your training and want to minimize risk, check out my programs linked below. Stay safe and lift smart!
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00:00 Introduction
01:35 Why We Don't Do Fridge Carry
04:09 Atlas Stone Injury #1
05:38 My Atlas Stone Injury
07:42 Final Atlas Stone Injury
09:12 Terrible Log Press Injury
11:02 Deadlift Gone Wrong
12:49 Old Fashioned Squat
16:15 Why I Will NEVER Arm Wrestle
18:06 NEVER Do This On Leg Press - Sport
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Fella in the thumbnail was my coach for a couple of years. He walked away from that stone landing on his chest, nothing but some scrapes and bruises, and was at the afterparty later that night. Nothing broken. Big Loz did an interview with him during the pandemic, if you want the details straight from the man himself.
Now that's insanely Lucky. Happy for him. It felt so painful just to watch.
I havent watched the video because of the thumbnail 🤣
Came to the comments to find out if its too much gore or not
The videos are absolutely brutal, but Mitchell went beyond the basic "oh my god that was terrible" reactions and provide solid advice for people, which makes all the difference. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Loving the tips, but I have to look away for most of them. 😢
"If you watch closely..."
I DON'T! 😭
right.
I looked away at first on a couple of them when i knew what was coming, but ended up watching when he replayed it. Gnarly nasty stuff.
big z stood up and asked the stone if it was ok
No, Larry did not know what he was doing there. His opponent was in an arm break position, Adam runs over to tell him "pull, don't side press" and in just that moment Larry moves to the side (it's as if he was doing what Adam was telling the other guy to do).
This is exactly why you wanna be super careful pulling beginners. I hope he learned from this.
i think he was saying that larry knows how to armwrestle and not necessarily the situation that he was in. in other words he has technique and strength.
@@jerppazz4525 That could very well be true, but I thought it's important to mention.
Because if he was training with professionell armwrestlers, they would prevent him from breaking his arm.
Injuries is 100% my biggest fear. Strongman and competing is my whole life I can’t imagine not being able to do it for an extended period of time
How long have you been training for? I broke my back at a younger age and it hold me back from trying to hard in the gym but wanna go for it moreso
@@Professionalminutestealer been training 4 years but strongman specific for nearly 2
@@Movielover123451 good shit keep on keepin on hope you hit all the goals you set out fir yourself!
seen many of this clips before, but I love hearing the breakdown of the injury and how to avoid said injuries while still performing the lift 👍
That little research paper at the beginning forgot cheerleading and gymnastics lol. Lot of injuries in those two sports
Definitely
Not to mention American football.
@@TearTheRoof0ff I am sure UFC has a lot.
Oh man, I felt every bit of that knee dislocation on the fridge carry!
I'm literally sitting in the gym listening to this while lifting lol
I really don't understand why people overload the leg press like that. The advantage of the leg press is that you can do high rep sets and get a deep stretch without wearing out your cardiovascular system.
That was some ultimate ego lifting, he probably should have used like a quarter of the weight in there, so the reason is mostly idiocy
There's not and there will never be a leg press competition, because of how unsafe the machine potentially is with big loads.
Anyone who does this is immature and clearly doesnt take strength training seriously.
Mitchell: *shows a disturbing injury*
Also Mitchell: "if you look closely"
NO Mitchell!! I'm not going to!!
Wow, knees are way more flexible than I thought!
As someone that has torn their ACL in both knees, i can personally attest to that
Hmmmmm I've got a strong stomach but watching this on my lunch break is not a good idea lmao
Try to watch It better before sleep as I'm doing right now 😉
Imagine the hamstring stretch on the last clip
The hypertrophy is off the charts
The text isn't readable (maybe it needs impact style font) but I only noticed after I stopped cringing from the pain. Props for including your own injury.
I clicked on this video because I want to support your channel but I didn't watch it yet because I was about to train chest🤣🤣
Btw the stone lifting tutorial from the other day was great! Super interesting. I didn't know that there was that much prep that went into it.
Wise choice waiting to watch 😂! Glad to hear you enjoyed the stones video!
@@mitchellhooperstrongman Hopefully you didn't have to train right after your video editor had you watch those! Great video! I remember watching JF's log injury live :( That was terrible. There are so many lifting fail videos on the internet sometimes it seems like people are rupturing bicep tendons left and right, but in reality its a safer sport then most. Thanks for sharing those stats. It should encourage people to take up lifting if anything!
I knew this would make me feel sick, but watched it anyway.
Watching this on my deload week
This has made me recall my past injuries which I did not want to rehash in my mind
Keep these videos up Mitch, great video and great info.
These videos showcase you knowledge of the sport and the medical knowledge you possess, besides being extremely informative and helpful.
The more knowledge you have the less likely it is to be injured in the gym and outside of it as well.
Had that bicep tear last summer. I'm a stickler for form inside the gym, so of course it happened elsewhere. I will note I was a bit dehydrated at the time which I think contributed to it.
Fantastic video, great jo!! One thing though, I'd like to know more about though is the metrics of the study you mention, ie physical level of participants (athelete, average joe etc), size of study group, timeline covered etc
The last one just reminded me of the scene in rick and morty where Morty breaks his legs 😭
I had a somewhat related injury to my ankle (to your injury in the stone lift) when I slipped on an ice patch nestled inside a tire rut. Normally, the foot should have slipped all the way sideways, but it got stopped by the 'wall' of the rut. I went down with an outward rotation of the lower leg or calf. I heard a loud crack as my ankle sustained an incomplete Pott's Fracture (only the fibula snapped, not the lower end of the tibia as well). Also, the stabilizing ligament that attaches the fibula to the lower tibia was completely avulsed. I described it to my doctor as a reverse ankle sprain! Took a year and a half to a full recovery.
I used to go to many gyms in the seventies and eighties, and I only once saw a bad injury. There was a guy doing heavy medial rotations (while lying supine) to build the strength of his subscapularis side pressure for arm wrestling, and he snapped his upper arm with a 130 lb dumbbell.
Franco's injury makes me ill every time I see it. My knee did that playing rugby once- horrific in every way believe me
Had to physically put something over the part of the screen with the videos to watch. You made me really glad I didn't see any of it by your reactions😂also when is your squatting moose tattoo coming?👀
Thanks for the video, couldn't watch most of the injuries.
“But you should certainly not choose someone as STRONG as LARRY WHEELS..”
*Levan laughing in Saginashvili*
i felt pain
That's why I always take squatting and leg-pressing very seriously and don't mess around with form.
I don't get why people ego lift at the leg press, that guy had knee wraps, used his arms for support and only did 1/4 reps. No one will be impressed by that and he will gain little to no strenght/muscle at all.
Just not worth going that heavy if you’re not looking to professionally compete.
Leg press is a hypertrophy movement for me, as deep as possible, in the nasty 10-20 rep range to near failure. I'm fortunately so stiff that I can't even lock out. I'll make it work with 2-3 red plates on our leg press, not much past what I can currently squat. Hurts like crazy in the right ways, but it feels pretty safe.
I saw a guy doing almost this exact thing (minus the injury) last time I was in the gym. His upper body looked like he had been working out for awhile, but it stuck out to me that he had tons of weight on the press despite having very thin looking thighs. I'm fairly new to all of this, but it didn't seem to match up with the advice that folks like Dr. Mike and Jeff give.
@@espenstoroTHIS!
The leg press is an accesory. It should never be at the start of any workout. Testing your max when youre locked in place is never a good idea.
Trying to teach myself how to use straps efficiently specifically because of 11:02-on. Every now and then with an over-under grip, the under-grip arm almost reflexively starts to pull up. I figured the safest thing to do was just drop the bar and start the lift over, focusing on keeping the arms perfectly straight.
Plenty of armwrestlers who have broken arms all say it actually turned into an advantage afterwards as that boje heals stronger than it was before. But this can be avoided by using good proper armwrestling technique. Proper technique and you're almost 100% gaurenteed you won't break you're arm
That bicep tear is why you never do mixed grip
Those were gross. Exactly the reason I'm not trying to do too much with my injured shoulder right now.
I broke my t9 t10 verts when i was young and found the gym after graduationg and its helped a ton but the worry of my back is holding me back. Best thing ive found is working on stabilizer muscles, farmer walking with 2 different weights.
Clicked video and liked for support. but can't watch this one lol
The squat I believe is Paul Jordan 1977 worlds. (760 lb squat)
He competed once more in 1979 with a 711/507/677.
I guess he recovered fairly well!
If i remember correctly he failed his previous squat and still decided to make a big jump in weight for his next attempt.
@@lucavanantwerpen3752 that’s insane.
apparently he started training race horses
Only zydrunas could drop a stone on his chest like that and walk away like nothing happened 😂
That last video is why I will never do anything over 1k lbs on a leg press outside of doing a single 4 digit. I'd rather do lower weight, controlled reps for muscle gain/maint instead of trying to go all out on bad form.
The last one triggered my fight or flight and my gag reflex
I am an aspiring armwrestler, and you can completely avoid spiral pressure to the humorous by rotating with the pressure not against it
That last one was rough.
Hard to watch while recovering from a fractured fibula 4 weeks post surgery
With the atlas stone drop Craig was actually completely alright besides a little bit of bruising also it happened in Kitchener Ontario
Yup, that’s Max Boudreault’s coach
I actually have a fear of “Arm Wrestling”…
I don’t think I’ll ever do it again even messing with friends 😬
1:15 I do not remember the specifics or the name of the study, so take this with a grain of salt but to my knowledge, this also depends on the way you define injury. Iirc, this study defined injury as stopping you from training for or participating in your sport (for a certain period of time?) but aches and nagging injuries that are still an issue but don't take you out were not considered. Another study found strength sports to be some of the riskier sports you could do when it comes to these chronic issues like knee pain etc.
But again, I don't remember the specifics, I read this years ago.
I'm a 22 yo 120 kg man . I've been training for 3 years , but my deadlift and squat haven't improve from 160 and 140 kg . It has been 2 years of dealing with such problem. My technique and form is ok but don't get stronger anymore
I have really bad hyper extending, specially when I bench. It hasn't been a problem yet, I'm sure it will be in the future.
The appellation for this kind of episode should be “Ask Dr. Hooper.”
lol, shaw and eddie doing reaction vid's, see you hoped on that wagon too haha, good stuff mitch (regarding atlas stones, obviously Tom's the GOAT atm on those but i've seen how he goes with the side grip on the heavier 240/250 kg stones, just curious of your opinion as to why tom might resort to that grip with the heavier atlas)
4:38 I was in a comp where the organizers decided to do an atlas load to platforms where the athletes were on opposite sides of the platform.
A stone is loaded by one guy, none of the people that were supposed to be paying attention did, so the stone rolls over and off of the platform on the other side where the other atlete is bent over a stone.
Thankfully it only hit him on the shoulder. Had it been a few inches to one side, the guy would have gotten his head crushed between 2 atlas stones.
i was benching the other day and i missed the rerack, and the bar landed inches right above my head and caught my hair so i needed someone to help me lift it up. i wonder if it would actually land and hit my skull, would the bar and weights just crush it and lights out? fucking dread doing regular benchpress now
I can never access your store. Want to buy some merch but your site is never accessible. .
I remember the fridge carry injury. I saw that on TV as a kid
Man. Larry sure let go of that arm in a hurry. That had to feel awful
The majority of these videos online are, as you said, people who usually have no business doing it. Columbo was like 175lbs 😂 Definitely shouldn't have been carrying a refrigerator.
Broke my tib/fib right leg twice 1st time jumped a flight of stairs compounded 2nd time was dirt biking in the mountains foot slipped off in front of the foot peg as i hit a rut and it folded my boot in half backwards, Stars air ambulance came and got me
Should've had Tempa's bilateral quad tear on here. That was ghastly. Also, that arm wrestling one didn't look like a radial fx. It looked like an ulnar dislocation and possible medial collateral ligament injury.
Watching videos like these will make you throw a little caution into the wind.
you should make a second censored version of this video so i can watch it lol
Totally watchable man, just peek behind your hands for anything that you are worried about. Excellent advice.given.in this.vid, strongly reccomend checking it out
It's a good one to listen to for the tips.
This is missing the clip of a woman doing a legpress and getting her knees completely caved in.
Thats a fear that i will never overcome in my life and its the reason i will never lock out on a legpress.
Yeah, that one's a rough watch...honestly, it looked to me like her knees are hypermobile. Any kind of excess mobility past straight alignment is very dangerous under load, hopefully everyone who can move their joint past normal extension knows to keep a healthy bend just in case. Plus, it keeps the joint from taking load off the muscle, which is just good for training anyway.
When Z dropped the stone on himself I was worried for the stone!
The most cringe for me is the preacher curl double bicep tear 😬 lots of mixed reasonings on why that seems to happen
Knees bother me so bad. Watching the dude doing leg press you know he had no business at all on that. I will use my hands if everything else is planted as feelers but never for extra help that's just asking for trouble when you start cheating.
I would be curious to know how dangerous Crossfit is in comparison to powerlifting and the other sports on that list.
hardest clips for me to watch are these
Some athletic careers end with a whimper, and some blow both quads off their legs like JF Caron.
I want to hear Mitch’s thoughts but I can’t bare to watch the accidents 😅
Watched this before training
OOF....that last one geezus
Remember these compilations when you get that voice in your head to try 1rm max pr.
I swear to goodness. I was watching these videos one day. just spammed gym injuries. I legit said this would never happen to me...a day later the equipment snapped on me. machine legit broke. I'm 300lbs.. yea it was on the heaviest weight, but the gym was poorly maintained... legit blacked out, and don't remember what happened. concussed.. I watch these videos now and I thread softly with my words... I don't even laugh at these videos anymore... I have like PTSD now. when I workout I check equipment. in addition, I went from benching like 400lbs to barely benching 185lbs .. it's been two years and I haven't gained strength back..
Don't let it scare you away from the gym or strength sports, let is scare you away from doing them wrong.
My knee hurts just watching this
I gave myself tendonitis in my shoulder a month before a 1200 mile offroad motorcycle ride. I had to stop working out to let it heal.
shoulder tendonitis is a sneaky bitch. right when you think your good, your not. Thankfully PT is now my religion
Nice lighting.
amazing vid
I'm surprised the equipped powerlifter double quad rupture wasnt hear. You can hear the two pops in the video, fuckin' abhrorrent.
When you said his humerus was shattered, i thought he's not going to be funny anymore
You said my name at the start of the video 😂
Ouch!
Watched the first 30 seconds, then decided the take you’re advice, and watch it AFTER my training session…. Glad I did 🤮
I wish I hadnt seen that last one. Really wish
Surprised none of Loz's injuries made it into the video
@mitchellhooper the first Atlas stone guy passed out, and he didn't shatter his arm, he just had a scrape. He was VERY LUCKY. can confirm nothing happened to him.
That was horrific ahaha I had to prepare myself for the last one knowing what was coming
A fridge super yoke would be the closest thing to that era and much safer.
I say this as politely as possible, you resemble a buff Dr. Robotnik.
What is meant with "clips"?
Dude.. that 2nd video about the atlas stone injury made me jump lol! I thought he was gonna smash his foot into a pancake, but instead...
Also, if you hired a new editor recently tell him to focus on text more
Also, that last video..dude got more plates than IQ points
This is why fridge carry should never be done again
If I recall right, the blonde crazyman failed his previous weight attempt and decided to jump to a damn WR weight as his next attempt. Even the announcers say like "This is a bad idea" and here we have the horrible result :/
I'm 20 seconds in and I heard you say spiral fracture. I hate that I know what that is. 🤢
Whew. Lift Heavy Be Careful...wait Kind!
I like the idea of you going over these types of videos but can the editor make it so that the video you are looking at is the larger video and you talking is the smaller one? Or in front of a green screen and the video can be the background and you are on the bottom of the video, to the side.
Larry over Magnus Samuelssons arm wrestling? 😢 (In Sweden we call it "arm breaking" and not arm wrestling 🙃)
Damn, I did not know that muscles could snap like that.
Who remembers the infamous double knee pop from that Russian guy