He was bench pressing at his gym without a spotter. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A 25-year-old man in China died after his neck was crushed between the shaft of a barbell loaded with over 100kg of weights and the training bench he was lying on.
A harrowing, 29-second video on several news sites, including Malaysia’s China Press, showed the man, identified only as Mr Zhang, struggling to bench press over 100kg inside a gym in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, without a spotter at around 3pm on Thursday. He barely had the barbell over his chest and was trying to push it onto a J-hook when his arms gave way.
The shaft, with about 50kg on each end, rolled from his chest to his neck, pinning his head to the bench.At one point, he tried removing what seemed like a weightlifting belt he had on. But he began having violent spasms and suddenly went limp.Two gym employees ran towards him to lift the barbell off him.A representative of the Wuhan Pafik Fitness Club, where the incident happened, said Mr Zhang was a regular, and that he had been seen at the gym before lifting heavily stacked barbells.
He had a spotter behind him, but the spotter was unable to prevent the barbell’s shaft from rolling over Mr Vicky’s head, breaking his neck.
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