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Good feels tho! Super nice of you to take the time and to help out like that.
Definitely seen many near misses/V dangerous stuff in the gym. Remember there was a guy squatting who was working up his heavy singles. It was looking more and more dangerous each time he added weight, so I cautiously offered a spot. He must've added another 20kg and proceeded to completely dive bomb it - he dropped to the bottom position with almost no control and even with me spotting him as hard as I could there wasn't much I could do, he basically folded in half until the bar met the safeties. Thank god he had safety bars set up but honestly I think the offer of the spot probably encouraged him to do something more dangerous rather than me making the situation any safer.
I don't offer to spot people I don't know any more. I also don't accept spots from people I don't know either!
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New guy in the gym tonight- big fellow. Didn’t think anything of it, just noticed him in the free weights section. Doing my work out and he asked for help, showed him how to do some simple dumbbell chest presses on the bench (what he was trying to do), very rapidly moved him from the 12kg weights he’d picked up to some 6kg as he couldn’t control the heavier weights. By this point apparent that he’s got some learning difficulties and is basically at sea in this environment. Take him through how to lift the weights off the rack, get him and the weights into position and then the form for pressing and leave him to do some.
Ten or so minutes later I’m doing some barbell curls and spot him on the incline bench about to pull a 50kg bar-load off the hooks- moved pretty quickly at that point!
Took the plates off and talked him through the technique again- he was gassed after three presses with the 20kg bar.
Moved him onto the pull up assist machine after he’d had a breather, talked him through it and left him there, in the care of another guy.
Really brought home that it can be a dangerous environment.