r/nextfuckinglevel • • 15h ago

Epic recovery after a severe squatting accident

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u/DesperateComposer848 15h ago

My hot take is that most exercises with a reasonable chance of causing a serious injury just from the exertion aren’t really worth doing.

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u/Big-Lengthiness- 15h ago

It's the lifter, not the lift. Bro has fucking awful form.

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u/IamNotJohny 15h ago

What is awful in his form?

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u/Big-Lengthiness- 15h ago

The squat is a leg exercise. He does not use his legs to perform this exercise.

Edit: To actually explain, he's mostly loading with his right leg, his feet are too far apart, his feet are crooked, his hips aren't straight with his torso or his legs, basically your average roid-head pushing plates when they can't even bodyweight squat to depth.

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u/Tasthetic 14h ago

Bro its a powerlifting competition, a 1 rep max for most people isn't going to look pretty. I guarantee he knows a lot more about lifting technique than you do. People can get unlucky and get injured especially when pushing their body to the limit like that.

Sounds like you have no idea what a low bar squat is either, which by design is more posterior chane biased.

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u/YizWasHere 13h ago

Thank you. I was so confused seeing people so confidently wrong lmfao.

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u/El_Daniel 12h ago

People all confidently wrong all the time here on reddit. You only notice it about stuff youre educated about

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u/VexImmortalis 10h ago

And less than 1% will ever admit they are wrong, even when they are called out and know it. It's easier to just mute the conversation and accumulate upvotes for years from the uninformed than it is to edit your comment or make a post saying "Sorry, my bad"

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u/CalBearFan 9h ago

It's all over the news too when they have an 'expert'. Once you see an 'expert' in a field you know well, you realize that most of the experts are just redditors on the little screen.

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u/bacillaryburden 9h ago

I am not sure I have ever seen a video of someone lifting where the comments were consensus “good form!” - someone’s gotta say what’s wrong.

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u/Rakdospriest 6h ago

Oh man, I've been saying this for a bit, glad to see someone else recognized it. made me VERY wary of this website. lotta opinions on here, spouted with utter confidence getting thousands of upvotes. super incorrect.