Sorry if im inactive :/

Hey guys the past few months i have been really inactive. heres why, i was bench pressing and i lost control and broke 4 ribs and almost died, so im sorry if i am inactive, if i am im prob resting, if im in it will mostly be at around 10:00, if u need me feel free to text my skype @matthewdiamond12. Thanks!

I wish you a fast recovery.

Meanwhile, make some leg and arm gainz :^

matthewdiamond12 wrote:i was bench pressing and i lost control and broke 4 ribs and almost died

According to your profile you are 13, you may have been 12 at the time this happend. I've never ever heard of a gym allowing persons under 18 or even under 16.

Second, your ribs are quite flexible and are made to resist a lot of weight / power. They protect your vital organs so they don't break under lightweight. They need some serious amount of power or weight to "make 'em break".

If you benchpress above your ribs, you are in a wrong position. Benchpressing is done at shoulderheight.

See this image:

Scooby!:

Krazo wrote:

matthewdiamond12 wrote:i was bench pressing and i lost control and broke 4 ribs and almost died

According to your profile you are 13, you may have been 12 at the time this happend. I've never ever heard of a gym allowing persons under 18 or even under 16.

Second, your ribs are quite flexible and are made to resist a lot of weight / power. They protect your vital organs so they don't break under lightweight. They need some serious amount of power or weight to "make 'em break".

If you benchpress above your ribs, you are in a wrong position. Benchpressing is done at shoulderheight.

See this image:

Scooby!:

It takes upwards of 150 lbs per square inch to break a rib, if he was holding it the wrong way and was pressing 150 lbs or a little under he could have cracked or broken a rib. js, person of science here. (And people have their own bench pressing units at home)

Hope you have a speedy recovery...broken ribs suck i have had 6 broken at one time and 2 at one time on another occasion.

Krazo wrote:

matthewdiamond12 wrote:i was bench pressing and i lost control and broke 4 ribs and almost died

According to your profile you are 13, you may have been 12 at the time this happend. I've never ever heard of a gym allowing persons under 18 or even under 16.

Second, your ribs are quite flexible and are made to resist a lot of weight / power. They protect your vital organs so they don't break under lightweight. They need some serious amount of power or weight to "make 'em break".

If you benchpress above your ribs, you are in a wrong position. Benchpressing is done at shoulderheight.

See this image:

Scooby!:

Krazo he may not have been in a gym, he could have been at home or a friends house. Every time i bench pressed i did it at my dads work. And they make take impacts but what apple said is true, they break under a lot of pressure and weight

Anyway sorry to hear that hope you recover soon

QAQ </3 Take all the time you need to recover!! Drink lots of water!!dont go near the light @A@ <3 <3 <3

I do have my own unit at home, and it was 80 lbs and the force of the weight will break a rib

For some reason, teenage boys think they all have to start lifting, which is pretty stupid imo. Unless you do football or something, there's not much point (It doesn't really 'keep you in shape').

Take time to recover, and use some of that bedrest to enjoy Oasis ;)

mickdude2 wrote:For some reason, teenage boys think they all have to start lifting, which is pretty stupid imo. Unless you do football or something, there's not much point (It doesn't really 'keep you in shape').

Take time to recover, and use some of that bedrest to enjoy Oasis ;)

   Boy is that right, my lil bro 13 yrs old has been all upset about his weight since he was in 7th grade(he will be a freshman this year) he thinks he's fat (he's a stick) and thinks by lifting weight he will loose weight -3- he's gonna break his face with all the weight he tries to use and his eating disorder isnt helping.

  Though i disagree with the keeping in shape, exercise makes a difference but only if your eating right as well and i dont mean the bird eater diet where you hardly eat anything tasty so you can loose weight. I donno about having to have muscles but having a tone body is nice ;) haha  **Im no doctor or weight lifting book XD so this is just an opinion!**

    -shrugs- I still read your name as Mike .__. i dunno why Q~Q  

FerociousFeline wrote:  Though i disagree with the keeping in shape, exercise makes a difference but only if your eating right as well and i dont mean the bird eater diet where you hardly eat anything tasty so you can loose weight. I donno about having to have muscles but having a tone body is nice ;) haha  **Im no doctor or weight lifting book XD so this is just an opinion!**

    -shrugs- I still read your name as Mike .__. i dunno why Q~Q  

Actually, weight lifting replaces fat with muscle, and because muscle is more dense than fat, you actually put on weight rather than lose it. Untoned muscles look like fat, which is why football players all look chunky. It's actually all muscle. Most football players are classed as 'obese' because the current system doesn't take into account muscle mass (this is all stuff I picked up from my football friends). The body builders you see don't actually have much muscle, its all tone.

Sorry for the off topic. The main point I'm trying to say here is that lifting isn't all that important, especially if you're 12/13

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Godspeed Matthew.

Spoiler:

Yes. I do play football, I don't just lift, I run, and eat right.

If a weight falls on a person, thats not the only force they would be taking on their body, keep in mind. Velocity may play a part, as well as the pressure of having what is essentially a board unserneath you, effectively sandwhiching the person. Just putting it out there.

All forensics aside, glad to have you back champ. Enjoy yourself, now you get an excuse to sit around and do nothing (not that anyone needs an excuse, really).

Didn't look at this thread when it was posted, thought I'd check it out when it was still on the "posts since last visit". Gotta say, pleasantly surprised. This is thread derailment at a high level. Good job lads.

Oh and get well soon or something yo

Fithboy wrote: Gotta say, pleasantly surprised. This is thread derailment at a high level. Good job lads.

Lets take a moment to realize

matthewdiamond12 wrote:I almost died

And then just look at how far this topic has been skewed... An impressive job, indeed!

-In response to Vitality part 1: By bird eater diet i mean where you basically dont eat and work out thinking your loosing weight when in reality your gaining muscles and it makes that number on the scale go up then translating that to 'im fat'  like my retarded brother. 
   -Part 2: i sincerely  hope you werent referring to me when you spoke of not knowing what im-were-etc talking about with the muscles and weights and blah blah all that working out stuff. 
   - In response to Mick: Bodybuilding IS building/developing muscles its lifting weights, its not just 'toning out your body.'

Is this an MIA post or a fitness topic? Freal.

I probably started it by not believing him by using experience and facts. But meh.

The real issue here is whether or not this bro lifts.

Always have a spotter

Yes Taccy I do.

matthewdiamond12 wrote:Yes Taccy I do.

SQ/DL/OHP ?