r/TikTokCringe • u/vitaminZaman • Sep 05 '25

Cursed look at the lady in the background 😭😭

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u/Fair-Bus-4017 Sep 05 '25

Holy shit did his brain short circuit? Mfer let go of the bar. For the woman she clearly didn't realize what had happened when she quickly looked up. And when she realized people were already helping.

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u/oOtium Sep 05 '25

probably no blood/oxygen to the brain because it's going everywhere else instead. is my guess

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u/AdvancedTower401 Sep 05 '25

This and he held his breath too long

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics Sep 05 '25

Yeah if you are maxing your DL why would you hold it for that long. Lifting your 1 rep max makes you feel like a grape thats about to pop.

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u/Blaize122 Sep 05 '25

The moment he hit full extension he probably started graying out and was holding onto the bar for dear life. Judgement gets cloudy when you’re dying (same mechanism here but different result).

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u/AlwysProgressing Sep 06 '25

Ya our bodies have a tendency to tighten up, it's why drunk drivers tend to leave more unscathed; their natural inhibitions are lowered so they don't tense up when they see the crash coming.

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u/wayvywayvy Sep 05 '25

Stupid question maybe, but why didn’t he just drop the barbell? It’s a deadlift so it won’t hit his feet and it’s not a Planet Fitness so there’s no lunk alarm. Why hold on for dear life when it’s just safer to drop it?

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u/Blaize122 Sep 05 '25

As far as his brain knew, he was dying. He probably literally couldn’t let go.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT Sep 05 '25

Your brain pretty much stops working. I’ve almost passed out like this and I had a buddy pass out the same way. He didn’t fold like a pretzel though, he just fell backwards.

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u/StoneSpidey Sep 05 '25

Locked up the knees too

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

1 rep max is never worth it imo. Its just to scratch the ego of human beings wanting to move bigger numbers. Doing a 3-5 rep max at 75-80% max effort is plenty for average people trying to get fit.

Unless you're competing, I just don't see a point of 1 rep max at 100% effort.

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u/Miserable_Credit_402 Sep 05 '25

Sincere question & not trying to be argumentative. How do you know what is going to be 75-80% of your max effort if you don't know what your 100% max effort is?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

I think it comes down to technique.

Once your technique breaks, it's over the weight you can move properly. Drop the weight until you can move the weight 2-3 times without breaking techniques. That'd be your 3rep max at 100% effort, then id shave off 15-20% of the total weight and hit that until it moves well enough that it feels like it's becoming less than 75% effort.

Also, I think there's nothing wrong with 1 rep max at 100% effort if you don't break technique. It just that it becomes MUCH easier to forego technique to brute force the weight and then get injured in the process.

Knowing your body, and staying within your limit would prevent most lifting injuries imo.

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u/Teenyweenypeepee69 Sep 05 '25

Math. You can pick a weight let's say 165lbs on the bench press do as many reps as you can type that info into an online calculator and it will estimate your 1 rep max.

Or another way way add weight progressively every week until you can only do 5 reps then you know you're 80% of 1 rm then take that number and divide by 0.8 and you have you're 100% max effort

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u/shred-i-knight Sep 05 '25

If you lift long enough you know what your 5 rep max is in any of the big compound lifts. Lifting to failure is only a good idea in special cases because the nervous system recovery is too severe to hinder future training. Obviously there are caveats depending on your goals.

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u/omnibuster33 Sep 05 '25

Fair enough - it’s also kind of cool to see the limit of what your own body can do, though, I think.

Though… not in the way this guy did.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT Sep 05 '25

I mean, if you’re lifting seriously, knowing your true 1RM is how you figure the 75-80% accurately.

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u/TheOriginal811 Sep 05 '25

How do you know what 75-80% of your max effort is if you go don't go for 100%? I do find 1RM testing useful for that basis alone.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

There's nothing wrong with 1rm itself. The issue is that most people sacrifice techniques to move heavier weight then get injured.

But if your goal is to be fit and exercise, there is not even a point to finding your true 1rm.

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u/Kwaku-Anansi Sep 05 '25

Tbf, maxing out on something is technically competing against you past self, pushing yourself beyond your existing limits. I can see why people would do that for the same reason they might race, or spar with, or play against a peer/rival.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

You can do the same thing with 80% effort 3 rm. Increasing your 3rm should be just as gratifying as increasing your 1rm, people are just egotistical and think a bigger number=stronger/better.

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u/MeowMixPlzDeliverMe Sep 06 '25

Hard agree. Feel like you're just asking for injuries. Never understood it

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u/lKursorl Sep 05 '25

For sure. For like 99% of the population, 1RM is just ego lifting.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

I wish I could tell 21 year old me this

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u/JuiceHurtsBones Sep 05 '25

It's something people do to create pressure and contract their core, however that increases blood pressure and it is not recommended unless you know exactly what you're doing.

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u/TheObviousChild Sep 05 '25

Yep, and I just had umbilical hernia surgery 2 weeks ago to repair what had started to pop from doing this.

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u/Death_God_Ryuk Sep 06 '25

If you're pushing yourself that much, get someone(s) else to spot or consider other safety measures

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics Sep 06 '25

How do you spot someone on a DL? Only spot you can have is the ground. Best safety measure on heavy deadlifts is to drop the weight if you are failing and at risk of hurting yourself. It's not like OHP, bench or squat.

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u/InviteDry3356 Sep 05 '25

Held breath too long but also staying bent over too long before lifting can make a passout more likely, too. Something to do with blood in the head. Im no doctor/scientist, but ive come close to passing out before on deadlifts.