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Have you failed a squat?

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  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    i got stuck at the bottom. had the catch bars so just rolled the bar off my back

    same here.

    love the safety bars
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Many times. It's pretty anticlimactic. When I realize I'm not getting back up, I just squat all the way down and let the bar rest on the safeties.

    One time I fell backward, but that was becuase I was stupidly squatting with a rib injury and when I got in the hole it hurt my rib so bad that my reflex (for some stupid reason) was to fall backward. The power rack saved me.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    I kind of crumbled like an accordion--the bar was ever so gently placed on the safety bars! :)
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    Wow I didn't expect so many responses. Ironically I was reading the most recent of them between my 4th and 5th sets of squats. :laugh:
  • kitinboots
    kitinboots Posts: 589 Member
    Not yet but my training partner did last week, it was lucky I was there.
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    I have always been in a rack. Dropped the bar on the safety bars. Twice I have been bailed out by observers nearby. People in gyms are pretty good about that -- thankfully.
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    I failed a squat at the top, because I like to be different. LOL.

    The pins were set slightly too high for me, I had noticed at a lighter weight when I had to go onto my tippy toes to the bar back onto the pins.

    Stupidly, I didn't think to fix it and loaded 90kg (200lbs) on the bar, did my squats then couldn't get onto my tippy toes to get the bar back onto the pins.

    I stood for a minute, then was able to get enough height to get the bar onto the pins. I tweaked my shoulder in the process. I'll never do it again.
  • SmileyFaceGuy
    SmileyFaceGuy Posts: 201
    I haven't failed yet because I haven't gotten to my 5RM yet. I always squat in the squat rack, but I'm thinking it will be a good idea to practice bailing with an empty bar. I would only throw the weight behind me if I were about to die; my gym is deathly quiet, and I think I would give everyone in there a heart attack if I did that.
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    yep, on my own, training at home. Not just once either. I work out next to the bed so I can dump the weight if necessary. Squat total fails result in me having to shuffle backwards until the barbell is close enough to the bed so I can dump it.

    I don't usually go to failure without my husband spotting me, I usually stop when the last rep is really, really, really extremely difficult and I can barely get up.

    i've done this before too. I wasn't really thinking ahead and didn't think I'd have a problem. Luckily I was able to get out from under it, and sort of pushed it onto the bed. It scared the crap out of me, and I stopped pushing myself so hard on squats. I'm waiting on a rack now, so I can start pushing myself again.
  • ixap
    ixap Posts: 675 Member
    Yes, twice. Both times I got down and then got stuck. Once I was at a gym with big empty space/no one behind me, and had bumper plates on the bars. So I just dumped it off my back to the ground. Other time my trainer was spotting me and she boosted me back up.
  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    I came very close to failing last week. squatting 105 pounds. Took me everything and I mean EVERYTHING to push up I was wobbling and my hips were starting to sway to one side lol what a sight!!!! I couldnt bare the embarrassement if I did fail at the gym.

    Interesting though, squatted 121 pounds today fine could of done couple of extra reps.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    The pins were set slightly too high for me, I had noticed at a lighter weight when I had to go onto my tippy toes to the bar back onto the pins.
    Yeah mine is such that the highest hook is barely too high, and the next one down requires me to practically go sumo/crab to pick up the bar without hunching my back.

    [/quote]Interesting though, squatted 121 pounds today fine could of done couple of extra reps.[/quote]
    I've noticed this too, the same weight can suddenly feel a lot heavier or lighter than it was last time.
  • Matt_Wild
    Matt_Wild Posts: 2,673 Member
    Failed with a couple of hundred kilos on my back, rolled it off. Yes it hurts as the knurling grates your back on its way down...
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    Once, I was changing a tire on my car. I only got three reps in before I had to go get the jack from the trunk.
    With love,
    Burt
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