Bodybuilder breaks his neck and dies squatting

HOLY shite

For squat spotting, aren't you supposed to support their chest as they rise?

I don't blame the spotter

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If you don’t know how to properly spot someone, don’t offer to spot them.

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Should have told him earlier.

How hard is it to use a cage, especially on a heavy lift

To be fair, i blame them both

He died doing what he loved

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How hard is it to use a cage, especially on a heavy lift

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Safety arms would have saved his life.

Spotter was never in the position to actually help him nobody in the world could have helped in the position the spotter was in. All the spotter did was prevent him from being able to roll the weight off, the spotter has serious fault here.

His body looked like this was a personal max because of the way he was reacting to the weight at over 450# he should have had three spotters and SAFETY ARMS.

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If the weights are too heavy, I imagine the lifter could just drop them

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Correct. There shouldn’t even be a spotter here—drop the weight off your back to the rear and step forward.
Alternatively, squat in a rack and just squat all the way down to the safety arms

Let me guess: he was using a Smith machine that had a fixed bar path and had no safeties.

This is why I only do hack squats