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was it a mishap with the weights?..heart attack from pushing themselves too hard>?
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At the health club I used to go to, people were dropping all the time. It was way overpriced and geared towards older individuals (I was in under my parent's membership). I swear an ambulance would be there three days a week, always in the early morning. Mostly senior citizens stroking out or having a heart attack.
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Jezebelle has seen one die at the gym on a treadmill. Another at my current gym was saved when they grabbed the defibrillator from the office and were able to revive him. He too was on the treadmill.
When I first started working out, at an altogether different gym, a man died while running on the treadmill.
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Jezebelle has seen one die at the gym on a treadmill. Another at my current gym was saved when they grabbed the defibrillator from the office and were able to revive him from a flat line. He too was on the treadmill.
When I first started working out, at an altogether different gym, a man died while running on the treadmill.
Moral of the story...Treadmills kill! :D
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WOW.....that's incredible!.....can you imagine how many people drop dead in the gym every day in the United States?....it must be a lot especially if you included people dying in their home gyms or while working out in their living room....wish there were statistics on this....it would be very interesting
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There was a story in the British press a few years back of a guy who died of a heart attack doing incline dumbell presses.
Also, didn't Jon Paul Sigmarsson die after performing a set of deadlifts?
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I heard about someone dying in the gym doing inlcine leg press pretty heavy. Hold his breath too long or something and his aorta snapped.
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I heard about someone dying in the gym doing inlcine leg press pretty heavy. Hold his breath too long or something and his aorta snapped.
His aorta snapped? :-\ Doubtful. Probably already had an aneurysm which then ruptured
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His aorta snapped? :-\ Doubtful. Probably already had an aneurysm which then ruptured
Probable. i'm just telling the stroy the way I was told. Didn't see it myself.
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They are all preexisting problems, the exercise in question was just a catalyst.
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Jezebelle has seen one die at the gym on a treadmill. Another at my current gym was saved when they grabbed the defibrillator from the office and were able to revive him from a flat line. He too was on the treadmill.
When I first started working out, at an altogether different gym, a man died while running on the treadmill.
You don't induce electrical stimulation during a "flatline"or asystole, only in ventricular fib, FYI.
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You don't induce electrical stimulation during a "flatline"or asystole, only in ventricular fib, FYI.
I`m just quoting the article hanging in the gym.
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the moral of this thread is dont mention anything medical releated or your ass is going to be PWNED if you not 100% accurate.
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(http://mm.news-record.com/drupal/files/imagecache/nrcom_article_image_landscape/Images/GRS%20ragsdale%20ymca1%20072308.jpg)
YMCA defibrillator helps save man's life
Sunday, July 27, 2008
( updated 3:00 am)
By Adria Hairston
Staff Writer
Ragsdale YMCA fitness instructor Stacy Varvel and member John Dixon stand at the site where Dixon's heart stopped on the abdominal crunch machine June 9. Varvel's quick response with CPR and an automatic external defibrillator are believed to have saved Dixon's life.
John Dixon of Jamestown looks like the picture of health.
He eats right. He plays golf and other sports. And he exercises regularly at the Ragsdale YMCA.
But on June 9, after a busy day of exercise, Dixon almost lost his life.
The quick response of a YMCA employee restarted Dixon's heart.
"It was a hot, humid day, and I had played golf all day in Salisbury - I played very well," Dixon recalled. "By 6 p.m., I got home to greet my wife before her 7 p.m. shift at High Point Regional Medical Center and felt good enough to head out to the gym to work out a bit."
Dixon recalled doing exactly 12 minutes of cardio on the stair-stepping machine and two sets of 25 crunches on the assisted abdominal crunch machine.
What Dixon said he can't remember is what happened next - his heart stopped beating. He was in cardiac arrest.
"Someone ran to me and said, 'Stacy, there's a man having a seizure on one of the machines.' Heart attacks and cardiac arrest have symptoms like a seizure," said Stacy Varvel, a Ragsdale YMCA fitness instructor.
Varvel said Dixon's face went from pale to blue. His chest was moving but there was no pulse.
"I began yelling for everyone to clear the fitness room and just began doing CPR," Varvel said. "I did five rounds of CPR before getting the AED hooked up."
The AED - an automatic external defibrillator - treats abnormal electrical activity in the heart called cardiac arrhythmia. The device uses electrical therapy to stop the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm.
After using the defibrillator once, Varvel said Dixon didn't respond, so she began with the CPR again.
"Because they (YMCA employees) told 911 he was having a seizure, the operator said to not do CPR," Varvel said. "So I was getting all of these different instructions and I began thinking, 'He is not going to make it if he can't get CPR.'"
The moment those thoughts entered Varvel's mind, she said Dixon took a deep breath.
"At first I was shocked, because I really did think he was gone," she said.
The feeling of shock was quickly replaced with relief, and the smile on her face was read by YMCA members who looked on from the window to the fitness room as a good sign.
"The members began smiling and talking to one another again," Varvel said. "It was a good moment."
Dixon was taken to High Point Regional Hospital, and a doctor discovered he had five blockages in his heart.
Dixon underwent open heart surgery with great success.
Dixon said he is back at the YMCA doing cardiac rehab. He and his doctor are convinced Stacy's skills, the YMCA staff's quick reactions and the shocks he received from the defibrillator saved his life.
"I appreciate Stacy and I appreciate life that much more now," Dixon said. "When I was under cardiac arrest, I didn't see any angels or white light - that's why I believe I was meant to make it so that I could tell this story."
Dixon said he lived so he could be an example of what can happen if you don't pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you.
"Thinking back, I can recall some tightness in my chest when I was exercising," Dixon said. "But I didn't think much about it because it was so subtle."
Dixon said once he is fully recovered, he hopes to go back to being as active as he was before the heart attack.
"There was no heart damage, and if tests show that the surgery was a complete success, then I'm good to go," Dixon said.
"I'll be like a rebuilt engine - ready to go another 62 years."
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Jezebelle has seen one die at the gym on a treadmill. Another at my current gym was saved when they grabbed the defibrillator from the office and were able to revive him from a flat line. He too was on the treadmill.
When I first started working out, at an altogether different gym, a man died while running on the treadmill.
Revived him from a flatline with a defibrillator? The entire point of a defibrillator is to shut down the conduction of the heart and hope it restarts itself with a sinus rhythm. A defibrillator is used when someone is in ventricular fibrillation....not a flatline.
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the moral of this thread is dont mention anything medical releated or your ass is going to be PWNED if you not 100% accurate.
Haha, maybe. It's my field though, so I get a little anxious when someone comments about it. No disrespecting TA, it's just what's widely believed.
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Haha, maybe. It's my field though, so I get a little anxious when someone comments about it. No disrespecting TA, it's just what's widely believed.
your one of the posters i was refering to(well not you but your post), along with freakgeek burn2live and doison too though. lol
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As you can see, his heart stopped beating, a flatline, and they used the defibrillator. 8)
Never heard of a gym having a defibrillator.
Do they all have them in America?
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Never heard of a gym having a defibrillator.
Do they all have them in America?
They ought to with as many obese people there are in the gym.
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I see, he had cardiac arrhythmia and the defibrillator was used to restart the rhythm.
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Jezebelle has seen one die at the gym on a treadmill. Another at my current gym was saved when they grabbed the defibrillator from the office and were able to revive him from a flat line. He too was on the treadmill.
When I first started working out, at an altogether different gym, a man died while running on the treadmill.
all to burn a one or two hundred calories that they didn't have to eat in the first place :-\
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Its funny because this guy goes around the gym telling everyone he flatlined, asystole, and the defibrillator saved his life and the papers picked that up. There is a big article hanging in the gym that says FLATLINED with his story.
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Professional rugby league player died in the weights room last year.
Many sporting clubs and schools in Ireland now have defibrillators (or whatever they use) after the death of a young rugby player and a young gaelic players a few years ago.
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(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1166/1454018245_5986b5e6c1.jpg)
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Never heard of a gym having a defibrillator.
Do they all have them in America?
80% of Americans are permanently 5 minutes away from a heart attack, so every public establishment is required to have and AED. Heart Attacks are as American as being fat, lazy and uneducated.
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I once had this really hot girl join my gym and up until 2 weeks later when I finally got it, I was dying to get her phone number. Does that count?
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Its funny because this guy goes around the gym telling everyone he flatlined, asystole, and the defibrillator saved his life and the papers picked that up. There is a big article hanging in the gym that says FLATLINED with his story.
Next time I hear him tell his story I will correct him.
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I once had this really hot girl join my gym and up until 2 weeks later when I finally got it, I was dying to get her phone number. Does that count?
was is the girl you were having lunch with?*
somebody throw up the pic of kiwiol sitting on the chair with a girl at the table ;D
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I once had this really hot girl join my gym and up until 2 weeks later when I finally got it, I was dying to get her phone number. Does that count?
;D ;D
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was is the girl you were having lunch with?*
somebody throw up the pic of kiwiol sitting on the chair with a girl at the table ;D
Hey, I said 'hot', not so-so 8) ;D
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Next time I hear him tell his story I will correct him.
hahahahahahahahahahaha i can see that from you
go up to him, "you did not flatline ::) hope this helps" ;D
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hahahahahahahahahahaha i can see that from you
go up to him, "you did not flatline ::) hope this helps" ;D
ROFLMAO!
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
my condolences
:-[
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
That's terrible bro - my condolences.
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I appreciate it......my heart goes out to his family, but in all honesty (and selfishly) my heart is broken for my sister....she's a tough young woman, but I don't know how she's dealing as well as she is.
Again, thanks.
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
My condolences towards you, your family and his :(
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You don't induce electrical stimulation during a "flatline"or asystole, only in ventricular fib, FYI.
douche bag, just fyi ;D ;D
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hahahahahahahahahahaha i can see that from you
go up to him, "you did not flatline ::) hope this helps" ;D
lol. I remember being lectured about studies that had been done on the perceptions of myocardial infarctions. Males and females were both more likely to use more dramatic words such as "massive heart attack" when describing when a male had a myocardial infarction. Sounds like this guy did just that
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lol. I remember being lectured about studies that had been done on the perceptions of myocardial infarctions. Males and females were both more likely to use more dramatic words such as "massive heart attack" when describing when a male had a myocardial infarction. Sounds like this guy did just that
it has something to do with the human ego i think, they don't want to believe or don't want others to believe that a "small" heart attack
could have ended their life :-\
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it has something to do with the human ego i think, they don't want to believe or don't want others to believe that a "small" heart attack
could have ended their life :-\
Yeh, but when referring to females who had an MI they didn't tend to use such violent language. Pretty interesting
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
sorry to hear that man
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curious...why do people die on the treadmills and elipticals but not in the squat rack?
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curious...why do people die on the treadmills and elipticals but not in the squat rack?
Bro,
Cause the ones who die on the squat rack bro go to Valahalla and their lifting belt is then thrown on a giant pyre and every year the giant mound of lifting gear is burned in honor and a sacred oath is uttered to never talk about the fallen in public.
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Bro,
Cause the ones who die on the squat rack bro go to Valahalla and their lifting belt is then thrown on a giant pyre and every year the giant mound of lifting gear is burned in honor and a sacred oath is uttered to never talk about the fallen in public.
aint no shame in dying in a squat rack 8)
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
Missed this post. Really sorry to hear man :( Hope your sister and the family hold up
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Honestly, say you were at the gym at midnight only people working out are you and some old dude, and he drops, as a getbigger would you even do anything? Or would you continure your workout while sipping on your Muscletech drink in order to gain 127% more muscle?
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Honestly, say you were at the gym at midnight only people working out are you and some old dude, and he drops, as a getbigger would you even do anything? Or would you continure your workout while sipping on your Muscletech drink in order to gain 127% more muscle?
Plus we couldn`t be 100 percent that his seizure was just simply a poor Kai Greene posing imitation. Might wanna leave that one alone.
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One time I got a weird feeling in my chest? on the treadmill. Felt like my heart was beating funny (could have been something else?). Really freaked me out. :-X
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
Jesus Christ....25 years old????...the rest of are doomed then!!! :o
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My sister's fiancee passed away in the gym two weeks ago. Died of a heart attack on the elliptical machine....was 25 years old and in great shape.....been a rough couple of weeks.
How the hell?! 25 yr old? Alot of heart problems in his family/relatives Im guessing?
how old is your sister? Make your to be there Alot for here. Something like that can fuck you up for life if you don't get the support needed.
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One time I got a weird feeling in my chest? on the treadmill. Felt like my heart was beating funny (could have been something else?). Really freaked me out. :-X
this has happened to me as well...it's scary!
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How the hell?! 25 yr old? Alot of heart problems in his family/relatives Im guessing?
how old is your sister? Make your to be there Alot for here. Something like that can fuck you up for life if you don't get the support needed.
No heart problems in his family we know of. My sister is also 25. She's surrounded by family and friends and is kinda like a gypsy stayin with my folks some, me and my wife, one of my other sisters and her husband, her fiancee's family, her friends....so far she has a good support network and it does have to be maintained now more than ever.
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Fuck, that's harsh. Not to state the obvious but maybe suggest some grief counseling when she's ready.
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lot of guys going to the gym without consulting a Dr. first....I'm sure there are a lot of people who due everyday while running and or exercising
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I once hit a most muscular and some bitch dropped dead instantly........
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I once hit a most muscular and some bitch dropped dead instantly........
awesome line...funny! ;D
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I killed a couple 6-packs in the gym parking lot one time. Does that count?
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Make your to be there Alot for here.
???
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I once got pissed of by a post on the internet and clack-clack i killed him in my thoughts and posted a pic of a gun i googled!
BOOM!
::) ::)
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Yes, I saw someone die at the gym.
The poor bastard died from a hemorrhagic stroke that was induced by hypertension. He was at the squat rack doing ridiculously heavy weight and shortly after he started, everyone at the gym heard a loud crash and it was him crushed under the barbell.
Everyone went over and he was unconscious, immediately we called 911 and they took WAY TOO LONG. Sadly, by the time that they got him to the hospital, he had stopped breathing for over 10 minutes and later tests showed he had developed multiple aneurysms in various parts of his brain. By squatting, he had only made his blood pressure rise further causing 3 of these aneurysms to burst, hence leading to his death shortly thereafter.
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Yes, I saw someone die at the gym.
The poor bastard died from a hemorrhagic stroke that was induced by hypertension. He was at the squat rack doing ridiculously heavy weight and shortly after he started, everyone at the gym heard a loud crash and it was him crushed under the barbell.
Everyone went over and he was unconscious, immediately we called 911 and they took WAY TOO LONG. Sadly, by the time that they got him to the hospital, he had stopped breathing for over 10 minutes and later tests showed he had developed multiple aneurysms in various parts of his brain. By squatting, he had only made his blood pressure rise further causing 3 of these aneurysms to burst, hence leading to his death shortly thereafter.
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Brutal!... :o....I agree with you that this might have happened due to lifting too much weight beyond his ability to do so...and maybe he was holding his breath...I never ever hold my breath when lifting heavy....especially squats......gotta breathe in on the negative...breathe out on the lifting phase.....
I read an interview where Arnold said he can't hold his breath any more as he used to in his younger days when lifting due to the possibility it may cause him to develop high blood pressure and complicate his heart...he says he now breathes in and out during the negative and positive phases of his reps respectively...
I've heard of guys dying under the lying leg press due to pushing up too much weight and holding their breath while doing so
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In the summer of two years ago.
A middle age fat guy fell down from the treadmil because of the heart attack or something and only few people there.
And I did massage and mouth to mouth to him. But he died before the ambulance coming.
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in a gym in vermont ( tennis club )
old guy had a heart attack in the locker
I performed cpr but he was gone :(
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A few years back a competitive BBer passed out in my gym from overdoing the Insulin, fell over, banged his head on the way and they had to call an Ambulance.
Wasn't there, missed all the good things (sooo many crims in my gym guys would just disappear for months being locked up for dealing or whatever) one time this big Russian guy picked up a 35 pound DB and was chasing some guy around the gym trying to bash his head in for insulting his brother.
The Russian guy was a real funny guy but he beat someone there up once and when i rocked up that arvo to train there were 6 cops at the door waiting for him. He was big but not BBer symmetry, kind of like how Bane looked out of the Batman comics
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WOW!..who knew that all of these things were going on in gyms? ;D