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Originally Posted by Salome1980
It's not just you, I'm terrified of this happening to me which is partly because I have this weird fear of losing all my teeth. It didn't help that while practicing at home I actually wacked my jaw with the broomstick I was using for the push press. It hurt, but not as much as it probably would if I had been using the oly bar!
I guess I learned my lesson though, because I did these for the first time at the gym on Monday and thankfully, I didn't have any accidents.
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Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I am starting stage 2 this week and I have been searching all the threads on this move and found this post. It made me laugh, because I did the exact same thing with my broomstick (dowel, actually) when I was practicing today; I got the squat, I pushed up explosively, and WHAM! into my lips and nose the stick went!
Also, this is something I haven't cleared up for myself yet in the threads on FSPP, my elbows just will NOT go up as high as people say they should. At least, I can put them up that far, but then my hands are behind my head; no way I'm going to be able to hold a BB in front of me with my elbows up that high! Is this a flexibility issue, or just a "can't change my anatomy" issue? I haven't yet tried it with a real bar, so maybe this will work differently when I have actual weight?
I was doing quite well with the back squats, but this feels like a totally different animal, and my back and shoulders are not happy with even the weightless practice. I am having nightmares about getting the bar onto my windpipe, dropping into the squat, and falling forward into a face plant when the bar pulls me forward. Either that or the self-inflicted nose job! Help! Can I just skip stage 2, pretty, pretty please?
(and anyway, why shouldn't someone bring up an old thread? If we still have questions after searching. . .or is it more proper to start a new thread?)