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I Dropped a 95 lb Dumbbell on My Toe! (HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED)

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t his fault- this time! As you-ll see, while Jesse was setting up the camera for us to shoot a video (not this one, of course, I was cleaning up the dumbbells that I had left out from my workout the night before. Unfortunately, the dumbbell rack has a shallow lip and I didn-t place the dumbbell securely enough which led to it slipping off the rack and landing right on my big toe. Talk about a gym fail! Can you say -OUCH! - Fearing that there may be some sort of fracture, I headed to the doctor and got an X-Ray done. This was important to know because depending on the severity of the fracture, things can go from bad to worse. If there needs to be medical intervention and nothing is done about it, it can lead to some serious problems like a bone infection and trust me, that is not something you want to deal with! Thankfully, there was no fractures to be seen. A few days later, I posted a picture on Instagram showing the aftermath of what my toe looked like immediately following and it was gruesome looking. Oddly enough, this happened to be the most liked Instagram post on my page (thanks a lot) The comments that you guys posted ranged from grossed out to sympathetic to some great jokes. Jesse even shared his 10 favorite comments at my expense, as you would expect. Cue the imbalance jokes! Speaking of those imbalances; you might remember that last year I broke my big toe on the opposite foot by kicking a plyo box after getting frustrated during a shoot for another YouTube video. You can thank Jesse for bringing that back to our attention and for highlighting that I can-t afford an injury imbalance! Now, what is the lesson to be learned here (outside of not dropping a dumbbell on your toes? First, it-s taking the appropriate actions in the acute phase of the injury. Within the first 24 hours, I made sure to ice my toe. While some may argue that icing is counterproductive to the healing process, it is important to bring down inflammation in the first 24-48 hours of the injury occurring. The next step was to avoid movements that would aggravate the injury further. This meant that I was going to avoid putting weight and pressure on my toe. So, when I continued my leg training, I avoided movements like lunges knowing how they would feel. But that didn-t mean I couldn-t perform flat footed leg exercises such as squats as I was able to displace pressure throughout my foot instead of through my toes. I didn-t let my injury compromise my training. What does this mean for training with an injury? I believe that you shouldn-t stop training altogether. Now, I-m not saying to train through the pain, but instead that you should find ways to train around the injury and the pain. Another step that I took to make sure my toe was taken care of was to establish and maintain proper range of motion. This didn-t mean cranking on it and incurring further pain. No, it meant moving my toe through a ROM that was comfortable and allowed it maintain blood flow and prevent it from stiffening up. Now, I-ll give you a live look into how my toe looks just a few days later. As you can see, the swelling and bruising has gone down considerably and looks pretty good for being smashed with a 95 lb. dumbbell. If you are wondering why it doesn-t look worse; it-s because I took the appropriate actions in the initial healing process. What does this mean for you? Well, for starters, clean up your dumbbells when you-re finished with them and always be careful handling weights, especially heavy ones. Secondly, take the appropriate actions to determine the severity of your injury. Next, you want to find ways to continue your training without further aggravating the injury. Lastly, it is important to take care of it in the acute phases of the injury occurring to make sure the healing process goes smoothly. I hope that you found this story valuable and eye-opening as to how to deal with an injury and continue your training. If you are looking for a complete training program where we put the science and common sense into everything we do, be sure to visit athleanx. com via the link below and use the program selector tool to find the plan that is best suited to your current goals
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

Andr-
I was snatch deadlifting 1 month ago, i was lifting 80kg in each side, without shoes and i was using straps.
Keep in mind that i was working out with iron plates.
When i got the bar fully up, one of the straps broked and the weight was dropped in my foot, i didnt feel nothing, until 10 seconds passed and i started to feel a lot of pain, like, the worst pain i ve ever feel.
My 3 last fingers got smashed and the other 2 just got hurt.
Broke my pinky toe, the toe next to him was pretty much like a smashed grapefruit, the finger in the midle of the foot com a lot of bruising and sweeling.
Im still recovering from the injury, my foot gets swollen when i am standing, but i still work out, without squats and deadlifts.
I cant walk for now, maybe in the next 2 weeks i will start to walk.
Never stop your thing no matter how hard things get-
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Anthony
Jeff I'm writing this on my left hand. I broke my right hand playing rugby last week. Operation to reset bone with plates and screws took place yesterday. All summer I've been using calisthenics to keep my body and mind in shape and progress my strength and power (at the beginning of summer I challenged myself to perform a muscle up it took me 3 months to perform one, just before the accident I could do three in a row with strict form) now my right hand is destroyed. I'm struggling to find exercises that I can do to to maintain my back and chest and shoulder strength without using my right hand any advice whilst I recover for the next 3 months. How can i maintain my gains/keep my head straight?
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John
Jeff, this won't make you feel any better, but sometimes misery loves a little company.
Yesterday, I dropped a 100-lb barbell on my left foot. The second toe took the brunt of it, followed by the big toe.
The pain was excruciating but there were a lot of people around. Therefore, I played it off the best I could and walked calmly to the men's room without limping noticeably (I think. After pulling myself together, I walked to my car and screamed when I got in.
Fortunately, nothing is broken. We'll see if the nail survives.
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Viel
Currently nursing the same injury albeit from a much much much lighter weight (plate, actually) at 15 lbs. But I'm BAREFOOT (at home. No blood, but the toe is fractured (definitely) but the feeling is the nail is being pulled due to throbbing pain.
And yeah, it triggered every cuss word I've ever known in my life. No one was spared, even god.
So I don't think Jeff faked a terrible sh1t like this. Because this is something I would wish an enemy to experience lol
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Dude
Hey Jeff I hope you're doing well. I recently sprained my thumb playing football (the football that is actually played with foot. My Doctor suggested wearing a brace for at least 4 weeks. I was wondering if there are exercises for upper body that don't require gripping free weights or handles. You've done a great job educating people about safety and injury prevention and I hope you do so about exercising with injury or chronic illness.
Best regards.
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conrad
I am sorry to hear of your unfortunate, and painful accident. To quote the old phrase -accidents happen. -
It is my professional opinion that the first steps that you took after the accident were correct, and I would like to strongly suggest that you see an acupuncturist at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for the great videos excellent and professional information that you have given us.
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Robert
This was both hilarious and informative. I once had my foot stepped on by someone wearing high heeled boots. Didn-t think about it, but later on noticed it clearly broke some vessels beneath the surface, which was trapped and messed up the bed. It eventually grew it out, but since they grow so slowly it took nearly a year for all the damage to get worked out. Toe injuries suck, even when very minor.
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Fulcanelli
Jeff made me into a genius on exercise. I pulled my hamstring but I could do a ton of other non leg stuff. I made massive gains being forced to do only upper body fir 3 months. I was a leg guy before that. But I also fixed what caused my hamstring pull in th first place. I start max size for the 2nd time on Monday hopefully
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Fercurix
lost both my big toe nails due to too small shoes at performing for 4 hours. (costume shoes, no larger sizes) They turned blue 1st and after about a week they fall off. I was concerned they'd never come back normally if at all. Happy to say they both came back and look the same as before. No worries if it falls off.
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Themighty6
When I broke my arm/ wrist I kept going to the gym. I did a ton of legs, and still managed to do most of my upper body ( apart from pullups) I even did one arm deadlifts, after 6 weeks i did not loose much strength in my right arm. And maintained strenght in the rest of my upper body
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