Staying safe around heavy weights page

**Bane** · 11-22-2010, 09:08 PM

Thankfully a local department store is up on safety measures. They realize that while offering heavy dumbbells is good for the health and fitness of its customers, they have a responsibility to inform us of the dangers of handling such goods. Especially having such heavy weights up on a 3 foot table - pretty dangerous stuff.

In case you were wondering, these 2 dumbbells are the only ones on the table. The rest of the display is jumping ropes, stretch bands, yoga mats, and the like.

Thanks for keeping us safe, guys!

**Primal Fist** · 11-23-2010, 12:00 AM

Jeez, Bane, I'm surprised you could stand close enough to that 1lb weight to take that photo. Do you have no regard for your own safety?

**dragonmamma** · 11-23-2010, 04:33 AM

Do they have the same signs posted next to the large bottles of soda pop?

**Adventure8410** · 11-23-2010, 04:38 AM

Somebody can actually pick those up? I would like to shake this Hercules' hand.

Speaking of weight safety my schools weight room doesn't allow head phones in the weightroom because weights can fall and hurt people; how those two things have any connection is apparently beyond my limited weight room experience. Another Weight Fail

**tfarny** · 11-23-2010, 05:19 AM

I'm not allowed to take off my shoes for my deadlifts because the weights could fall and I could hurt myself. When I asked how that could conceivably actually happen, that the weight could fall off the end of the bar and onto my toe in the middle of a deadlift, I was met with a silent, blank grin.

I'm glad you had the good sense not to mess with those dumbbells, Bane. Life in the Great White North sounds mighty dangerous!

**primalrob** · 11-23-2010, 05:24 AM

so, if someone were to buy those dumbells, do you think the associate assigned to bag them up for you would be required to wear a weight lifting belt?