33-Year-Old Fitness Influencer Dead After Freak Accident During Gym Set
Fitness influencer and power-lifter Justyn Vicky was killed in a freak accident last week after getting crushed while trying to lifting more than 450 pounds. Vicky, 33, was a nutritional adviser and personal trainer…
Fitness influencer and power-lifter Justyn Vicky was killed in a freak accident last week after getting crushed while trying to lifting more than 450 pounds.
Vicky, 33, was a nutritional adviser and personal trainer from East Java, Indonesia, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. His Instagram account, which consists of bodybuilding videos and fitness tips, had a following of 30,000.
He specialized in the barbell squat, which is known to be an especially dangerous form of powerlifting.
Vicky acknowledged the dangers in a July 5 Video in which he sought to educate others on how to properly execute the squat press.
“Done properly, which it seldom is, a barbell squat need not be all that dangerous … done properly, a barbell squat is capable of producing degrees of muscle mass increase that cannot be produced by any other exercise … it’s dangerous as hell,” the Video