He straightens up as he lifts barbell but then suddenly freezes and drops it
The man sways slightly, his face creased in pain before crumpling to the floor
But as he falls he smashes his back against the ball before lying unconscious
An X-ray reportedly shows his snapped spine but many says it's not genuine
The fitness fan can be seen “dead lifting” a huge barbell of the floor before he suddenly tenses up and briefly stands stock-still.
The footage appears to be from gym CCTV but it’s location is not certain.
An image purporting to be an X-ray of the mans spine appeared online after the event.
The picture seemed to show the spine with one of the vertebrae sheared off.
However the man staggeringly survived the gory injury but very little is known about what happened to him afterwards.
It is unclear when the video was filmed but the clip has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube since it was uploaded this week.
Opinion has been divided online as to the authenticity of the video and the alleged X-ray with some commenters branding them fakes.
One wrote on: “Seriously if he sheared his spine like that he would die right there -he passed out.”
Another claimed the image was not even a medical scan posting: “That’s neither Xray, CT, nor MRI. Just someones artistic expression.
“Look at the lumbar part of the spine shifting backwards in the ‘X-ray’, yet he falls on his back, that just doesn’t make sense.
“If anything, that vertebrae would slide forward, not backwards if the point of impact was that crushed vertebrae.”
