I was doing a popular exercise for a bigger butt when I fractured my hip dont make my mistake

A personal trainer has warned of the dangers of “ego lifting” after she claims smashing a personal best in the gym left her hospitalized — when she snapped her right hip bone.Kristina Schmidt, 24, started incorporating barbell hip thrusts into her gym routine in an attempt to grow her glutes after seeing her favorite fitness influencers raving about the exercise.But after quickly working her way up to a personal best of 310 lbs.in March 2023, she developed agonizing pain in her right hip that “felt like someone was tearing her leg off.”At one point the pain became so bad that Kristina was left “crying with every single step” and was eventually unable to walk.Kristina visited her doctor and had an MRI scan before being referred to hospital.Footage shows her performing the high-impact thrusts that, over time, caused a stress fracture that’s believed to have been caused by lifting too heavy a weight with incorrect form.After being struck down with blood poisoning when her fractured hip became infected, Kristina underwent surgery to clean the wound and needed a three-month course of antibiotics.Now, Kristina wants to warn prevent others going through the same ordeal.“I wanted to look cool in front of my powerlifting gym friends,” Kristina, from Malibu, California said.“The most I could lift was 310 pounds for eight repetitions and I would usually do two sets of that, but that was with horrible form and not properly engaging my glutes.“If I’d been able to lift it up properly then it would have been impressive but I was just swinging it up.“In January I was only lifting 245-265 lbs.

and then by March it was already up to 310 lbs., which in hindsight was probably way too fast.It was too much.”In March Kristina, who was studying Japanese language, politics and economics at Hokkaido University in Hokkaido, Japan, went on a day out with pals and started struggling to walk due to the pain in her hip.“I remember going on a car trip with my...