MPower

This is what happens when you try to help:

After Jan 1st, all the resolutioners were hitting the gym.
I was on a bench next to some squat racks. Some girl comes up and decides to do squats or whatever she decided to do.
Someone had left the bar up high and loaded with about 315# or so.
She starts taking the 45# wheels off.
One side at a time.
I notice this when she just starts to pull the last wheel off one side, leaving the otherside loaded with 3wheels.
I jump up and dive for the bar as it flips up and off the rack
I miss (I was tired, what can I say) and the bar and weights slam to the ground.
Everyone turns to see me standing there with everything clattering around me, and the girl starts going off on me ‘what was I doing? I could have killed her’ etc. I was flabbergasted. Thankfully some of the regulars hadn’t been chased off by the n00bs and defended me. But I still cant believe the stupidity of some people.
Well yes I can, but that’s my rant.

outdoor

Most of my "embarassing" moments seem to happen the morning after a night of drinking, during my situp routine.

Charlatan

Wow MPower... you're lucky you didn't take that bar in the face...

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R3d

cant say ive had anything really embarrasing happen to me at the gym.. but my buddy had one that was pretty bad..

we were at the gym one afternoon.. place had a few ppl in there.. i was doin my usual run near the end of my workout and my friend was doin situps.. then all of a sudden he let out a huge fart that everyone turned and was like WTF? o.0 and he just turned bright red and everyone just laughed it off...

heccubusiv

lat pull, 100 lbs and was sitting on the ground, and it pulled me up cause i don't weigh much more than than and i let go right as my big toe was over the machine. THe metal rod hit my toe and all 100 lbs hit it. I rolled on the ground in pain as blood rushed through my sock. it was pretty bad

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Ace_O_Spades

I've successfully taken all three plates off one side, you just need to pull the bar all the way to one side

Torque and physics takes care of the rest

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Feh.

ChasingAmy

I was doing my last set of close grip presses and my spotters weren't spotting me that well (they were however spotting the ladies in the gym atm) 225 lbs slipped outta my reverse grip and landed on my chest! :P Bounced once then rested on me. It was then promptly removed.

Glad I had the mass there to protect myself, just bruised my pecs. Wrecked my chest and tricep training for a few weeks! :P Took it easy on the rest of my chest was all better.

Probably more embarassing for my spotters than me! I am glad that I had a reverse grip going otherwise I would probably not be here.

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RogueHunter65

I broke my left leg a little below the knee in august and stopped going to the gym. I recently began to lift again. While in the gym on my first day back, I started to do squats. I began with just a little wieght and it felt fine. Then I decided to try my usually weight. Bad Idea, I went down and on my way back up my knee gave out and i fell on my ass. The place was crowded and I felt like such a looser. Oh well.

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hossified

first day back, trying usual weight after a broken leg??!?!??!!? Dude you are retarded!

RogueHunter65

No, I just thought I could handle it. My knee felt fine and seriously thought that I could do it. Lookin back I guess it wasnt that good of an idea but I didnt think I would lose that much ground in my lifting ability.

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alec

who hasnt walked around the gym sporting a boner once or twice??? i certainly have

lordpoopshank

I was attempting a snatch lift one time (kind of like a hang clean but the bar ends up above your head) and just so happened to hit my chin with the bar as I was going up. I was immediately dazed for a few seconds, then proceeded to spit out half of a tooth that had just cracked off in my mouth. Needless to say, spitting out your teeth on the gym floor with others around is not the best way to look like you know what youre doing.

Ace_O_Spades

You can put me in the "never had a boner at the gym" category

sorry

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Feh.

jhkayakr

The heavy weight lifting fart has to be the most embarassing moment.

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thingstodo

I can sure agree with this!

Also, I was doing 275 reverse grip one time when my right elbow just gave out (I've had problems with the elbow for some time). I did have a spotter but it happened very unexpectedly. Everything fell off the right side, the bar flipped and everything fell off the left. With a ton of noise. I was fine but my ego took a shot!

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Iliftrocks

Hell, last week I was pulling 370 in the deadlift and had a major blow out. Luckily the Rap music was blasting out on the gym speakers, but I'm sure I fumigated all the bugs out.......

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Rodney

All I can say is, when you pull the pin on a weight stack, _always_ check to see what's attached to the top pulley first. Ouch.

Strange Famous

I had an embarassing moment in a gym, about a year ago. I was using some of the resistance machines (you know, where you puch or pull and it is attached to a pulley that lifts the weights, rather than lifting actual dumbells) and as I was moving from one machine, this guy, who I had never met before, asks me to "spot him"

Now, I realise now this means you catch the bar if he cant lift it or something like that... but at the time I didnt know what it meant, so I assumed he was comming on to me. So I just stammered "Im sorry, Im not into that sort of thing" and hurried off.

In retrospect, he must have thought I was nuts!

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Ace_O_Spades

Probably was happy that he didn't have someone who didn't know how to spot spotting him.

But I bet there was a little "That guy is nuts" in there as well

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Sawfmonkey

I started my period while working out at the gym with my trainer. I freaked and was worried I wouldn't make it to the end of the session. He kept wondering what was wrong, but all I could do was say, "all of this is so hard and frustrating" when it really wasn't horrible at all. He knew I could handle it, and I was in a good mood when I got there, so he had to know something else was wrong. Thankfully I made it to the broom before anyone noticed.

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VitaminH

My worst was I was benching and had a friend "spotting" me (you'll understand why that is in quotes in about 2 seconds), well I wasn't quite ready yet and was pretty tired (starting the last set) and he turns his back and being the behemoth he was compared to my scrawny self lifted the bar thought I had it and let go.


I didn't have it.

Slipped out of my hands on slammed into my chest. I had a nice bar shaped bruise for about a week, luckily it didn't crack any ribs. I was not happy with him for turning around to talk to someone else when he was supposed to be spotting me.


He never spotted me again.

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cinnles

Oh man I've got all you guys beat.

One time I was on the running machine and had it set fairly high (like a fast jog), when my water bottle vibrated out from the holder and onto the tread belt thing in front of me.

So I bent down to pick it up. ops:

Bottom line is, my legs were taken out from under me, I did a faceplant onto the track, then was promptly flicked off into an exercise bike behind me.

It was like something out of looney toons.

So I got back up and kept running (of course) then the dude next to me said "err, are you okay? your cheek is cut open". I felt my cheek and thought "hmm, maybe I should stop now."

It's not the first time I've had to fill out a form for insurance purposes saying "the accident happened cause i did something stupid".

alec

man, i did the cartoon treadmill thing to

shit not only hurt my ego but my knees as well, as i went flying off an oversped treadmill....

Catdaddy33

I was at the gym yesterday, while we had strong winds and storms rolling thru, the lights flickered a couple of times and saw this guy running really fast on the treadmill down from me...then the power goes out...he slams into the front of the machine and doubles over in pain.. I asked him if he was ok, looked like only a bruised ego...

jRuntlets

I think my most embarrasing moment is when I was heading into the free weight room, and checking myself out in the mirrors. The average age of the guys in the room (about 20 guys) was about 25, quite a few were looking in my direction as I trip... recover... and try to play it cool. No one said anything, but I'll leave the checking me out to the guys now.

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analog

During the renovations they were doing on my gym towards the beginning of the year, which included stripping the pink and blue tiling around the entrances to the women and men's locker rooms, I had a very funny experience. The small "Men" and "Women" signs were still there, but the walls were bare white.

I walked into the men's locker room and walked back to the sauna. In the sauna, I saw a female reading a magazine. having been to this gym a long time, I knew I was not in the wrong room. So, I open the door and walk in. She didn't look up from the magazine at all, she had her nose practically buried in it. Once inside, I also noticed she was in the sauna topless. (Side note: she was gorgeous... probably 20 or so, incredible chest... just absolutely gorgeous...)

I was actually feeling weird about it, because I didn't want to scare her or freak her out. So, I sat down at the very end of the bench near the entrance. Two minutes go by, nothing. I'm not even looking at her, i'm just relaxing- yeah I know she's hot and topless, but i'm not a pervert and i have no issue with random nudity, it doesn't really phase me. She's reading, turning pages, not looking up. Finally, I absent-mindedly cough, and she looks up. You can't imagine the height of the pitch and volume her voice hit when she screamed, and it was only for about 2 seconds. She didn't move, didn't even cover up, just sat there shaking, freaked out. Then I realized she probably thinks I'M in HER sauna, and my intentions are likely not good. So I quickly piped up, "don't freak out, this is the men's sauna, not the women's... I'm just here to relax." Her expression changes to deep thought, and then she lets out the greatest laugh ever... it's one of those "OMG I just realized what a giant dumbass I am" laughs.

Long story short, we talked for a bit after introducing ourselves, and she never covered up until several minutes later when someone else came into the sauna. I think he thought we were doing something dirty, or about to, because he flashed a grin and left. We had a good laugh at that. I had a girlfriend at the time, so it didn't go anywhere, but I should have at least gotten her number... would be a great story of "how we met" to tell the friends and such if we ever hooked up in the future. lol

sailor

I've got a friend who was studying in London. First week there, he heads over to a gym to do his normal lifting routine. A hugely muscled guy offers to spot him, and asks him how much he wanted on the bar... "180" was his response. The guy looked at him funny, but put the plates on... Except that he forgot that they use kilograms, not pounds, and that 180 was really about 400 pounds. He said the noise of his breath bursting out of his lungs when the bar crashed onto his chest was louder than any noise he could have voluntarily made. He sent pictures to several of us of the huge red line across his chest he sported for several weeks. Luckily nothing really hurt though. Made for a funny story though... And he didn't ever go back to that gym

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Zeraph

Some funny stuff here.

I don't really have much of a good one as I don't go that often (prefer the outdoors) but one time my stepbrother and me were showering in the men's locker room. Completely naked. Well in walks this woman, she just looked at us, smiles and keeps walking right out. Wasn't really embarassing for either of us, but I'm sure that woman was!

Mister Coaster

#1. I was doing military press (overhead press??) with like nearly nothing on the bar, just the olympic bar and maybe 10 or 15 lbs on each side. (I'm big, but not much muscle tone at all) I was using free weights because the nice safety rack was occupied by these huge dudes doing power squats. Anyway, as I go to put the bar down, I miss the rack and like an idiot, I don't just drop the bar, I attempt to muscle it out and recover the bar. Well, I couldn't do it, dropped the bar anyway and managed to get a tear in my deltoid. All with what looked like nearly no weight at all on the damn bar. That was like 10 years ago, and whenever I work out alot, I'll notice my shoulder hurting again from that injury.

#2. I was doing seated calf raises [edit: they were standing calf raises] on my first time back to the gym after over a year off, and overdid it. I didn't know until the next morning when I woke up, and went to stand up. My calves felt like they exploded with the heat of 1000 suns and I crumbled to the ground. I was literally crawling around the house all day because I couldn't put any weight on my feet. Toward the afternoon I finally started to stretch out and was able to walk frankenstein style a bit. But as soon as I sat down, I'd tighten up again. Eventually in the evening I walked it out by walking about a mile and a half, but it was an incredibly painful experience. Luckily I didn't have school or work that day.

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BigBen

Can't.....Stop.....Laughing.

That is the funniest shit. Right there. This thread needs to be in Tilted Humour. I mean, who doesn't think that slap-stick is funny??!!

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Mordoc

Definitely not the worst here by far, but...

I was in my high school's weight room doing sets of bench with, I think, 115 on there. (I'm a distance runner, don't judge)

I had just done four sets of twenty, when my spot ecided he had something better to do, and switched off with one of the cheerleaders in the room. One of the really hot cheerleaders, I might add.

So, there I am, with a pitiful 115 pounds in my hand and a really pretty blond cheerleader spotting me, I hit seven reps, and can't quite pick it up again. It must have been hilarious to see this tiny little girl yelling "all you! all you!" and other words of encouragement as I struggle with the weight of a small puppy.

jbw97361

Not me... and i'm half gay.... dude whats wrong with you? :P

ANYWHO, I've seen that flying catapult of death trick with the bar a few times using only two weights. Needless to say, I am sufficiently paranoid during removing and adding weight to the bar. However, if its a machine where the bar is fixed to a rail, I revert to the one side at a time mentality.

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Stompy

Hahaha, I did that except... it was every muscle in my leg. It was my first time doin legs, so I did calves, hamstrings, and quads... I overdid it (in retrospect, I don't see how, I did 3-sets of 12 on each without much prob).

Yeah, I was pretty much paralyzed for 2 days.

I couldn't even get out of bed, that's how bad it was. It was excruciating goin to the bathroom. You ever try to sit on a HARD TOILET SEAT with sore hamstrings? Ugh. It just can't happen.

It was BAD. I had to call those days off from work and explain what happened, and it was my 2nd or 3rd day there (my boss is cool though and understood)

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Siege

Not so much embarassing, but humourous. For my friends anyway, those bastards.

The day before I went nuts on my abs workout. Loads and loads of crunches, weighted crunches, leg lifts, oblique work etc.

The next day, getting up was a struggle. I remember having to fall out of bed and slowly use my arms to pull myself up. My bastard friends decided that that day would be a good day to make me laugh. And let me tell you, it hurt like hell. Seriously. I was in so much pain. And they just kept making me laugh.

But worse than laughing, was sneezing. The sudden full on clenching of my abs at that point was torture. Good thing I didn't sneeze too much that day.

I think the whole ordeal lasted 2-3 days.

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SteveoTG

We've got this dude at NIU ho goes to the rec evey day...he's kinda dumpy lookin, and he goes on the eliptical machne and just goes nuts. he waves his ass all around when he does it and gets all uber sweaty and bounces all around....though i dont think he knows he has an epithet.