Pride...bruised.

[Banzai_Joe]

.....trying to motivate me with 'come on buddy, you can make it to 8', whilst i was thinking '**** off, can't you see i struggled to lift the ****er off the rack in the 1st place'.

Lol, this may possibly be the nearest us men will come to the 'woman giving birth and screaming blue murder at the father-to-be for ever coming near her in the 1st place' scenario.

 

[TheBrooder]

Just made an absolute tit of myself tonight. My normal chest routine is 3x8 on the free-weight bench press then followed up to failure with about 5x8 on the Smiths, at least on the Smiths I can snap back in on failure and slide out from underneath.

The smiths was out of action tonight awaiting repair, so being an idiot I did 3x8 on the bench, did a some DB presses and a few shoulder exercises and thought I'd hit the bench again as I didnt feel 'complete'. 4th set...3rd rep..bang my arms just turned to jelly. 80Kg fell on to my chin and onto my chest. I was rolling around like a beached whale. Luckily a fellow gym goer rescued me.

My pride is so bruised In my gym, all of the weights are at the front of the gym underneath the suspended TVs, were rows and rows of cross trainers and treadmills overlook (read as, rows and rows of women). Peak time, 5.30pm. What makes it worse is that it looked like my 1st set....

For some reason I felt the need to tell the internet of my epic fail

Ego, it's a serious business!

 

[Vegeta]

Has happened to us all mate.

 

[Gaygle]

Don't worry, it happens

I've pretty much been flung off a treadmill whilst trying to sneak a look at a hot girl on the treadmill next to me...

 

[BennyC]

Watching people battle with assisted dips/pull ups platforms is quite funny when they try and release a 70KG stack slowly with just one leg. BOOOOOM.

 

[Disco Boy]

Do the benches in your gyms not have an adjustable safety bar thing on each side which you can set to just above your chest? I always train with a mate so we don't use it, but if I was on my own I'd set it.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Do the benches in your gyms not have an adjustable safety bar thing on each side which you can set to just above your chest? I always train with a mate so we don't use it, but if I was on my own I'd set it.

An awful lot of benches don't have that, in my current gym for instance there are three places to do bench press (excluding the Smith Machine) and only one of them has safety bars you could use.

Thankfully I haven't had anything like that happen to me yet although a couple of times my left shoulder has just clicked out when I'm dumbbell pressing and the weight just drops, I haven't properly hurt myself but I'm sure it is only a matter of time before it lands on my head and that will be embarrassing.

 

[Freefaller]

Wait till I devise a new program for you!

 

[Banzai_Joe]

oooh....just remembered my old training partner chopped the end of his little finger off on the leg extension.
We'd just finished training and i went downstairs. He was then giving personal training (spot the irony here) to an older guy, and as he did his last rep on the leg extension he started to get off the machine before the bar had stopped moving. It squished his little finger and ripped the end off.
Someone comes legging it downstairs and said "quick, get and ambulance he's ripped his finger off!" for some reason i immediately thought "i bet thats Jon"........it was. I went upstairs to see a big long spray of blood on the white wall where the leg extension is.
Someone carried his finger tip down in a (no word of a lie) filthy and smelly hand towel.
Needless to say his finger tip couldn't be saved, and his classical guitar playing was never quite the same (seriously).
That was over 10 years ago...but there's statute of limitation of stupidity i guess.

 

[collisster]

It's ground floor concrete and solid, so worries there!

Ohh yeah, I've fallen off a rowing machine! Now that IS embarassing!!

killer isn't it

 

[DanMc07]

I almost spat my drink all over my laptop at some of these stories .

 

[Freefaller]

killer isn't it

Yeah, especially if you get a "life and separate" or just a general "bi-directional" movement of certain precious parts of the body.

 

[.Lethal]

Ohh yeah, I've fallen off a rowing machine! Now that IS embarassing!!

How the heck did you manage to do that

I would have possibly been on the floor laughing

 

[collisster]

^ well this is how i did it

I fell off a rowing machine once. so embarrasing, I was trying to really give it some with the legs took off arse landed on the I beam and I fell over to the side with my feet still attached

 

[zain]

When I see this happen I think If you were doing it to show off serves you right, if you were genuinly in the mind frame of being ready then simply move on and learn.

I've fail repped before and theres no shame, everybody does including the big strong body builders.

The funniest thing I saw was a guy psyching himself up with some 45kgs f/w bench and broke wind just as he laid back lol.

Fail reps are depressing but you come back and try again!