DO NOT do this in your gym...very painful.

[Jguns]

Last Monday I was doing compound sets of Incline Dumbbell presses and Incline flyes.

My training partner and I had a ton of dumbells on the floor all around the Incline bench because we work at different weights and we needed to switch quickly between the presses and flyes.
Anyway, I was pressing with 100 lb dumbbells and I brought them down very quickly to the floor after my last rep and SMASHED THE SHIT OUT OF MY FINGER between the dumbbell I was holding and one on the floor!
My finger went numb and black, and then it started gushing blood all over the place. I ran for some paper towels and other people were just staring at me with a look of horror on their faces! I couldn't stop the blood which was pooled on the floor and covering my whole hand, not to mention I couldn't move my finger. So I ended up going to the emergency room. I thought my finger was broken. Unbelievably, it turned out not to be broken, but I ended up with 8 stitches. it is now over a week later, and I just took the stitches out, but my finger is still purple, swolllen, and useless.
Funny when it happened, the first thing that ran through my mind was how this was going to affect my training!
Now, you can bet I am going to be VERY careful about where I put the dumbbells from now on! Hopefully, this doesn't happen to anyone else.

 

[South of the border]

That is a FREAKY accident.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[J21Allen]

I had a friend do the same exact thing but he wasnt as lucky, his finger got sliced in half right above the finger nail so now he looks like he has an alien finger..it was some gross shit.

 

[bambam]

fucking a that sucks sorry bro

 

[marx]

Shitty bro, hope it doesn't keep you down for too long...

 

[aaron10121]

oWWwWWWwwwWWWwwwWWWWww!!!!! just the thought of that makes me cringe. thats pretty nasty. just cut the finger off so u dont have to worry about it and then resume ur lifting..j/k. na hope it doesnt keep u out of ur training for too long!!!

~~aaron

 

[Victor]

this shit also happened to me one time bro , but I was lucky cause I was not using a heavy dumbell .....but anyway , it hurted as hell ....



Victor

 

[XXXL]

oh what runs through the minds of gear heads. . . how will this effect my training? ? ? LOL. that's some funny shit. you're prbly worried that all of your gear was ending up on the floor with all of your blood.

i can see your finger laying on the floor and someone bending over to pick it up to save it for reattachment and you telling him not to worry about it and to just save all the blood he can.

"SAVE THE BLOOD MAN! I HAVE OVER 1 GRAM OF TEST AND 6IUS OF GH FLOATING AROUND IN THERE"

 

[milkbone]

Yeah, I cut my finger once on the dumbell rack ... got in a hurry and slammed it down. I guess I was lucky considering the other replies. That shit hurts bad! Not to mention it screws up your training.

 

[LivinLarger]

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caught my thumbnail between the rack and a hundie once, it pretty much exploded, hurt like hell I almost passed out.
I feel your pain, it was months before things were back to normal, looked real nasty for a while.