Your funniest training accident/injury

[revexrevex]

The pictures which you recently took, you snatched 185 pounds. How did you put it down? Just dropped it on the floor?.. because they were regular iron plates.. I can't imagine another way to put it down, you can't just bring it down back to your chest like after a jerk, it would kill your rotators.

 

[revexrevex]

By the way, those forearm and wrist injuries are a killer. I remmember doing military presses without the clips, and one of the plates began to slide. Obviously i tried to compensate, but some idiot decided to come up from behind and slide it back. I lost all stability in my forearms, and it tweaked my wrist hard. Still can't bend it to 90 degrees. I can only imagine what 365 lbs will do to your joints..

 

[IronLion]

with that weight i can just bring it down, but I would not advise this. I learned to olympic lift with a great coach in a weight room with ten olympic platforms with a full set of bumper plates at each. I spent three years there. I took those pics after I did some bicep tendon prehab at a fitness type gym that does not have bumpers, if you don't have bumpers, or at least enough matts and room then forget olympic lifting, it can't be done effectively and safely.

 

[inferno111]

Injuries, oh how I love them:

1. In high school I ripped my right shoulder out of socket while power cleaning. Not very funny except it made a really neat noise and I screamed like a five year old girl. (no offense to any five year old girls)

2. Training early morning I wasn't paying attention and gave myself a black eye with a pulldown bar that was hanging near my head. I didn't that was funny, but it woke up afterwards.

3. Vomitting. I don't normally puke too often, but I'm sure it is funny as hell when I do. Last time there was an older gentleman that looked like he was going to drop a brick in his pants when I ran to the trash can and nonchalantly let it fly and then added more weight to the bar and did eight more reps. He went to the other side of the gym like I was going to hit him with projectile puke (probably would have been funnier if I did).

 

[IronLion]

vomit is the single funniest thing that happens in the weight room...well when its your training partner and you are responsible, kinda like a reward for a job well done

 

[blinddeafmute]

Smoked my head on the end of the bar on a smith machine a couple of weeks ago. Gym was pretty full at the time too.

Dropped the bar doing wrist curls last night. Made a nice racket.

 

[Ripe1]

Well, it was my first (and last) time doing lunges. I went down and suddenly felt this pain in my chest. Didn´t think much of it and continued with the weights. Next day waking up I barely got out of the bed. Went to the health center and the diagnosis: a broken rib! I'm still trying to figure out how in the hell is it possible to break a rib doing lunges.

 

[argent]

Me:

Dumped a barbell to uneven loading. That only happens once to everyone.

Chipped a tooth doing upright rows. I always heard these are dangerous.

Been hit in the head with various pulldown attachments.


I saw a guy drop 455 on his feet while doing stiff-legged deads on one of those elevated deadlift pads.

 

[Scotsman]

Another good one at the gym I worked at. I saw these two guys doing bench. They obviously didn't know what they were doing. When the guy benching lost the weight the spotter grabbed it. But he had his feet way behind him and he and the bar came crashing down on the bencher. The spotter did a complete flip over the poor guy and landed on his head in the floor next to the bench. I was laughing too hard to go and help them luckily no one got hurt, though I never did see them in the gym again.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Backlash]

Not an accident (thank god it owuld have been ugly), but one time in college I went to the gym and the hottest chick I've ever seen in my life was there. I got some major wood and it was pretty obvious since I was wearing boxers and umbros. It wouldn't go away, so I just had to leave (trying to kind of hide it with my shirt) and "exorcise the demons" .