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Amateur Bodybuilder 
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What's the most embarrassing thing you've done or seen at the gym? One time, I was bench pressing, and I had 5 extra pounds on one side and forgot to put the safety pins on. Of course, one side was higher than the other, and the plates ran right off. The left side went first, and it threw me to the left side. Then, the right side falls off and takes me to the floor with it. I just about ripped my arms out of their sockets. No wait, that's not the worse. I was in my high school gym once working out before football practice and was trying to max out with a guy that was bigger than me. I thought I could hang with him. Apparently, I couldn't. It was alot of weight and on the way down, the weight went a little higher than my chest and landed on the bridge of my nose. Here I am desperately trying to get it off. My spotter laughed so hard that it took him about 10 seconds to pull it off of me. Our training coach laughed his ass off. Boy, did it hurt. That definately sucked. hahaha ------------------    | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
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bump this up. Lay back and take a break from your research. I know some of you guys have seen some funny shit out there. ------------------ | ||
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Moderator 
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I enjoy looking at the fat powerlifters who wear tight sweats and walk around with a broomstick all day. H  | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
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Just the other day I saw something funny, but I really felt sorry for the girl that it happened to. A young girl, not in incredibly good or bad shape but very short, was at the power rack struggling to take the 45lb plates off the bar that someone had left on. I was in the middle of a set or I would've offered to help. I figured she was stripping the weight to do bare longbar curls or maybe lunges. Glad I didn't offer my help because she proceeded to put 2 25's, 2 10's and 2 5's on and squat that for 4 sets. Not terribly impressive for us, but this girl was so small that I was impressed that she was even attempting to squat at all. I got back to what I was doing when all of a sudden I hear all of these weights start crashing to the ground. I don't know what the heck she was doing as the bar was back on the hooks and she was to the side, so she didn't drop the bar. But there were 3 plates now on the ground that she was scrambling to gather while a bunch of people were staring at her. I really felt bad for her because she had just completed an exercise that probably 80% of the people in my gym don't do, and now she looked like a little weak girl because she dropped a few plates. [This message has been edited by somec- (edited February 09, 2001).] | ||
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Guru
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crash...GREAT pic!!! most embarassing...doing incline leg press with tight little shorts I had a basketball player come up and ask me if I put the hole in my shorts to enhance air circulation....he liked it...I turned red, and decided I had done enough leg pressing | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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I forgot that when you have more than 3 45-lb plates on each side of the bar, you're supposed to unload one plate from each side and not one whole side at a time. Can you say "catapult?" -Warik ------------------ BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!!! | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
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I've got a few more. I once saw a girl sit down on the upright seated leg curl and the seat collapsed and she went crashing to the floor. The machine was broken for the next few days, and I know she was feeling like a big fat-ass sitting on the floor with a broken seat. Just last night while stretching post-workout, some skinny foreign guy was standing in front of a mirror doing some sort of karate/ballet/fencing poses in front of the mirror. I was exhausted but had to watch in awe trying to figure out WTF he was trying to do. Last weekend, while doing dumbbell presses, some guy cleared a large space beside my bench and proceeded to grab 4 sets of DB's in varying weights. He then went through one of the oddest supersets I've ever seen. He would do speed reps, barely doing a full motion, of one arm lat raises, front raises, shrugs, and a few other moves, constantly swapping dumbbells and not stopping at all for probably 15 minutes. By the time he was done, he had probably 10 sets of dumbbells rolling around, ranging from 10lbs to 70lbs. He was grunting like a maniac, like he was going through the most grueling workout ever. It probably was grueling, too bad it also probably wasn't doing much to build muscle. Everyone in the room was just staring at him in amazement trying to figure out what he was trying to accomplish. Fortunately I've not seen anyone get pinned on a bench. That's probably one of the more humiliating things that can happen to someone. It happened a few times to me in my home gym when I was younger, which is probably the reason I stick to dumbbells when going very heavy on the bench with no spotter. [This message has been edited by somec- (edited February 09, 2001).] | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
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Just last night while stretching post-workout, some skinny foreign guy was standing in front of a mirror doing some sort of karate/ballet/fencing poses in front of the mirror. I was exhausted but had to watch in awe trying to figure out WTF he was trying to do. Sounds like he was probably doing Tai Chi (sp?)
Another time I was pretty beat and went over to a bench that converts to an inclie or can be flat - I tried to get it from being at 45 degrees to being at... well, flat down. I pulled out the pin and it wasn't going down and I was so beat that I couldn't budge it, then finally I leaned on it and the whole thing collapsed all at once. luckily I caught myself with my other hand so it just looked a little silly but nothing bad happened... although there were some hot trainers standing right there. And then that same type of bench caused probs for someone else while I was doing one arm bent over rows. the guy next to me, his bench just crashed (the latch wasn't set right) - he was doing incline presses wiht weight that was too much for him and relaly struggling - and it made it that much harder when the bench collapse and the weights just hit the floor takin ghis arms with them. Everybody looked and then looked away so that the guy wouldn't be embarassed - but I was thinking this guy could be really hurt. I asked him if he was okay and he acted like I was a real jerk for asking so I just shrugged it off and went back to lifting. Then yesterday I saw these two russian guys were there and following me around. I was so pissed off b/c I was trying to do supersets and they would ask me after every single half set I did if I was done yet with that machine. I would have been fine if they just did it at one station - but they did it to every single station. I thought I was on Candid Camera. ------------------ |
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posted February 09, 2001 01:01 AM
But on the positive note...every time I see him at the gym he always very friendly and smiley, and asks me if I want my shorts inspected 
