LMAO there’s some funny shit in this thread. My most embarassing moment is kind of lame in comparison, descended too quickly on a squat and managed to shift my weight too far backwards throwing me off balance and collapsing the bar onto the pins making a huge noise and alerting everyone in the area that I had just failed hard.
I have cracked myself under the chin with the bar doing high pulls
My favorite stupid thing I have done so far is on the GHR.
Just finished the set, and was going to get off of it. Put most of my weight on the handles and started to take my legs out- well physics took over and I went tumbling over the front end landing on my head/neck and rolling over. I looked around, saw no one had seen it, and then started laughing my ass off. Probably the coolest thing I have ever done.
Hmmm, I’ve had a few.
I was once doing dips and somehow my left hand slipped off the bar. Smashed the left side of my face up pretty good. The worst part was that it was pretty close to a group of chicks so I tried to be as nonchalant as possible as I stumbled around trying to stay on my feet. Probably looked like that Afro Ninja guy.
I was doing squats in bathing trunks for some reason (think all my shorts were in the wash), and the seam ripped audibly as a 4 inch tear appeared. Two other guys saw it, and I said something along the lines of “thought that only happened in cartoons”. They just shook their heads. Douchebags.
Was doing some ridiculous Ian King bench program back in the day. Forget the exact protocol but it involved drop-sets until you couldn’t move. I got pinned under the bar and a 25 on each side. Seriously, I was absolutely helpless…no matter how much I arched my back I couldn’t move the bar off me. Adding insult to injury, a girl of about 21 years of age came to my rescue.
I was doing hang cleans to push press a few weeks back, and nailed my nose in the begining phase of the push, now granted I got a big nose, but I mean damn. That’s my .02
I was doing hang cleans and on about the 8th rep, the bar slipped/flew out of my hands (sweat) about 3/4 of the way up. I fell over on my back from the momentum while the bar went thudding to the ground. Everyone stops and sees me laying on the ground…they thought I was seriously injured…felt like a giant dick.
Elementary school gym class. A girl was holding my feet while doing situps and I ripped ass sooo bad I thought I sharted on her. I swear some of her hair even blew back in the onslaught of hot Chipotle burrito fueled gases.
Some time during the summer I was doing warm-up sets for squats when my shorts ripped open clean across my ass. The only other two guys in the gym couldn’t help but hear the tear and came close to pissing themselves laughing. (I didn’t think it was THAT funny but anyway…)
Benching a few weeks ago, I was going for a single set of a 5 rep PR. No spotter(I’m an idiot but I’ve since met a dude I trust to spot me) and on my 5th rep the bar just would not shift. There was another dude there who barely spoke a word of english who fuckin’ watched me roll(yes, I said roll) the bar down my torso onto my legs to a point where I could grip it deadlift style and stand up.
Made me look like a real man in front of the cardio bunny’s…
After having an awesome set and being in ‘the zone’ I frequently trip over things and walk into weight racks. I’ve cracked myself in the chin a few times doing military press.
At the end of a delt workout I like to do wide grip upright rows. When i have to put the bar back on the tall end of the rack(since people never have the weights in order and sometimes the heavier barbells will be on top with the lighter ones on bottom biggest pain in the ass ever) after my last set and I’m so dead that I can’t get it up without having to balance the weight on my knee and hump it up.
When I’m trying to move up in weight on an exercise and i can’t get more than a few reps and im training with someone i haven’t in awhile it’s a bit embarrassing. They always call me out on trying to step up an impress them.
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…and I’m so dead that I can’t get it up without having to balance the weight on my knee and hump it up.
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We still talking about lifting?
Some funny stuff here.
I’m sure I’m far from the only person to do this, but my most embarrassing moment was when I was benching alone. I felt good and really wanted to get a rep PR, which with that certain weight would have been 7 reps.
I got to 6 and felt ok, went down and it just completely stuck on my chest. Fortunately (and extremely embarrassingly) there were a couple of guys behind me who helped me rack the weight.
Never benched heavy without a spotter since.
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[quote]Zackgsc wrote:
…and I’m so dead that I can’t get it up without having to balance the weight on my knee and hump it up.
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We still talking about lifting?
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you’ve never had sex with a girl while doing barbell upright rows? man you need to get out more.
obligatory fart while squatting incident
obligatory shorts tear open squatting incident
Also, some of the cable tricep extension bars at my gym are heavy enough to offset the weight on the stack when you pull the pin out. Dropped right on top of my head and it hurt like a BITCH
Pinned myself on a bench on several occasions and failed a decent number of squats at the uni gym. Pretty much every time managed to get the bar off and racked without too much fuss but always draw a few funny looks. I’ve managed to fall over backwards at the bottom of a Zercher squat with the bar balanced on my knees, whilst the majority of the uni kickboxing soc were at my place for some training.
Managed to get up and passed it off without much ceremony as I was the only guy there who really lifts (barring one of my training partners) and so had an ‘impressive’ amount of weight on the bar.
Managed to injure my back doing some cleans, didn’t pull the bar high enough so tried to get it up continental style. It worked, but I had leaned way over backwards and just toppled dramatically to the ground, bouncing the bar off my thighs. Luckily this was at home were only a couple of guys were training with me to see. Managed to finish the session but my ego took a bruising.
Probably done more stupid stuff, but that’s all I can remember off the top of my head.
ripped ass while pulling 500 sumo style.
got the lift though, so it was worth it.
Tried to go balls out max reps on the bench once and pinned myself under the bar. Thankfully someone was there to upright row it for me…
Funny thing, I was doing my shift at the gym yesterday and one guy about 6’0 130lb guy was doing 115 on the bench when he got pinned. I had to rush over to save his life. lmao.
He handled it better than me though. He said thanks and did another set. When it happened to me, I dont think I even unloaded the plates. I just walked away in complete humiliation.
a friend of mine ripped his shorts while squatting to expose his pink boxers with hearts and cupids all over them that his gf got him for valentines day. needless to say he was ridiculed mercilessly for months afterward.
farting at the midpoint of a squat/dl isnt embarassing, its an efficient way of using propulsion to lock the weight out. i have farted (and many times sharted) plenty of times while squatting. this is the reason why the radio was invented to drone out the sounds of people shitting themselves in the pursuit of pr’s.
I once shit myself during deadlifts after drinking NO Explode.
This didn’t happen to me, but happened right next to me last week.
I was on a platform doing deads and this old man was also deadlifting on the platform next to me. He is probably close to 70 and I see him at the gym almost every time I go. He was pulling what seemed to be a heavy weight for him and added a couple of 2.5s so he may have been going for a PR (somewhere around 200).
Anyways I’m pretty sure he made the lift, but I swear he shit his fucking pants while doing it. I had to get away and go to a water fountain, because half of the gym smelled like a dirty diaper. Shortly after the lift the guy ran to bathroom. Needless to say I think he was embarrassed.
[quote]Zackgsc wrote:
After having an awesome set and being in ‘the zone’ I frequently trip over things and walk into weight racks. [/quote]
This happens to me all the time. Am a clumsy fuck.
Farting and squatting go hand in hand. On squat day I always prepare a hefty plate of waffles and canadian bacon. So when I get to the gym I fart my ass off.