Embarrassing Moments at The Gym

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hitting myself in the neck while doing power cleans.

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video evidence: +1

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[quote]101airborne wrote:
I once shit myself during deadlifts after drinking NO Explode. [/quote]

Ha, I see what you did there…

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I’ve failed several times on bench and squat. As far as I’m concerned it’s just part of life. Half the time I get the lift on the second or third try anyway.

Embarrassing: now, bashing your nose on push presses is embarrassing. Wetting your pants on squats is embarrassing. Lifting with an SO, and doing poorly – more embarrassing than either.

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:

That was fucking awesome.

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[quote]Anonymity wrote:
video evidence: +1[/quote]

X2 I can’t believe you didn’t swear more PMPM!!

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http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/7/e/7e80c_ORIG-91455w.jpg

OK here’s four.

  1. I was trying to do GHR on the seated calf machine, as the picture shows. Some dude on these forums mentioned that it was a good way do GHRs so I was trying them out for the first time. So I’m all set up and go down to where my body is parallel to the floor and forcefully contract my hams to get up. Of course, there is no weight on the other side and I’m 230 lbs, so the side of the machine on the opposite side of me jumps off the floor and comes on top of me as I slam into the ground.

  2. Back in my Oly lifting days, I was trying to snatch 225 lbs for the first time. I was all set up, and a bunch of the people in the gym was watching me about to attempt this, as was my coach and teammates. I pull way too early on the second pull and as I drop under it, I lost control of the bar and it swipes my whole back as I kind of dove forward. Ouch.

  3. This was in my first competition in Oly lifting. I was in front a good amount of people, I was the biggest on my team, and a lot of people were interested to see me lift since I was representing the Army team. Anyways, my first attempt is a easy snatch for me, or should have been. I was nervous as fuck, so I snatch it, pull way too early, and the bar is in front of me as I am dropping under it. To compensate I start naturally running forward on the platform trying to stabilize the bar overhead, bent elbows and everything, and before killing the front judge (he jumped out of his chair thinking he was about to get hit with 195 lbs) I had to drop it behind me. I looked at my coach and he just laughed and shook his head.

  4. I was power cleaning from the floor in my current gym, no bumpers, thick bar and no chalk. I have about 185 pounds or so (this was a long time ago), and right before the bar gets to my hips I just lose the grip and it goes about 3 feet in front of me (and really high), making a huge noise during the busy part of the gym. A bunch of people just stared at me and I let out a big “Woops”.

And LOL at PMPM, sucks for you! That dude in the corner… hahahhaa. (Oh and nice smile/laugh at the end, that’s exactly what I do cuz fuggit)

More to come as I think of em.

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DUDE! PMPM IS HAWT!

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:

That was great, PMPM! Looking at the bright side, at least you definitely had your weight back on your heels.

Okay, here are mine:

  1. I had the same thing happen to me (falling backward on my ass) during my first attempt to do an overhead squat. Even worse, there was a weight tree right behind me.

  2. Smacked myself right under the chin on a high pull.

  3. While already drawing attention to myself simply by doing barbell hack squats (apparently no one had seen those before) I got a sudden twinge in my back and dropped the loaded bar. (No platform or bumper plates.)

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When I was 14 (5’4, 132 lbs), one of the seniors in the lifting class put 140 on the bench and told me to lift it.
“it’s not that heavy. You got this.”

So I get under the bar and it immediately drops to my chest, and I can’t get it off. Instead of helping me, he starts cracking up, and everybody in the weight room turns to me and starts laughing. This goes on for another 30 seconds or so before he finally decides to pull it off my chest.

I got my vengeance though. I broke his squat record for my weight class. 205 for 3 at 132lbs.

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Squat day gone bad.

Ripped my pants in the hole during rep 1 with 425 a few months ago. It’s all good though because I got reps 2 and 3.

And luckily I had my compression shorts on in addition to the boxer briefs. Now I wear shorts and the compression briefs or regular briefs.

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[quote]Chiron01 wrote:
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]

hahahahaha LMAO…I have to say, of all the posts in this thread this one actually made me laugh out loud…I think it has something to do with the details, allowing for a good visual/sense of smell. ahhh good stuff.

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
315 DL - YouTube [/quote]

We should hang out sometime.

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i spit a big gob of slimey goo in a girl’s hair who walked in front of me while squatting, i was coming out of the hole and let out a moan and gooooooooooo. it stuck in her hair as she walked on by gabbing w/ her friend. it was an accident but i left it alone, no need to say anything right?

sorry strange girl i spit in your hair, maybe next time don’t walk in front of someone while they squat.

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This is more of an inexperience thing as when I first encounteded an Olympic bar,about 17 years-old, I’d get my also-clueless buddy to hold the other end when I put even one 45 on a side…I really thought it was going to tip over. It was about a month until a senior gym member told me with a chuckle that it likely wouldn’t tip over till there was over 100 on one side.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
This is more of an inexperience thing as when I first encounteded an Olympic bar,about 17 years-old, I’d get my also-clueless buddy to hold the other end when I put even one 45 on a side…I really thought it was going to tip over. It was about a month until a senior gym member told me with a chuckle that it likely wouldn’t tip over till there was over 100 on one side.[/quote]

Better than the possible alternative of flying halfloaded barbell.

I fell off a treadmill once… these two girls were standing right behind me, i got a little distracted and i was sure one of them was saying something to me, went down like a sack of shit and got launched off the end into them.

Bahhh.

G

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:

I completely forgot about this, you so had that.

Embarrassing list:

  1. Ripping ass in a girls face (see page 2 of thread).

  2. Took 3 scoops of NO Xplode, proceeded to load a bb for deadlifts, then ran out of the gym as fast as humanly possible to the car, then drove home about 120mph. People were freaking the fuck out, and I got flack from the front desk for like a month, but I was about to Xplode out my ass.

  3. A friend’s training partner puts a 25 plate on a bb, then puts 3 plates on the other end sending the 25 whipping about 30 feet across the gym nearly killing 2 people.

  4. more to come

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Doing squat maxes in high school I put the belt on so tight that it tore in half when i was digging the squat out. fucking leather hick ass cow hide belt

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
315 DL - YouTube [/quote]

I like how you shut the camera off instead of finding your glasses.