Embarrassing Moments at The Gym

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

I LOL’d hard

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[quote]optheta wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

I bet thats funny looking at it now lol[/quote]

haha yah it is, I have to just laugh and shake my head when I think about it now. For the record though, I moved away, came and visited 6 years later and randomly ended up hooking up with one of the cheer leaders who saw that lol

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[quote]RevRoss wrote:
In 15 years of lifting, I’ve had all sorts of mishaps in the gym, but I think the most embarrassing ever happened about a year ago. Some 20 year old kid wanted to try benchin 315 to impress some girls and asked me to give him a “healthy” spot (I think his max is probably more in the 235 range), and I really don’t think 315 is impressive, but that’s besides the point…

So I thought what the hell, why not help the brother out, after all they were fairly cute cardio bunnies… I was just finishing up some Power Cleans, so I was sweating like a faucet. Anyways, as I start curling the 315 off this guys chest for his 2nd “rep” I felt a drop of sweat start rolling from the top of my head, down my forehead, and watched in horror as it dropped perfectly off my nose and landed in this poor kid’s open mouth… as he got up to bitch about it, I calmly told him that maybe next time he should pick a weight that doesn’t require someone else to curl it off of him…

a few minutes later he came up to me and asked… “dude, I just need to know… did that sweat come off of your face or off of your balls…” to which I replied with a smile (trying to turn this embarrassing moment into something a bit more “badass”) …“I guess you’ll never know…”

and yes… the sweat did come from my head… lol[/quote]

Really, which one?

Well, i am not immune to training excitement. I did the loaded leg press thing in front of not only a packed gym, but the one girl i had a crush on in highschool and her mom.

I have dropped loaded barbells due to grip giving out. It gets real interesting when someone’s to close to you.

Back in highschool, we did box squats at slightly above parallel to get used to heavier weights. Being still somewhat uncordinated, and showing off, i squat down, and started coming back up, but the weight didn’t go up, only my hips i started to fold in half backwards, so i had to drop the barbell and it threw me forcefully foreward into the wall.

And many more to come.

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I high school we had one of those old narrow benches not the wide oly stlye, while unloading the bench my training partner snatches off the last 45 on his side and I hadn’t pulled the one off my side yet causing the bar to fly up and crack him in the chin and my side to almost take out my leg/foot. Damn near knocked him out, split his chin open pretty good.

The first public gym I ever went to was a Balley and at the time the guys there were monsters. I wanted to impress them so I could fit in so I loaded up 225lbs but failed to use collars. The bars I’d used in high school were all rusty and plates didn’t slide around here they were shiney and new (read~slick), I fired off 2-3 reps when one of the 45s slid off one side throwing me and the bar off the bench to the heavy side, once the heavy side was unloaded and I’m on the floor the other side became unbalance and pulled me half way back across the bench. Surprised I didn’t hurt myself or someone else, made a hell of loud noise, one of the bigger guys asked if I was ok then gave me an ear full about collars.

I walked into a mirror once, the wall was angled weird so it looked like the hall way was longer, walked face first into it.

Just yesterday I cranked a big fart while doing chest supported rows, the guy next to me gave me a funny look as I tried to pretend it didn’t happen.

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[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
I work out at home, so I don’t really get embarrassed by my stupidity. I’ve unloaded one side of the bar completely, causing the other end to come crashing down at like 2 AM (I live on the second floor in my apartment building). But speaking of school-gym experiences, like 6 years ago in high school, we were doing this assisted stretch routine, and as I was helping a kid stretch while pushing his leg back as he was laying down, his nuts just fall out of his shorts. Weirdest moment ever. I didn’t want him to know that I saw his nuts, so I just looked away. [/quote]

HAHAHA

This was hilarious man! I think i’d have a hard time not bursting out laughing. Definitely a funny visual.

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
For the record though, I moved away, came and visited 6 years later and randomly ended up hooking up with one of the cheer leaders who saw that lol[/quote]

epic win.

Well done friend.

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

LOL

way I still laugh my ass of at your squat story to from time to time…please refresh my fuzzy memory I have of it :slight_smile:

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Let’s see… I’ve cracked myself in the nose doing a jerk. Another time I was attempting a clean PR. Caught it at the bottom and then just fell over backwards and had the bar land on top of me. That one happened in front of a good 7 or 8 people, thoroughly embarrassing. One workout I started with weighted pullups. Somehow ended up with a humongous rip down the front right side of my shirt, like from the armpit almost down to the shirt tail, and got to finish the rest of my workout looking like a huge douche. Then just recently I was getting set up to bench. Instead of hooks on the benches at my university gym there are just pins with a very slight upward angle. I got a little too into working myself into a tight arch and somehow pulled the bar off of the pins. The weight narrowly missed my head as I fell off the bench.

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Just the other day I was doing some barbell lunges and pushed upward to hard and pushed myself backwards off the platform…nearly busted my ankle as I came off the edge and almost dropped the bar. 6 or 7 people were standing around, and I was very careful not to make eye contact.

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[quote]kheaslim wrote:

[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
I work out at home, so I don’t really get embarrassed by my stupidity. I’ve unloaded one side of the bar completely, causing the other end to come crashing down at like 2 AM (I live on the second floor in my apartment building). But speaking of school-gym experiences, like 6 years ago in high school, we were doing this assisted stretch routine, and as I was helping a kid stretch while pushing his leg back as he was laying down, his nuts just fall out of his shorts. Weirdest moment ever. I didn’t want him to know that I saw his nuts, so I just looked away. [/quote]

HAHAHA

This was hot man! I think i’d have a hard time not bursting. Definitely a sexy visual.[/quote]

Fixed?

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Once I was swimming in a new swim cap. I hopped out of the pool, went to the locker room, took off the cap, and came to nude, lying on a bench. I was alone. I guess the cap was a bit too tight.

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[quote]Carlitosway wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

LOL

way I still laugh my ass of at your squat story to from time to time…please refresh my fuzzy memory I have of it :slight_smile:
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haha, I’ll try and tell it as good as I did the first time

Let’s see…Junior year of HS this time. I’m in the schools weight room training legs. There’s like 2 guys in there and some girls from the softball/volleyball team in there working out. Well, I’m doing my set of 5 with 315 on squats and I notice I kind of have to take a shit but don’t really think anything of it. So I’m coming out of the hole on like the 3rd rep and straight up shart in my pants, you know a little juice/rosebud. It makes a really loud noise, I rerack the weight and turn around real slow… Everybody has stopped lifting and is looking at me, including the girls. I’m totally embarrassed and one of the guys says “Damn man, did you just rip your boxers?” I can’t believe my luck at this mistake and respond “Uh…yah man…” and waddle out, them none the wiser of the deuce I just dropped in my pants.

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

[quote]Carlitosway wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

LOL

way I still laugh my ass of at your squat story to from time to time…please refresh my fuzzy memory I have of it :slight_smile:
[/quote]

haha, I’ll try and tell it as good as I did the first time

Let’s see…Junior year of HS this time. I’m in the schools weight room training legs. There’s like 2 guys in there and some girls from the softball/volleyball team in there working out. Well, I’m doing my set of 5 with 315 on squats and I notice I kind of have to take a shit but don’t really think anything of it. So I’m coming out of the hole on like the 3rd rep and straight up shart in my pants, you know a little juice/rosebud. It makes a really loud noise, I rerack the weight and turn around real slow… Everybody has stopped lifting and is looking at me, including the girls. I’m totally embarrassed and one of the guys says “Damn man, did you just rip your boxers?” I can’t believe my luck at this mistake and respond “Uh…yah man…” and waddle out, them none the wiser of the deuce I just dropped in my pants.[/quote]

Hahahahaha. I can’t wait to write “To those few people who saw waylander ‘rip his pants’ while squatting his junior year of high school… he actually shit himself.” on your facebook wall.

You don’t know where I live, do you?

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Way wins

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[quote]LarryDavid wrote:

[quote]kheaslim wrote:

[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
I work out at home, so I don’t really get embarrassed by my stupidity. I’ve unloaded one side of the bar completely, causing the other end to come crashing down at like 2 AM (I live on the second floor in my apartment building). But speaking of school-gym experiences, like 6 years ago in high school, we were doing this assisted stretch routine, and as I was helping a kid stretch while pushing his leg back as he was laying down, his nuts just fall out of his shorts. Weirdest moment ever. I didn’t want him to know that I saw his nuts, so I just looked away. [/quote]

HAHAHA

This was hot man! I think i’d have a hard time not bursting. Definitely a sexy visual.[/quote]

Fixed?
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Thanks, brah!

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

[quote]Carlitosway wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

LOL

way I still laugh my ass of at your squat story to from time to time…please refresh my fuzzy memory I have of it :slight_smile:
[/quote]

haha, I’ll try and tell it as good as I did the first time

Let’s see…Junior year of HS this time. I’m in the schools weight room training legs. There’s like 2 guys in there and some girls from the softball/volleyball team in there working out. Well, I’m doing my set of 5 with 315 on squats and I notice I kind of have to take a shit but don’t really think anything of it. So I’m coming out of the hole on like the 3rd rep and straight up shart in my pants, you know a little juice/rosebud. It makes a really loud noise, I rerack the weight and turn around real slow… Everybody has stopped lifting and is looking at me, including the girls. I’m totally embarrassed and one of the guys says “Damn man, did you just rip your boxers?” I can’t believe my luck at this mistake and respond “Uh…yah man…” and waddle out, them none the wiser of the deuce I just dropped in my pants.[/quote]

Hahahahaha. I can’t wait to write “To those few people who saw waylander ‘rip his pants’ while squatting his junior year of high school… he actually shit himself.” on your facebook wall.

You don’t know where I live, do you?[/quote]

haha, don’t you do it fucker!

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I don’t have any of those moments, but some bench fails. But it’s ok. At some point you need to make a mistake.
A specialist of some area is the one who had made all possible mistakes in any sort of sport/activity.

p.s. Oh, yeah. And that t-bar rowing - who hasn’t done it? :slight_smile:

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

[quote]Carlitosway wrote:

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Freshman year in highschool when I had just started lifting, I’m in the HS gym with a few of my buddies and we are doing one of those bench press burnouts. So I have a 5, 10 and 25 lb plate on there in ascending order (opposite of normal). We would do 10 reps, then strip the 25, 10 more, strip the 10, etc etc all the way down to the bar. Well It’s my turn and once I get down to just doing the bar, I can barely press it at all, it’s going so fucking slow. Then out of no where the entire varsity cheerleading squad walks into the gym right in the middle of my final set with the 45 lb bar. My friend, being the asshole that he is, sees this and starts yelling “Come on man! Big max!” while I’m struggling with an unloaded barbell…all the cheer leaders see me and one of the girls looks over at my training partner all weird and says “Is that all he can do?”

I was so pissed/embarrassed.[/quote]

LOL

way I still laugh my ass of at your squat story to from time to time…please refresh my fuzzy memory I have of it :slight_smile:
[/quote]

haha, I’ll try and tell it as good as I did the first time

Let’s see…Junior year of HS this time. I’m in the schools weight room training legs. There’s like 2 guys in there and some girls from the softball/volleyball team in there working out. Well, I’m doing my set of 5 with 315 on squats and I notice I kind of have to take a shit but don’t really think anything of it. So I’m coming out of the hole on like the 3rd rep and straight up shart in my pants, you know a little juice/rosebud. It makes a really loud noise, I rerack the weight and turn around real slow… Everybody has stopped lifting and is looking at me, including the girls. I’m totally embarrassed and one of the guys says “Damn man, did you just rip your boxers?” I can’t believe my luck at this mistake and respond “Uh…yah man…” and waddle out, them none the wiser of the deuce I just dropped in my pants.[/quote]

Maybe he knew, and was just trying to help you save face.

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Once I was swimming in a new swim cap. I hopped out of the pool, went to the locker room, took off the cap, and came to nude, lying on a bench. I was alone. I guess the cap was a bit too tight.[/quote]

Sorry to be too dumb, but didn’t get it. Care to explain please?

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This isn’t a gym moment but it’s worth mentioning here…

I was at a track and field invitational throwing discus. It’s quite cold and rain/sleeting. My hands were numb from cold. Who knows why they didn’t cancel the thing… Ironically, the name of the invitational was “Arctic Blast”. Anyway, it’s my first throw. I step in to the circle, place the disc in my hand, and start the back-swing to begin my rotation. About 130 degrees through the first step, the disc just falls out of my hand and hits the very back of the net, meaning it traveled in the exact opposite direction as intended. The only reason I noticed was because I didn’t feel weight in my hand anymore, so after the first step, I stopped, looked at my hand, and saw that it was empty. I just kind of stood there for a few seconds, then looked at the back of the circle for my discus. I saw it laying there and looked up at the official and said, “Is that a foul?” She said yes…

My coach, parents, and a few teammates were watching and laughing hysterically.