I’m new to post on this site, so what’s a better way to break the ice than share one of my ridiculous gym moments. I was looking into conditioning circuits and stumbled upon the Bear Complex. It’s bascically a full clean and jerk, then lower the bar behind the head, do a full back squat to a behind the neck press, and down to the floor again.
This is done in decending sets starting with 8,7,6,5,etc. Unsure of how taxing this would be, I put 95#, using bumber plates, on the bar. After an easy first set, I started gettting a little cocky and releasing the bar at the top of the first press to widen my grip for the back squat/press behind the neck.
Bad idea. After about 5 reps I released unevenly and the bar went cock-eyed in the air and came crashing down on top me, hitting me in the head, and knocking me to the ground. There were about 10 people in the gym and no one said a word; they just kinda stared and past judgment.
I was doing a giant drop set on squats. I started off with 405 and worked all the way down the bar, by the time I got to just the bar the burning in my legs was terrible and each rep took several seconds to get up. Just as I was pushing with everything I had to finish my last 45lb squat a group of girls showed up and started laughing at the fat guy who could barely squat the bar…
[quote]Loftearmen wrote:
I was doing a giant drop set on squats. I started off with 405 and worked all the way down the bar, by the time I got to just the bar the burning in my legs was terrible and each rep took several seconds to get up. Just as I was pushing with everything I had to finish my last 45lb squat a group of girls showed up and started laughing at the fat guy who could barely squat the bar…[/quote]
[quote]Loftearmen wrote:
I was doing a giant drop set on squats. I started off with 405 and worked all the way down the bar, by the time I got to just the bar the burning in my legs was terrible and each rep took several seconds to get up. Just as I was pushing with everything I had to finish my last 45lb squat a group of girls showed up and started laughing at the fat guy who could barely squat the bar…[/quote]
I blakced out getting ready to over head press. I took a big deep breath, got the weight into a racked position ready to press. started to get a little bit light headed and the next thing I know I’m on the ground " dude are you ok! "
[quote]orourkei wrote:
I blakced out getting ready to over head press. I took a big deep breath, got the weight into a racked position ready to press. started to get a little bit light headed and the next thing I know I’m on the ground " dude are you ok! " [/quote]
A few months ago at a Gold’s in DC I walked in to squat, silently passing judgment on everyone not going to proper depth. I work up to what’s supposed to be a heavy double. When I drop down on the second rep, I can’t get back up. It occurs to me a second later that I’m falling backwards, very slowly. There’s a moment during the fall when I have time to pray that nobody is recording this, and then I hit the floor.
All the quarter-squatters rush over to tell me what I was doing wrong. Icing.
While doing heavy squats I let go about a five second fart. It was really loud. Normally I would not care, but on this day this totally hot woman was working out on a machine behind me. She made a motion like she wanted to puke, and walked off.
Let me set the scene - youvve just entered the gym, about to go for a PB in your squat, you realise “man i could probably do with a shit right about now” - but not wanting to leave the “zone” you risk it
you get a new pb of 120kg and escape unscathed (although there were a few worrying moments)
the session then finishes with some ab work, hanging leg raises, on the 3rd set i get that oh no i may shit myself feeling, but continue with the set regardless, resulting in an epic case of sharting and waddling out of the gym!
also waaay to many times to count - forgetting to take weight from both sides after a max effort lift - which results in the next set looking like your fuckin quasemodo with 1 side awkwardly being dragged down by the extra weight
just remembered, although its not so much as an embaressment for me, although, the person not understanding the stupidity of what they had just told me was actually embaressing.
Guy bench pressing 90kg, the bar (20kg), and then 70kg of weights
sounds like a familiar story…
however. i look over and he has 45kg on 1 side and 25kg on the other side.
obviously i notice his mistake (being one ive made many times myself) and point out to him that he has a different amount of weight on each side
to which he replies “yeah i no man, its to make my bowling arm stronger”
[quote]Loftearmen wrote:
I was doing a giant drop set on squats. I started off with 405 and worked all the way down the bar, by the time I got to just the bar the burning in my legs was terrible and each rep took several seconds to get up. Just as I was pushing with everything I had to finish my last 45lb squat a group of girls showed up and started laughing at the fat guy who could barely squat the bar…[/quote]
Did a sup-max walk out with a Safety Bar. The yoke cuts off blood supply to my brain. I manage to rack it before loosing consciousness, falling backwards like a cut tree (TIMBER!) hitting my head on the floor and sustaining a concussion.
I bitch and moan about it on facebook. A girl I’d been seeing says she wants to come over to check on me (you’re not supposed to sleep alone after a concussion). We’ve been together 7 months now
Doing pendlay rows and let out three consecutive farts.
Not related to my weight training, but when I was working as a mover I had a job moving this guy’s apartment. He had one of those super cheap rinky dink POS benches with a real narrow rack in his bedroom. Only had like 45lbs on each side, so I went over and unloaded one side figuring it wouldn’t flip. It flipped, gashed his wall, and landed on a bag with a plastic tool case in it, cracking the case.
So I was doin some presses in the squat rack in my gym which has 5 of them. Anyways its really busy but theres still an open rack so i take my time warming up and get my sets and reps in. Well a guy next to me is squating and works up to 315 with ok form but noting even coming close to hitting proper depth. Anyways he finishes and leaves all the weight on the bar.
So next guy comes to the rack, starts taking off the weight im not really paying attention to him until he takes the last 45 plate off of one end and the bar comes flying off and shatters the entire mirror on the other side. Best part is , the guy looks around and the sprints out of the gym like a bat out of hell. I was dieing laughing fucking hilarious except now they closed off a squat rack cuz of a broken mirror.
I was doing pullups, decided to hang upside down for a second and my shirt hooked around my shoulders in a wierd way that made me need to pretty much drop from the bar.
