OK - 1) Back in the early 80’s while training with the football team a player was stripping the squat bar faster than the player on the other side was and it catapulted right into his head leaving a huge gash. 2) Another time in a gym I witnessed a fellow racking the bar from a heavy squat and he used an extremely wide grip - well upon reaching the “hooks” his little pinky was snipped off and shot across the floor. and 3) This guy was working out with an enormous amount of weight(the stack + 100 lb plate)on an old Nautilus leg press and it was well after closing time so the manager was telling him in the middle of his set he had to cease and leave. Needless to say the guy went into a rage and once off the machine preceded to remove his belt and chase the manager all over the gym smacking him all over with the belt. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
My roommate from college is an amateur powerlifter in the Northeast and at a meet once some really wacky shit happened. This guy who was in the competition who had a rep for being a big time Suspension user shot a few 100 mgs before the show. During the Squat portion of the event he got under like 800lbs. hew unracked and went down fine but then on the way back up he got stuck, turned bright red, screamed and yelled to try to get the wait up and he managed to get another couple of inches and while the spotters jumped in, he blew the fucking vein in his neck right out of the side of his head; he collapsed on the floor and bled to death waiting for the ambulence to show up. My roommate said it was the most disgusting thing he had ever witnessed; there was blood everywhere, the gym had to close down for a couple of weeks, crazy shit.
Geez, Mitch! Are you making that up? I used to laugh at SNL skits about guys on steroids ripping their arms off while trying to deadlift an ungodly weight, but this is even more unbelievable. It makes me afraid to squat again!
PAIN- BABY -PAIN–I was once workingout with a very well known powerlifter who was doing squats. He was getting ready for a meet, and this person is picky! If he didn;t feel right at the beginning of the lift(negative), he would simply drop it wait awhile and set up again. Over and over. He went from 600-850 lbs in about 6-8 sets using CAT training ( by the way, he invented it). Well on one of his last sets he shook a little(didn’t quite feel right) and I knew he would drop it---- well Mr.Personal Trainer ran over to spot him??? he dropped 850 lbs just above the knees of “WonderBoy” and amputated both legs!! Man what a sight! Oh this powerlifter squatted over 1000lbs in competition–AWESOME!------Oh yeah, anyone want to spot me from behind while I’m squatting???
Weird? Most painful? Been a victim of? Happened to me yesterday morning. Some nitwit using my squat box to reach the pull-up bar, which was one foot above his head with both of his feet on the ground. He then proceeded to do 10 reps with 50 lbs on a weight belt, being assisted with every rep by his partner.
Was only person in the gym doing dumbell benchs when in walked a very nice looking woman in little spandex. I was just finnishing the set when she leaned over streching 20 feet infront of me. Next thing I knew I had a 70 lbs dumbell crashing into my chest and had to watch her laughing. It was time to go home.
WOW. I need some boots. The bs is getting awfully thick on this post.
Actually, a funny thing happened at my gym today. I was warming up before I started my workout and all of the sudden I hear this loud thud. I looked over and some kid had just ate it on another treadmill. His knees were dragging while he held on for dear life. It was some funny shit.
This isn’t for just shits and giggles, it really happened.Weird yah…I was a junior in highschool and got to join the conditioning claas. Of course it had all the senior football, wrestlers, etc in it. These guys were animals and they liked underclassmen to f’ with. I was getting a spot from one of them animals while attempting a heavy bench set. He helped get the bar up and ready. When I got it down to my chest dude is standing over me with his shit(sack and all)out above me. What an ass! Yah I was stuck with this bar not able to move it…Helpless. These guys were pretty crazy. It was always funnier when they did it to someone else!!!
BS??? I think not. There are just that many ignorant people out in the world. I think all posters would strongly agree with me.
I grew up in South Carolina where every year they hold a state strength meet in the deadlift, squat,bench,forty and vertical jump for high school athletes. The competition was divided by weight class and according to a story told to me by an upperclassman, he witnessed the following:
Apparently a fellow had resorted to taking laxatives to get in to a lower weight bracket in the days leading up to the competition. Well on the day of the meet, all geared up and wearing his power suit, this guy goes for it on the squat and coming out of the bottom of the lift, you guessed it, he shits himself. Everybody hears it but because of the tight power suit it took a while to start running down his legs as it was mostly liquified. How’d you like to spot that guy?
Well about two monthes ago I was doing rack pulls. I got up to about 600lbs and was using straps for my grip. Well on the 2nd rep my strap on my left arm broke. I torqued my back all up and took some time off from lifting. I now decided to just work my grip alot more and stop relying so much on equipment.
I have two stories to tell. One of them just recently happened to me. I was finishing a set of flys when I let the weights down and didn’t check to see that the area was clear. I smashed my finger between two dumbells, ripping off the nail from the matrix exposing it to the bone and fracturing my finger. They had to sew my nail back on and connect it to the bone. I was training with any machine I could still use 3 days later with a bunch of vicadin. Second story this big huge fat lady like 400lbs was on the treadmill she fell off and fell threw a wall and got stuck the fireman had to come and get her out of the hole.
Ace and Tapper, when I read your posts, I died laughing! That is some of the funniest shit I have ever heard!
I guess one of the most painful things to happen to me in the gym was when I was putting weight on the seated calf machine. I was in front of it, and the damn thing slipped and came down on my foot! I’m glad I had my shoes on that day, otherwise the weight would have cut my freakin’ toes off.
Funny stories outside the gym? Well, this past weekend I was mountain biking and decided to take a jump off some logs. Instead of pulling my front wheel up, I went straight down, got thrown off the bike and landed on my head and shoulder. Luckily, I didn't break my neck. But I did separate my shoulder. But I laughed my ass off a couple of minutes later. My friend got a good laugh too. If only we had it on video.
Another story from a few years ago. I was trimming my pubic hair with some small scissors. And I got a little to snip happy and cut a gash right on the side of my penis! To make it worse, I cut a big blue vein that ran along the side of my penis. That sucker bled for a while. And I didn’t get an erection for a freakin’ weak until that sucker healed up! Now I stick to my electric trimmer with a guard when I trim my pubes!
These stories are funny, but some make me cringe. I just have a weird story. I witnessed a tall guy squat 405 for 6 reps. No big deal right? Well, he had his hands on his hips the whole time. I stood way back to witness this numbskull. It’s amazing the bar didn’t role down his back. Where he learned this technique, I’ll never know.
Not too weird. Not too painful. Just kinda funny.
When I was a teenager I arrived at a friend’s house to find him washing blood off his face in the bathroom. Appearantly while doing some heavy benching on his home gym his dog had wondered into the room and stuck his cold, wet nose into the guy’s armpit causing him to bounce the bar off his lip. He spent the rest of the day trying to catch the dog (to beat him).
I saw a man drop an 85-pound dumbbell on his fingers and sever two of them while performing dumbbell pullovers. I was training with him and my employer at the time. There was so much blood, and he was such a nice guy. The fingers were reattached and he has 70 % use of them.
SOme lazy ass left 2 45lb plates on each side
of an olympic bar in a squat rack. Some middle
aged woman came along, wanting to do squats
with only the bar. (Now, keep in mind that
this particular squat rack was not designed
well.) This woman, apparently not having a
grasp of basic physics, took both plates off
one side only first, thus causing the weighted
end to crash to the ground, and flinging the
unweighted end of the bar against the mirrored
wall behind the squat rack. Smashed the mirror
and glass came pouring down all around her.
Fortunatly for her, she wasn’t injured. But
it totally screwed up my leg workout for that
day. (Betcha she doesn’t do that again. 
The gym owner had to replace about a 12’
section of mirror behind the 2 squat racks.
Not in person, but a guy was squatting 1500 and yelled for help, then whatever your shin bone is snapped on both legs.
Approached the dumbbell rack, reached for a pair of 45s. Some geek jumped up off a nearby bench and said “Excuse me, I’m using those”. I replied “What the f***, they’re on the rack!”. He said “I don’t like picking them up off of the floor”. I walked off in disgust…