Ahh. I forgot about this one until I was changing my socks before leaving the gym today.
I was warming up for squats. You know the the usual, bar squats followed by leg swings. The thing was I was squatting barefooted. So I started doing leg swings. No problem. 10 left 10 right 10 left 5 right, then BAM! I somehow pivoted on my left foot and it caused me to kick the squat rack. Snap! There went my third toe on my right foot.
I stood up and looked around and no one seemed to notice. So I finished my set.
By the time I got home, my toe was black, swollen and stuck up like a Velociraptor. To this day, it still sits up above the rest of my toes.
I think it is probably a bad idea to make this a competition. I can just see it now, somebody intentionally throwing themselves through the ceiling while doing muscle ups, throwing in an electromonkey on the way down, and landing on top of a half loaded bar. For reps.
As for my stories. I hadn’t been lifting long, and I was benching one day. Instead of loading up a 45 on each side of the bar, I put two one one side leaving the other side empty. My max bench at this time was probably just over 200. I unracked it and instantly realized my mistake. Somehow I was able to balance and rerack without getting hurt, but it still scared me quite a bit.
Recently, I was doing cable pull throughs at the end of a difficult leg day. I was pretty tired, and the cable stack has bad bearings in the pulleys, so the pull is inconsistent. i.e. 100 lbs. of resistance at the top, 120 half way, and 90 at the bottom. I go back and as soon as I try to come back up that extra resistance kicks in and I fall right on the top of my head. I have two feet on the ground, hands between my legs, knees bent, and I’m balancing on the top of my head. Now, being that this is my final set and I am just drained, I can’t get back up. So, slowly I turn to my head to the side, struggling to try and keep my face off the ground and wobble back to the stack so I can get up. Luckily, I was the only one in the gym at the time so nobody saw me.
[quote]tedro wrote:
I think it is probably a bad idea to make this a competition. I can just see it now, somebody intentionally throwing themselves through the ceiling while doing muscle ups, throwing in an electromonkey on the way down, and landing on top of a half loaded bar. For reps.
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For a free Maxipad? Well, then again, I have seen the movie “Jackass,” and its sequel, and some people will do just about anything these days… Alright, screw the award. But keep the stories coming. Doc
[quote]Dr.PowerClean wrote:
Avocado wrote:
Dr.PowerClean wrote:
This is good shit, guys. Keep it coming. I think after a certain period of time, we could vote for the Best Dumb Weight Training Act, and the winner could get a free maxipad for squatting.
So far, imo, its a close call between the muscle up resulting in "electrocuted monkey" and the muscle up resulting in a close encounter with celing tiles. lol Doc
Close? I lifted the tile up and was neck-deep “in” the ceiling, looking at wires. That’s where the dust that almost kiled me was at.
-chris
All right, Chris, the added details won me over. You’re in the lead for the “Jackass Gym Act” award. Doc
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LOL, It seems I’m such a loser, I got second place in a losers competition
[quote]mldj wrote:
Dr.PowerClean wrote:
Avocado wrote:
Dr.PowerClean wrote:
This is good shit, guys. Keep it coming. I think after a certain period of time, we could vote for the Best Dumb Weight Training Act, and the winner could get a free maxipad for squatting.
So far, imo, its a close call between the muscle up resulting in "electrocuted monkey" and the muscle up resulting in a close encounter with celing tiles. lol Doc
Close? I lifted the tile up and was neck-deep “in” the ceiling, looking at wires. That’s where the dust that almost kiled me was at.
-chris
All right, Chris, the added details won me over. You’re in the lead for the “Jackass Gym Act” award. Doc
LOL, It seems I’m such a loser, I got second place in a losers competition
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Midj, I hope your feelings didn’t get hurt. If they did, I’ll be glad to send you a free “Manta Ray” to make your squatting go easier. I’d love to steal the one I have to rip off the squat bar every time at my local gym. lol Doc
I was a senior in highschool and relatively new to the gym (my experience was limited to bench pulls and squats at our boathouse). I sat down at preacher curl and had just the bar to get the motion down and a really hot mom walked by right as I was doing it and I smashed myself in the face as I was not used to the motion and when my arms got above my sticking point they just accelerated. Add that to me not paying attention and I ended up with two broken front teeth.
[quote]Joe84 wrote:
My brother and I used to take turns kicking each other in the abdominals, (guy being kicked would get on all down on all fours), and we also used to hang from a chin up bar and punch each other in the abdominals. Awesome stuff. [/quote]
Oh man. There’s these guys at my gym who do really loud shadowboxing between sets. I just imagined them doing what you described, so funny.
I just started training this summer and I did mainly machine. In July or August I heard that free weights are better than machines so I started doing bench presses and squats but with the smith machine (d’oh) thinking it was basically the same thing. Around early September I did free squats in the power rack for the first time, On my last rep I ended up stumbling back and catching one side of the bar on one of the back hooks while the other side of the bar caught the air, I lost my balance coming down with half the bar.
Also I had tried free squats before but with one of the short curl bars (I guess the opposite of curiling in the squat rack), when i finished my set I was having trouble getting the bar off my back so i stood there for like five minutes looking like an idiot before I decided to go over to the rack with the short bars and hooked it on.
The first time I tried dips in September I ended up falling through the bars with painful results.
-I’ve done push-press with an obviously uneven bar and felt like a total toolbag after racking it, taking a step back, and looking at what I had done.
-I spent a lot of my early training days doing partial ROM squat and bench. I thought full ROM was bad for my joints. Fortunately my football coach told me how to squat. I’m convinced there’s no one like him in high-school sports. He actually had us do overhead squats, snatches, and close grip bench press.
-I’ve tried to grab the bar off it’s second bounce once I dropped it overhead with bumper plates. It bounced up to my waist, I grabbed it, and I was carried along to the floor.
-I’ve followed a Men’s Journal workout that the bobsled team did and played dodgeball with medicine balls while kneeling on a swiss ball. I thought I was really cool.
-I’ve tried to squat in a smith machine twice. Every time I do I just walk away and feel like my body has been violated and forced to do unnatural things.
This happened back in Cuba, I was either 9 or 10 years old. Can’t remember exactly, anyways…I was at my friends apartment and we walk to the back or the building (he lived in the 1st floor). There was a house made chin up bar where his older brother did pull ups. So we go to do the same. Well the bar was too high up and there weren’t any adults to help us up, nor were there any boxes tall enough for us to step on. So we proceed to step back, take a little run and JUMP to the bar. And thats where the shit happend.
We both did it, but I ran ran too fast so when I grabbed onto the bar my body kept swinging. I tried to stop my body from swinging, u know getting all stiff, but nothing worked. Soon my hands started to loose grip and I tried to “match” my drop to when my body was perpendicular to the floor. Didn’t work…
I fall down tilting backwards in mid air. I tuck my chin in as I brace, and spread my arms to soften the landing.
I land back 1st. But it didn’t hurt!!! Instead I got a funny feeling on my back. I try to get up but can’t move my torso, I tried to call my friend to help me up but could not speak. I tried to take a deep bread and yell, but I could not take in air!!! Thats when I panicked!
The few seconds felt like minutes. I tried yelling out but I would just move my mouth. Could not move my arms, torso or legs. I could only move my hands. So I grab some twigs and start shaking them. My dumb ass friends instead of helping starts laughing OUT LOUD!!! That shit pissed me off. Soon I regain breathing and get up. I ask him WTF was his problem and he said it was so funny how I looked lying there with arms out and shaking twigs around. I felt like punching him
This happened back in Cuba, I was either 9 or 10 years old. Can’t remember exactly, anyways…I was at my friends apartment and we walk to the back or the building (he lived in the 1st floor). There was a house made chin up bar where his older brother did pull ups. So we go to do the same. Well the bar was too high up and there weren’t any adults to help us up, nor were there any boxes tall enough for us to step on. So we proceed to step back, take a little run and JUMP to the bar. And thats where the shit happend.
We both did it, but I ran ran too fast so when I grabbed onto the bar my body kept swinging. I tried to stop my body from swinging, u know getting all stiff, but nothing worked. Soon my hands started to loose grip and I tried to “match” my drop to when my body was perpendicular to the floor. Didn’t work…
I fall down tilting backwards in mid air. I tuck my chin in as I brace, and spread my arms to soften the landing.
I land back 1st. But it didn’t hurt!!! Instead I got a funny feeling on my back. I try to get up but can’t move my torso, I tried to call my friend to help me up but could not speak. I tried to take a deep bread and yell, but I could not take in air!!! Thats when I panicked!
The few seconds felt like minutes. I tried yelling out but I would just move my mouth. Could not move my arms, torso or legs. I could only move my hands. So I grab some twigs and start shaking them. My dumb ass friends instead of helping starts laughing OUT LOUD!!! That shit pissed me off. Soon I regain breathing and get up. I ask him WTF was his problem and he said it was so funny how I looked lying there with arms out and shaking twigs around. I felt like punching him
Moral: find better friends.[/quote]
I busted a gut laughing at this story, Neospartan.
my junior year, I told a personal trainer that I wanted to, “tone up and cut”. Remember body for life? 10,10,8,6,12,12 with every muscle group. I did three mile treadmill run before upper body (lasted about 1.5-2 hours with weights included), five miles on my “off” days, three mile run before lower body. I ate a protein bar after this, and thought I’d get jacked.
As for diet? Well, after reading Nancy Clark’s guide to Sports Nutrition I figured I’d need to get tons of carbs and not a ton of protein. A bout 60% of my diet was carbs, 15% fat 15% protein (if that).
I started running for an hour or hour and fifteen instead of five miles on “off” days. Result? Lost a ton of weight, and got down to 146 before I saw myself in the mirror one day, and realized I ran off everything. Stupid…stupid…
as for lifting, I once was on a platform attempting cleans, and fell backwards. I fell off the platform, so the bar was two inches away from my neck. Lucky my spotter caught it…
[quote]dreads989 wrote:
my junior year, I told a personal trainer that I wanted to, “tone up and cut”. Remember body for life? 10,10,8,6,12,12 with every muscle group. I did three mile treadmill run before upper body (lasted about 1.5-2 hours with weights included), five miles on my “off” days, three mile run before lower body. I ate a protein bar after this, and thought I’d get jacked.
I started running for an hour or hour and fifteen instead of five miles on “off” days. Result? Lost a ton of weight, and got down to 146 before I saw myself in the mirror one day, and realized I ran off everything. Stupid…stupid…[/quote]
You too? I followed the same modified BFL program and came in at a massive 201 lbs on my little 6-5 frame. And I still wondered why I didnt win??? lol Doc
btw, I better quit posting, I’m starting to rack up too many stupid acts on this thread.
the other day i was doing clean pulls, and while still learning them my form was a bit off.
i always wondered why Taner Sagir tucked his junk between his legs before a lift.
needless to say i was on the ground laughing and yelling in pain curled in fetal position at the same time while everyone else around me just pointed and laughed
but i got back up and did 2 more pulls to finish the set
I chinned myself doing push press and tore the back of my shorts open doing power snatches … on the same day. I finished my power snatch sets with my ass hanging out
Dropped a 45kg dumbell on my chest from arms length when doing DB press.
Recently I dropped an empty oly bar on my foot when practicing my lifts. The ring crushed my big toe, which still has no toenail.
One morning I woke up with a badly strained upper back. I forced myself to get out of bed despite it hurting like buggery, fainted with the pain and woke up on the carpet with grazes all over my face. It took weeks for my face to heal, and nobody at work asked what happened, I just let them speculate
I wish my story could fall under the category of “I was 15, young, dumb and full of…”, but alas, this happened earlier this afternoon.
I don’t know whether it was the youtube video of Ronnie, or the Spike coursing through my veins, but I was feeling especially perky today when I tucked the barbell into the corner to perform some T-bar rows. After cruising through the first set, I decided to up the ante, and threw a fifth 45 on the end. But it wasn’t the weighted end of the barbell I needed to worry about…
I got a firm grip of the bar, arched my back, and started squeezing the shoulder blades together, hoping to crank out 10 flawless reps. Instead, the t-bar grip slides down the barbell, causing the unweighted end of the barbell to fly up with the full force of the contraction.
Some call it the choda, some the taint, but semantics aside, whatever it’s called, mine will never be the same.
How about doing dumb things before you even get to the iron? This was a while ago, I started working out about 1 year earlier, so I was making good progress. I recently took to squatting and the weight went up every week.
So I was quite eager to start my work out and rushed in to the lockerroom, bumping into a big black guy who stood behind the door. It felt like slamming into a concrete wall.
Never did I apologise quicker.
Turns out the guy was German, African German to be more specific. And he started to redicule me before his friends in German.
Never did I pretend not to understand German with more enthousiasm.
[quote]Dirk Gently wrote:
I wish my story could fall under the category of “I was 15, young, dumb and full of…”, but alas, this happened earlier this afternoon.
I don’t know whether it was the youtube video of Ronnie, or the Spike coursing through my veins, but I was feeling especially perky today when I tucked the barbell into the corner to perform some T-bar rows. After cruising through the first set, I decided to up the ante, and threw a fifth 45 on the end. But it wasn’t the weighted end of the barbell I needed to worry about…
I got a firm grip of the bar, arched my back, and started squeezing the shoulder blades together, hoping to crank out 10 flawless reps. Instead, the t-bar grip slides down the barbell, causing the unweighted end of the barbell to fly up with the full force of the contraction.
Some call it the choda, some the taint, but semantics aside, whatever it’s called, mine will never be the same.[/quote]
