Cramps can be worse than an injury at times if you ask me!! I have actually fallen over a few times on a brutal leg day. I used to train with this guy John who had some of the biggest legs I have ever seen. One day we thought it would be a good idea to finish a grueling leg day with a combined 300 reps on the leg extension at full stack. So he would jump in and do set to failure and then I would go, continue this till you hit 300. If a set did not consist of at least 20 reps we would penalize ourselves an additional 10 reps. It was insane and I have no idea how we finished it but we did. By the time it was all said and done, we were both duck walking towards the locker room and both my quads cramped up at the same time. Of course this hot young thing is walking towards us and I fall over right in front of her. Till this day I get shit about it for that being my way of picking up women, lol.
[quote]Coach Mack wrote:
When I was 16, one of my mates and I were the only ones in a gym. We had finished a pretty big benching session and I went to the water cooler.
He thought he would be a hero and see how many reps he could do with a measly 80 pounds. He must have been pumping it up and down for 2 minutes. As the 2 biggest guys in the whole town walked in, my mates pecs seized up and cramped. He looked like he had 800lbs on the bar the way it wouldn’t get off his chest. He had the legs kicking, back arched and all. One of the big guys grabbed it with one arm and pulled it off my mate.
He had to swallow his pride and look like he had not been able to bench 80 lbs for a single rep. The old “I’d just done 100 reps” would have looked desperate.
He never trained in that gym again.
Cramps are not really an injury, but it’s a sort of funny story anyhow. [/quote]
I have also passed out once or twice in the gym while doing legs. Again with my buddy John, about 30 minutes into a leg day. We had done heavy hack squats and leg presses already and were doing ATG squats with light weight. After my third set of 25 or so, I remember laying on the bench press and thats it. When I came by, I was just kinda chilling waiting for it to be my turn. After about 5-10 minutes in walks John and I am like, where you been, is it my turn yet? So he goes dude, you passed out so I went and did calves, I just came to check on you. I am sure a few people got a good laugh out of that one.
Ok, one more story. Not really an injury in the true sense of the word but funny in a f*cked up kinda way. My gym has locations in Florida as well and my boy John moved to Deerfield. So we trained legs at his new gym in FL and two of his buddies asked if they could train with us. One of them thought it would be a good idea to eat 30 minutes prior to the work out. Obviously he had never trained legs with us before. After squatting, we got on the leg press and on his heavy set his face turned a different color and all you heard was a really loud rupturing sound. I kid you not, the dude shat himself on the leg press!! So we bolted out of there and left him to re-rack the weight. No one went near that machine for the rest of the day. That had to be some of the funniest shit I have ever seen (no pun intended).
worst injury happened last nov. while training for a dec. meet…
bar rolled several inches down my back while squatting (stupid lack of concentration on my part), there was an initial sharp pain then a burning sensation…the next day I had blood pooling in my armpit from torn muscle tissue…sweet…
I couldn’t squat with a regular bar for two months and couldn’t bench at all…
six months later it still hurts to bench with a full range of motion (I can squat with a regular bar w/o problems now although I have become quite weak) and my bench is down a almost a hundred pounds (I’ve gone from 405/3 to 315/5, from weak to pathetically weak, oh well)…
I haven’t gotten to the laughing about it phase yet, but hopefully as I start to get stronger (which may be difficult since my old powerlifting team has since desolved) I’ll be able to joke about it…
who knows, maybe I’ll take up that crazy bodybuilding fad that’s sweeping the nation and just concentrate on looking good at the beach (I currently look like a shorter version of the michelin man)…
I didn’t get injured but I had to duck out of a squat yesterday and a lady screamed because she thought I was going to “die” as she put it. Squat racks with safety catches = god.
[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
I have also passed out once or twice in the gym while doing legs. Again with my buddy John, about 30 minutes into a leg day. We had done heavy hack squats and leg presses already and were doing ATG squats with light weight. After my third set of 25 or so, I remember laying on the bench press and thats it. When I came by, I was just kinda chilling waiting for it to be my turn. After about 5-10 minutes in walks John and I am like, where you been, is it my turn yet? So he goes dude, you passed out so I went and did calves, I just came to check on you. I am sure a few people got a good laugh out of that one. [/quote]
All your stories so far have been great but this one is the best. I love how guys are so concerned about one another. You pass out and your buddy goes to work on his calves! LOL that is frickin’ priceless.
I can’t come close to your stories so i’m not going to even try.
Thanks man. I guess my man John has his priorities straight, haha. Come on man, we have all done some stupid sh*t in our lives and its good to laugh about it so feel free to share all you want.
[quote]dre wrote:
Amsterdam Animal wrote:
I have also passed out once or twice in the gym while doing legs. Again with my buddy John, about 30 minutes into a leg day. We had done heavy hack squats and leg presses already and were doing ATG squats with light weight. After my third set of 25 or so, I remember laying on the bench press and thats it. When I came by, I was just kinda chilling waiting for it to be my turn. After about 5-10 minutes in walks John and I am like, where you been, is it my turn yet? So he goes dude, you passed out so I went and did calves, I just came to check on you. I am sure a few people got a good laugh out of that one.
All your stories so far have been great but this one is the best. I love how guys are so concerned about one another. You pass out and your buddy goes to work on his calves! LOL that is frickin’ priceless.
I can’t come close to your stories so i’m not going to even try. [/quote]
[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Thanks man. I guess my man John has his priorities straight, haha. Come on man, we have all done some stupid sh*t in our lives and its good to laugh about it so feel free to share all you want.
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Oh, i’ve done a TON of stupid shiat in my life but not that much stuff in the gym. The only two things that stick out in my mind are these.
I was benching without a spotter and hit my wall alot sooner then I thought I was going to. so, there I sit with the bar about halfway up and it’s not moving. It’s not going up and it’s not coming down… yet. so, I decided to just bring the bar down and rest it on my chest for a while and think about my next move. My next move turned out to be calling out for help. Luckily I knew the guy and he came running over and we had a good laugh at it.
the other thing was while I was on the treadmill doing some cardio after a great lifting session. so, i’m running along at a good pace and decide to look to my right for some reason. Well, as i’m looking to my right my right foot hits the side of the treadmill that isn’t moving, I lose my balance, fall forward, luckily catch myself before bailing on my face. Yeah, try and look cool after doing that!
I once showed up at the gym all ready, MP3 cranked, water, towel in hand, walked over to the Hammer Strength Reverse Pull Down machine and proceeded to “unload” the already loaded weight onto the rack thinking i was doing the opposite.
Needless to say, with a caffeine pill in my gut, the music pounding and going for a good moderate weight first set of about 10-12 reps I sat down and quickly grabbed the handles and almost pulled the two levers out of their sockets as they were completely empty!
Just so you dont feel bad I do that all the time. I work with people who will move from 90 to 900 lbs, and I forget who I’m working with and give my 280 lb BB the 95 lb squat, and my 95 lb housewife a 900 lb leg press. I have gotten some of the wierdest looks. I play it off with “just making sure you’re paying attention.”
[quote]violatepropriety wrote:
I once showed up at the gym all ready, MP3 cranked, water, towel in hand, walked over to the Hammer Strength Reverse Pull Down machine and proceeded to “unload” the already loaded weight onto the rack thinking i was doing the opposite.
Needless to say, with a caffeine pill in my gut, the music pounding and going for a good moderate weight first set of about 10-12 reps I sat down and quickly grabbed the handles and almost pulled the two levers out of their sockets as they were completely empty!
No injuries there except my pride.[/quote]
AA, your training partner is the man. I would have had to pick on you somehow. If my friends do that, ever, the custom is to paint them with whatever you can find. Lipstick, make-up, ketchup, shaving cream, anything at all. Anyone who passes out, from exertion or alcohol, immeadiately gets clowned, and pictures taken. Your friend is a good man… He hit his workout, woke you up and thats that.
LOL, yeah I would have deserved it. Too bad the fucker moved to Florida. He wasnt the kinda dude that you would want to hang out with outside the gym b/c he was crazy but in the gym he was a complete monster.
To get back on topic, here is another story that includes him and me and stupidity, haha. Four weeks out of a show we are training legs and we were doing calf raises. The stack at the gym is not enough weight so one of us would climb on top of the machine and hold a 100 pound dumbbell.
So I am on the machine and while he is doing his heavy set, his foot slips off the step and he pulls his calf muscle. If that wasnt bad enough, b/c the machine slammed down, I lose my balance and drop the dumbbell which nearly hit him. I kinda fell of the machine and had a few bruises to show for. He was still able to do his show but things could have been a lot worse.
[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
AA, your training partner is the man. I would have had to pick on you somehow. If my friends do that, ever, the custom is to paint them with whatever you can find. Lipstick, make-up, ketchup, shaving cream, anything at all. Anyone who passes out, from exertion or alcohol, immeadiately gets clowned, and pictures taken. Your friend is a good man… He hit his workout, woke you up and thats that. [/quote]
This one was pretty bad, and I still cannot completely explain how it happened. I was 21 and my partner and I were doing seated military press. My partner gets done with his set, which was the last for both of us, and I pull a 45 lb plate off of one side. Apparently I must have had some upward force going and dislodged the bar (the side I was unloading was now empty) from where it rested on the rack.
I remember holding the plate in my right hand and looking toward the weight tree I was going to put it on when the end of the olympic bar came crashing down on my right hand, which was now just higher than my waist.
So, basically, you have my metacarpal sandwhiched in between a 45 lb. plate on the bottom, and the fat end of an olympic bar doing a 3-foot drop on it from the top. I remember it in slow motion, and I remember the bar actually BOUNCING a few inches off of my hand before hitting the ground. And the sound! Yeesh! Just like hitting it on the side of the squat rack (unloaded) trying to get it out.
I dropped the plate and grabbed my hand (which I knew was broken, just not how badly) and started stomping back and forth yelling “FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!!” Luckily, this was one of the last of the hardcore gyms in my area (now years gone, sadly) and wasn’t something you’d get thrown out for. Turns out I only had a hairline fracture, but MAN did that shit hurt. More on my recovery later.
The thing I still have trouble figuring out is how did I get my hand under the bar faster than it could drop? And far ahead enough
While coping a look at a bit of spandex, and trying to clean my bench after a set, to my surprise I had the nossel pointed the wrong way and sprayed myself in the eyes…alcohol burns badley!
I had to stumble my way to the locker room and douse in the sink.
No permanant damage though and now I use the mirrors.
I hope to God I’m not alone in this one…I was doing sets of 12 standing BB press…going smoothly in my second set I happened to observe the spandex behind me reflected in the mirror…needless to say…I brought the bar down on the bridge of my nose instead of nicely down to the ol’ collar bone. Crack like a gun, off comes a huge chunk of skin…and away I go outta there at about 100 miles an hour trying not to bleed on anyone.
this one wasn’t funny at the time but thinking back on it, it’s hilarious. like 5 years ago when i first started training i was squatting in the smith machine (yea, i didn’t know anything about lifting back then) with my buddy tom. after my last set he goes and tries to outdo me like most people would and puts on 315 (i remember vividly…not a lot of weight but when we were 14 it was…haha)…we didn’t know how to use the thing so we didn’t have the safeties on. he unracks it, goes down about 2 inches, and falls to the floor like a rock in water with the bar still on his neck, head legit between his feet. i thought he was going to die. i couldn’t get it off him either, like 3 dudes ran over and got it off him and then started yelling at us like we were 6 years old. it was awful and hilarious at the same time.
another funny one, about 2 years ago i was showing my lil brother how to do stabilitly ball push-ups with your hands on the ball and feet up on the bench. i did like two reps and lost my balance, rolled over the ball and smashed my head into the wall in front of me. i’ve never been that embarrassed in my life. haha.
I was doing cleans one day and for some reason decided in my rest period to continue practising the technique with a broomstick.
There’s a big difference between a broomstick and 80kgs. I wasn’t expecting it to move so quickly and smashed the broomstick into my mouth.
Another time I was warming up for the clean and jerk and drove the bar into the underside of my jaw. That hurt too but was funny as I was surrounded by hot young chicks at the time. The bar made a CLANG noise when it hit.
