Things you've done in the gym...and hoped nobody saw.

[debandmikeb]

We've all done some things in the gym that you just know someone saw and even though they're not laughing out loud, they're certainly laughing on the inside. Now, I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill stuff like walking into a hanging lat bar, pinching fingers between plates or whacking your shin on a machine. I'm looking for something that actually made you laugh out loud at yourself.

My most recent.....because of shoulder issues, I have just started to use the bench press again. Since I use a ridiculously small amount of weight, I'll warm up some with just the bar. So, I sit on the end of the bench, take some deep breaths, talk to myself about proper form and generally convince myself that this will end up as a personal best. So, my lungs are ready, my mind is ready and my body is ready. Here goes!! I lay back and.....there's no bar!! :)

I don't know if anyone got a kick outa that but I sure did.

Anyone else have one?

Mike

[SP1966]

Well there was this nutcase who was wasting a perfectly bench with no weight, so while he psyched himself up :rolleyes: I stole his bar!

[Simpy]

SO MANY things. I was adjusting the safties in the cage the other day and when I stood up I cracked my head really hard. That was embarrasing.

Once, I was doing handstand pushups against a wall. I started to come down . . .and I just kept coming. Bam. Another crack on the head.


I've also not held the stack and let the bar fall on my head.


I have a lot of issues with my head.

[Brackneyc]

Anything involving me doing BP. :)

[freebirdmac]

Lets see, walked over to a machine, started to load some plates, then realized I loaded shoulder press instead of the chest machine. Or vise versa. More than once.

Bent over to change the weight on a cable station and about gashed my head on the stupid L frame holding instructions for the station. On more than one occasion.

I know there are others that I can't think of right now :)

[nebnar]

Doing Lat pull downs, was my set after my wife just went. Grabbed the bar sat down ready for heavy weight,pulled down like it was my weight and it was only 50#. felt like a fool lol


also remember one time doing incline w/o a spot, failed to get the weight up went to roll it down my body and got the bar stuck in the gap between the back part of the seat and the butt part. I must of looked like a fool trying to unwedge the bar out of the seat. good thing gym want busy.

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[Nikonguy]

Loading up a leg press machine only to find I had just put the plates on the storage pins, not on the sled. I left the gym and bought a squat cage and 300lbs. of weight on the way home. :o

Ok, I made up the second part. I did a bunch more stupid things before I started training at home. :)

[Bando]

Decline bench in my gym has a mechanism to slide the bar back before you lay back, slide it into position when you're in place. Twice I've hit my head on the bar laying back after not moving it out of the way.

The worst was walking in front of a single leg press while a guy was on it, he pushed it right into my leg. Big strong guy, lotta weight, I looked over and was like "uh sorry dude" - guy was bright red and livid. Worst part is he's still there and does not talk to anyone, looks at me like "there's that SOB that messed up my set" and that was like 2 years ago.

[Tyrbolift]

Doing a few sets of standing db curls. Increase weight each set, then a couple drop sets.

Anyway, I'd just finished cranking out a good set of 10 or more, then when I went to re-rack them, one was a 30 and one was a 32.5. :o

[mslman71]

Started to leap up to celebrate my bench victory but didn't slide forward enough and smashed my head into the bar and slid along the knurling leaving a bleeding skinned stripe at my forehead (think short mohawk) and top of my head (I'm bald). Unfortunately everyone saw it but it was bad enough looking that no one laughed ... until later :D

[michvolley]

I can't think of any mishaps with equipment but if I'm about to get on the elliptical and I have a wedgie, I pick it. I can't do 40 minutes on the elliptical with a wedgie.

[tmonkey]

I can't think of any mishaps with equipment but if I'm about to get on the elliptical and I have a wedgie, I pick it. I can't do 40 minutes on the elliptical with a wedgie.

meh. i have seen you do worse

[IronCharles]

Probably going to the remote, unoccupied corner of the gym to fart, releasing it, then turning around to find a cute chick who has followed me to this area to do crunches.

[michvolley]

meh. i have seen you do worse

You can't have boogers in the way when you're doing cardio either.

[tmonkey]

You can't have boogers in the way when you're doing cardio either.

meh. i have seen you do worse :D

[crupiea]

I have done the bench press thing but hit my head on the bar on my way to getting into the start position. thak goodness I workout at home.

[grace_ou]

Oh good Lord this could take me forever to list mine... :o


I once went to the gym with a ziplock baggie full of ice in the back waist of my pants.. (I had a sore back) well I walked to the gym with it and then forgot about till I cinched my lifting belt and mid squat it busted. Sent ice water running down my ass crack. I of coarse yelped cause **** was cold.

Then I hear some guys laughing and going "Hey look that girl just peed her pants!

I swear I didn't pee my pants!

[grace_ou]

Probably going to the remote, unoccupied corner of the gym to fart, releasing it, then turning around to find a cute chick who has followed me to this area to do crunches.

I done id that in a book store.. I looked around every where but behind me!! Then let one out that was way louder then I thought it would be!! Some guy behind me was .... surprised! :o

[dungeonmistress]

I was finished doing shrugs or some exercise outside of the rack. I was unloading the bar. I stripped off one of the 45's and was carrying it to the tree. I felt the floor shake (and it's concrete lol), turned around and saw the bar had rolled off of the supports. It would help if management would replace the rubber ends on those support pieces to avoid mishaps like this. Then again it's taken them almost 1.5 years to fix the good leg press - and it's still not fixed yet. Soon, hopefully.

[CATRACCOM]

I didn't realize that someone had set the safeties so high and went to squat and the bar came down and clanged super loud.
Then there's always situp farts...

[eomrat]

Loading up a leg press machine only to find I had just put the plates on the storage pins, not on the sled.

I did this exact same thing . I did it once and felt that I needed more weight so I did it again, then again, and once more. I took me that many tries before I realised that I was not, for some reason, ridiculously strong that day.

[seibert253]

Dropped a 35lb dumbell on my foot/big toe.
Right after I did, I looked around to see if anyone saw it. Didn't matter, caught on the surveillance video.
The gym ower pulled me in later that day to watch it. Before I even did the hop dance, I was scanning to make sure no one saw. Pretty funny.

[Reality_Check]

Probably ten years ago now (at which time I'd been training regularly for 15 years) and while being well aware (from my earliest days in the gym) that on bench press and squats when you load/unload the bar you should never do it unevenly so that you are left with two or more 45s on one side and no weight on the other end...I did just that.

As I pulled the last 45 off the left end of the squat bar and even before the bar began to move, I realised exactly what I had done but could not react quick enough to reverse course I simply stood and watched in horror as the squat bar began to pivot upward (slowly at first then rapidly accelerating) and then flung itself half way across the gym. Fortunately no one was standing in the path of the bar.

Someone did see though and I was obviously cursing enough to convey my displeasure at what I had just done, they told me I didn't need to be so hard on myself it wasn't that bad, my reply was it was that bad the only reason someone isn't dead now is because of sheer luck. (or devine providence).

[GuyJin]

Since I work out at home, I'm the only one to witness my own stupidity. This morning, I was doing decline presses with light weight--around 160 pounds--for high reps and after racking the bar, I sat up, slamming my head against the bar, falling off the bench and banging my right knee--the one I hurt a few months back, and when I got up, I grazed my right hand against the safety pin and cut the fleshy part open. A three-in-one act of idiocy.

Finished the workout and when all was over and done with, my wife asked me why there was a trail of blood from the workout room (it's a storage room) to the bathroom, which is just three steps away. I had no answer to give her as I limped into the other room to lie down.

Thank goodness those dumb-ass stunts are few and far between...

[discdoggie]

I drove off and left my 7 month old daughter in the gym's daycare once. I was still nursing, of course, so it wasn't until I got home and started becoming rock hard and engorged with milk that I'd even noticed. :(


She came through it like a trooper. ;)

[-=FLEX=-]

Split a brand new pair of cheap workout pants doing T-Bar rows and didn't notice right away. Thought the 2 girls were staring cuz I was hawt (this was 20 years ago). Went to front desk and used the stapler to "fix" them so I could finish my workout then threw them in the garbage when I got home.

Was warming up with 135 on the bench one Saturday morning and absent-mindedly re-racked the bar after my set but the right side wasn't quite on the pins and I let go. It fell on me and as was struggling this guy came over and helped me re-rack it properly. Then he says angrily "If you need a spot man, just ask for one." A spot for 135???? :o

Those were both back in the ealry 90's. Can't think of anything recent.

I either don't care as much now, or I'm older and smarter. :)

[kurent]

Some guy I don't know asks me if I can spot his bench. Sure thing. I turn around to have a sip of water. Go over to the bench and start spotting. The guy looks at me with a weird face. It was the wrong bench.

[styken]

Farting on the leg press. Which of course is right next to the water fountain and good girl/bad girl machine, so it's always maximum embarrassment.

[boathead]

i had a short lived experiment with seated face pulls....what with my wonderful depth perception, cracked me one right in the teeth.

doing situps on the decline bench...cracked my head on a barbell still in place.

deadlifts with an extra plate on one side.

squats with an extra plate on one side.

[drudixon]

I have a lot of issues with my head.

Had you said nothing, no one would have never known.... :O

[drudixon]

I work out at home mostly, but for whatever reason, the few times I've gone to the school gym I have disasters. A guy was deadlifting and left the bar in the middle of the floor, so I nosed dived over it.

Another time, I had brought the wrong shorts and the elastic was shot. I'd been doing the gang banger hold your shorts while moving everywhere else. Anyway, when I was doing pull-ups they fell down to my knees (my legs are curled when I do pull-ups. Luckily I was near the end of the set so I only had one more to do.

Lastly, I was in front of the mirror doing supinating curls and I had one of those monster, juicy sneezes and I blew a hyoooge glob of snot on the mirror which proceeded to very slowly migrate to the floor.

[Marius_Ursus]

There was my infamous "uneven load" event on the deadlift where I had 70 pounds on one side of the bar and 45 on the other. Almost sent the bar through the wall when I picked it up...way too noisy not to be noticed. :(

[NYkarate]

My son gave me a Superman t-shirt (he is 5) and to make him happy I put it on when he gave it to me (was obviously heading to the gym). Well the receptionist says with a chuckle, why do you need to work out Superman? I felt a little ghey, but managed to still get a decent workout..

[snorkelman]

#1

I was doing abwheel rollouts (like this):

http://i52.tinypic.com/2qm2s7p.jpg

Except the abwheel my gym has is a cheapo walmart version with just one wheel and a handle that acts as an axle. I was on rep #8 yesterday, when I was fully extended, with my chest nearly touching the floor, the wheel shifted and the wheel ended up at a 45 degree angle because there was "space" between the wheel and the overused handle (which acts as an axle). I lost balance and ended up flat on the floor. My set was effectively over.

#2 - I was doing "skull crushers" and I, well, crushed my skull.

[AFChief]

- walked around the gym singing NIN Closer...kinda forgot people could hear me
- finished BP and took all the weight off one side...bar flipped pretty good!

[LisaSkinnoble]

I was sitting straight up on a flat bench doing overhead tricep extensions. I was pretty proud of myself because I worked up to a 35 lb dumbell and had only brained myself once so far. About 4 reps in, I lost all control but hung onto the dumbell and fell backwards right off the bench.

Thankfully, Jim was over with Wayne and neither of them saw me tumble.

[nvrstopworking]

I've curled in the squat rack.

*runs*

[erikjh]

Does working out in a Planet Fitness count??? last year my gym flooded during the 500 year floods in R.I. and was relageted to the local P.F.

[Mindi912]

Dropped dumbells on my face

Kicked a Reebok deck half way across the gym

Farted while having a private Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lessons with my coach as he actually sat on me.

I walk into just about everything

Farted doing crunches on the decline machine thingy

[Simpy]

Dropped dumbells on my face

Kicked a Reebok deck half way across the gym

Farted while having a private Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lessons with my coach as he actually sat on me.

I walk into just about everything

Farted doing crunches on the decline machine thingy

Oh yeah, I've farted all over the gym. I care less if people see and more if they hear it/smell it. :D

[TheLBM]

It was one of the first days at my new gym and i was on the elliptical. I felt an odd sensation in my shorts as i was elipticalling along. The sensation was slowly making its way down the leg of my shorts. I looked down and saw that a pair of my boxer briefs plop out and land on the floor. My first thought was "how did i lose my boxers" then i realized that a pair must have been static clung to the inside when i put them on. So i got off and discretely picked them up. I was tempted to use them as a towel, so that any onlookers would think that is what i had dropped. But then i thought if someone had seen me and had realized that it was boxers shorts and then watched me wipe my face with them,,that would not be cool. So i slyly stuffed them in my pocket and hopped back on the elliptical

[IronCharles]

^^^. Just be glad it wasn't a pair of your wife's panties that had staticed to your boxers! :D

[Marius_Ursus]

Oh yeah, I've farted all over the gym. I care less if people see and more if they hear it/smell it. :D

Best fart I ever did in the gym was at the top of a clean.

Man, was that loud.

No one reacted.

I was disappoint.

[cowboybiker]

Best fart I ever did in the gym was at the top of a clean.

Man, was that loud.

No one reacted.

I was disappoint.

Its worse when you try to do Yoga and everyone is farting.


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[Porkchop74]

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Farted while having a private Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lessons with my coach as he actually sat on me.
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LOL Once I was at the DOJO and in the back corner with one of my training partners and assistance instructor. We were stretching while Our teacher was doing belt testing for the kids class and the place was packed with the kids parents and everyone was quiet. Right in the middle of it I let one rip and due to our location it echoed off the mat and the walls the kid testing stopped and everyone turned to look at us. I did what any real man would do and pointed to my friend and said man you have to say excuse me after that & walked off the mat and out back LMAO .

[socket]

I've done the "forgot to put plates on both sides of the bar" thing before.
Tripped over stuff and looked like a cluts a bunch of times.
Got caught staring a few time by ladies.
So nothing too humiliating:)
But that was years ago, I now lift at home, so nobody sees the dumb **** I do;)

[AFChief]

Oh yeah, I've farted all over the gym. I care less if people see and more if they hear it/smell it. :D

They can't hear it if you have your headphones on.

[sy2502]

They can't hear it if you have your headphones on.

LOL, which reminds me... Usually people at the gym have their headphones on, right? Ok so I was trying to go to failure in my set and sure enough, at the last rep, this really loud fart came out... but I thought "oh well, nobody heard because they are all listening to their own music", right? Wrong. NOT ONE of the people in the gym around me were wearing headphones. NOT ONE! And I use the gym at work so all those people are my colleagues...

Other stupid things I have done at the gym: bashed my skull against the bar countless times, bashed my nose in with the bar while doing lat pulls... oh and this one is recent: I was so tired from work that when I went to load my bar, I was paying so little attention that I put on 45lbs plates instead of 35s and then spent the whole time wondering why I was feeling so weak that day...

[NorwichGrad]

I was wearing my my favorite pair of nylon pants. Pants have a hole on the right hand side just above the knee. Hole is about the size of my palm. I planned on squatting. The empty bar on the squat rack was on pins, located about knee high as well.

The following happened so quickly: As I was setting up for squats, I walked by the bar and one end of the bar hooked into my pants’ hole. I kept walking with the bar in the hole, the bar comes off the pins dropping to the floor, and as the bar dropped to the floor it pulled my pants down with it. Good thing nobody saw the event because it was too early in the morning.

[TheLBM]

^^^. Just be glad it wasn't a pair of your wife's panties that had staticed to your boxers! :D

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[fitmom43]

I dropped a barbell from overhead in Planet Fitness :D

[-=FLEX=-]

<<<<< single

Obviously; otherwise you wouldn't have had boxers in your pants; womenz know how to do teh laundry! :)


I dropped a barbell from overhead in Planet Fitness :D

Lunk! :D

[snorkelman]

I dropped a barbell from overhead in Planet Fitness :D

Your PF has barbells?

[fitmom43]

Your PF has barbells?

Yes it does. Fixed barbells.

[Birddog6424]

I was doing preacher curls over the pad with the heaviest weight of my set, I brought it up with a little too much momentum and popped myself right on the bridge of my nose. It didn't feel like I hit it that hard, but my nose started to bleed horrifically. A double pumper.

I pinched it off and headed for the bathroom, but left quite a bit on the pad area as it was bleeding everywhere as I tried to get the bar set down. They called over a custodian to clean it up. He used enough chemicals to sterilize a small country. Like I was an AIDS carrier or something.

The parting shot was from the gym manager who was standing there supervising the clean up. He told me to lighten up on the weight a little bit, as if that had anything to do with it. It was embarrassing...

[Mindi912]

LOL Once I was at the DOJO and in the back corner with one of my training partners and assistance instructor. We were stretching while Our teacher was doing belt testing for the kids class and the place was packed with the kids parents and everyone was quiet. Right in the middle of it I let one rip and due to our location it echoed off the mat and the walls the kid testing stopped and everyone turned to look at us. I did what any real man would do and pointed to my friend and said man you have to say excuse me after that & walked off the mat and out back LMAO .

ROFL!

In our game farts are a regular thing. Another girl who comes down let one rip and my coach goes who was that. She slowly raised her hand and said I did the drive by. Well we all pissed ourselves laughing so now it's become a thing, any squeak and it's "Who did the drive-by" then we developed it to saying "There's a 187 in progress" lol. :D

[SP1966]

ROFL!

In our game farts are a regular thing. Another girl who comes down let one rip and my coach goes who was that. She slowly raised her hand and said I did the drive by. Well we all pissed ourselves laughing so now it's become a thing, any squeak and it's "Who did the drive-by" then we developed it to saying "There's a 187 in progress" lol. :D
My Dad comes from a big family, ten kids, six of them boys. When they were all young they would go to church as one big group, and if one of them let one rip, they would all turn and look at the person standing directly behind him! How bad is that, you not only find yourself standing in the stink, but taking the blame for it too!! :D

[Mindi912]

My Dad comes from a big family, ten kids, six of them boys. When they were all young they would go to church as one big group, and if one of them let one rip, they would all turn and look at the person standing directly behind him! How bad is that, you not only find yourself standing in the stink, but taking the blame for it too!! :D

OMG ROFL!!! I bet the pew behind the family was empty as soon as everyone cottoned on to what was happening. :D

[Mindi912]

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Oh hi!

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[Smelly bull]

1st rep of a deadlift and I blew a huge snot out...it kinda hung on my chin and it was dripping. My choice..stop the set and clean up or keep??? decided to keep lifting, it 5:30am no one will notice!

Ripping pants when squatting.....tripping over bars, un-even loads, taking people's weights (on accident), I've done a lot of them.

[djflex]

Once when i trained very early in the am i was walking around and some of the girls kept smiling at me. I was feeling pretty good about myself until i got over by the mirror. The pockets of sweats were both out like the rabbit ears...

[drudixon]

It was one of the first days at my new gym and i was on the elliptical. I felt an odd sensation in my shorts as i was elipticalling along. The sensation was slowly making its way down the leg of my shorts. I looked down and saw that a pair of my boxer briefs plop out and land on the floor. My first thought was "how did i lose my boxers" then i realized that a pair must have been static clung to the inside when i put them on. So i got off and discretely picked them up. I was tempted to use them as a towel, so that any onlookers would think that is what i had dropped. But then i thought if someone had seen me and had realized that it was boxers shorts and then watched me wipe my face with them,,that would not be cool. So i slyly stuffed them in my pocket and hopped back on the elliptical

LOL, that's awesome. Good idea not to wipe ball sweat on your face :)

[dkarnes]

We've all done some things in the gym that you just know someone saw and even though they're not laughing out loud, they're certainly laughing on the inside. Now, I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill stuff like walking into a hanging lat bar, pinching fingers between plates or whacking your shin on a machine. I'm looking for something that actually made you laugh out loud at yourself.

My most recent.....because of shoulder issues, I have just started to use the bench press again. Since I use a ridiculously small amount of weight, I'll warm up some with just the bar. So, I sit on the end of the bench, take some deep breaths, talk to myself about proper form and generally convince myself that this will end up as a personal best. So, my lungs are ready, my mind is ready and my body is ready. Here goes!! I lay back and.....there's no bar!! :)

I don't know if anyone got a kick outa that but I sure did.

Anyone else have one?

Mike

yea i was putting weight away that someone left on squat bar. I didnt see bar and bang my head on it. almost knock myself out. then i note i was bleeding. i kept working out. just wipe off the blood off. everyone kept telling me your head is bleeding

[medjen]

I was doing preacher curls over the pad with the heaviest weight of my set, I brought it up with a little too much momentum and popped myself right on the bridge of my nose. It didn't feel like I hit it that hard, but my nose started to bleed horrifically. A double pumper.

I pinched it off and headed for the bathroom, but left quite a bit on the pad area as it was bleeding everywhere as I tried to get the bar set down. They called over a custodian to clean it up. He used enough chemicals to sterilize a small country. Like I was an AIDS carrier or something.

The parting shot was from the gym manager who was standing there supervising the clean up. He told me to lighten up on the weight a little bit, as if that had anything to do with it. It was embarrassing...

Well, duh. What if you were? Or had another blood borne illness? They aren't going to ask you or take your word for it if you tell them you're clean. ;) This is why we have universal precautions for dealing with human tissues/fluids. Act like everything is infected, just in case it is.

[DaddyR]

Well, duh. What if you were? Or had another blood borne illness? They aren't going to ask you or take your word for it if you tell them you're clean. ;) This is why we have universal precautions for dealing with human tissues/fluids. Act like everything is infected, just in case it is.^^^^ Exactly.

Given that about 1 in 20 people in the U.S. carries Hepatitis B,

- that most of them are unaware that they are infected, and

- that there can be upwards of a million infectious doses in every mL of blood from an infected person,

They would have been negligent NOT to blast it with everything they've got.

[NorwichGrad]

I can't believe I'm about to share this, but here we go...

If you've ever snatched you can relate, so back me up here, fellow Oly lifters. I was doing a snatch doubles one morning and on the 'explosion' portion of the lift the bar caught my eggroll. Not a pleasant experience. So I looked around to make sure nobody is looking. I reached down my shorts to make a few adjustments to my jewel's orientation so it's out of the way for the next set.

Then of course after I was done training, a gym member used the same bar to do curls... in the squat rack.

[Simpy]

Well, duh. What if you were? Or had another blood borne illness? They aren't going to ask you or take your word for it if you tell them you're clean. ;) This is why we have universal precautions for dealing with human tissues/fluids. Act like everything is infected, just in case it is.


^^^^ Exactly.

Given that about 1 in 20 people in the U.S. carries Hepatitis B,

- that most of them are unaware that they are infected, and

- that there can be upwards of a million infectious doses in every mL of blood from an infected person,

They would have been negligent NOT to blast it with everything they've got.
Agreed. If I were to see someone bleeding in the gym, and the gym didn't have a custodian decontaminate the hell out of everything in the general area, I might think about going to a new gym.

[erinlee01]

I was doing sprints on the step mill one day. About 15 minutes into them, I went to increase the speed to my sprint level. The machine revved up to max speed and got stuck. I kept up with it for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out what to do. I finally gathered my thoughts and jumped off the back before I got shot off. The expression on my face had to be priceless.

I got back on and assumed I had hit something wrong. Same thing happened again.

I don't think I've been back on the step mill since.

[WonderPug]

Arriving at a hotel that had an arrangement with a gym nearby, I eagerly wandered out despite jetlag to get in a quick workout.

The place was packed but I managed to compete my routine without incident. Decided to shower and I even managed to complete that task without incident.

Walked out of the shower stall, towel around my waist while dying my hair with another towel. I follow my usual path towards the lockers at my not usual gym, turning left and I keep walking until I realize that I'm on the gym floor. Mortified, I turn and attempt to retreat back into the locker room, which I manage to do.

But now the problem is I'm staring at boobs (usually a good thing) and someone screams (usually a bad thing). Realizing that I've just made things vastly worse, I now retreat and as I step out onto the gym floor in search of the correct locker room, I greeted by cheers (or was it just laughter) and a sudden rush of cold air.

Turns out that one of the woman had become sufficiently mad that she followed my out of the woman's locker room and pulled the towel from my waist, stripping me of any shred of dignity that might have been remaining at that point.

Red me never did return to that gym. But I did enjoy my 1 week deload.

[drudixon]

Pug. That's awesome. Funny.

[IronCharles]

Pug. That's awesome. Funny.

Agreed. You win the thread! :D

[chrisjohn77]

I can't think of any mishaps with equipment but if I'm about to get on the elliptical and I have a wedgie, I pick it. I can't do 40 minutes on the elliptical with a wedgie.

I've gotten going on the eliptical and my knee locked up.It shot me up to the ceiling and down quite clumsily.I tried to lean against the handrail ,all cool like I was stretching but it was pretty obvious ,I didn't mean to dismount like an olympic gymnast.I could hear light snickers and chuckles from the crowded cardio area.I burst out laughing.What else could you do?

[Tiffany Wantsmore]

I was doing lunges once and went down too far and couldn't get back up so I had to rest the bar on the safety bars and crawl out from underneath. Unfortunately the squat rack was right next to the door into the exercise studio, where 20 giggling women were waiting for their aerobics class to start.

[nixter]

Ok this isn't my story but it's my ex girlfriend's. A long time ago before we dated she was at the gym working out one day and noticed a cute guy looking at her repeatedly. He kept looking over as she went around doing various exercises. She wondered if her might come over and talk to her but he ended up leaving without saying anything so she didn't think anymore of it. However, upon returning the women's change room she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and was horror struck. Turned out she had a small hole in the crotch of her track pants. Worse yet, a certain white string was hanging out of said hole.

[gympunk]

Thumping my balls very hard with the BB during a Dead Lift
Stumbled on the Nautilus Stair Master while reading a magazine.
Nearly dropping the BB on myself during Declined Bench

[exzile]

Getting ready to do some standing military presses on a rack kind of like this.
http://www.seriusfitness.com/products/kps_squat_rack_bb.jpg

The bar was racked a few notches below the top....and me not paying attention very well when I was de-racking the bar I just lifted pretty much up and out. But instead the bar hit the bottom of the above notch and shot straight out and into my mouth.

Noone noticed, but my mouth was bleeding and my lips were swollen.

Other than that I don't remember much embarrassing as I'm usually pretty cautious, but I know there will come a day for sure.

[socket]

http://i.imgur.com/zCaBs.gif


I knew I should have just stuck to curls in the squat rack:cool:

[drudixon]

http://i.imgur.com/zCaBs.gif


I knew I should have just stuck to curls in the squat rack:cool:

LOL, that's awesome.