Close calls in the gym?

[SwoleMayne]

I was doing Incline Press and had 185 on the bar on my last set ( no spotter.)

I get to the 6th rep and get it up about 80% to lock out and it slowly starts coming down, at this point I go into survival mode lifted my back up off the bench and pushed with my entire body and amazingly locked it out.

I saw an older guy laughing at me, atleast I saved some dignity from not screaming like a bitch.

[BamBam42]

farted while squatting started laughing uncontrollably and dropped 275 (metal plates) on the ground

hurt my back man

[sword_]

Squatting outside a power rack and not having a spotter. I was in deep squat position and just had to fall back and let the weight drop.

[magog704]

Originally Posted by BamBam42

farted while squatting started laughing uncontrollably and dropped 275 (metal plates) on the ground

hurt my back man

Has happened to me on the hipsled (knee injury so no back squat).

[wrathofhan]

About to bench press, but forgot to take off or add weights on one side, attempted to lift, one side flies off unexpectedly, drop bar on my head. I think I got a minor concussion from that.

[SwoleMayne]

Originally Posted by sword_

Squatting outside a power rack and not having a spotter. I was in deep squat position and just had to fall back and let the weight drop.

I saw a guy do this, he fell down to his knees though with like 325 on the bar and then he fell back.

I grabbed my spine and knees just watching it, was brutal.

[-SLIX-]

Originally Posted by SwoleMayne

I was doing Incline Press and had 185 on the bar on my last set ( no spotter.)

I get to the 6th rep and get it up about 80% to lock out and it slowly starts coming down, at this point I go into survival mode lifted my back up off the bench and pushed with my entire body and amazingly locked it out.

I saw an older guy laughing at me, atleast I saved some dignity from not screaming like a bitch.

has happened to me 1 time... had to roll that down my chest to torso..

[yabudday]

almost had my 20 big mac intraworkout snack thrown away by some skinny phaggot working at the gym while i was deadlifting 500 whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o

/beezy

[lakerat_sr11]

I was benching my last set and was about 5 reps in. I was exhaling as I was pushing up and my lips got too close together and made a super loud farting/weedeater/honda civic noise. I started laughing at the stupid noise I just made and down came the bar. So there I lay under the bar laughing like an idiot until I could calm down to push it up to the emergency bar rests.

[balboa22]

I was doing a bench press and was lying down on a towel so that I wouldnt get sweat on the bench. I was at my last rep, but I couldn't get it out and it slowly started coming down. I panicked and used the towel to slide my body forward and let the bar fall behind my head. ****in scary.

[Kharig]

my closest call.. was like last yr, i was DB mil. pressing 70s, i was on my 5th rep and some asshat walking by bumped my (already separated) shoulder, luckily the weight went forward instead of back...

[blizo843]

Was resting inbetween my sets and some Manlet was trying to bench 135, I was watching out of the corner of my eye and he went down for his 5th rep and the weight slowing started dropping. I ran over and gave him a lil push to get it back on the bench. He was embarresed, but i hold him dont sweat it, but next time i might not b here to save ur ass

[TaeBoNinja]

Was walking through the gym towards the free weight room and spotted a nice ass on this chick in spandex drinking at the water fountain. So I say, "Nice glutes, bet I could bounce a quarter of them". So the chick stops drinking, stands, and turns around, and it's a dude with long hair. He starts winking and said "thankz" with a lipse and I booked it outta there.

[kdm3nac3]

Was on incline bench. 205, on 8th rep. Thought I could finish it out.. .got half way but failed. Had too much pride to yell out for spotter and instead of rolling it down towards my torso I decided it to throw it backwards. Nearly snapped both of my pinkies both in half.

[henrycole]

Originally Posted by lakerat_sr11

I was benching my last set and was about 5 reps in. I was exhaling as I was pushing up and my lips got too close together and made a super loud farting/weedeater/honda civic noise. I started laughing at the stupid noise I just made and down came the bar. So there I lay under the bar laughing like an idiot until I could calm down to push it up to the emergency bar rests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiY8TSjSjyU

[DuLac]

I was bench pressing alone in a gym in my fraternity house, not a lot of weight, but no spotter, and last rep of last set.

Came down, but it didn't want to go back up. It pinned me underneath it, and i rested there for a bit, then i tried to roll it down my chest over my hips to my legs.

Got stuck on my waist, didn't go any further. Then i started tilting it back and forth to see if i could walk it over my hips, and the weights slid off of one end with a crash! Immediately, the bar flipped up, as the weights on the other side dragged it down and it cartwheeled into the wall with a loud thunk.

I sat up, reracked the plates, put the bar back on the bench, and headed to the showers on my floor. Fortunately, not using the weight collars saved me an embarassing rescue.

[H-Town-Matt]

db pressing. fat guy next to be pulls his shirt up and shakes his big fat gut. i laughed and lost concentration. one db hits my head. the other twists my arm in a funny positon and i have to drop it, loud noise, everyone looks.

[JoshSP1985]

Doing pulls up on my last set trying to get that last one out cheeks clenched and ripped the loudest fart I've been able to produce this entire year. There was no smell though just a lot of air but I was laughing so hard I had to take a break for a few mins.

[TimDF]

Originally Posted by H-Town-Matt

db pressing. fat guy next to be pulls his shirt up and shakes his big fat gut. i laughed and lost concentration. one db hits my head. the other twists my arm in a funny positon and i have to drop it, loud noise, everyone looks.

[JoshSP1985]

Originally Posted by Kharig

my closest call.. was like last yr, i was DB mil. pressing 70s, i was on my 5th rep and some asshat walking by bumped my (already separated) shoulder, luckily the weight went forward instead of back...

Oh god I raged for you just thinking about that.

[CTpump]

Originally Posted by sword_

Squatting outside a power rack and not having a spotter. I was in deep squat position and just had to fall back and let the weight drop.

Damn, that gotta be painful

I slipped when walking back from the hooks preparing to squat...lucky I had the catch bars in place. Landed on my ass hard. Had gotten a hand injury due to hand getting caught under the bar and the safety bar

Feels bad man

[SwoleMayne]

Originally Posted by DuLac

I was bench pressing alone in a gym in my fraternity house, not a lot of weight, but no spotter, and last rep of last set.

Came down, but it didn't want to go back up. It pinned me underneath it, and i rested there for a bit, then i tried to roll it down my chest over my hips to my legs.

Got stuck on my waist, didn't go any further. Then i started tilting it back and forth to see if i could walk it over my hips, and the weights slid off of one end with a crash! Immediately, the bar flipped up, as the weights on the other side dragged it down and it cartwheeled into the wall with a loud thunk.

I sat up, reracked the plates, put the bar back on the bench, and headed to the showers on my floor. Fortunately, not using the weight collars saved me an embarassing rescue.

Damn that sucks bro, It is bad enough in the Gym not having a spotter.

I would be scared as hell to lift real heavy at home by myself.

[DuLac]

Originally Posted by SwoleMayne

Damn that sucks bro, It is bad enough in the Gym not having a spotter.

I would be scared as hell to lift real heavy at home by myself.

Yeah, it was only like 155 or something, i was 18 at the time. Not anywhere near heavy to crush me or crack ribs, but heavy enough to make a 'super weighted sit-up' impossible.

[Lexodus]

Originally Posted by SwoleMayne

I was doing Incline Press and had 185 on the bar on my last set ( no spotter.)

I get to the 6th rep and get it up about 80% to lock out and it slowly starts coming down, at this point I go into survival mode lifted my back up off the bench and pushed with my entire body and amazingly locked it out.

I saw an older guy laughing at me, atleast I saved some dignity from not screaming like a bitch.

i had something similar happen to me, except i actually had a spotter.

was doing incline bench, same weight, 185...my buddy was there spottin, hes 5'11 175lbs. so i am bustin out 8th rep, which i could barely get up. i say 1 more. im pretty much taxed, but i wanted to get in a good negative rep since i had a spot, so i let weight down super slow, hit top of chest...and then try pressing back up...couldnt..had no strength left, at all. my friend was trying desperately to pull the weight up, he had underhand grip on bar. i was pushin hard as i could and my face was gettin super red, i realized about .25 way up that my buddy wasnt strong enough to pull the weight up, i looked up at him, his face bright red as he was pretty much curling 185lbs by himself cuz i had nothin lol, i thought "oh **** this weight is gonna drop on my chest" we both somehow managed to get the weight up, was scary as hell. we started bustin out laughing once we got it racked, we both knew how tight the situation was....we raffed for at least 2 minutes afterwards...i thought for sure people were watching us facepalming hard, but no, no one even looked our way even when we were cracking up with laughter afterwards

[CTpump]

Originally Posted by Lexodus

i had something similar happen to me, except i actually had a spotter.

was doing incline bench, same weight, 185...my buddy was there spottin, hes 5'11 175lbs. so i am bustin out 8th rep, which i could barely get up. i say 1 more. im pretty much taxed, but i wanted to get in a good negative rep since i had a spot, so i let weight down super slow, hit top of chest...and then try pressing back up...couldnt..had no strength left, at all. my friend was trying desperately to pull the weight up, he had underhand grip on bar. i was pushin hard as i could and my face was gettin super red, i realized about .25 way up that my buddy wasnt strong enough to pull the weight up, i looked up at him, his face bright red as he was pretty much curling 185lbs by himself cuz i had nothin lol, i thought "oh **** this weight is gonna drop on my chest" we both somehow managed to get the weight up, was scary as hell. we started bustin out laughing once we got it racked, we both knew how tight the situation was....we raffed for at least 2 minutes afterwards

raffing is a good tension reliever and yes you got lucky too. I hate that feeling I need to bust out a laugh when lifting, so I try to block out what's happening around me

[BallzyMcgee]

1 time some guy almost caught me giving another guy a blowjob in the locker room

[bombdigity]

just a couple of weeks ago.

i was in the school gym, nobody else was there and i was on my last set of bench, 225x5 (im 5'7 160). i usually have a spotter when i go >215 but nobody was there that could so i figured i would give it a shot alone. i got to 4 and i knew the next rep would be trouble but i decided to go for it anyways. come down then veryyyy slowly start going back up. i barreelyyyy got it to the rerack spot then reracked it and set up. then i saw that the whole time the old gym monitor lady was watching me with a deep scowl from the hallway to make sure i didnt bust my head open or something. i gave her the thumbs up and she rolled her eyes and said something like blah blah blah i was waiting for you to fail so i could come over there and give you a spot. i told her that if i did fail i was just gonna let it rest on my chest til i regained the strength. later on she bitched at me because we have to check out certain weights (in my case this time 20lb dumbbells for laterals) but she wasnt in there and her young lackey was like "its okay you can just take them i dont need to see your i.d." when i came back to turn it in the old lady was like "UM SIR NEXT TIME YOU HAVE TO CHECK THOSE OUT". havent gone back since (not because of the situation but just havent had time)

[Cheekz]

ive gotten stuck a few times under the weights as i benched, back when i worked out alone in my garage, but i didnt use clips so i was just able to push up one side of the bar so the weights slid off. but i was working out in my garage while home alone once and got stuck under my smith machine while benching. i thought i had one more rep in me but apparently i didnt, and i missed racking it on the way down. i seriously thought i was gonna die, i was sitting there for a few minutes trying to prevent it from crushing my airway. eventually i was able to channel my fear of death and i was able to get the bar back up enough so i could just slide off the side of the bench. felt bad man

[SoFL_RX8]

A few weeks ago some idiot in my gym did the old take all the weight off one side first trick, bar flipped over and came about 3" away from cracking me on the head. I just looked at him and said "Are you f***ing serious?". He quickly reracked everything and took off.

[SwoleMayne]

Originally Posted by Lexodus

i had something similar happen to me, except i actually had a spotter.

was doing incline bench, same weight, 185...my buddy was there spottin, hes 5'11 175lbs. so i am bustin out 8th rep, which i could barely get up. i say 1 more. im pretty much taxed, but i wanted to get in a good negative rep since i had a spot, so i let weight down super slow, hit top of chest...and then try pressing back up...couldnt..had no strength left, at all. my friend was trying desperately to pull the weight up, he had underhand grip on bar. i was pushin hard as i could and my face was gettin super red, i realized about .25 way up that my buddy wasnt strong enough to pull the weight up, i looked up at him, his face bright red as he was pretty much curling 185lbs by himself cuz i had nothin lol, i thought "oh **** this weight is gonna drop on my chest" we both somehow managed to get the weight up, was scary as hell. we started bustin out laughing once we got it racked, we both knew how tight the situation was....we raffed for at least 2 minutes afterwards...i thought for sure people were watching us facepalming hard, but no, no one even looked our way even when we were cracking up with laughter afterwards

Yeah when you come close to a really bad situation like that you can't help but laugh.

I laughed a little bit once I got the weight racked in relief.

I seriously had a massive adrenaline pump, I'm positive that's the only way I got it up.