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 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.

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.

[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

[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

[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...


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!

[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????

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