Most embarassing lifting stories

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: osubuckeye4
Date: April 24, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

After the pet peeves thread I'm cracking up here.
It got me thinking back to high school and I remember one of the stupidest things I've ever done in a gym.
So I'm benching with the cross country team my senior year in high school. At this time were doing our max day (one day a month we would try to max out, it was basically just a distraction from our normal routines). I'm working my way up to 300 pounds and the nearest guy to me is benching around 180 pounds (I was a sprinter just doing cross country for conditioning) so we're partnered up together.
It's pretty inconvenient because we have to unload and load on a bunch of weights every time we switch.
Well just after one of his sets someone on our team is like, "hey there's a fight outside!"... we drop all the weights and run out and watch one of our hockey players just beat the hell out of a guy on our soccer team, no one got seriously hurt, but it was fun to watch.
Anyways, we go back into the gym and I just instinctivly hop onto the bench and I'm like, "okay, here we go"
I pick the bar up and...
CLASH BOOM BANG!
All the weights fall off and start rolling all over the place in one of the loudest noises I have ever heard. EVERYONE in the gym turns around to look and see what happened.
Everyone looks at me and I'm like, "oh s---, I forgot to load the weights on the right side of the bar"
Basically I picked up a bar that had about 125 pounds loaded onto the left side and 0 pounds on the right. (couple of 45's and a bunch of smaller weights, so it wasn't just like 1 or 2 weights falling, like 4-5 weights are flying all over the place)
It was really really embarassing, didn't stop me from finishing the set and luckly no one got hurt, but it was still pretty stupid.
I started to yell at my friend who was spotting me and he was like, "dude, I was trying to tell you but you just picked it right up off the bench before I could say anything"

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: frankel
Date: April 25, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

i was squating but the rack was set for shrugs so i had to fix it. i had to take the bar off but first i had to strip it. so i pulled of the 45 plate and i didnt realize their was a 25 in front of it. Nearly broke my foot.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: johnnyu
Date: April 25, 2009 at 08:18 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

When i was 17 i was squatting & fell forward with 365 pounds on my back in my basement without a power rack. I would load the weight on my bench and sit under it and stand up. Well my back couldn't handle the weight and when i fell my neck & head got pinned between the bar and my bench. I ended up with a neck brace for a week & still have tightness once in awhile 15 yrs later. Not embarassing, just stupid.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: clockwerk
Date: April 26, 2009 at 01:51 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

johnnyu said:
When i was 17 i was squatting & fell forward with 365 pounds on my back in my basement without a power rack. I would load the weight on my bench and sit under it and stand up. Well my back couldn't handle the weight and when i fell my neck & head got pinned between the bar and my bench. I ended up with a neck brace for a week & still have tightness once in awhile 15 yrs later. Not embarassing, just stupid.
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No no, that's embarassing too, don't worry.
I was lifting in high school and we had a supremely crappy bench where the pillars were quite close together. I loaded a 45 on one side and as I let go the bar completely flipped off the bench and crashed into the universal gym. Made a hell of a noise, I think that's about the worst I've done.
On a less embarassing note, I was doing bench last week and getting very frustrated. I've been stuck at a plate and 3/4 for over a month unable to finish my 3rd set without stripping weight. So I go in determined to finish it that day. When I get there, I see the bench already loaded with my exact weight, so I'm thinking "great, saves me the trouble". My first 2 sets go by without a hitch, but sure enough I get to set 3 and on my seventh rep my arms are giving out. I'm pissed. I stand up to strip some weight and see there was a 10lb'er stuck on the inside I didn't notice! I was 20lbs up and didn't even realize it!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: SBspeedy72
Date: April 27, 2009 at 04:48 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

I was in 7th grade, which was too young to probably start lifting anyways, and I wanted to get jacked really quick. Obviously I had no knowledge of how muscle growth works or how to lift. Well, I did a lot of weight many times and when I woke up in the am I couldn't bring my arms down for about a week. I walked around like T-rex haha

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Origin761
Date: April 27, 2009 at 08:50 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

The benches at my gym are fairly close and typically unorganized. I always organize whatever equipment I'm on before I use it. Since the benches are so close I have a tendency to hit the bar next to me and knock it down. Never hurt myself or anyone else but it always makes a lot of noise.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: MrEko74
Date: April 28, 2009 at 05:20 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

I was in 10th grade in weight lifting class, and me and my friend were changing the weights. He decides to pull off both 45s at the same time on his side, so the bar falls into my leg. Huge gash and my coach takes me the office and bandages it up for me. I looked like I had a pillow on my leg the entire day. I was so embarrassed.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: osubuckeye4
Date: April 28, 2009 at 05:38 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

MrEko74 said:
I was in 10th grade in weight lifting class, and me and my friend were changing the weights. He decides to pull off both 45s at the same time on his side, so the bar falls into my leg. Huge gash and my coach takes me the office and bandages it up for me. I looked like I had a pillow on my leg the entire day. I was so embarrassed.
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I would think your friend should have been the embarassed one there.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Tai_Mai_Shu
Date: April 28, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

It didn't happen to me but one of the guy on my high school football while doing squat (he was a O-line guy) while I (DB group) were doing bench press, I heard a rip and thought it was a fart. It turned our the backside of his shorts ripped (you get my drift). What made it worst was he was wearing some short shorts. :lol: I couldn't help laughing and feeling sorry for the guy at the same time.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: new2fighting
Date: April 28, 2009 at 09:03 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

When i was in 10th grade, i was doing my max on squats and when i went down i couldnt exactly get back up so i took one hand off the bar and put it on the spotting bar on the side and when i pushed myself up the weight started to slide off my back luckly my spotter was right there but when i got it up my coach (who happened to be my stepdad) very loudly scolded me saying "Dont ever take your hand off the bar, what are you some kind of idiot" in front of all my friends, needless to say i still get asked that to this day 3 years later

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Shock-G
Date: April 28, 2009 at 09:23 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/most-embarassing-lifting-stories.12925/

I was doing one-arm-dumbbell rows and on the last rep I farted loudly in front of my girlfriend. :? She didn't let me live that one down for awhile....