The stupidest thing you did in the gym.

[simonsky]

I did a brock lesnar hammer punch on the top of my head doing warm up sets of OHP. fuck you rip for saying that it must be close to the head as possible(no just kidding, its my recklessness)

what have you guys done that is stupid besides curling or doing triceps extension when not in the intermediate press.

[Flying Fox]

I did something similar. I hit my chin while doing a warmup set on overhead press. Had to go to the dentist because my teeth hurt.

[Dastardly]

I was doing some PVC pipe drills for snatch/clean as per crossfit.

This is inside a gym with no barbells, I was feeling like "the man" practising oly lifts even if it was with a gay plastic pipe.

But then I smashed myself in the face with it, HARD.

[misspelledgeoff]

I squat in a half-rack at my gym. For warmups I put the empty bar on the lowest hooks in the rack, and hang on to the bar while a I do deep knee bends to stretch out teh hammies.

One day I was distracted and failed to notice that I had put the bar on the safety bars (ie, no hooks) and not the lowest hook. When I did my knee bends hanging on the bar, the bar just came right back with me.

I fell back and was rolling around the floor like a turtle on its back--halfway out of the squat rack with the bar in my hands.

[Tim Lofton]

Chipped a tooth doing push presses last year. Slammed the bar right up into my lower jaw, right under the chin. The teeth hit so hard that I could smell the residue from the friction of the upper and lower front teeth rubbing together. I took pause to re-evaluate "close to the face" and just how I should be pulling my head back.

tim

[matclone]

1. Way back when, when I was new and didn't know any better, I attempted to unload a bar sitting on free standing squat supports that had 315 on it (i.e. three 45s on each side), by pulling off, one, two, and three from the same side first. Guess what happened when I pulled number three? And don't ask why the bar hadn't been unloaded by whoever was using it before (it wasn't me). I guess they thought their mother would be coming around.

2. Was doing high pulls or something and following the bar down to the platform with my hands, and not paying a lot of attention to what I was doing, and it bounced up and hit me in the thumb resulting in a hairline fracture.

[Sami]

Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2ye76gam8

[matclone]

A guy in our gym was snatching one time, pulled, and hit himself in the forehead with the bar. Think of R. Crumb's ice cream kid.

[gzt]

1. Way back when, when I was new and didn't know any better, I attempted to unload a bar sitting on free standing squat supports that had 315 on it (i.e. three 45s on each side), by pulling off, one, two, and three from the same side first. Guess what happened when I pulled number three? And don't ask why the bar hadn't been unloaded by whoever was using it before (it wasn't me). I guess they thought their mother would be coming around.
I've done that. Fortunately, it didn't kill anybody.

[gzt]

A guy in our gym was snatching one time, pulled, and hit himself in the forehead with the bar. Think of R. Crumb's ice cream kid.
I've done that. Not quite like that, but I scraped my forehead pulling under the bar on a warmup.

[matclone]

I've done that. Fortunately, it didn't kill anybody.

No, no one got hurt here either. It makes one hell of a racket though, and it takes one time to learn the lesson.

[Smack]

Biceps curls.

[Mr.City]

Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2ye76gam8

Those Hammer Strength squat racks sure are fucking great, aren't they?

[Sami]

Those Hammer Strength squat racks sure are fucking great, aren't they?

Great...?

http://i46.tinypic.com/wcfync.jpg

[Cmanuel]

I nailed my chin on one of my OH press reps a few weeks ago. It was epic and painful.

[RobertFontaine]

I'm sure most have done it at least once, but

Yes I took the weight off of one side of the bar on the squat rack., doh.
No deaths, no injuries, just a lot of chuckling.

[grambo]

1. Way back when, when I was new and didn't know any better, I attempted to unload a bar sitting on free standing squat supports that had 315 on it (i.e. three 45s on each side), by pulling off, one, two, and three from the same side first. Guess what happened when I pulled number three? And don't ask why the bar hadn't been unloaded by whoever was using it before (it wasn't me). I guess they thought their mother would be coming around.


This happened to me with 275 this monday, except it was on a power cage (normal width). I swear I've had 3 plates on one side of the bar before without it flying off, so I didn't even think 275 would be an issue, nope, bar went flying, snapped a collar and made a ridiculous loud noise. Comically, no one from the desk even bothered coming to see what had happened. Luckily the bar was fine (and no one was standing there).

Also smacked myself in the chin once thankfully just pressing not push pressing or jerking, gave myself a nice neck/chin rash.

[Dastardly]

Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2ye76gam8

You broke the rack? Thats gotta be a win.

[Mr.City]

I like how the dude behind Sami doesn't move at all or show any concern.

[simonsky]

Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS2ye76gam8

nice form though kevin james. broken rack ftw.

[Sami]

I have since destroyed 122.5kg.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/coppaobc/kevin_james_01.jpg

[Marotta]

Wore a Tank-Top for a good 6 months.

I have since become straight, and now train in a plain white t-shirt

[Sami]

Wore a Tank-Top for a good 6 months.

I have since become straight, and now train in a plain white t-shirt

Ugh... that's bad. Education is a beautiful thing.

[simonsky]

a bit off topic here though but i used to wear jockstraps coz the gym owner tells me that if i squat i should were em for undies arent tight enough to protect the family jewels. anyone had the same experience or heard the same shit?

[Platus]

a bit off topic here though but i used to wear jockstraps coz the gym owner tells me that if i squat i should were em for undies arent tight enough to protect the family jewels. anyone had the same experience or heard the same shit? Someone once told me to make sure to tighten my anal sphincter during squats to keep my colon from turning inside out. I did not take this advice.

I swear, one O-lifter has a tragic, exceedingly rare accident and people assume it is an inherent risk of barbell training.

[msingh]

What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

[Mr.City]

What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

It happens to everyone at least once.

[msingh]

On my bar at home the plates fit quite snugly and there isnt really a danger of them sliding off during an exercise. But at another gym i was training at while away from home, the plates were quite free to slide about. I was doing a set of presses when one side became slightly unbalanced all the plates on that side slid off. That was a mess. Always collared the bar after that while training there.

[gman]

What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

Easy now, we've all done stupid things, just some of us are brave enough to admit them. And before you start calling other people names for doing stupid things, just remember that the powers that be have given you the distinction of being called the guy who "Eats lead paint"

[misspelledgeoff]

it's easy to unload the bar in a balanced fashion when you only have one plate on each side.


What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

[Kostas]

it's easy to unload the bar in a balanced fashion when you only have one plate on each side.

ha ha ha ha ha!

[Sgsolberg]

1. I habitually scrape my chin, nose, and forehead when pressing.

2. When I was learning to clean, I would hit my chin or adam's apple when going to rack the bar.

3. Unloaded one side of the bar with 315... the results can be predicted... no injuries to bystanders.

[Dastardly]

I went to this rubbish gym for excessive accessory work 2-3 times a week just because this Girl worked there who I wanted to get jiggy with.

The stupid sad thing was, she was only ever there 1 out of 5 times I showed up, and I never managed to talk to her properly. About 6 months in I realised she had eyes on this greaseball tennis coach.

[fnet]

I Pulled off a 45 lb plate from the bar on the squat rack, only I forgot about the 2.5 lb in front of it. 2.5 landed square on my foot. (I was lifting barefoot at that time, which may be the other stupidest thing I ever did in the gym.). No damage, but hurt like hell.

[RobertFontaine]

What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

This is one of the reasons you haven't done it yet. (bold)
the other is you haven't been doing it for long enough.

give it time you'll get there.

[Mr.City]

I often lose tightness as I rerack the bar after a set of squats. One time this lead to me racking one side of the bar and not the other. The bar came down on my head and there was a loud noise. I was a little dazed but unhurt. I had the biggest bump on the back on my head for the next couple days.

This next one is more a programming issue than doing something like improperly unloading the bar and turning it into a 135 lb guillotine. I stalled on the deadlift for the longest time, not realize that it was time to cut down on deadlift frequency. I overtrained myself so much that I could barely squat 250 a week or two after I stalled at 285. I took a week off and was so worried about overtraining that I started from scratch on my squats when I went back to the gym.

[elVarouza]

Once I wasn't paying attention when I tried to grab a 25lb plate from the rack, in-between squat work sets (because it was out of place on the rack...yeah, I'm obsessive about that), about 3ft off the ground. Dropped it right on my foot. It hurt like hell for about a week but luckily nothing was injured. I managed to hobble around and even finish my squats :D.

[gzt]

Uh, so, the other day, I was racking my bench set, and it seems that on my left side, I went over the upright, so my left arm just kept going backwards with the bar and then starting rotating down... Fortunately, it cleared my head and managed to go all the way down to the floor without tearing up my shoulder or anything. The right side stayed racked, also quite fortunately.

[fnet]

Okay, so maybe this isn't me but this is by far the dumbest thing ever done in a gym.

[matclone]

It looks rather impossible.

[Figaro]

I once asked a trainer at the Y to show me how to squat...

[Bleve]

I was out of town at some generic gym (which, to its credit did at least have a squat rack, even if it was one of those shitty hammerstrength ones).

The rack faced a mirror and I had no-where to look except at my reflection.

Of course, that moves when you squat ...

Loaded up with 180kg for a set of 3 after my warmups went ok, started on the way down, looking at my hips in the fucking mirror ... they moved as I moved (oddly enough, eh?). I lost balance and went over forward, spilling the bar over my head onto the rails. Luckily the rack didn't shit itself!

Other stupid shit? Quarter squats! Lots of 'em. I'm better now, I promise!

[bugbomb]

What kind of dumbass unloads only one side of the bar? I dont even deal with a lot of weight but i've taught myself habitually to unload the bar in a balanced fashion. Seriously, how fucking stupid are you not to?

The fact that it has been done at all means that it has been done by smarter people than you. And yes, unless you're squatting with more than 225, it doesn't matter.

[Gary Gibson]

Many years ago I was doing Power Factor Training. The principles of load in a certain time are actually sound as far as gaining mass, but the use of nothing but heavy partials is very bad.

I was doing very, very heavy partial leg presses (shut up) at the Bally's across the street from my job during lunch. I forget why I hadn't put the safety pins in that day. I lost the rep when I went down a little too low. A few of the bigger guys who'd been eying my 140-lb ass nervously as I set up with 5-6 plates on each side of the sled, came over and rescued me.

I also had a period in which I insisted on doing isolation movements for EVERY ANGLE in every joint. Spent an awful lot of time in the four-way hip machine at that very same Bally's.

And HIT.

[stronger]

I missed parallel on a squat once by about 1.5 inches. It's hard to live down even to this day

[billymallory]

It happens to everyone at least once.
Hmmmm, I hate to hear this, I guess that means I gotta be embarassed in the gym one of these days, haven't yet in about 15 yr

[Aslin]

Deadlifted with a smith machine, WTF!

[Tiburon]

I think you assholes jinxed me with this thread. . . .

Yesterday for presses I had to stand in my not usual area of the gym, and as I pressed up the first rep I smacked the hell out of a bank of lights that I was somehow STANDING DIRECTLY UNDER. Terrific noise. Thank god no one died.

Jerks.

[pu239]

This is going back a few years, but in 7th grade the jr. high track team would go to the high school weight room where all the football players were working out. Someone else loaded the bar (I don't remember how much, maybe 95 lbs) for my first ever squat. I lift off thinking to myself that it seemed heavy and then start my rep and then "down goes Frazier." That was embarrassing.

I scraped the heck out of the back of my neck a few years ago doing seated military presses behind my head. That hurt. There is probably still skin in the center knurl of that bar.

[StLRPh]

cro$$fit

[jameson]

Last night I ate a big bowl of beef stroganoff (made in the Best Invention EVER) and downed it with a Samuel Adams Black Lager. Thirty minutes later I was ready to pass out under the bar. Good times.

[Dastardly]

Deadlifted with a smith machine, WTF!

There are a pair of regulars at my gym (they are twins) probably about 36years old. They have been training for around 20 years in the same gym. They are both pretty strong, can deadlift & squat big weights if they wanted to. But their absolute favourite exercise is smith machine deadlifts, with straps.

[Platus]

I once dropped a bar on my girlfriend's head.

I was standing it on end to maneuver around a crowded gym floor and it slipped out of my hands. Luckily, she just had a bump for a couple of days.

[Cheech32917]

Waaaay before SS, I attempted to"max out" a bench press and had to have one of the female trainers come and help me get the bar off my chest :o

[sergeant_81]

Did something stupid during tonight's training session, actually.

Last rep of the last set of power cleans. I was feeling a bit tired throughout the session, the squats had been murder and I had had a bit of trouble racking on the previous set of pc's.

Bar comes up, and I immediately know I don't have enough power in the initial leg drive. I try to make up for it with an overdone "second" pull. The bar, already on an awful path, moves outward. I pull it back in with my arms on the rack, and manage to rack it hard into my carotids.

Boom - blackout. Bar drops to the floor and I follow it...was up a second later, but damned if I wasn't an embarrassed little puppy for awhile.

[Marotta]

Did something stupid during tonight's training session, actually.

Last rep of the last set of power cleans. I was feeling a bit tired throughout the session, the squats had been murder and I had had a bit of trouble racking on the previous set of pc's.

Bar comes up, and I immediately know I don't have enough power in the initial leg drive. I try to make up for it with an overdone "second" pull. The bar, already on an awful path, moves outward. I pull it back in with my arms on the rack, and manage to rack it hard into my carotids.

Boom - blackout. Bar drops to the floor and I follow it...was up a second later, but damned if I wasn't an embarrassed little puppy for awhile.

Just be thankful you were following the bar, not the bar following you.

[MazdaMatt]

just last night I was doing chest dips with a dumbell bewteen my knees. Failed my very last rep and my arms sorta caved in so i put my legs down fast so i didn't crumple to the floor... well the dumbell came out from bewteen my knees. Chuck's are not good replacements for steel-toes.

[LondonTiger]

Sprained my neck doing 40kg OHP (lightweight)

[Patrick]

I was in college, taking turns on a decline sit-up chair with a friend. As he's all hooked in doing his sit-ups, the legs of shorts start to fall down and since he's inverted they're moving up towards the waist. Of course, this genius isn't wearing underwear so his package flops out at a certain point.

"Jesus christ, Matt... come on."
"Haha, I didn't think you'd smell it."
"What?"
"I farted."
"No, man, you just showed me you're not circumcised."
"Oh... well I farted too."
"Ah, dammit. It smells like baby food."

[Dastardly]

"Jesus christ, Matt... come on."
"Haha, I didn't think you'd smell it."
"What?"
"I farted."
"No, man, you just showed me you're not circumcised."
"Oh... well I farted too."
"Ah, dammit. It smells like baby food."

You should write this stuff professionally. :)

[ColoWayno]

Everyone has loaded the bar wrong at some point... right? Last night I was doing my last set of warmups on squats for 225lbs. I wanted my work sets to be 260 so I figured to add 25 and some change... then I went and grabbed 25's and put one on each side along with the change to total 285. I got under the bar and thought wth and put it back. I knew what the problem was... this shirt has polished cotton threads... and I remembered seeing a picture of a guy with chalk on his shirt. So I chalked up my shirt. Then I got under the bar again... still didn't feel right ... did I not get enough sleep? food? What the hell, I'm doing these reps. So I did. New PR... BANG!
All and all... I'm glad it happened and I'm glad I remembered to wear my belt.

[imnotbncre8ive]

Lol wth, magic PR!?

I'm jealous. Nice job!

[JT in MD]

Everyone has loaded the bar wrong at some point... right? Last night I was doing my last set of warmups on squats for 225lbs. I wanted my work sets to be 260 so I figured to add 25 and some change... then I went and grabbed 25's and put one on each side along with the change to total 285. I got under the bar and thought wth and put it back. I knew what the problem was... this shirt has polished cotton threads... and I remembered seeing a picture of a guy with chalk on his shirt. So I chalked up my shirt. Then I got under the bar again... still didn't feel right ... did I not get enough sleep? food? What the hell, I'm doing these reps. So I did. New PR... BANG!
All and all... I'm glad it happened and I'm glad I remembered to wear my belt.

Today, I loaded the bar wrong. Unfortunately, it caused me to waste a workout b/c I loaded on the light side. I was supposed to bench 217.5 x 5 x 3 today and loaded 207.5. After two sets of remarkably easy benching, I realized the mistake... so... next time, I will make sure I load the correct weight.

But hey, great work on the new PR. And I love how you thought it was the "polished cotton threads" lol

[gman]

About a month ago, I had finished squatting and was getting ready to press. Instead of raising the hooks on my powercage to shoulder height like I normally do, I decided to keep them at hip level and just clean the bar to my shoulders. Well, everything was going just fine until I got to my last warmup set. I grabbed the bar and started to clean, only to have the bar literally jump out of my hands at waist height, scrape the shit out of my right shin on the way down, and then hit the power cage and roll back towards me. WTF??? I looked down, and only then realized I had forgotten to tuck in the end of my weight belt (which I only use for the last warmup set and work sets). As you can guess, the bar caught the end of the belt, and that was that. Thankfully, I have a gym at home, so there was no one around to see this unfold.

[fluxboy]

Does power cleaning the bar into your forehead count?

'Cuz I still do that from time to time.

[Mr.City]

Today, I loaded the bar wrong. Unfortunately, it caused me to waste a workout b/c I loaded on the light side. I was supposed to bench 217.5 x 5 x 3 today and loaded 207.5. After two sets of remarkably easy benching, I realized the mistake... so... next time, I will make sure I load the correct weight.

But hey, great work on the new PR. And I love how you thought it was the "polished cotton threads" lol

Did the same thing with presses one time. And similar to flux, I've cleaned the bar into my neck at one point. In fact, it's one of my form check vids.

[God of Thunder]

whacked my adam's apple a couple of times during a clean.......

oh and as my ipod holder kept falling off my arm during cleans, I hung it off my belt (worn loose on last hole) then kept catching the belt on the way up......

[Carnivroar]

Dropped a 45 lbs steel plate on my barefoot. Yes it broke lol.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Dropped a 45 lbs steel plate on my barefoot. Yes it broke lol.

Fuuuuuck! OW.

[bowdirk]

Dropped a 45 lbs steel plate on my barefoot. Yes it broke lol.

Damn, was that a ceramic plate?

[George Noble]

Just today I had 180 kg on the bar and unloaded all four plates from one side. The gym owner looked on unamused.

[gamedog]

Other than barfing during a weaksauce power clean session, let's see here...

I got worried a while back that my neck (which is already 18 and three-quarter inches in circumference) wasn't gonna grow along with the rest of me, and that I'd go from where I started: a skinny-fat dude with a thick neck, to: a huge dude with a not-so-thick-looking neck anymore.

But I don't have one of those head harness thingies.

"No problem" I thought. "I'll just tie a bandana around my head, and then clip the carabiner on the end of the cable pull-down cable to the back of it, and go from there!"

Only, I mis-judged how much weight my neck could handle. Yeah. The cable pull-down station turned me into a fucking marionette. Feel free to point and laugh.

[Sami]

I snatched and lost 50kg on an Eleiko bar straight behind me into the rack. I can't remember if I already put that here, but that was my dumbest thing to date.

[rpbrown]

Damn, was that a ceramic plate?

His foot broke.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

I already posted my mathematical/bar-loading ineptitude in another thread. Other dumb goodies I have managed:

I seem to have a knack for overdoing it on the first set of PC warmups with just the bar, or the 40 and 60% sets. I have nailed myself in the chin and the neck, snagged the bar on my belt and had it go sort of flying off sideways, and actually completely lost my grip on the bar as I turn the grip out transitioning to the rack (having long forearms, I almost totally release my grip to make the rack happen without jamming the bar through my throat).

Loading the bar for squats, I bobbled a plate and dropped it onto my foot; luckily it was only a 5lb plate, but unluckily, it was still a 5lb iron plate that landed on edge on my metatarsals, and left a sweet bruise. That hurt for a while.

[Marotta]

Dropped a 45 lbs steel plate on my barefoot. Yes it broke lol.

The plate or your foot?

[tnumrych]

Was doing heavy (for me, if I recall correctly, something around 130kg) Split Jerks off of Jerk Boxes, forgot to tuck my chin on my 2nd rep. Split the fucking chin, scraped some of my chin pubes off, and colored the bar red. Good thing is, you only do something like that once.

[drewcarroll2]

I followed a workout from MSN fitness for about 2 months......then I got serious and started doing Crossfit.......

[fuscia]

i sprained my neck on a fly machine by pushing out my last rep with my head.

[Pistol Pete]

90% of the workouts I did before finding SS.
Smoking my forehead with a light power snatch, good little abrasion with some blood for the rest of the workout.
and my fun double facepalm moment on this power clean, the magic happens at 20 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9LgySD-Zg&feature=related

[Ian Kovtunovich]

90% of the workouts I did before finding SS.
Smoking my forehead with a light power snatch, good little abrasion with some blood for the rest of the workout.
and my fun double facepalm moment on this power clean, the magic happens at 20 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9LgySD-Zg&feature=related

Awesome. I wish more of us had video of our stupidity.

[pignome]

I uppercutted myself with the bar when performing OHP.

[StrongLiftMyBalls]

Did that last week but while doing Jerks. Sucks.

Also did that thing people mentioned on page 1 where you take too much weight off one side. Was chatting to a buddy while unloading and just wasnt paying attention. Serious evils from trainers.

[Mahogany]

I joined a new gym once that had those rubber medicine balls instead of the old-school leather ones. I was using 20 pounder for some "overhead ball spikes" onto a mat that I thought would absorb the impact. Apparently the rubber ones bounce a lot more than I was used to, because it came straight back and hit me in the face, causing me to cut my lip on my tooth.

[Immortal_k]

Back before I knew about barbells, I'm ashamed to admit that I did smith machine squats. At least I was going to parallel.

[JM3]

The first day I got my belt I was so proud, I went to the floor, looking in mild disgust at the guy doing smith machine quarter squats in running shoes, set my stiff new buckled belt on the ledge by the rack. Warmed up with some nice deep squats. Then, sauntered over to the ledge to try the belt, which wouldn't unbuckle... Trying to act casual, I struggled with it, finally, right as the guy with the moon shoes walked by me to change plates, the leather popped free and bitch slapped my face, I cast my eyes to my shiny blue do wins in embarrassment

[OCG]

I keep my belt rolled up in my bag, so it has a significant curve in it all the time. Sometimes it curls around and smacks me in the balls when I'm putting it on.

[PaulBeech]

I had a cracking trx moment. A trainer had told everyone he could do rows while standing on a free standing ball( impossible) and i wandered by some other trainers discussing it. For shits and giggles i had a go at trying. The second my foot came off they've floor i was flung upside down and thrown against the wall in front of me. I just lay on the floor laughing.

[Steve Hill]

Let me tell you about the time I had just finished squatting 3x5x425, and after the last rep, racked the bar. Took off my knee wraps, and then started putting away the plates.

By pulling all four off one side of the bar first.

[JM3]

Oh fuck...

[Steve Hill]

Oh fuck...

In slow but rapidly leveraged and accelerating motion!

[JM3]

Nothing like at stretch reflex is err?

[tnumrych]

Let me tell you about the time I had just finished squatting 3x5x425, and after the last rep, racked the bar. Took off my knee wraps, and then started putting away the plates.

By pulling all four off one side of the bar first.

Learned the hard way to never take more than 2 plates at a time unless I'm doing deadlifts.

Here is my story.

Back in high school I was doing incline DB presses, taking turns with a buddy. I was using 70s he was using 80s. He finishes his set, places the DBs on the ground, next to the bench. I sit down, pick mine up, do my set. Stupidly, instead of using the intermediate step of placing the DBs on my knees (probably fatigue related) I went straight down to the ground. Somehow, midair, my ring finger came off the handle in the process. It had the unfortunate luck of ending up on the bottom of the now accelerating DB. The same one that was now accelerating towards the DBs on the ground. The result was a lost nail, 15 stitches, a fractured distal phalanx and a life-time of ridicule of my misshapen "butt-finger". It was neat seeing the actual phalanx sticking out of the top of my exploded finger.
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I also split my chin jerking. Leaving that open for you people to twist into creative innuendos.

[JM3]

I also split my chin jerking. Leaving that open for you people to twist into creative innuendos.



Did you you clean your chin after you jerked on it?

[Mark E. Hurling]

You ever watch someone set up for and do hip belt squats?

I used to bring the gym to a near complete halt when I used to still do them a couple of years ago. I'll have to see if I can find some early posts in my log about it.

[tnumrych]

Did you you clean your chin after you jerked on it?

It was all mixed with blood. Just how I like it.

[JM3]

[QUOTE=tnumrych;562397]It was all mixed with blood. Just how I like


EW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhU3mQTp1U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Shaun]

Failed a 160kg squat so dumped it on the pins. Goes to unload it and takes off all of the plates on one side. Bar promptly crashes down to other side, making me look like a fool.

[PaulBeech]

A friend said that at his office gym he once unloaded wrong. The roof was low enough that the bar went through it.

[Mark E. Hurling]

Nothing like watching the fundamentals of a trebuchet at work, is there?

[Brodie Butland]

The only thing worse than unloading a bar on the rack unevenly is when the bar unloads itself unevenly while you're holding it. Mercifully I only had 225 on the bar...but it was a rather rude awakening when the two plates came off of one side as I was stepping back.

I also once power cleaned one side of the bar directly into the dip bars. Really screwed up my racking, since only one side got to delt height.

[MattJ.D.]

I was warming up my cleans and doing then sorta of fast; one side ended up coming and them went the other. A dude walked up to mr and gave me collars >.<

[Wyjowe]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCPTkbjvpA&feature=youtu.be) is me. (click link)

Yeah.

[Dastardly]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCPTkbjvpA&feature=youtu.be) is me. (click link)

Yeah.

That was scarily reminiscent of what an animal looks like when it gets its throat cut during slaughter.

[Renaissance]

I attempted a 5x5 3 times a week for the first month of my strength training... and wondered why I didn't make any real progress.

[Joe Murphy]

I was doing incline bench in an old Y with some old school, home-made standards. Not a lot of weight, I'm thinking 135+ and went to rack the weight behind me, over my head, too quickly, apparently. The bar in my left hand went over the hook/standard so, um, authoritatively I couldn't pull it back forward and the position of my hand was such that it didn't/wouldn't roll off--my left shoulder dislocated and I dumped the whole mess back there--no collars, of course, so one of those really dramatic, two-stage failures. I thought I had seriously hurt myself as most of the left half of my body went numb but I was lifting again in a few days. Somehow didn't tear anything.

Another time I was pulling a 45 off the bar (racked for the bench) and neglected to remove the 10 pounder on the outside. The 10 caught the very tip of my big toe--not enough to do any damage missed the nail bed) but enough to let me know I could have been in a cast for a couple months.

Good stuff.

[StrongLiftMyBalls]

I attempted a 5x5 3 times a week for the first month of my strength training... and wondered why I didn't make any real progress.

See my username...

Happen a couple of times now. Working up to work sets on bench and in a brain-fart I put an extra 25lb on one side and a 35 on the other. When I unracked it I though I was having a stroke as my arms refused to stop shaking widely as they tried to stabilise the weight. I reracked it expecting to start blacking out at any minute and realised my mistake.


I did the same thing when for a guy who was working in with me as I mis-heard what he wanted. Put it this way, he wasnt happy.


Also can I just say that this thread that we are all enjoying was restarted by Pignome of all people. *claps hands*

[allent]

Went from attempts at a 135 snatch to an unloaded bar. This was about 3 months into my crossfit adventure. Was not prepared for the unloaded bar to move as fast as it did, form was bad anyways, somehow caught my forehead with the bar. Laid myself out with that one.

Pulled a 45 off, forgot about the 5lb on the end and caught my toe (in vibrams).