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Share your favorite gym fail
IILikeToMoveItMoveIt
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Maybe someone has some personal stories or know someone who knew someone, or maybe has a fave video to share...I've been looking at gym fail videos and thought of the times I'd see some people at the gym that could have used more help.
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When I was 14 I signed up at a gym (my mom's) for the very first time and fell off the treadmill first thing.0
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Capsized off the rowing machine - twice!0
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I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's the most RECENT.
I put my lifting gloves on inside out yesterday... I didn't notice until after my first squat set. I had to stop and flip them the other way, felt prettttyyyyy stupid.
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Running on the treadmill next to my son while I was wearing my new knee length workout pants. They just kept sliding down and I kept hoisting them up except for one time I grabbed the top of my thong and gave myself a wedgie and showed everyone behind me my thong. My son just about fell off his treadmill he was laughing so hard. I get no respect I tell you, no respect!0
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Running on the treadmill next to my son while I was wearing my new knee length workout pants. They just kept sliding down and I kept hoisting them up except for one time I grabbed the top of my thong and gave myself a wedgie and showed everyone behind me my thong. My son just about fell off his treadmill he was laughing so hard. I get no respect I tell you, no respect!
Omg, this has happened to me (minus my son cause he's only 5)!!! The knee length pants are cute but they do NOT stay up!!!0 -
Only a handful of people know this. I got my stuff caught in the chains on a dip belt with 90lbs of weight on it at the time. It cut me wide open. So, don't go to the gym and do weighted dips with mesh shorts on. It can be a pain n the ballz lmao.0
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Running on the treadmill and accidentally passed gas! I didn't know how loud it was because I had on headphones, I had people on both sides of me too, no reactions so couldn't have been too loud...smh FAIL0
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Laurenjenai wrote: »Running on the treadmill and accidentally passed gas! I didn't know how loud it was because I had on headphones, I had people on both sides of me too, no reactions so couldn't have been too loud...smh FAIL
oh good lord...I do that every time I'm on a treadmill.
I used run by sorority row in college. They may as well have been a cotton field in September...0 -
FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »Only a handful of people know this. I got my stuff caught in the chains on a dip belt with 90lbs of weight on it at the time. It cut me wide open. So, don't go to the gym and do weighted dips with mesh shorts on. It can be a pain n the ballz lmao.
Did they have to call an ambulance?! 0 -
I absentmindedly hopped onto a very fast moving treadmill because I was distracted and listening to music in my earbuds way too loud.
I probably don't need to explain the catastrophe that followed.0 -
First time I had ever used in a treadmill was in the late 80's. I turned it up too high and got on. That thing flung me on the other side of the gym. Luckily, I didn't break anything or get hurt. lmao.0
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my worst is failing on a deadlift with one of those attempts where the weight doesn't really move. People just looked at me like I was a dumb a** meathead.0
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I don't know if it's a fail, but I was working out to a DVD in the kitchen and didn't notice my brother standing behind me, laughing. He said I looked like a teletubby trying to walk. Apparently this wasn't a comment on my weight but my jerky movements.
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great stuff everyone! My brother flew off the treadmill once and busted his lip. I don't think I ever saw him on another one after that poor guy!
I got a leg magic machine for a dollar at a flea market and everytime I use it, I expect to hurt myself. I wobble waaay too much getting off and on. It's like standing in a canoe. One on each foot. lol0 -
Not really a "gym" fail per se but it's close:
We were shopping for an elliptical machine and the models in this store were all very close together. The whole family were trying out different ones. I stepped down off of the one I was on and my foot got caught between two machines. I fell pretty hard and took two of my kids with me. The kids were pissed and the store employees looked horrified. I wrenched my ankle pretty well, too.0 -
IILikeToMoveItMoveIt wrote: »great stuff everyone! My brother flew off the treadmill once and busted his lip. I don't think I ever saw him on another one after that poor guy!
I got a leg magic machine for a dollar at a flea market and everytime I use it, I expect to hurt myself. I wobble waaay too much getting off and on. It's like standing in a canoe. One on each foot. lol
I have a small scar on my shin from where the tread skinned me. Tell your brother to suck it up. I hopped back on (not knowing my shins were cut and one of them was bleeding) and finished off my quickie 3 miler because I was gonna leave with whatever dignity I had left, damnit.0 -
I don't have any gym fails, because I hardly ever go to one. I work out at home mostly, but I have several stories from when I was younger and got injured doing sports.
Fell of a pony once and got my foot stubbornly caught in a stirrup. Pony freaked out, because after flinging me off she assumed I'd be gone for good, but then realised I was still attached to her, so she kicked me in the face and back while still cantering around the arena. I did my best to protect my face, but my back didn't fare too well. I hate ponies, even hot headed thoroughbreds are more sensible.
As most horse-crazy kids, my friends and I pretended to be horses and we often jumped obstacles pretending we were in the olympics. That particular stable didn't have standard poles, but they were homemade wooden ones and much heavier than your regular ones. I'm a decent high-jumper, so I was jumping a pretty high oxer I think (it was set at pretty much my neck-height) and I was distracted. Stumbled over it, but the pole didn't fall down. I didn't get my hands down quick enough to brace for the fall, so fell jaw first on the ground. ..It was soft, but I now have a disproportionate jaw that pisses off my dentists..
..Not a fail on my part, but some kids at my pool (who weren't part of the swim team) tried to drown me.. in the kiddie lane.. and almost succeeded. "Kiddie" lane had a giant foam house on it and I had just gotten out of my swim class and I was just sort of diving and messing about practicing breathing techniques. I was under water when several boys who were my age and slightly older moved the foam house right above me and every time I tried to get to the surface they moved the house where I was trying to resurface. I was running out of breath and the only thing I could think of was to turn around and have my feet face the surface and I managed to kick the stupid house away from me and get out. I was too young and proud to complain to the coaches or anyone really. ..And I never became an olympic swimmer, haha.0 -
MonkeyMel21 wrote: »FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »Only a handful of people know this. I got my stuff caught in the chains on a dip belt with 90lbs of weight on it at the time. It cut me wide open. So, don't go to the gym and do weighted dips with mesh shorts on. It can be a pain n the ballz lmao. Did they have to call an ambulance?!
No,
I couldn't even scream because it was so painful. As I pulled to loosen the weight it only got tighter. I eventually freed myself. finished my workout once I stopped hurting. Didn't realize how bad it cut me until I was in the locker room getting changed for work.
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FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »Only a handful of people know this. I got my stuff caught in the chains on a dip belt with 90lbs of weight on it at the time. It cut me wide open. So, don't go to the gym and do weighted dips with mesh shorts on. It can be a pain n the ballz lmao. Did they have to call an ambulance?!
No,
I couldn't even scream because it was so painful. As I pulled to loosen the weight it only got tighter. I eventually freed myself. finished my workout once I stopped hurting. Didn't realize how bad it cut me until I was in the locker room getting changed for work.
I'm having like, sympathy nad pain. Is this like what happens to spouses of pregnant people?0 -
FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »FitnessTrainer69 wrote: »Only a handful of people know this. I got my stuff caught in the chains on a dip belt with 90lbs of weight on it at the time. It cut me wide open. So, don't go to the gym and do weighted dips with mesh shorts on. It can be a pain n the ballz lmao. Did they have to call an ambulance?!
No,
I couldn't even scream because it was so painful. As I pulled to loosen the weight it only got tighter. I eventually freed myself. finished my workout once I stopped hurting. Didn't realize how bad it cut me until I was in the locker room getting changed for work.
That...gave me goosebumps of horror. And I don't even have any junk.
I don't actually have any interesting stories...at all. Not even of gym buddies. Not even in high school athletics, going back that far. I guess I'm just boring, and so are my friends! 0 -
I've accidentally mooned a physical therapist while transferring from my wheelchair to a mat and back again.
I've also suffered embarrassing leakage more than once.
I once crop-dusted a riding arena with the bouncy horse's help. Oops!0 -
Fun fact about my gym. It's full of old time powerlifters and beat up old body builders who are a great source of motivation, support and advice for anyone willing to listen. The downside... When a person goes to break their PRs on a lift you get an audience and the silent witnesses remember.
2 years ago when I finally broke 405 on my deadlift I became so excited that after setting the bar down for my final rep I quite literally did a burpee, catching my toes on the bar and face planting into the power rack which happened to be in front of me. Now, every time I go to break a PR there is at least one person there who will quietly chant "face plant, face plant" as a reminder of what NOT to do.0 -
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Tell your brother to suck it up.
His teeth came through his lip and had to have stitches and he was 12...
but you didn't know that so its cool.
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When I was twenty three I decided to go to gym late at night and work on. I decided to start off with the decline bench press. Everything was going smoothly until I decided to to go heavier. I was trying to bench 305 but I got stuck. I tried getting it off my chest by myself, but failed. Fortunately someone helped me out. But did I learn my lesson? No I didn't cause I tried doing it again right after it got stuck on me. I tried it again but unfortunately I failed at it again.0
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I worked out at a friend's apartment complex gym with her. One of her neighbors had crazy conservative ideals and was spouting off about them to us. I played along because it was cracking up my friend, and I figured I would never have to see this nutjob again.
But I did see her again, in a busy grocery store, and she was so loud and racist and I really regretted that I had ever played long.
But my biggest gym fail was not listening to advice that I should use the weight machines as well as the cardio equipment. Dummy.0 -
I loved reading all of these! Keep 'em coming!0
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I fell off the rowing machine and looked like an awkward turtle because my feet were still strapped in hahaha0
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I have two.
1. Farting while doing heavy leg presses... Too many times to remember.
2. In a powerlifting competition I grabbed the bar too far to one side and so when I tried to lift it, it was uneven and I had to drop it. I had never done that before and it was embarrassing to do in a room full of experienced lifters.0 -
Oh Man!
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Doing squats on the smith machine and falling with the bar on me. The guys all ran over and helped. Lesson learned that day. Lol0
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