workout at the park - FAIL

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  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    I'm so impressed you were able to build a suitable shelter with a 3.5 inch pocket knife! LOL! :laugh:
  • AnthonyThrashD
    AnthonyThrashD Posts: 306 Member
    I'm so impressed you were able to build a suitable shelter with a 3.5 inch pocket knife! LOL! :laugh:

    It was all I could do in a rush, I didn't have time to add the most essential resource of any home...WIFI! :D
  • MsJulielicious
    MsJulielicious Posts: 708 Member
    Some years back I was walking my two large dogs in the park.
    I was pretty out of shape at this time, and wasn't paying much attention to my surroundings.
    Someone let their dog off leash and my dogs took off after it.
    I was slammed chest first into a metal trash can bolted into the ground, got the wind knocked out of me and was dragged several feet. My over sized sweats got pulled down around my ankles. No underwear.
    It wasn't a great day.
  • AnthonyThrashD
    AnthonyThrashD Posts: 306 Member
    Some years back I was walking my two large dogs in the park.
    I was pretty out of shape at this time, and wasn't paying much attention to my surroundings.
    Someone let their dog off leash and my dogs took off after it.
    I was slammed chest first into a metal trash can bolted into the ground, got the wind knocked out of me and was dragged several feet. My over sized sweats got pulled down around my ankles. No underwear.
    It wasn't a great day.

    Commando dog walking, that's how I roll too!
  • alevelali27
    alevelali27 Posts: 10
    THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR STORIES! This was incredibly fun to read! And I also felt all the collective pain of outdoor workout fails of the past.. Nice to know I'm not the only one who's gone through it ;)

    My shin is healing up nicely, though still quite swollen. Of course, I've been hitting myself RIGHT at that spot all week, as usually happens when you get bruised... Will not give up on outdoor workouts, though! Maybe will try going earlier when there's no one around and will refrain from trying things that I CLEARLY cannot do.. LOL
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    I missed the catch on the last rep of a clap pullup set and landed flat on my butt when working in the park once. Hands caught me enough that there was no damage, except to my ego.
  • SBRRepeat
    SBRRepeat Posts: 384 Member
    Oh man, I have some good ones.
    Once, I was teaching a horseback riding lesson and attempting to demonstrate to my student why she shouldn't pinch with her knee and point her toes way out- point being that it's unnatural and immobilizing. While walking around like a disabled goose proving my point, I tripped and dislocated my knee. Heard a lovely rip and a pop and was not getting back up. A fellow instructor had to pop it back in place for me in front of 5 horrified 12 year olds. You better believe my point was made though. Same group of students, later the same summer, got stepped on by a horse(arm and chest) three times. Camera Flash+ Spooky horse+ lazy instructor= bad news bears. It's a miracle anyone let me teach their children.

    I also fell 6 times on my first bike ride with clip in pedals. Like, every intersection, my brother would hear me curse and I'd be down before he could even turn around. At one intersection (in a mercifully bike friendly town) a guy screamed across the intersection "It's okay honey, we've all done it!"

    Final addition: just last week I was cruising along doing sprints on our local bike trail when my mini pump managed to dislodge itself from it's very secure holding spot and wedge itself between my road bike's frame and the spokes of my back wheel, taking me from about 22 mph to 0 in 2 seconds flat. I somehow managed to not fall and rip open my face that time, but I scared the bejeezus out of an old woman walking her dog. Managed to get the mini pump loose and not break any spokes after only 15 minutes of frustrated cursing.
  • spicegeek
    spicegeek Posts: 325 Member
    Sometimes I take my kettle bells outside and practice juggling - I don`t always catch after the release and flip ....
  • RLMsFitnessPal
    RLMsFitnessPal Posts: 81 Member
    I used to work as a tour guide at a natural history museum and fossil site. One day, I was taking a group to the dig pits. Some cobblestones on the path from the museum to the fossil site had worked loose from the ground and were wobbly. I stopped and turned to face the group so I could warn them to be careful since some of the stones were wobbly. We were getting ready to head down a slope.

    I turned to continue walking. My footing slipped, and I tumbled down the slope. Next thing I know, I'm laying face down at the bottom of the slope with the wind knocked out of me. I can hear voices asking me if I'm okay. I caught my breath, laughed, and said it was a demonstration trying to regain my composure. They told me I landed pretty hard. I had some scrapes and bruises, but continued the tour. I started feeling the soreness by the time that tour finished. I think the group was more worried than I was. Several of them kept asking me if I was sure I was fine. I reassured them that it was mostly my pride that was hurt by the fall.

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