That moment when the instructor asks you "Are you ok?"

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  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    WendyLeigh1119 wrote: »
    Are you talking about bench pressing/ tricep work? Because "skullcrushers" are literally almost that for me daily.

    lol no. sympathy for the wobbly cuff - i've got one of those too.

    mine was the overhead press. if you've never done it, you're supposed to keep the bar as close to your face as you can as it goes up, and lean back as little as possible - but still enough to move your face out of the way.

    i have 'good' form for the press, but obviously sometimes i get a little too cocky about it being a lift that just makes sense to my nervous system. it's what happens when nature has given you no ability to do a clean back-squat at all.
  • WendyLeigh1119
    WendyLeigh1119 Posts: 495 Member
    Okay, I do those. Just not well enough to skim a nose (yet). But the triceps/skull crushers are a different story for me. My back sucks, too. My spine and shoulder are all messed up from a dual-accident and despite knowing I have limitations ...I, too get all confident and then the inevitable shaky arm comes trembling down inches from my skull despite my brain saying "no, it's cool...really...I'm good" Ahhh good times for all.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    canadianlbs wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    May I ask why and after how long?

    my first t'ai chi class was the winter of 1986/87. my last was three years ago pmuch to the day. 30 years? it just wasn't something that's been worth pursuing for me, past the first set of reasonable-diligence tries. it's not embarrassment that makes me drop it. it's usually frustration over the communication gap between me and most people to whom body stuff just makes sense. i certainly don't internalize the difference. i just end up fecking pissed about how i can't communicate with people who don't understand the questions themselves that i'm trying to ask.
    Which is so frustrating and heart breaking- because with a good instructor- you can and will be able to learn past your own two left feet. :(

    i guess . . . i mean, in fairness to the instructors i had, i think i'm a genuinely atypical subject. i'm not kinaesthetically stupid, but my mind just takes its own pathways to 'getting' things. i can't use 97% of the information most 'teachers' give me. and i typically need a ton of information most of them consider irrelevant. so i hear the words, i grok the theoretical point or whatever, but it doesn't parse. and in fairness to me, not everybody who is teaching something because they're good at it themselves should be teaching that thing. the mindset gap is for real. i just haven't found it to be worth it to pursue the bridging when it comes to those kinds of things.
    I think if you want to do something- there is a way to make it happen- no matter how "slow" the progress.

    yeah, pretty much. which is why for me it's not the end of the world if i never do do tai chi or get the dance figured out. i don't care enough about either of them for it to really be that big a deal. with lifting i did care, so i fired or eliminated people until i found someone who was smart enough to know how to back off.

    Everyone has a different "language". I absolutely understand what you're getting at LOL.

    My dance teacher spent several years learning how to teach adults- like actually getting educated for it- which is more than most dance teachers ever do. She's been teaching for a long time- and she actively talks about the different ways we process information- and it's funny- in the same room- we'll have 5 people and usually there are 3-4 main ways in which the information is processed- and we'll all latch STRONGLY on to one or the other- when s**t falls apart- we revert back to that languages but as we get better/more adept- we use the other languages and become "multilingual" at processing- and it really helps.

    But having been there- and gone through a lot of that- I totally feel you.
  • Sweet_Heresy
    Sweet_Heresy Posts: 411 Member
    I once pushed myself too hard playing arcade dance games and promptly threw up in an adjacent trash can, In front of a crowd of onlookers.
    Not my proudest moment.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Sweet_Heresy wrote: »
    I once pushed myself too hard playing arcade dance games and promptly threw up in an adjacent trash can, In front of a crowd of onlookers.
    Not my proudest moment.

    IMHO that's badass LOL- not something to be ashamed of!
  • katielily84
    katielily84 Posts: 4 Member
    Ugh the yogi phrase "it's ok to use the blocks if you need to" is the soundtrack to my life.
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    Hoshiko wrote: »
    In a kickboxing class, tired, hungover, not paying attention. We were doing uppercuts to warm up and I managed to punch myself in the face. I looked over and the instructor was trying really hard not to laugh.

    The worst part is that a week later I did it AGAIN.

    I haven't done that yet, but I could see how it could happen :) The trainers can always tell when I am hungover in kickboxing though, it's not pretty, but I do feel better after the workout!
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    I stepped on a moving treadmill once and fell off. I hadn't noticed the previous user hadn't turned it off.

    Recently I dropped my phone on the emergency stop and abruptly ended my run. I ended up doing 6k that day I was punishing myself I guess
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    I'm a scarlet woman too. Body conditioning teacher at dance school would check on me. Just scarlet, totally fine!

    I'm actually clumsier in real life, faceplant the ground or trip over myself more regularly than I would like to admit. Walk into door handles, kick table legs, you get the idea.
  • FatMoojor
    FatMoojor Posts: 483 Member
    When I first started going to the gym years ago, I had a free trainer session. Was all going well and feeling good until I stood up after she has helped stretch out some muscles.
    Next thing I knew I was being carried across the gym to the area where there were chairs. I had had a massive head rush when standing up and had blacked out.
    After that a lot of the regulars would ask if I was okay when I looked a bit shaky after a hard work out. I think it helped me quite a bit because I got to know a lot of them and they really helped me learning form etc.
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