Can we get a thread about some lifting fails we've seen at the gym?
Got some OC >At Uni Gym >Working on Incline Bench >Group of 3 DYEL Saudis come up to bench next to me >Carrying elastic bands and 45 or 50 Lb Kettlebells >Ignore and carry on >Take bar off the rack and tie elastic bands to each side >NO WAY >Tie other ends to the Kettlebells >Rerack bar, Weights are at completely different heights >It's happening >One of them does a set no problem >Next one starts doing it and struggles >Friends on either side ready to spot >Band snaps/ comes untied and kettlebell falls to the floor >Bar flings up like a fucking trebuchet, catching one of the friends in the face busting his nose >Everyone looking at the three of them now >Guy under bar slides out and looks around >The 3 of them just nope the fuck out
This was on my last day at Uni.. Great way to end my college career
>i'm so fat and wearing so much gear that I can't get the bar to my chest
Ryan Torres
So they hung kettlebells on the bar instead of plates?
Matthew Baker
Yeah, its some weird crossfit shit
Christian Parker
It's actually not, just another useful exercise coopted by crosshit like olympic lifting
It works great for stabilizers, which often times are the main reason why people stall on their bench press
Also extremely effective for bodybuilding workouts that rely on time under tension
You can't explode the weight up forcing you to go slow and contract slowly
Carter Collins
Jesus christ the guy looks like a fucking monster I would literally give up my bench or squat rack if wants it.
Gavin Adams
i'm sure a bunch of 130lb stick figures could really benefit from the stabilizer development rather than just flat benching like a normal person.
Jace Wright
Look at that guys hands compared to the guy spotting him. They're like twice the size.
Also, wtf is he sniffing at the beginning? Getting a quick coke buzz in there?
Michael Rivera
>at gym >a guy i knew shows up, with his gym buddy >start doing deadlifts and stuff >they're next to me on bench >arguing >gym buddy says he can't do that much >my friend says he'll spot him and he'll be fine >he tries and one side goes straight down first time i've seen it happen
Cameron Diaz
I used to think stabilizers as a road block was a meme until I focused shoulders and did band training for a month after stalling at 350
Hit 385 not too long after
Carter Ortiz
385 is different than 135 though
Owen Lopez
Yes in that case they are a bunch of memesters that likely took it from jason bloho
Only dyels and fatties watching this shitshow. Waste your life trying to look like shrek to lift heavy weights. I'll get pussy meanwhile.
Nicholas Butler
Smelling salts I assume. Which is some form of ammonia if I remember correctly. Makes you keep sniffing it and gets you pumped up
David Miller
Run out of room for plates on your leg press?
No problem if you're schreg.
Angel Harris
The EGO
Christopher Roberts
Smelling salts, yes, but its to he doesn't lose consciousness while lifting.
When his muscles are all flexed to shit and working over-time, it'll restrict blood flow to the brain. The smelling salts will open the airways and capillaries, keeping himself from blacking out.
Actually pretty common at my gym when folks are going for larger, dangerous lifts.
Matthew James
Why is he also chained to it?
Cameron Smith
He's a Slav in Chain
Daniel Rogers
Some guy dropped a dumbbell after DB bench press and it fell right on his water bottle which exploded. There was water everywhere on the mirrors, the guy next to him was soaked and obviously pretty pissed, it made a loud ass noise that startled everyone.
Bentley Perez
>guy comes in with lifting shoes >goes directly to the squat rack >doesn't do cleans or jerks after his squats. >goes back to dressing room to change his shoes.
I'll never get how you can buy oly shoes exclusively for squatting. Just fix your mobility man
Camden Perry
nose torque is love, nose torque is life
Jaxson Roberts
Why do people even use those resistance bands? Why not just add more weight if you want to make it harder?
Michael Anderson
It adds or reduces resistance at different parts of the lift in order to fix weak points. It can add weught exclusively at the top of a deadlift, if you have a problem with locking out than this will help.
Bentley Gomez
Bands give a different resistance curve to straight weight, which is sometimes useful.
In the OPs case, I'm pretty sure they were mimicking a deliberate instability setup (the bells hanging off the bands are constantly moving around and trying to drag the bar out of position) and screwed it up badly.
Brody Long
he has the facial expression of a petite porn performer preparing to get dicked by 5 black guys
Go back to your shitty crossfit workout faggot gtfo this board. If you wanna work stabilizers use fucking dumbbells.
Mason Ross
This is hilarious. Someone post the one of the guy "shrugging" by moving his head back and forth...
Christian Jones
Have fun benching 1pl8 max lmaoo
Noah Jones
>old dude grabs lat pulldown bar >he backs away from the machine while holding the bar >uses the bar like a fucking steering wheel, repeatedly spinning it clockwise and counterclockwise
also
>different dude uses bench press station >loads up lmao2pl8 >takes ridiculously wide grip, hands are almost touching the plates >does multiple quarter reps, going nowhere near the chest
Gabriel Mitchell
i was actually getting really hyped and inspired to work twice as hard and then he fucking started and i lost my shit. holy shit that's good
Cooper Adams
>Yesterday at the gym >I go really early im usually the first one in and during my workout the regulars come in which is a one girl and a group of 3 people. usually this is all the people that i see during my workout >that day another guy came in, i think he was new ive never seen him before, but he didnt look extremely skinny like he never stopped inside a gym before or he atleast played some sport > he looks around for a bit >start doing curls, i noticed he didnt warm up and started with a pretty heavy weight, but i didnt pay any more attention to it really, was too busy doing my own thing >a bit later hear a yell, then regular girl screaming for help >we ( me and the other regulars) walk over and see new guy somehow broke his wrist
the area he was in wasn't visible from where i was so i couldn't see how exactly he managed to bust his wrist, so not sure if this is really a fail or anything, but i was just thinking how much it must suck getting a gym membership, figure out a workout routine, be all exited that youre going to get gains and all the girls will swoon over you and bam first day you break your wrist
Lucas Torres
>I have no idea how to greentext: the post kys
David Evans
Powerlifting has become a grotesque freakshow that looks part all you can eat buffet and part gay fetish convention.
No one can claim bodybuilding is the shits while endorsing this. What Kai 'I'm here, I'm queer and I fuck melons' Greene is to John Grimek, Scott 'bouncing bars off my belly and calling is reps' Mendelson is to John Kuc.
Fucking disgusting shit that's worse than anything else in this thread because it's from the top level of a 'sport'.
Daniel Lewis
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Justin Walker
>Salts
Part powerlifting fetish and convention, part Mendelson being so fat, unhealthy and ill he blacks out while restricting airflow for 3 seconds.
Andrew Flores
Can knees have orgasms?
Levi Cook
>Be me, heaviest lifter by far at gym >Know I look like a serial killer (tight shirt, short shorts, beard), since all I do is death stare the bar or lip sync and dance to my music >Doing bench, gym has no safety bars, so it's either complete the rep or roll >Going for 3pl8 for the first time after hanging at 295 for a long time, due to lack of safeties or competent spotters >Unrack >Bar comes down, goes back up easy >Alright baby, 3 reps, here I come! >Bar goes down >Wait, someone turned the gravity up >Fuckfuckfuckfuck >Decide to have some fun and cut down on my scare factor >Growl "ROLL OF" >Switch to falsetto "SHAAAAAAAAAAAME" >Roll bar off to chorus of giggles from other patrons. >Smile like a dope and clean up my mess.
It didn't feel that bad, plus, people aren't terrified of me now, which is double edged, but still, fighting the autism.
Christopher Gomez
Nice one man, you already made it
Connor White
Kinda, pic related.
Joshua Wood
God I hate fat powerlifters. How is that even remotely impressive. 90% of the people in a gym could unrack that and move it three inches but I'm supposed to be impressed since his stomach almost touches the bar?
Nicholas Hughes
>You wont progress past 1pl8 unless you hang kettle bells off the end of your bar Literally kill yourself
Robert Brown
>near-empty gym, doing my routine >see in the mirror that a bunch of pajeets are swarming one of the benches on the other end of the hall >four guys and two girls >two guys are fat, two are dyel as fuck >chattering loudly about something and elbowing each other, girls are giggling >apparently, one of the dyels either boasted or got challenged to bench press X weight >he starts putting plates on a barebell, with great difficulty >holy shit, this currynigger has no muscle at all, he is barely able to lift the fucking plates >he loads the barbell to 120kg (200-something lbs, I think) >isthisniggerserious.png >his retarded friends are cheering him on >he gets on a bench >other pajeets stand above to spot for him >thisisnotgoingtoendwell.tiff >before I can stop this idiot, he manages to lift the bar off the hinges and immediately drops it on his chest >crunch >the gym goes into full zoo mode, with pajeets gibbering like baboons trying to get the bar off their sputtering and screaming friend >with my help, they finally manage to free him >the guy is unresponsive by then, probably gone into shock >he crushed at least four of his ribs >not spitting blood, so the lungs might still be intact >ambulance was nearby, so within a few of minutes the dumb faggot gets carried out on a stretcher >one of his friends then tries to pick a fight with the receptionist for some reason Fucking Indians.
Jack Green
>within a few minutes self-fix
Benjamin Hall
Great story user, good to hear that's one less moron in the world hopefully he died