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Title: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Dr Dutch on May 12, 2011, 11:10:02 AM
I don't mean the usual injuries but things like this...

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Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Howard on May 12, 2011, 11:18:11 AM
I tried to use my FACE while spotting a girl doing stiff legged deadlifts and she fell over.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: local hero on May 12, 2011, 12:15:10 PM
best one ive seen personaly was my old training partner, i was doing somthing the other side of room when he was benching, he re-racked the bar, but somehow one side went over the back of the support and crashed to the floor, nearly caved his head in....
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: MONSTER_TRICEPS on May 12, 2011, 12:21:25 PM
I once pushpressed the bar right into my chin. It hurts.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: el numero uno on May 12, 2011, 12:25:30 PM
I farted while I was doing leg-presses :-X
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: The_Punisher on May 12, 2011, 12:28:02 PM
I was benching 315lbs and I thought  I had enough strenght to get a 3rd rep, and boom, the fucking weight stuck on my chest and I yelled and someone near by came to save my ass.......I learned my lesson
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Grape Ape on May 12, 2011, 12:29:35 PM
Push press into chin while maxing.  Felt like I got punched in the face.

Chin up bar hanging from chains broke on one side and the bar slammed into the side of my face.

Got stuck under a home weight set while benching and the bar fell in my mouth.

Separated shoulder bench pressing to the neck on the most worthless machine out there - smith machine.  Live and learn.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Evo on May 12, 2011, 12:31:25 PM
Weight tree fell on me after some kid tried pushing 2 x 20kg plates on.

Lat pull down cable snapped and whipped me in the head doing close grip pull downs.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Nails on May 12, 2011, 12:34:28 PM
i was squating 315 ... did about 15 or so reps i lost my balance on the way up , i went forward to try and re-rack the bar and i didnt quit make it... i was unbalanced from one side.... so Bang goes the right 45 then bang goes the left 45 then bang goes the right 45 then yup bang... until i was holding on my back an empty bar


Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Dr Dutch on May 12, 2011, 12:38:46 PM
I was benching 315lbs and I thought  I had enough strenght to get a 3rd rep, and boom, the fucking weight stuck on my chest and I yelled and someone near by came to save my ass.......I learned my lesson
Happened to me too, benching heavy no spotter. I managed to roll it of my chest, but it hurt like hell and I admit it was frightening. Never again.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Nails on May 12, 2011, 12:46:07 PM
Happened to me too, benching heavy no spotter. I managed to roll it of my chest, but it hurt like hell and I admit it was frightening. Never again.


Lol ... a few years back ... i was on one of the 3 benches at my gym it was christmas weekend so the gym was empty... this dude i never seen at the gym was benching in the middle bench.. and a skinny kid on the other bench.

I was benching 185lbs  and i saw the DUDE hit 315 for one rep out the corner of my eye.... he then added a 25 to each side.. i guess dude was feeling strong cus he didn't even try that just took it off added another plate... 405lbs

I figured dude would ask for a spot... i got under my bar proceeded to bench my 15 reps .. at about the 6th rep i saw him attempt to lift it.... saw the weight go down... NEVER saw it lift an inch.... HAHAHAHHAHAHAH dude looked over to the skinny kid for help and kid looked away...Take it was Christmas weekend so the gym was empty ....  i finished my 15th rep .. reracked my bar.. walked over to him... and make him do a forced rep.. HAHAHAHHAHHA 

i was like YOU almost had that one dude... ... He  didnt say a word just walked away never to return to that gym again....
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Dr Dutch on May 12, 2011, 01:00:13 PM
Cool  ;D
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Evo on May 12, 2011, 01:05:51 PM

Lol ... a few years back ... i was on one of the 3 benches at my gym it was christmas weekend so the gym was empty... this dude i never seen at the gym was benching in the middle bench.. and a skinny kid on the other bench.

I was benching 185lbs  and i saw the DUDE hit 315 for one rep out the corner of my eye.... he then added a 25 to each side.. i guess dude was feeling strong cus he didn't even try that just took it off added another plate... 405lbs

I figured dude would ask for a spot... i got under my bar proceeded to bench my 15 reps .. at about the 6th rep i saw him attempt to lift it.... saw the weight go down... NEVER saw it lift an inch.... HAHAHAHHAHAHAH dude looked over to the skinny kid for help and kid looked away...Take it was Christmas weekend so the gym was empty ....  i finished my 15th rep .. reracked my bar.. walked over to him... and make him do a forced rep.. HAHAHAHHAHHA 

i was like YOU almost had that one dude... ... He  didnt say a word just walked away never to return to that gym again....

lol I like your style...
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: BIG ACH on May 12, 2011, 01:58:51 PM

Smacked myself in the mouth while doing dumbell curls with 50 lbs, lips was bleeding all over the place.

Dropped a 45 lbs plate on my finger, lost the entire nail and was bleeding all over the gym floor (that one really hurt)

Bloody nose during heavy deadlifts!


Not me, but a funny one, watched the cable snap as a guy was doing heavy seated cable rows, he went flying back into the supporting pillar behind the machine!
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: BIG ACH on May 12, 2011, 02:01:21 PM
 ;D also, dropped an 85 lbs dumbell on my spotters toe as he spotted me on db presses I felt like an ass
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Rosicrucian on May 12, 2011, 02:03:20 PM
Ripped my jean shots while dead lifting tree fidy
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Doug_Steele on May 12, 2011, 02:05:20 PM
I was running on the treadmill and had a seizure....I had to have some work done on my face to have it fixed.  :-\ I watched the tape when i came back a few weeks ago and watch the tape.  :-\ Blood was all over the place.

Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Coach is Back! on May 12, 2011, 02:36:43 PM
When I was 16-17 I smashed my dick between two dumbells doing heavy side laterals. Had to go to the hospital :((
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: chunkramwell on May 12, 2011, 02:43:28 PM
When I was 16-17 I smashed my dick between two dumbells doing heavy side laterals. Had to go to the hospital :((

You quickly learned to never pump iron in the nude. Well done sir.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Jadeveon Clowney on May 12, 2011, 02:45:33 PM

Bloody nose during heavy deadlifts!




Must have suffered some massive blood loss.  ;D
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: JasonH on May 12, 2011, 02:51:38 PM
When I was 16-17 I smashed my dick between two dumbells doing heavy side laterals. Had to go to the hospital :((

I once sat on my balls when I sat down after hoisting up a pair of heavy dumbells for some shoulder presses. Excruciating is not the word.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: cephissus on May 12, 2011, 02:58:28 PM
the only thing i can really think of is tipping over a plate.  as it wobbled around, it smashed my toes.  i was really surprised at how bad it actually hurt -- it made me furious!
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: #1 Klaus fan on May 12, 2011, 03:17:22 PM
I once snatched an empty bar to my forehead.  ;D
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: 225for70 on May 12, 2011, 03:20:30 PM
;D also, dropped an 85 lbs dumbell on my spotters toe as he spotted me on db presses I felt like an ass

you learned to lower the Anapolan dosages,.well done sir.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Capitulation on May 12, 2011, 04:14:38 PM
Just your typical bar unloading exercise. Was doing squats was not focusing and speaking to my friend and took plates of only one side like a genius. Obviously thing went flying in the other direction smashing some stuff and leaving me looking like a dickhead.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: BIG ACH on May 12, 2011, 04:23:18 PM
Must have suffered some massive blood loss.  ;D

Yeah man, I'm hardcore like that! lol
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: galain on May 12, 2011, 10:57:08 PM
Just your typical bar unloading exercise. Was doing squats was not focusing and speaking to my friend and took plates of only one side like a genius. Obviously thing went flying in the other direction smashing some stuff and leaving me looking like a dickhead.

Saw this happen 2 years ago at my gym with a couple of teenagers. Talking, not paying attention, all of sudden there's a bar cartwheeling through the air and straight through a glass door. Lucky nobody was in it's flight path.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: hmontaq on May 13, 2011, 03:43:10 AM
Finished benching 285, not paying attention I slid the 45 off and the 25 hit me on the foot. I went straight home in pain.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Firemuscle on May 13, 2011, 03:56:15 AM
 I was doing dumbell presses. I was using those shitty pin-lock style dumbells.

 I did a few reps, then on about the 5th rep when I pushed up the dumbells the pin got tapped and it come open, a bunch of ten and 5 pound plates dropped right into my face.

 Luckily it just scratched me and gave me a black eye because it hit me in the cheek, lucky it didn't break any bones. If it would have hit me right in the teeth it would have knocked my teeth out for sure.

 I guess that's why I never see those pin-lock style dumbells anymore. They are a disaster waiting to happen.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Firemuscle on May 13, 2011, 04:10:02 AM
Dropped 45lbs on my big toe once, jumped around the gym on one foot like a retard to deal with the pain yelling "aaaaahhh fitte!! faen helvete" and then continued my workout.

 "Big" Xerxes is a hardcore mother fucker.

 You all wouldn't wanna share a jail cell with this guy. He'll rape you silly and do skullcrushers while tearing apart your rectum. Nothing stops him from getting his swolez.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: DroppingPlates on May 13, 2011, 04:13:46 AM
Yesterday a trainer took me apart, and told me he received complaints from some gym members about my "scent" (I sweat like a horny vagina these days).
I consider this as a serious accident, LOL
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Colossus_1986 on May 13, 2011, 05:07:08 AM
Story similar to Xerces...

in 2002 was loading the leg press, wasnt paying attention and let go of one thinking it was on the sled...well it wasnt and 45lbs fell STRAIGHT DOWN perfectly perpendicular to the ground, from chest-height and landed square on my big toe....the pain was insane but i gave it time and continued a full leg training...it wasnt till i got to my calves at the end of the workout, that i felt an unusual warmth in my shoe...took of the shoe and my white sock was half red...hospital time, hairline fracture in my toe and eventually lost my nail... was a bitch of all bitches...
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Roger Bacon on May 13, 2011, 05:08:06 AM
I don't mean the usual injuries but things like this...

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Broke my foot, dropped a bench on it that I was moving.

Only injury
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: _bruce_ on May 13, 2011, 05:45:08 AM
I have the habit of hitting my head when warming up for presses.
Fell backwards a few times when squatting(shit technique).
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: The_Punisher on May 13, 2011, 07:12:09 AM
Happened to me too, benching heavy no spotter. I managed to roll it of my chest, but it hurt like hell and I admit it was frightening. Never again.

lol......you were lucky you didn't break any ribs........
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: CalvinH on May 13, 2011, 07:17:37 AM
I almost needed a spot once while benching 750lbs :-[
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Griffith on May 13, 2011, 07:47:02 AM
Once a kid was benching, and he had a spotter but for some reason he lost control of the bar while trying to bench it, the weights fell off the side and the bar cartwheeled into the other benches!
Luckily they weren't being used!

Another time some kids were unloading all the weights from one side of the bar on the squat rack causing the weights to fall on the bench I was using a few minutes earlier! As the bar flew over into some other machines on the other side.




Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: BIG ACH on May 13, 2011, 07:49:40 AM

I got stuck benching a few months ago....

Whats embarassing though, it wasn't with 315....  It was a measly 185!!!! 

But in my defense it was my 9th set, and after doing like 25 reps!  So I was totally beat!


Needed someone to come help me, I felt like a total pussy!
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Howard on May 13, 2011, 07:51:00 AM
Push press into chin while maxing.  Felt like I got punched in the face.

Chin up bar hanging from chains broke on one side and the bar slammed into the side of my face.

Got stuck under a home weight set while benching and the bar fell in my mouth.

Separated shoulder bench pressing to the neck on the most worthless machine out there - smith machine.  Live and learn.

LOL, I have had a lat bar break and smash me in the face a couple times.
You feel like a real idiot when it happens in a full gym, trust me.

Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Doug_Steele on May 13, 2011, 08:09:53 AM
I got stuck benching a few months ago....

Whats embarassing though, it wasn't with 315....  It was a measly 185!!!! 

But in my defense it was my 9th set, and after doing like 25 reps!  So I was totally beat!


Needed someone to come help me, I felt like a total pussy!

Yea, i had something like this happen too...

I was benching like 275 or 300 and i had no spotter and it was like my 15th set for chest, Bam! Seizure....fell right on my chest...So, the guys could not lift it, and this girl came in and rolled the bar off my chest.  :o
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Dr.Ill on May 13, 2011, 08:38:52 AM
A fellow at our gym was doing open handed bench press, evidently the bar slid off his hands and onto his neck.  A bit later in his workout, he began to have trouble breathing, ended up being he had crushed his larynx and ended up dying from the injury.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Jadeveon Clowney on May 13, 2011, 12:02:38 PM
Finished benching 285, not paying attention I slid the 45 off and the 25 hit me on the foot. I went straight home in pain.

what about the 5? where did that go?
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Jadeveon Clowney on May 13, 2011, 12:05:25 PM
Yea, i had something like this happen too...

I was benching like 275 or 300 and i had no spotter and it was like my 15th set for chest, Bam! Seizure....fell right on my chest...So, the guys could not lift it, and this girl came in and rolled the bar off my chest.  :o

You should find this girl and marry her.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: delta9mda on May 13, 2011, 12:28:49 PM
Finished benching 285, not paying attention I slid the 45 off and the 25 hit me on the foot. I went straight home in pain.
i did this but it was a ten that came down on my big toe. i played it off and then later went to the bathroom to find my sock was bloody. big toe hurt like a mother fucker. you only do shit like that one time.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: breakmore on May 13, 2011, 12:34:52 PM
Last week i kicked dumbells up to shoulderpress them and when i leaned back on the seat it gave way. I fell backwards almost dislocating my left shoulder, mother fucking gym with fucking equipement failure. It was only 24kg dumbells but it hurt like hell and had to work around the pain the whole training.

I wish i lived in America, could probably act mentally traumatized and sue the shit out of my overpriced gym.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Princess L on May 13, 2011, 12:53:21 PM
Every once in awhile there might be only me and one or two other guys in the free weight area.  Sometimes it's clear the weight is too much for the guy to handle or they try to squeeze out one more rep, but I do nothing  :-\  So far they've been able to get out of the situation and I've pretended not to notice.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: breakmore on May 13, 2011, 01:24:55 PM
Every once in awhile there might be only me and one or two other guys in the free weight area.  Sometimes it's clear the weight is too much for the guy to handle or they try to squeeze out one more rep, but I do nothing  :-\  So far they've been able to get out of the situation and I've pretended not to notice.

They try to impress you. You should encourage them to use more weight.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: 240 is Back on February 04, 2014, 09:06:30 PM
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I wasn't aware so many gyms had video cameras.  Makes sense for liability suits.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: benchmstr on February 04, 2014, 11:01:02 PM
Pec tear...4 hernias..countless stress fractures

Bench
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: HavoX on February 05, 2014, 09:12:58 AM
Went to an old hardcore gym a long time ago, next to an Indian food market.  Took my gf at the time who was in the front on one of the two cardio machines.  Was going about my business and heard a crash... Finished my set knowing that she fell off the stair master and broke a mirror.

Get to the front, and I'll be damned if my girl isn't pale as a ghost.  Then I realized an old Indian woman had driven through the front of the gym wall/windows.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: anabolichalo on February 05, 2014, 09:19:16 AM
none really

i always apply common sense when in the gymnasium
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: SuperTed on February 05, 2014, 09:25:16 AM
Dropped a 20kg plate on my toes once. Hurt like a son of a bitch!  ;D
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Simple Simon on February 05, 2014, 09:26:28 AM
none really

i always apply common sense when in the gymnasium
Unfortunatly that doesn't transfer once you leave the gym.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on February 05, 2014, 09:28:31 AM
Spained ankle doing deadlifts in high school.

Sprained wrist doing dumbbell presses

Slipped on a treadmill and hit my face on the rail

Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: DroppingPlates on February 05, 2014, 09:30:51 AM
Dropped a 20kg plate on my toes once. Hurt like a son of a bitch!  ;D

Sorry about that
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: SuperTed on February 05, 2014, 09:34:18 AM
Sorry about that

 ;D

Took me a few seconds to get that. Nice one.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: AlphaMaleDawg on February 05, 2014, 09:41:36 AM
This one wasn't really my fault. I set a barbell up in the corner wall to do tbar rows, but someone left an EZ curl barbell tilted against the wall near it. Anyways, that ez curl bar end up falling on my head WHILE I'm doing tbar rows. One of the trainers saw it and ran over to check on me. Thank god there was no extra weight on the ezx curl bar or else that could have really been bad. It hurt like a bitch and gave me a small bump on my head but nothing serious. The idiot who left the ez curl bar there to begin with should be shot for that crap
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: DanielPaul on February 05, 2014, 10:01:16 AM
Not sure if it happened in the gym but how about frank Zane rupturing his urethra 3 weeks before the 1980 O , that's about as odd as it gets, it's always made me wonder if this could be the reason he never had kids.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Darren Avey on February 05, 2014, 10:10:52 AM
I was looking at a girls ass while doing db rows and lost my balance and fell off the bench.
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Cleanest Natural on February 05, 2014, 10:46:38 AM
Happened to me too, benching heavy no spotter. I managed to roll it of my chest, but it hurt like hell and I admit it was frightening. Never again.
lol @ you suggesting you could unrack 315lbs
Title: Re: Your personal history of gym accidents
Post by: Mr Anabolic on February 05, 2014, 10:48:51 AM
1987... I once witnessed some guy skull crushing two 45's on each side of an easy curl bar.  It was summer and the bar slipped out of his hands (idiot was using a false grip) and knocked out all his front teeth and broke his jaw.  It was gruesome.