Embarrassing /fit/ stories

>>35923150
>In home gym.
>Benching.
>Raised weight from last week.
>On last set.
>Struggle through third rep.
>Get myself hyped for fourth rep.
>Nail it.
>Hype myself up again for last rep.
>Weight comes down.
>Weight only makes it about an inch back up.
>YouKnewThisWasGoingToHappen.jpeg
>Call for gf in other room.
>She comes to try to help pull it up.
>Can't.
>Have to roll it down onto my hips.
>Gf just standing watching me look like an idiot.
>Eventually stand back up and clean the weight.
>Put it back on.
>Gf says, "Looks like you aren't as strong as you thought"

Hit pretty hard mates.

>>35923705
How much were you benching ?

>>35923705
C-U-C-K-E-D

>>35923716
185 :(

>>35923705
Just answer that one day you'll be strong enough

>>35923760
Would've been smooth. I am not that smooth haha

>>35923770
It's just the truth brah, you will, that's why you train
We're all gonna make it

I almost fu ked up tge5 other day in gym trying 185lbs three times. Nearly killed meself on the 2nd rep so glad i got it up haha

>>35923150
Are you me? I've been on a program for 2 months and just failed my last rep of 205 on Thursday. I highbar squat and had safeties up so it wasn't that embarrassing.

I learned my lesson after failing a low bar squat my first day at powerlifting gym and having the bar come crashing down LOUDLY onto the safeties I set too low. Two dudes came rushing over to make sure I was alright. One power cleaned my babyweight back onto the rack and the other asked if I wanted a spot. Felt like shame for the rest of my workout.

These stories are why i only use smith machines when i go to tge gym without a friend to spot me

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>>35923927
>>35923705
>>35923150

>>35923705
>home gym
>no power rack

you fucked up

>>35923705
>not being able to roll of shame your bench weight no matter what
cmon dawg

Happened to a dyel a few weeks ago.
>guys been lifting for almost 20 minutes
>just starts heading for the kettlebell rack
>notice group of bunnies doing the same
>starts his over heads
>trys to show off to bunnies
>loses grip on the descent and hits himself in the kneecap
>drops it onto his foot
>trys to play it off but can't stand up
>just sits there on the floor holding his knee harassing some 6/10

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>>35923150
If it makes you feel any better. The same exact thing happened to me today. The only difference was that the whole gym came to help and I was on my 5th rep...

>>35923705
you should hit her pretty hard then
it'll make you feel better
after all it was her fault you failed the rep
if she could fucking spot you would of atleast avoided the roll of shame
make her pay anon

>be 18
>obese
>join gym
>workout normally consists of spending hours on machines achieving nothing
>qt3.14 PT starts talking to me
>offers me a free session, say sure why not.
>Day of free session arrives
>Warm up on spin bike, 10 minutes. I'm dying, it's too much
>Don't say anything because don't want to look pathetic
>Start some kind of machine circuit
>First two no problem
>Third machine, do half my reps, starting to struggle
>Lower weight and do 3 more reps
>Have to stop
>Vission blurry, head spinning, pass out
>Come round lying on the floor surrounded by people

That's how I fainted in the middle of the gym after 15 minutes of moderate exercise

>>35925827
How old are you and what shape are you in now?

>>35925858
So from 18-20 I went from 325 to about 200 and 1/2/3/4 plate lifts.

Then got a gf and went from 200 to 365 from 20-24.

Then decided to sort my shit out and went from 365 to 250. Then went 250 to 365. That was 24-26.

Been back in the gym for 2 months now, from 365 down to 330.

>>35923757
damn dude that's twice as much as i can bench...
you should be happy!

>>35926050
Not really....both of you are pathetic. Im only a year into the iron game and i bench 185 for 5 as a 165lb manlet

>>35926016
...wtf brah. Could have made such great gains. You were never even there man, why did you give it up?

>>35926075
You say that as if it's impressive by fit standards.
Fuck off manlet scum

>>35923705
Damn dude, I'm sorry she said that to you. You should definitely murder her

>>35926016

Yo, brother. It's good to have you back.

>>35926075
ofcourse, you're a manlet. i'm not and as we all know long muscles are weaker.

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>>35923150
>today
>usually do drop sets for my squats
>squatted 180lbs x 5 for my first set
>say fuck it and try to do same weight for 2nd set
>fail in the hole for my 5th rep
>based safety bars save me
>duck out from under bar, un load weights, and finish my 3 set giving zero fucks

You have to push your limits sometimes, even if it means failing.

>>35926016
Bro, I can relate to that yo yo life. 2 "fats" ago, I said I would never ever let myself get fat again. Here I am back at 250. At least I've been lifting and don't look like a total slug. If I could just eat like a normal human and not try to fill my emotional deficits with food, I'd look bretty good

>>35926169
The first time I gave it up probably because I got a gf, and I also went to university. Went from living with my gym bro where we would always encourage each other etc to going to uni where it was just binge drinking and junk food.

The second time, when I went from 250-365 was during my masters. I tried to fight it since I'd lost it all during my final year of undergrad. But I was at a much better uni with much higher standard. I couldn't deal with everything so used chocolate as my coping mechanism.

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>Squatting 1 plate
>Light headed
>Down we go
>Get pinned under bar and a strongfat manlet helps me
>Tell him thanks while patting his head
>Realise how weird I am being so I go sit down to sort of look like I am in control
>Realise I am really hurt but I try and hobble around the gym stretching to look like I am fine
>Hobble out of the gym going my stretches and go home in pain
>See him a week later
>Says hi and asks I am okay
>Respond I have no idea who he is and what he is talking about
>We see each other every time at the gym now
>He knows that I know that I know that he knows he helped me
>i am in to deep now and will never speak to him even if he tries

>>35926075
You understand how torque works right? Being a manlet is an advantage in lifting and a disadvantage literally in all other aspects

fag

>>35926317
haha what the fuck

>>35923150
OP if your plates are sliding then you have shit form and imbalances in your legs/hips/core/shoulders/somewhere. Deload and learn how to do the lift properly before you seriously hurt yourself

>>35926358
Ya no, plates slide for everyone on every lift

>>35926358
Why do you think they made collars?

>be beginner, benching 1pl8
>complete 3 sets of 3
>attempt 4th set, fail third rep
>pinned under the bar
>tilt the bar in an attempt to make a plate slide off
>plate hits the ground while still on the bar
>two guys come over and help get the bar off me

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>>35926317
God dam man

>>35926358

Plates can slide when you're setting up faggot.

>>35926317
>Tell him thanks while patting his head
holy kek

>>35926317
>He knows that I know that I know that he knows he helped me

lmoa this is some meta-autism

>at the dumbell rack
>during the gym's busiest hours
>carrying 75 lb. dbs
>the rack was crowded, started shuffling through--it was the only way!
>bump into qt girl
>drop db--*pop*
>"s-sorry!"
>pick up db and walk away
>"What the fuck you just broke my phone!"
>it was oblilerated in every way possible--cellphones aren't dumbbell proof
>she gives me the worst stank eye possible
>and then her (maybe) 5'6" boyfriend steps in
>"What the fuck, bro. You'll have to pay for that."
>"O-okay."
>he starts getting confrontational, actually shoving me around, which was kind of awkward since I'm 6'4"
>i ask him to stop, and I restrain myself from reacting
>but he's not stopping, and he's still pushing--as if I'm about to shell out the cash on the spot or something
>he's making a scene, people are looking at the both of us
>this is getting awkward and very embarassing
>he's still shoving and acting combative
>lose my own composure
>tell him to calm the fuck down and give him a shove
>there was a bench behind him, he falls over
>now he's on the ground and calling me a motherfucker, his gf is calling me an asshole
>"S-sorry"
>leave gym and never come back

My autism melts steel beams

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>benching
>aiming for a PR
>bench is next to a lying leg press machine
>cardio bunny is leg pressing the air, there's almost no weight there
>all set up for that sweet, sweet new PR
>breath in
>hands on barbell
>lift barbell
>barbell down
>but no barbell up
>shit is too heavy, never did the roll of shame before
>tilt barbell to one side
>the side with the girl in the leg press
>the wrong side
>260lb of iron crashing down the floor right next to her head
>one of the plates actually rolls around and gently touches her ear
>well, not so gently
>she's so scared she gets off the machine without using the safety things
>her baby weight also crashes down
>3 PTs run in to see what the fuck happened
>they see me red as a beet from embarrassment, cardio bunny has her hand over her ear
>I explain what happened
>apologize to the girl
>the next day the bench was moved elsewhere, to make sure it will never hurt anyone ever again

I think she was reborn that day. I still feel bad about it.

>>35926415
Deadlifts nigger. Are you the guy who uses collars on the Smith machine?

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>Deadlifting
>Doing 385 for four reps at 165
>Feeling pretty good
>Decide to increase it up to 405 for one or two reps
>Set myself up
>Do that retarded twerking motion before lifting it up
>Starting to lift it off the ground until I feel it
>oh no
>my asshole started to sing its sonnet of shit
>It was so loud I heard it through my headphones
>I locked out and glanced nervously around the platform seeing if anyone was looking
>I'm sure glad the gym was fucking packed today as I saw about ten people looking at me with various looks of disgust and grimaces
>Then I smelt it
>oh yeah, I fucking dealt that motherfucker
>I felt myself go red and dropped the weight
>"Yeah that's why you don't Taco Bell hahaha"
>Jesus fucking christ kill me now

>me when I was a skinny little 70kg bitch
>doing BB lunges at 60kg
>last set, complet failure on 8th rep, stuck at the bottom of the lunge
>no one else in gym, start screaming for trainer
>starting to freak because im imagining borken leg or broken neck
>trainer comes over and helps me out
>embarassed as shit, trainer shaking head
The day I learnt to use safety bars

>>35926317
Feel bad for your kids inheriting that power level

>>35926667
why'd she leave her phone on the floor
sounds like she didn't value it very much

>>35926911
no, but every other lift with a free barbell people use collars.

>>35926972
I am always fearful when I rip an unintentional fart deadlifting.

>Working on lats
>Asian manlet asks if im using the bench
>"i'll let you live!!!" comes out my mouth
>Cue everyone around me confused
>Honestly confused my self

I count in my native tongue so I think my brain was stuck in a limbo language zone and I just wanted to say "Sure bro, have at it!" instead I threaten the poor men in front of a busy gym . :( I get disgust looks at the gym now but deep down Im nice. Slav genetics hurt me that day.

>>35926972
If you never farted deadlifting then you're doing something wrong.

>>35926667
First of all: Why was her phone on the ground at the gym? That's partially her fault. Even still, the guy was a douche for expecting you to be able to just hand over 900 dollars on the spot. Should have pushed him harder

>>35927265
Slavs are genetically coded to murder the innocent, dont feel bad

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>>35923150
i wish that pic was made for me

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>>35926341
Good thing we have this 6'3" masterrace reporting in

>>35927710
Holy fuck could you pic a smaller gif

>>35923150
I did the exact same thing with 225 last week. I did a rep then went for a pause rep, but couldn't do it. I just let the bar slide off my back onto the safeties. Made a big noise, but no one cared.

>>35923705
sounds like she's a great motivation and helping hand in your life. did you at least shoo her?

>getting knees amputated only lifting 7pl8
lmao 675 lifting scrub

>>35923150
people fail like that all the time when they start out. The other guy didn't care because he knows it's common and you weren't hurt.

>>35923705
>using clips on bench
It's only a matter of time before you die doing shit like that.

>>35927118
Damn, same thing happened to me doing dumbbell lunges once.

>>35923757
embarassing. I was stronger in 8th grade.

>>35928551
as long as someone spots you it's the sensible thing to to anon

>>35928669
ignore this estatting faggot

>>35927812
That's the meme nerd

>>35928740
if you have a spotter, sure. He didn't. Even still, a reasonably trained lifter shouldn't have severe enough imbalances to need clips for anything but overhead lifts.

>>35928791
it's just a safety thing isn't it though? for unplanned stuff. you don't know what might happen, a sneeze or something makes you jump and then you're glad you've got clips on. that's how i look at it anyway t b h

>>35928802
don't touch the bar if you need to sneeze.

But in terms of safety in general, not clipping bench is safer than clipping it because the roll of shame is actually very dangerous and you're better off dumping the plates to one side then the other. Squats are debatable but unless you're extremely unbalanced you shouldn't need them. There's literally no reason at all to clip deadlifts unless the bar is bending so much that they ight fall off but you'd have to be a world-class lifter to have that problem. Everything that goes over your head needs to have clips though.

>>35928791

You're stupid. OHP doesn't need collars. Deadlifts do so the plates, that never fit absolutely perfectly, don't walk.

And squats do because there is invariably left/right movement of the bar when you walk it back out, and the plates could slide during that.

>>35928802

Or you could just bench inside the power rack you had better goddamn have if you're lifting at home. Set the safeties to a height that's above your chest when lying flat, but out of the way when you do your arch for the actual lift. This is 100% the only way to guarantee you don't end up with a heavy bar on your chest/neck, even if you somehow lose your grip and legitimately drop the thing.

>>35928833
then I guess it's a mystery why I've had no problems squtting or deadlifting without collars for years. And you're out of your mind if you put unsecured plates over your heard.

>>35926016
believe me dude, this time will be different.

>>35928625
I see what you did there

>>35926075
>1 year
>he doesn't even bench lmao2pl8
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN

>>35927118
What the fuck is a barbell lunge and how do you set up safeties for it?

>>35929421
what the fuck is a sticky and why didn't you read it?

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>>35923705
Oh no, how embarrassing. How can you look your gf in the eyes ever again?

>>35928973

Even if the plates somehow fell off, they wouldn't land on me, stupid.

>>35926667
If she left her phone on the ground it is her own retarded minds fault.

>>35929532
but then the bar suddenly falls the other direction and dislocates your shoulder.

I should clarify I'm talking about standing press including cleans.

>>35926667
It's not autism. That's an extremely uncomfortable situation by normie standards.

>>35928833
ive got no problem doing bench, OHP, squats, and deadlifts without collars. maybe different gyms have different plates? the ones at mine never slide around.

>>35929981
>>35928833
also, ive struggled some reps on bench without collars that were pretty sloppy, crooked, and diagonal on the way up and the plates still stayed put. i cant imagine the sort of tilt that would require collars to keep the plates on.

>>35927278
If you dont empty your bowels before every workout YOU are doing something wrong.

>>35931159
You use an enema before going to the gym?

>>35931264
You don't?

>>35931159
But senpai, I always take my shit right after the gym.

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>walk near someone jump roping
>for some reason he sharply moved
>whips me on accident
>horrible pain that i try to hide
>he stops jump roping and looks so fucking horrified
>i actually said "sorry" as i walked off embarrassed

that sucked

>be me 18 y/o self (2 years ago)
>just started lifting, thought i was hot sit
>drunk af, friend has good sized home gym
>go to do flatbench dumbbell press with 50's
>initiate kickback
>kick them up with way too much velocity
>dumbbells fly over my head and I fall off the bench
>everyone laughs but nobody says anything because they were all even more dyel than i was at the time.

There you go OP, feel better.

>>35926667

you did good anon

>>35929464
Barbell lunges aren't a thing, faggot.

>>35932178
They do exist. Easier to go heavy with a barbell than dbs

>>35923757
lbs or kg? If lbs that is pretty pathetic

>>35926667
first thought I had was if I was in that situation and a 6'4 giant, I wouldve def shifted the blame onto her for leaving her shitty selfie machine on the ground, arent bitches supposed to hold them all the time? Good on you for asserting your dominance even when it wasnt the best way

>>35932511
he could be a 125lb manlet

>>35923705
Tell the dumb bitch she's in no position to talk when she can't even spot properly. That'll show her.