What Injuries Have You Witnessed at Your Gym...

[theoak01]

Same shit has happened to me garza,them close grip bench presses kill ya,i was doing 135 and wanted to push my luck with 10 more pounds well i got four reps and my tri's gave out and was there for what seemed like 3 minutes before anybody noticed and finally someone helped me,i laughed ,but now i know my limits

 

[plifter]

When I was in high school this skinny kid was trying to press 135 by bouncing it off of his chest as hard as he could. He ended up breaking his sternum.

 

[Evloks]

Not a gym story,but.I remember at my school one of my teammates got hit with a shot put right in the back of the head. He was walking on the far left side of the throwing area, and it just so happens that the guy in the ring threw the shot to the far left. It clocked our teammate right in the head. He ended up going to the hospital.Being that he was a our very best shotputter, he was a senior,and that it was out last home meet of the year, it got everyone down. But he came back to the meet about 3 hours later.

 

[Warik]

When I was in high school this skinny kid was trying to press 135 by bouncing it off of his chest as hard as he could. He ended up breaking his sternum.

You can't possibly imagine how many times I stood there in the gym watching someone "bench" 300lbs+ hoping that didn't happen so the paramedics wouldn't take up room under the chinup bar. These people think it's a playground or something.

-Warik

 

[danielson]

some of these stories crack me up, typically the wannabe hard men racking up on a barbell and then injuring themsleves, the one where the wiehgt fell on his frinds foot is classic!

another one that almost happened to me. i dumbell press, im about to go to failure, and a girl comes right under me and starts doing situps....wtf!! ive had grief from her before but if i dropped the weight it would have killed her. i had to try and swing the weight away and almost tore my shoulder off, the crash of it hitting the ground was enoyught to make her not try again....that and the evil glare i gave her

ive also (dont ask how cos i dont know) sat on a bench at like a diagonal angle, gone to set up the dumbells for a bench press and fallen off,,,i was damned lucky i didnt kioll myself or someting

 

[Garza]

I remember this old man put 2 45's on each side of the hack squat and on the way down we heard "somebody help me!" I rushed over, not thinking, I pulled both 45's off one side....so it just made things worse lol. Me and this guy had to pull the sled up so he could get out.

 

[fiatconspiracy]

i was using the hack squat machine and this crazy old woman was trying to take a 45 from the pin next to the machine while i was lifting the weight, so instead of waiting for me to finish, or walking 10 feet an getting it somewhere else, she gets hit in the head.....also I dropped 60lbs dumbbells on my toe, i just got tired and dropped them, it hurt so bad I couldnt speak....