Gym horror stories-crazy shit I just witnessed

[Calibucsfan]

Figured I would like to share what I just witnessed:

Dude was on a flat bench doing dumbell press. He was doing his max I guess which was 95lbs. I have no clue how this happened....but as he was doing his 3rd rep he was struggling hard. His spotter did not help him...so as he was slowly getting it up and his elbow was almost locked out, his right hand somehow slipped and the weight went right into face knocking out 4 of his teeth and chipping another 2. He swallowed and was choking on some of those teeth after....paramedics showed up and took him away. The scene left behind looked like a murder had happened with so much blood on the floor. Good news is dude is fine outside of he will have a expensive dental bill...
Once again I have no clue how you can loose grip on dumbells right above your face

Anyone else got any gym horror stories

 

[Teutonic]

1984

Trey a lawyer guy ( I was 19 , 176 pds all hair) was inclining 225 ish and a bad spotter was looking at tail..the weight strayed and his left shoulder tore out of socket..we heard it..saw it..got him out from under it. It was so gross( back then) to see a limb dangling like that..Trey had passed out.

A bad spot is worse than none..

My left shoulder tear last august was from a young guy who was supposed to hand me 100 pounder to my weak side, left and then curl it up with two hands so I could start in the top of the movement...he saw Gretchen one of the German anavar twins fkn flawless ladies and he let go about 1 second before I seated my left arm into socket to begin lowering prior to start behind the head tri presses with 2 hands ( love that stretch !) I heard and felt a grind as it went into a controlled crash straight to the floor. I rolled out of bench took a knee..counted to 10....gathered my gear..drove home...chewed 800 mg s motrin 10 mg lortab 5 mg flexoril chugged half a bottle of Nyquil..called in sick...and passed out. Mri said...slight tear..surgery or back off. Took 6 months to incline bench 185 for 15 again. Now I m back to 225 x 4-10 depending on that g d rotator tear...thank s a lot dick.
In his defense...she is hot hot hot.
I was doing bdywt dips for 30 plus..now I can t do 1...I know..ya ll strap on 3 plates w a chain...as did I in 1989 but I ache !

 

[jozifp103]

my buddy (little guy 150lbs) was doing calf raises on the smith machine with 3 plates on each side and after his set he went to hang the bar up and the hook missed the peg. he didnt realize it wasnt hooked so he went to walk away and the bar came down on his collar bone and snapped it, and flattened him into the ground bending his body in half in the wierdest way i've ever seen. i thought he was dead. i lifted the weights off him and he was making the worst noise trying to breath. he was stuck in that mangled position. he bruised his spleen, broke his collar bone, cracked 3 ribs and compression fractures on 3 disks. 4 years later he still isn't right from it.

 

[Harnold]

Was in the gym one day and a guy was doing the whole stack on the low cable rows when the cable snapped towards the full lift into his body. the fcking force sent him three or four times backwards in head over heels until he hit some useless weird cable machine. his workout was over, but did walk away. funny thing is, the guys a fcking lawyer, didn't even sue them for a free membership. not sure, I think in the USA he'd now be a millionaire, but not in Canada, he would be lucky to get a free year...lol
if he had the metal v-shape grip he'd be toothless, but was using separate heavy plastic grips so only fat lips. lucky though.

 

[Black Beard]

Lmfao, German anavar twins

 

[Pacific Rim]

A buddy of mine came out of the gym with his brother and they were shot at, his bro died on the spot and he was critically injured.

 

[Black Beard]

Da fuq. Where the hell was that?

 

[Harnold]

A buddy of mine came out of the gym with his brother and they were shot at, his bro died on the spot and he was critically injured.

wtf?

 

[ELicit23]

A buddy of mine came out of the gym with his brother and they were shot at, his bro died on the spot and he was critically injured.

That's horrible... But idk why I lol'd so hard... I think it's because of the fact that this totally came out of nowhere in a thread where we all expect to read stories about weights falling on people... Not guns. RIP doe

 

[kaname]

Once again I have no clue how you can loose grip on dumbells right above your face

I have no clue how a spotter doesn't help. Outside of me reaching for the bar and you yelling out "I got it," I will intervene if I see you struggling too hard. That wobbly noodle arm thing isn't a good look. It's a big difference between trying to squeeze out a rep, and trying to look bad ass by grunting out a rep you clearly don't have. But hey he pretty much made the rep, and all it cost him were a couple of teeth......I'd say even trade, makes sense.

 

[carverelli]

guy at my old gym was dumbell pressing 120's with his feet flat on the floor and hiz back balanced on an air inflated exercise ball. the ball popped and his back hit the floor with the dumbellz breaking bith wrists
i would have given him the darwin award but it didnt kill him

 

[Southernfish]

guy at my old gym was dumbell pressing 120's with his feet flat on the floor and hiz back balanced on an air inflated exercise ball. the ball popped and his back hit the floor with the dumbellz breaking bith wrists
i would have given him the darwin award but it didnt kill him

Ohhhh thee ol' Darwin award, so many of those still yet to be handed to their rightful owner.

 

[Therealkozmo]

Omg this thread had me thinking ouch and loling at the same time

 

[Krazydiamond]

We had a incline bench back in the day that we nicknamed the "ball buster" due to it's narrow seat that if you sat on it the wrong way...well you get the idea. Anyway this bench was a total P.O.S that I'm sure was designed sometime in the 60's. It had to bolted to the floor otherwise with even a modest weight and a spotter on the platform behind it there would be as tendency to tip back. One day this exactly what happened. The irresponsable gym owner was rearranging the equipment and in the middle of the day left the "ball buster" in the middle of the floor unsecured. A couple of out of town drop ins were using it with 225 on on the rack. I was in a different area of the gym but when I heard the crash followed by the scream I already knew what happened. I found the bench tipped back, spotter pinned on the ground under the 225 with it resting on his abdomen. Pulled the weight off him, called the ambulance and that was pretty much the end of it. The "ball buster" was taken to the dump the following day.

 

[Teutonic]

Damn KDiamond..you are looking shredded son.

I cannot believe an owner would let that ride...as mentioned above in the great Litigeous (?) United States of America that guy would either own the gym or have bankrupted that owner.
In N Zealand back in 02..03.. I rented a 225 moto cross bike to do a little recon for shits and giggles in the woods and prior to leaving asked the owner "Where is the release of liability form sir ? He chuckled gregariously and told me " No need for that nonsense mate. U asked me to rent one of my bikes. I do not wish anyone ill..but if you go run into a tree or off a cliff the only costs I ll incur is the loss or repair of the bike. Off you go now...gotta get back at it." I had woken him when I walked onto his place...lol. Commonwealths are my fav s when I travel.

This countries got like 95 percent of the lawyers on the planet and 97 percent of the frivolous law suits. And until fkn CONGRESS ( lawyers most of them ) begins to be held accountable or inaction who am I to bitch about people who expect something for doing nothing when them guys are setting the standard which is to do the utmost to try and achieve a level of mediocrity never ever seen in this or any country. Our founding fathers would call for a ....anyway I got enough heat not be labled an anarchist.
Sorry for the rant

 

[Krazydiamond]

Damn KDiamond..you are looking shredded son.

I cannot believe an owner would let that ride...as mentioned above in the great Litigeous (?) United States of America that guy would either own the gym or have bankrupted that owner.
In N Zealand back in 02..03.. I rented a 225 moto cross bike to do a little recon for shits and giggles in the woods and prior to leaving asked the owner "Where is the release of liability form sir ? He chuckled gregariously and told me " No need for that nonsense mate. U asked me to rent one of my bikes. I do not wish anyone ill..but if you go run into a tree or off a cliff the only costs I ll incur is the loss or repair of the bike. Off you go now...gotta get back at it." I had woken him when I walked onto his place...lol. Commonwealths are my fav s when I travel.

This countries got like 95 percent of the lawyers on the planet and 97 percent of the frivolous law suits. And until fkn CONGRESS ( lawyers most of them ) begins to be held accountable or inaction who am I to bitch about people who expect something for doing nothing when them guys are setting the standard which is to do the utmost to try and achieve a level of mediocrity never ever seen in this or any country. Our founding fathers would call for a ....anyway I got enough heat not be labled an anarchist.
Sorry for the rant

Thanks man right back at ya!

Yup that guy was sloppy as fuck, sold the place about 3 months later and left the country. He's lucky he didn't get his ass handed to him in court. Hell I would of testified of behalf of the victim since we all warned the owner previously that the bench was an accident waiting to happen. Not to mention the crushed balls of unsuspecting members. The future generations of children that were lost to that bench seat....

 

[China_Wall]

so about 10 years ago, during my stint in China, here's how a chest day turned out...

picture this gym, middle of lower end neighbourhood, pay as you go (about .50 per visit), no AC, barely any lights, shoes/shirts are optional

I walk in, think I like it...reminds me of a Dorian style environment, except it's in China and well you know.... a few semi-serious dudes deadlifting, benching, making a bit of noise. I pick up some dumbells, probably 60's or so, do a warmup on the incline bench (that I didn't check over, besides the angle)... ok, warmup done, so I grap the hundys, lie down one... two... three... mid fourth and bang, pin snapped in the incline bench, China_wall is on the floor

banged my head good on the floor, the dudes around said I was out for a good few seconds... I just remember getting up and saying, wow, that's a shitty bench

 

[JimiThing]

One of the worst I saw believe it or not was on a treadmill. a Guy slipped and somehow 2 fingers got caught between the belt and roller in the back. 2 fingers were sticking out sideways, bones out, blood everywhere. In shock, the guy stands up and says I think I broke my finger.
Yeah id say you did.