Originally Posted by LancelotsLover
Haha. So my stupid (embarrassing) moment was recently. I had been trying to find a way to add 5 pound increments to the seated row machine, where the plates only go up in 10 pound increments. (no, they don't have those nice slider weights on the poles.) I saw a guy putting a 5 pound flat plate weight on, resting it on the pin you insert, and thought "hey, what a good idea!" So I got the plate, put the pin through the hole, inserted pin into the weight stack, and proceeded to start my row set. Well, on rep 2, the pin fell out, the flat weight fell to the floor, and the plates crashed back to the stack!!! Of course, there were about 5 guys using the other nearby stations at the time, and of course all of them start staring at me like, what the hell is that crazy chick doing? And the man who had given me the idea in the first place comes over and says, "uh, you have to make sure the pin is all the way in the stack, and you rest the plate on the round part of the knob, you can't put the plate between the knob and the stack or there's not enough pin length inserted." "Ooohhhhh, is THAT how you did it?" So he tries to help me, but the pin is bent from the crash, and there we are with him holding the pin between the plates, and me dropping the plates down onto it to try to straighten it! It was waaay embarrassing!
But......now I know how to add my 5 pounds!
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