Not that its good to laugh at the expense of others, but sometimes I just can't help it.
please list them below for my amusement.
I have seen someone turn the treadmill up to full speed then jump on, smack on their face and fly off the end.
Someone throwing a 1kg dumbell from 1 arm to the next for 10 minutes non stop
A woman on step machine for at least 1 hour - but only her right leg steps in little pumps and the left stays mostly still. She has a huge right calf and a atrophied left calf (she walks normally so not injury/condition related)
When I was about 19 I did the "classic" pivot and drop bench press dismount....
I was expecting my workout partner to show up so that we could do bench press together. He didn't show, but I didn't want to miss the workout. So, instead of asking one of the 260lb. "allegedly-natural" bodybuilders for a spot I just put 205 on the bar and gave 'er a rip....
It didn't work very well.
No one noticed that I had dropped the bar on my chest. So, I had to tip the bar to one side and dump the weights off of that end. It was loud as hell. And then I nearly came off of the bench when the other side dropped at terminal velocity nearly launching my 165lb. body into the drop ceiling. Then, one of the heavyweights came over and gave me a good lecture on why I shouldn't be in the gym if I didn't know what I was doing.
I can understand BB curls in the rack because it is easier to load a BB on the supports compared to the floor. And then once you load it and lift it off, you might as well curl it there. Of course, DB or preloaded BB curls in the rack make no sense.
I can understand BB curls in the rack because it is easier to load a BB on the supports compared to the floor. And then once you load it and lift it off, you might as well curl it there. Of course, DB or preloaded BB curls in the rack make no sense.
The only time curls in the squat rack is acceptable is if you're legitimately curling 135# or more.
Below that weight the fixed bars should have you covered.
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Guy (idiot) in the hack squat machine JUMPING in it. Then, went on to the leg press machine and proceeded to "jump" in it, too, by bouncing the weight plate up and down off of his feet. In both cases, the movement was done in triple fast-time.
Guy (idiot) in the hack squat machine JUMPING in it. Then, went on to the leg press machine and proceeded to "jump" in it, too, by bouncing the weight plate up and down off of his feet. In both cases, the movement was done in triple fast-time.
Well, Machines are safer. Who wants to do jump squats? Thats practically suicide!
Guy (idiot) in the hack squat machine JUMPING in it. Then, went on to the leg press machine and proceeded to "jump" in it, too, by bouncing the weight plate up and down off of his feet. In both cases, the movement was done in triple fast-time.
That is the best use of the hack squat machine, not the worst. A jammer press or supercat machine would admittedly be better, but it is hard to find a commercial gym with either of them.
Ok, when I was a noob and didn't know any better, I set up the smith for incline bench press... I wasn't sure of the weight, so I put a little too much on it. I lifted the bar, got to chest height, then couldn't press it back up. And you can't squirm out from under a smith bar from an incline bench, even if you manage to hook the bar back in, if it's too low...
Finally, this HYUGE guy came over and, pretty much using 1 finger, lifted the bar up so I could escape...
One time at the gym I used to train at, one of the PTs had her client doing 1-leg RDLs on a BOSU ball. The woman kept losing her balance and as I recall looked pretty uncomfortable with the exercise.
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The reason you don't have big arms is because you're weaker than a baby's fart, not because you don't do enough arm curls. -- Tony Gentilcore, via thefitcast.com
[Your] biceps [comprise] just 3 percent of the amount of muscle mass in your entire body. Remember that number: It's a good way to keep a perspective on how much you train your biceps compared with your other muscle groups. -- from menshealth.com
thank goodness I did them at home - I'd hate to think of doing them the first time in the gym and what the fitness bloggers & forumites would be saying about what they'd seen that day!
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Haha, seems pretty unnecessary, but it did entertain me for a few minutes.
Havent seen anything too crazy lately, except for a guy who has doing jump squats with his hands held straight up and spirit fingers, i kid you not, his fingers were wiggling/dancing the entire time.
Just saw a new one - Planks: feet on a small swiss ball, forearms on the base of a power plate. The guy turns on the power plate for a minute at high vibration. There's just a whole lot of shaking going on!
Shoulder press with the bar starting behind your head... I saw someone dislocate their shoulder doing it!
And there was this guy dooing this strange move where he was leaning to an angle holding on to a stable rack and then lifted a free weight across, hard to explain and even stranger to look at.
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Shoulder press with the bar starting behind your head... I saw someone dislocate their shoulder doing it!
I can see how you could get hurt, but actually this is a pretty good exercise for Oly training... at least in my limited experience. I'm sure Jill or Tina or Kuri or many others more experienced than I am could chime in...
Strangest / worst gym exercises?
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