cemery Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Got drunk and wanted to test my bench strength with my freinds, was gonna rep 225, I was so drunk it rolled off my palms onto my stomach and serrated my liver, I almost died. Had exploritory surgery, took about 6 months to get back to normal ( abdominal operations are a long recovery ). I learned a good lesson the hard way and have one kick ass scar to prove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueviper42 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 In the weightroom, I only did three exercises, squats, power cleans, and pullups. Except I did them five days a week, as heavy as I could go. Matter of fact, the only reason I didn't go to failure all the time on squats was because I was so obsessed to getting to a 225 pound power clean before a couple of the baseball players in the class. None of us made it, but I did pull 215 lbs before the semester was up. I didn't eat crap hardly and wasn't ever really sore or tired. I miss that class. That sounds like a pretty badass way to train honestly. I don't know how effective it would be in the long term, but at least it sounds brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankD Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Got drunk and wanted to test my bench strength with my freinds, was gonna rep 225, I was so drunk it rolled off my palms onto my stomach and serrated my liver, I almost died. Had exploritory surgery, took about 6 months to get back to normal ( abdominal operations are a long recovery ). I learned a good lesson the hard way and have one kick ass scar to prove it. Whoa, that is crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Man Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 (edited) Stupidest mistake ever? I did not do full, deep squats for the first 26-years of lifting experience. Heavy leg presses going halfway down, leg extensions, leg curls, etc. are no substitutes. Edited January 15, 2011 by G-Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Beatty Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Fortunately my dad was a lifter, so I was taught strict form early on. Oly squatting, strict pressing & deads. Dad said if I couldn't lift properly, I wasn't using his stuff. as to split workouts, never heard of them. So back at the start, I squatted and did leg assistance, then benched & overhead pressed with assistance, and then deadlifted with assistance. In one day. 2 hour workouts, 4 times a week starting in late 7th grade. Fortunately I was young & could recover quickly (and had good form), but if I'd been splitting workouts & lifting a proper amount of volume, I'd probably have been pulling 500 in HS. At least I never owned a pair of lifting gloves, though. Thanks jeebus for that. I'm not sure if I could go on living if there were any pics of that around to surface. The late 80's mullet and porn star moustache will be my deepest embarrassments. Never owned a BB string tank either. I did own a couple pairs of the baggy neon gym pants in the early 90's......the horror. Edited January 20, 2011 by John Beatty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unseenbeat Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 That sounds like a pretty badass way to train honestly. I don't know how effective it would be in the long term, but at least it sounds brutal. If I was ever sore, I didn't notice lol. The football coach witnessed me do 18 fast strict chins, squat 305 on more than one occasion, and power clean 215, at 150 pounds bodyweight. Now i weigh 165 pounds, feel a ton stronger, and i doubt my parallel squat is as much farther than that as it should be lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Piche Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Negative squats ranks right up there for me. Deciding one day to go super wide in squats WITHOUT going down in weight. Just a few out of many! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueviper42 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) Bill, you wouldn't recommend negative squats? I'm considering doing a Smolov cycle, and part of the phase includes negatives with about 10% more than your max. It says to control the weight down to the bottom position. What do you think? Edited January 29, 2011 by thewalrus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stranger Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 hahaha wayne and i were just talking about this the other day. what ever day it was we always started with flat bench so for exapmle: day 1 flat bench curls day 2 flat bench squat and other leg exercises day 3 flat bench dead lift hahah the list goes one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendofjd3 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) Doing close grip bench with my hands about 4 inches apart. I wish I knew how stupid this was. My wrists would be thanking me now. Edited May 5, 2011 by Legendofjd3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 hahaha wayne and i were just talking about this the other day. what ever day it was we always started with flat bench so for exapmle: day 1 flat bench curls day 2 flat bench squat and other leg exercises day 3 flat bench dead lift hahah the list goes one How about the day we maxed on leg press. Four of us in the gym just bein stupid kids messin around. We decide to see who can leg press the most. Well... a leg press to us was just getting in the chair and unracking the weight all the way, not actually going down past the safety racks thank god. So obviously we maxed out the weight on the machine easily. It was 1,420lb. if i remember right. We went around and told everyone about it. We actually thought we could leg press that much weight our first time trying. Luckily none of our friends had any idea how to lift weights either so we were pretty much beasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tukkergrip Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 When I was younger I only had a 22 pound dumbell and some very weak handgrippers (100+reps things) as a training device lol. I used them for curls, presses in 20's of reps and holdouts only. I didn't do anything wrong except that I tried to get hormone spill over by doing ridiculously bad for the back StraightLeggedDL's with some self made device for 30+ reps (Not too forget mentioning I didn'd do full reps. No lockout and not touching the ground anytime, so I kept the strain on my back, ye that's a really great exercise). This exercise will probably really give u a hormone spill over by just reading it lol. Luckily, I stopped doing these after 3 times training already because I started to get some weird feeling in my back!! Back then when I first went to a gym, I was amazed, it was a commercial gym with not much free weights and I didn't use them either, I only used machines and I did nearly all of them for like 3x10 lol. I remember I was almost sick from muscular soreness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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