A few years ago, but it’s stupid enough: An older lady in the gym was unable to get off from a pullup-helping machine, so i grabbed the weights (! WHY? !) and asked her to step off. It was about 40 kg.
Flattened my finger.
Wept in the locker room with the bloody finger in my mouth (I was dizzy because of shock)
Drove dack home shaking from shock
Fingernail is curved a shitty way it’s hard to clip it since.
Edit: typo, pullup
What machine do you mean? I’ve seen pull-up/dip helping machines but am not aware of one for push-ups. Searching for that term gives a lot of results but nothing with weights like you described. Or do you mean a bench press machine?
oh, my bad, it was a pullup machine, where you stand on the support with your knees. She was hanging in the bottom position, so it was hard for her to step off it. No gym employee gave a fuck, so I mindlessly started “helping”
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Those things should have a locking pin or something for situations like that. With most exercise machines, you relax to set the weights down, but those ones… well, you know.
Though if anyone finds themselves in a situation where someone needs help with one of those, you could try putting some of your weight on the pad to help keep it down so they can get off. Though then you’ll be left in the hot spot, so hopefully you can do a pull-up with that counter weight. Or you could hold it down with your arms and drop the plates when the person is off.
Yes, but I wasn’t thinking. And that wasn’t my first day/month/year at the gym.
I guess this is how sober careful people manage to hurt themselves or die. My brain just wasn’t there at the moment.
No need to defend yourself, I can’t say I wouldn’t have tried the same thing if I was in that situation without knowing how it turned out from your story. You’ve probably since thought of countless better ways to handle that. I just hope this thread helps someone else who otherwise wouldn’t have thought of that and would have repeated your mistake.
A few years ago, but it’s stupid enough: An older lady in the gym was unable to get off from a pullup-helping machine, so i grabbed the weights (! WHY? !) and asked her to step off. It was about 40 kg. Flattened my finger.
Wept in the locker room with the bloody finger in my mouth (I was dizzy because of shock)
Drove dack home shaking from shock
Fingernail is curved a shitty way it’s hard to clip it since. Edit: typo, pullup
What machine do you mean? I’ve seen pull-up/dip helping machines but am not aware of one for push-ups. Searching for that term gives a lot of results but nothing with weights like you described. Or do you mean a bench press machine?
oh, my bad, it was a pullup machine, where you stand on the support with your knees. She was hanging in the bottom position, so it was hard for her to step off it. No gym employee gave a fuck, so I mindlessly started “helping”
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Those things should have a locking pin or something for situations like that. With most exercise machines, you relax to set the weights down, but those ones… well, you know.
Though if anyone finds themselves in a situation where someone needs help with one of those, you could try putting some of your weight on the pad to help keep it down so they can get off. Though then you’ll be left in the hot spot, so hopefully you can do a pull-up with that counter weight. Or you could hold it down with your arms and drop the plates when the person is off.
Yes, but I wasn’t thinking. And that wasn’t my first day/month/year at the gym. I guess this is how sober careful people manage to hurt themselves or die. My brain just wasn’t there at the moment.
No need to defend yourself, I can’t say I wouldn’t have tried the same thing if I was in that situation without knowing how it turned out from your story. You’ve probably since thought of countless better ways to handle that. I just hope this thread helps someone else who otherwise wouldn’t have thought of that and would have repeated your mistake.
I’m not even defending, I kind of also step away to the side, look at myself and think: “what an asshat, look at him!”:)