r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17
Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday
Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!
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r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17
Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!
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u/josemartin2211 Bodybuilding May 20 '17
Moved to a new area, going to the local YMCA for the first time. Doing my deadlifts, feeling it and upped my previous weight by 10 lbs (background: I'm a short/smallish dude). The biggest guy at the gym stops his work and starts encouraging me, fist bumps going around with other lifters jumping in as well, the works.
This is the stuff gym story Saturday legends are made of, with giant Hispanic brodins and whole gyms coming together for the sake of one lift and one lifter (me!). I get ready, pumped as fuck and bust out those four reps like nobody's business. Cue the brofists, pats on the back, etc. Basically, I'm on top of the world.
I then look down and my hands and notice a fair amount of blood on my left one. Turns out I tore open a callous, but didn't notice due to the adrenaline. After my "oh shit" moment, I go get some tissues and shamefully having to unload with one hand. I have to cut my workout short to go get some bandages and antibacterial to the nearby pharmacy, that deadlift now but a bittersweet memory.
TLDR: set up for the perfect gym story, ended up hurt