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Anyone ever go one rep too far on the flat bench press? In the 20 years I've been lifting (off and on), I've never had a gym mishap but today it finally happened. I've been breaking plateaus every 2 weeks, and steadily adding weight. I'm doing about 10 reps of 185, and I usually know when to bail before that next rep that I know will not go all the way up.
For some reason today I felt like going for a rep 11, totally ignoring my instinct that knows I shouldn't. I barely got the right side racked, and the left side got stuck under the hook on the way up. It started coming back down and I went through my options. The first was to yell out "a little help here!"
After about a second of waiting for a rescue, the weight started to come the rest of the way and I dumped the left side -- a 45 and 25. It wasn't really much louder than when those meatheads drop their 100 pound dumbbells from shoulder height. The right side was still racked and I got out from under it to see how embarrassed I should be. Lucky for me there were only 3 people on the floor. If it was peak time I probably wouldn't show my face there again.
All I know is that will never happen again. I'll always ask for a spot on big ones.
Who else had an embarrassing gym fail?
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