Things Not to Do While Lifting Weights

[daedala]

I dyed my hair Sunday, and I was going to just have to sit there for a couple of hours, so I had the bright idea to lift weights with bunch of henna paste and a towel on my head! (I have a lot of hair.)

That worked...better than it had any right to. But it wasn't actually good! And I think part of the reason I bombed the finisher at the end was the unbalanced weight on my head.

Anyway, what's the silliest/stupidest thing you've done during a workout?

Comments

[rydra_wong]

... that would be a very long list.

But the recurrent one is that lifting heavy things apparently makes me lose the ability to do simple addition. When adding plates to a barbell, this can be problematic.

There's a lot of "... huh, this seems heavier/lighter than I expected," and a lot of standing staring at the bar for five minutes while my mind struggles helplessly with the question of what you have to add to 40 to get 60.

[daedala]

It's worse, because then you have to divide by two to get the weight balanced!

This is why there are kettlebells. :)

[rydra_wong]

Forgetting to divide by two is one of the things that frequently leads to "... huh, this seems heavier than I expected." Or, occasionally, to surprise personal records. *g*

[jld]

Ha. Yes. I've been known to walk up to the dumbbell rack, grab one from one weight and one from the next weight over, get to the bench, maybe even get the weights halfway into position, and then notice.