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

[lyorn]

Set up: Back in the electrical machines age, there was this back-bending-lifting-machine (sit, have roll put on your back in general area of your shoulders, sit up against the resistance), and this thing tended to kick me out of the chair when going down if I set it to anything that was half a challenge. So the trainer set it to "way too light" and wrote 20 reps into the training plan.

On to the silliness: First time I did this, around the third rep a tricky programming problem drifted into my mind and I started working on it. About five minutes later I had solved it and noticed a person standing close to me with a very unhappy/impatient "are you done yet?" expression on her face. I haven't the foggiest how many reps I did, but I never returned to that machine.

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Other: Picking up the short (7.5 kg) bar when I want the olympic bar. Wondering why it would not fit on the rack. Picking up the olympic bar when I want the short bar. Wondering why I cannot do the exercise.

Hey, these bars look just too similar. What about colour-coding them?

[daedala]

That sounds like a very uncomfortable machine!

If I go to the gym, I will bring my rolling pin rings! (This is a joke but it was the first thing I thought of and I think it's funny, so you're stuck with it. :)

Hey, when we're done with NROL4W, wanna do NROL4A?

[lyorn]

That sounds like a very uncomfortable machine!

All the machines are uncomfortable, but that one was in the top 30%. However, set to a low weight, it's hardly noticable... *G*

Hey, when we're done with NROL4W, wanna do NROL4A?

Have not planned so far ahead yet... I expect to lose a month over the summer when it's just too hot for exercising, so I'll be way behind you then. But in general, sure!