Too funny to be confined to my journal...

[Hatred]

So my buddy and I are working legs last night.
We're on the Leg press and working through the plates.
I get done with a set of 9 plates a side.....
which (for this story's sake) is pretty durn heavy.
I've got wraps and a belt on and while lifting I turn bright crimson.
In other words; it's hard.

Chris gets done with his set and we throw 10 a side on.
Lotta weight. For the mathematically challenged that's 45x20..or 900lbs.+whatever the sled weighs.

This old guy comes walking up....complete with highwater sweatpants pulled to his neck...maybe 160lbs....headband..old skool headphones and big ass owl glasses.
"Hey, guys! Can I work in?"
"Um,sure"
I figured ..what the hell....I've never told anyone "No" and can use the break.
So I go to start stripping weights off..
Well,
None of the malarkey with his guy! No sir!
He just plops down under a veritable half a ton of weight.
I didn't know what to say..I mean I've been humbled before...plus I expected him to do calf raises or 1/16th rep presses...
Well....Let me tell you in what I consider to be a remarkable feat of geriatric strength...that weight was locked out,he removed the safety catches .... and I can remember thinking...."Well,this coot's committed now.."
And he proceeded to squeeze out ten perfect repetitions all the way down and back up again.....










In his deluded mind.....




The weight was locked out and he started to lower it a few millimeteres until his legs began to shake like he had parkinsons (oooop! oooooop!!ooo!!!!)and it dropped to his ass drving his knees to his ears as he got pinned then popped like a zit out of the seat over backwards out of the leg press..

"I don't know what happened I've done that before!!!"

me: "Yeah, but with a THOUSAND lbs on top of you?"


"yeah...that's was probably really good for my knees though! i've got kneee problems...(He wasn't being sarcastic.)"

He wanted to keep working in with us and wanted to try again!
I had to shut him down..
AS he walked away I didn't look at Chris as I said this..
"Dude. Look around RIGHT now ...Look for the cameras..there's gotta be ****in cameras..."

[focused]

haha, good post.

[gnoll5]

thats funny man. good thing he didn't hurt himself tho...other than his pride i guess.

[Cheko]

Nice ... Had similar instance on the incline bench … “I used to be able to do this” was the reply … yeah decades ago.

[LuvsThePain]

HOLY HELL! LOL!!!! Alright I just about fell out of my freaking chair! I especially like the part where he popped out like a zit. Nice, very nice.

I can't decide if that was brave or just plane stupid on the old man's part to try and put up a half a ton. Wow. He could have killed himself.

This redifines the saying "know no boundaries"

I'm printing this out man!

[Kiwi129]

That's funny as shit. For some reason I'm picturing the old guy as Woody Allen heh. I wish I could see that.

[speedster00]

Thats funny. That guy could have got seriously hurt though

[Hatred]

That's funny as shit. For some reason I'm picturing the old guy as Woody Allen heh. I wish I could see that.

Holy shit man! HE totally looked like him too!

[Ricky P]

HAHAHAHA That was hilarious. The best part about it is I read only the first part, then starting going down the page....and no ones posts made sense to me. So I went back hahahah and read the ending! HAHA I just passed it off as a gigantic sig that you had. Awesome story!

[dbbeast]

man.......

[paintrain69]

hahaha...there probably was cameras...haha

[GrizzlyLB]

hahaha, I've had something like that happen with me before. I had 8 on each side working my way up in a pyramid and after my set I walked off to refill my water. I turned around to walk back and I saw some kid about a buck fifty sitting down with his friends behind him like he was going to get it up and he got it locked down on his ass. He didn't pop out like your guy did but he left it sitting on the bottom for me to push out and start my next set. Sometimes pride gets in the way of logic.

stuff like this reminds me of that arena football commercial where the guy gets pushed out over the wall and they say "dude, do you have like a bacco or something? You know, to pick up my dignity/pride with.."

[peterpyper]

he pays his dues hahaha

[TufffGuY]

wut an idiot did he even warm up

[BeastFromMiddleEast]

What a buff guy!
Props to both of you for the lifts.

[Big Wides]

nice post enjoyed it a lot

[Pokoritel]

Same thing here bro I was laughing my ass off cause one day I was doing leg presses with 1200 lbs and I finished off with a couple reps. My friend walks over and is like.

Friend: I can hit that shit
Me: I dont give a fuck what you can hit
Friend: Move a side
Me: Your waisting my fuckin time
Friend: Just let me do it asshole
Me: ok

I put the safety pins up by frickin 3 on both sides. Surprisingly he gets it up. He brings the weight down and the fucker is stuck. I was laughing my ass off and he was yelling for help. I was laughing so hard it was crazy. I left his ass there jk... I took the plates off and he got his ass out.

[goody19]

Gotta love the gym hero... thinks "Well, if that kid could do it, i sure as shit can."

Its a great mindset to have that nobody is better than you and you can do anything, but not when your dealing with bonecrushing weight... then some common sense is better.

hahahahahaha the word malarky in that had me fucking dying of laughter.

[MFALCH]

That was really funny. At first I didn't see the, "In his deluded mind part," and I though, "Holy shit, I can't believe an old dude actually did that."

I laughed my ass off.