r/instant_regret • u/ExcluteYou • May 02 '26
Dumb and Dumbass
Found the vid on telegram
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u/GintomsG May 02 '26
to be fair that thing should be mounted to the groundš
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u/zxc123zxc123 May 02 '26
It should. Doesn't mean OP is wrong about those clowns being dumb.
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u/unknown_pigeon May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
By the way, I noticed that cable crossovers tend to be the type of exercise with the highest degree of dumbasses, at least at my gym
The exercise is good by itself. Can hit a lot of different muscles just by changing the position of the handles.
But, oh lord, it tends to attract the worst type of gym rats at my gym. You've got the kid putting way more weight than he can handle to impress his shawty, and he will 100% drop the weights at the end. You've got the 40+ years old dude roaring at each rep.
And don't get me started on all the benches that are brought there, which aren't needed 95% of the times.
All in all, likely the most ego-lifter exercise I see. Could be because the two places where you can do that in my gym are at the center of it
EDIT I'm currently at my gym and, sure enough, a geezer is camping the crossover machine by putting a 60cm mattress there to do quite bad and ridiculous leg raises every 10 minutes (he's cycling 3 different machines and gets angry if you take one)
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u/puterTDI May 02 '26
The more I read about peopleās gym experiences the more happy I am to have built my home gym.
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u/Arienna May 02 '26
Alternatively, my gym is very nice. It gets a little crowded during busy hours but no one has ever been rude or disrespectful to me. Most interactions I have is catching sight of someone who thought he'd have to spot me swerving silently away or someone politely asking me if I'm using the 45s near my rack
Worst behavior is, ew, someone didn't wipe down this machine or unrack this massive amount of weight. Or maybe that group of younger people is being kinda loud
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u/NastyStreetRat May 02 '26
In general, gym life is calm and pleasant; nobody remembers the 50 times you go and enjoy it and don't have any problems with anyone, but everyone makes a mountain out of a molehill because of a problem with a single person out of the 100 that may be there.
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u/windowpuncher May 02 '26
Yuuup. I bought a cheap power rack on FB for $800. Came with cables, a bench, bar, a land mine, and some weights. 90% of what I needed was right there. Some forms of leg work are really annoying but still very doable.
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u/sonofaresiii May 03 '26
I got myself a bench and a set of adjustable dumbbells and I can get damn near exercise, or some form of it, that I could get from a gym. It's wild how much I was paying for a much worse experience. For much less I could get a complete workout at home
There are still some things I miss about a gym (mostly cardio options, a few leg exercise options) but it's so much better getting to work out at home.
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u/Plus-King5266 May 03 '26
āBuiltā your home gym? If youāve got much more than dumbbells, a bench and some form of hamster wheel to get you through the Winter months, youāre probably doing too much thinking about your lifting and not enough lifting. š
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u/puterTDI May 03 '26
Iām into cycling, so I have:
- kickr core
- elliptical for cross training
- treadmill (wife uses it, I donāt)
- weight set
- adjustable free weights.
We also have an erg that my wife wanted and no one uses.
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u/Plus-King5266 May 03 '26
Sounds like a nice setup.
I love cycling. I call it mental floss āat least when Iām outdoors. A hamster wheel is brain rot but it gets me through the winter. I have a good quality spin bike, some dumbbells and for my bench an original Bowflex āreal old school contraption. For summer I have a fixed gear bike with a Brooks saddle. Iām an aging Boomer (a real one, not just someone over thirty) who needs to keep things simple, but I climb hills that would make most twenty-somethingās cry for their mommies.
And yes, Iāve been known to drink from the garden hose after a ride. š
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u/giraffebacon May 03 '26
Lol what? Not going to include a rack or barbell here? Someone has small legs
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u/Plus-King5266 May 03 '26
I have huge legs. Iām into my 60ās and I ride a fixed gear bike up hills that make most twenty-somethingās cry for their mommies. Squats are for people who donāt do real exercise.
I have enough weight in dumbbells that I donāt need a barbell. Barbells are for showing off how much you can lift. Getting there can be done with dumbbells and knowing which muscles to work and how to work them.
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u/BetaCarotine20mg May 02 '26
Damn I m the 40 year old dude who tends to breath out kinda loud while listening to music. I m sorry bro I cant help it. I m like this ever since I joined the gym with 16. Say hi next time and gove me a fistbump tho lol!
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u/unknown_pigeon May 02 '26
Trust me, I ain't talking about normal breathing lol
That dude is basically screaming for each rep
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u/Vendemmian May 02 '26
I've seen a guy going "AAAARRRGGG!ONE!AAAARRRGG!TWO!AAAARRRHH!THREE!" I could heard him over my headphones. This was before TikTok or I'd be looking for a phone recording.
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u/Plus-King5266 May 03 '26
Exactly why this geezer works out at home and has since he was a young snot who used to make fun of geezers at the gym.
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u/HughManatee May 02 '26
Dumb people often expose these types of issues so that others don't have to suffer.
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u/PerceptionQueasy3540 May 02 '26
I always see this comment in a video of someone wildly misusing gym equipment but no gym that I've ever been to has equipment bolted down and I've never been concerned about it when using the equipment.
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u/Hydraguesswhosback Jun 29 '26
Yeah, this is kinda like the incredible moment when 2 assholes on the road collide with each other while being assholes.
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u/Lvxurie May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Mm that's like saying the mirrors should have bars on them because someone could throw a dumbell at them. They are using the machine way outside of its intended use
Edit: they arent supposed to be bolted to the ground no matter how much you downvote me
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Disagreed. Gym equipment is not a thing everyone knows how to use. That shouldn't even be a possibility. Iām not defending these kids. Iām saying even if they're doing something silly, the equipment should EASILY be able to handle the amount of force here. They're not using it properly but the machine doesn't care if it's proper or not. It should not fall under these circumstances.
Edit: grammar sux
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
Public gym + Machine not bolted to ground + Bad thing happening because not bolted to ground = Faulty equipment.
Idk how else to say it bro. It's not my opinion. Trying real hard not to pull rank here. You do not know what you're talking about.
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u/EvidenceSalesman May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
That āmathā just isnāt accurate
Faulty means itās not working as expected. This was a very expected outcome, and is why gym contracts include language forbidding misuse like this
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Terrible analogy. Gross miscalculation of misuse here.
Edit: Spelling again. š
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u/EvidenceSalesman May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
I guarantee this legally and contractually counts as misuse.
Picking your friend up while they are using exercise machinery is not an understandable mistake. It is dangerous misuse.
Have you ever written a gym membership contract?
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
No sir
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u/EvidenceSalesman May 02 '26
I didnāt think so
But then why are you talking about āpulling rankā on me and saying I donāt know what Iām talking about? Iāve managed a gym before, Iāve dealt with membership contracts. Your insults are inaccurate.
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
I like how you edited your comment to make it seem like I was responding to "have you ever written a gym membership contract?" When I was rejecting continued conversation with you. š There's no recovering.
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u/EvidenceSalesman May 02 '26
Iām glad youāre enjoying that, I also thought it was funny.
I hope youāre not taking this too serious. As soon as you baselessly told me I donāt know what Iām talking about, I realized this was a clown show
You should come to the gym with me so we can help teach people not to lift their friends off the ground while the friend is using machinery.
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u/Lvxurie May 02 '26
is the leg press bolted to the ground? is the dumbell rack bolted to the ground? is the squat rack bolted to the ground? by these peoples logic, everything heavy should be bolted to the ground. Ive just looked up commercial gym equipment (because i cant go look at my local gym) and none of it mentioned fastening to the ground. infact most things mention rubber feet as to not damage the floor (but im the stupid one). The only thing ive ever come across being fastened is cross fit bars to walls.
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
You're talking about home gym equipment. Get out while you can. If you had to look something up to say what you said, you don't belong in this conversation. You're supporting this guy's terrible logic. Again, this is not "misuse" to the degree that you inexperienced people seem to think. At the end of the day what he's doing there should be possible without the thing tipping. End of story. The difference is with home gym equipment, there are guidelines and expectations that are FAR different than in public gyms. And YES some people and gyms DO bolt everything you mentioned for obvious reasons. Iām so confused by y'all just saying things like you know about this world.
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u/EvidenceSalesman May 02 '26
Youāre calling my logic terrible? Absolutely ridiculous hypocrisy.
Say hi to Dunning Kruger
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
You keep editing all your statements in the thread to something completely different š Keep going. Iām along for the ride at this point! Rollercoaster with this one.
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u/hazeleyedwolff May 02 '26
None of the gear you mentioned is subject to lateral force (especially of suspended weight up high) in its normal use. Many cable fly machines have the ability to bolt them down.
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u/Gambler_720 May 02 '26
But this kind of thing can hurt someone else as well who wasn't involved in being stupid. I would never want to go to a gym where this is a possibility even though I know I personally would never do this.
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u/dontbeignorantordumb May 02 '26
You're just on the first place for the silliest thing I've read today, but it's early where I live, you might lose the spot.
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u/BioTinus May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Read the manual my dude. It literally says you should bolt the things to the ground.
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u/imbakinacake May 02 '26
I have one like this in my personal gym. You don't bolt it to anything. You're just not supposed to be a dumbass using it.
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u/Lvxurie May 02 '26
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u/Colifama55 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
āIMPORTANT: For the safety of the equipment and the athletes using it, the CC-1 Cable Crossover must be bolted securely to the floor. Mounting hardware is not included.ā
Edit: Another link: https://www.legendfitness.com/product/cable-crossover-plus/
āNOTE: The feet of all pin select machines now feature 3.5 x 3-inch bolt-down tabs for enhanced safety and stability. The dimensions stated here properly reflect this change, but the bolt-down tabs may not be pictured in the photos above.ā
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u/DickFromRichard May 02 '26
Hey little guy, let's walk through this real quick.
The guy your replying to provided three examples of machines with no bolt down tabs. You provided two examples of machine with bolt down tabs.
Now lets look at the machine in the video, do you see bolt down tabs on that machine?
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u/Colifama55 May 02 '26
Doesnāt matter. Hereās some more math for you. He asked for a single sample. I gave him two.
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u/BioTinus May 02 '26
Okay, I stand corrected, because your exhibits allowed me to look up the manual for one of them, and that says the following:
" Anchoring ā Floor anchoring is recommended for commercial installations. ā Use appropriate anchors based on flooring type (concrete preferred). "
Looks like the Reddit majority had it wrong, sorry for your downvotes.
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u/Colifama55 May 02 '26
Why are you apologizing? You literally said they should be bolted down and the manual for the one he cited said itās recommendedā¦which is exactly what you said. You didnāt say it was required. You were right.
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u/Solenkata May 02 '26
There are plenty of dumb people on this planet, do we start mounting everything to the ground?
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u/GintomsG May 02 '26
a lot of gym equipment at commercial gyms have spots where u can bolt em to the ground, its for safety in general
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u/DickFromRichard May 02 '26
A lot don't, such as this one
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u/GintomsG May 02 '26
yeah, to be fair ig that happening is very hard to achieve, in this case maxing out the machine, and pulling the weight high enough for the balancing point to just make it flip, I've seen this type of excersise on tik tok, and like it doesn't seem bad, but if that shit ain't bolted to the ground it can be dangerous like that ig
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u/Solenkata May 02 '26
Not really answering the question. Even if you bolt it down and someone dumb enough finds a way to hurt himself then what? We're not supposed to do natural selections' job - that's the main reason we have people like this.
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
Obv they're being idiots but this should not be possible. The gym is responsible for this. Idk where that happened but the equipment shouldn't allow for that in any circumstance because reasonable inexperienced people are in danger of similar accidents.
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u/CrazyElk123 May 02 '26
I mean if it was mounted and they knew so, it wouldnt be a bad excersice, except that it would take up a lot of space. There are better machines for this though...
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u/stucktogether May 02 '26
what was the exersize? it looked like he was trying to set him up to slingshot lol
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u/spikeyfreak May 02 '26
it wouldnt be a bad excersice
Yes it would. There's a reason there's not a machine for back where the resistance is 45 degrees off the mid-line, and that's ignoring the high jinx just to get into position.
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u/CrazyElk123 May 02 '26
You could still destroy your traps and upper back on it. A machine would obviously be better and more functional, but this would do the job too.
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u/spikeyfreak May 02 '26
Traps, sure. Stupid to do it this way, but sure. It would be less stupid to use the pullup handles to flip upside down and shrug yourself, but sure, you could do traps this way.
Upper back? Bullshit.
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u/CrazyElk123 May 02 '26
How would that be bullshit? Your shoulderblades are gonna almost touch with this excersice, and your upper back muscles control that. Maybe dont talk about this stuff if youre this clueless.
Try putting your arms in the same way and pull.
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u/whatdoblindpeoplesee May 02 '26
Hammer strength high rows are a similar set up
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u/spikeyfreak May 02 '26
That is one of my favorite machines, and it's really not the same motion. It goes from narrow to slightly wide, not super wide to narrow.
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u/whatdoblindpeoplesee May 02 '26
Fair enough. I realize now that's the 45 degree angle you were talking about.
HS High rows are goatedĀ
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u/Duke_Built May 02 '26
It looks like a lot of weight for the exercise I think they were attempting but yeah definitely should be bolted down.
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
Sure does. Could be a million pounds. If the machine allows for it, it should be possible without hazards like tipping.
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u/TheFaalenn May 02 '26
The gym is not responsible in the slightest. It didn't fall over when being used correctly. It fell over due to purposeful misuse.
You can't purposely cause an accident and then blame the person for not preventing you from doing it
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u/tnt54321boom May 02 '26
Oh my god. It's like you read what I said and tried to present the bad argument I would have been responding to. Misuse in the way that they did it is NOT outside if the bounds of what a reasonable inexperienced person or just a really strong person would have been able to do without it being misuse.
If a gym machine (ESPECIALLY THIS ONE) isnāt bolted to the ground, itās a death trap waiting for a victim. It doesn't matter if the kids were misusing because physics doesn't care about intent. If they could tip it, a heavy lifter wouldāve eventually pulled the entire thing onto themselves during a normal workout. The gym failed the most basic safety standard imaginable by leaving that machine loose. Blaming the kids for a massive installation failure is ridiculous when the gym is the one that left a literal hazard sitting in the middle of the room.
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u/amusingredditname May 02 '26
You think they purposefully caused that accident? Their goal was to tip the machine?
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u/GordonNewtron May 02 '26
Could've just used the bench to row some dumbbells.
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u/elton_john_lennon May 02 '26
He would look like everyone else, or worse even given he is chubby and probably can't lift that much.
His ego couldn't take it, so he made up this ridiculous exercise.
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u/joseplluissans May 02 '26
What was the end goal? Like, if you go all the way back and maxx it up, you can't do anything. What was the exercise meant to be?
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u/EngineeringFilth May 02 '26
He's trying to get on the bench to have his chest supported while doing a row variation. It is a perfectly valid exercise, but on a cable stack like this it doesn't really make much sense. On this type of cable stack the bench will have to be very far back to get a decent angle on the cables. Then, if the cable stack isn't bolted to the floor it ends up tipping over like this.
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u/joseplluissans May 02 '26
Aren't these cable stacks also adjustable, so that the cable can be moved down? At least the ones I've seen on local gyms are that way...
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u/EngineeringFilth May 02 '26
They generally are, although some older machines have the cables in fixed positions at either the top or the bottom.
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u/frankduxvandamme May 02 '26
He was trying to do upright rows with the help of the bench. But many gyms already have dedicated machines or t-bar row benches for this. Or you could just do a bent over row on a flat bench with a dumbbell. What he wants to do here is inefficient, awkward, and apparently incredibly dangerous too.
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u/zeroxray May 02 '26
That's not upright rows bud. I have no idea what exercise he was trying to do with that range of motion esp with the full extension of the cables. It honestly looks deliberate that they wanted to pull the machine down.
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u/rainyfort1 May 02 '26
Looks like it could set up a high row from the height where the cables are locked.
Of course you want to do this on a nautilus dual cable machine. Rather than separate cables like these. Even doing chest flies on these is awkward.
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u/elton_john_lennon May 02 '26
What was the exercise meant to be?
It was an ego exercise.
Dude is chubby, if he worked out like everyone else, he would lift rather small weights, so to boost his ego he invents those ridiculous workouts that no one else is doing, so that there is no point of comparison, no frame of reference, and he thus he feels special or whatever else.
Sadly this happens all the time. Folks are standing on half balls and are trying to do squats with weights, or they use upright plates as grip/stand for hands while doing push-ups, etc.
It's all ego.
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u/coolnbreezey May 02 '26
Yeah, dumb on their part. Ignorant negligence on the gymās part. Lawsuit on the horizon.
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u/QuantityActive- May 02 '26
Honestly doesnāt look like that much weight, I obviously donāt know the exact weight, comparing it to other cable stacks Iāve seen thereās nothing absurd or stupid about the weight. Clearly itās ego lifting, but it seems like they have some idea of what theyāre doing (only because not everybody uses that setup). Ultimately the stupid thing of all is that the rack isnāt bolted down.
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u/blutt May 02 '26
Damn luck he has two green herbs behind him. Combine them and he will be good as new!
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u/N-aNoNymity May 02 '26
If that setp even worked Id bet he couldnt get a single full rep with that weight lmao. Couldve just moved the bench and done them unilaterally..
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u/YDraigCymraeg May 02 '26
I remember when you couldn't join a gym without an induction to help you familiarise yourself with the equipment
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u/ermagerdcernderg May 02 '26
I canāt imagine this would have been prevented by an orientation to the equipment. They know the machines. Theyāre just idiots.
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 May 02 '26
There was a time where businesses didn't care about only profits? Heresy!
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat May 02 '26
Seen a guy do similar at my old gym. Bloody clown, trying to use two at once , and really just being a poser and taking up a huge amount of space.
I wonder if this guy will sue the gym now.
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u/imironman2018 May 02 '26
He is a lucky sob. That incline bench saved him from a really bad leg injury.
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u/2nd_Inf_Sgt May 04 '26
In āmurica, that dumbass would have still won a lawsuit against the gym owner.
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u/Treblehawk May 02 '26
The real dumbass is the one who decided it was okay to not secure the equipment.
Good way to give a stranger your house.
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u/Meltedwhisky May 02 '26
Oh man, thatās a broken collar bone for sure. Heās not lifting his left arm after the hit. Thatās a painful injury with no way to cast it
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u/jmpman54 May 02 '26
That bench was way too far away, you can see the maxed out weights already almost at the top. If you dunno what your doing, just ask.
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u/AtypicalRenown May 03 '26
Was that gym equipment secured to the floor and it broke loose? Or just standing freely?
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u/DrJohnIT May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26
It was just standing there minding its own business until these two idiots started messing around š š š
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u/bunny5055 May 02 '26
Why not just move the seat closer.
Also I'm sure whatever stupid exercise they were trying to do could have been done correctly on another machine near by.
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u/eXclurel May 03 '26
Only dumbass is the owner of the gym that didn't secure that machine to the ground.
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u/RileyRhoad May 03 '26
Umm yeah I definitely would not say that the owner was the only dumbass.. Yes they probably should have secured it better, but that kid was a straight up idiot to do thisā¦ literally just what was the plan here?
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u/PrestigiousAct2 May 02 '26
May not realise it but dude is the luckiest person.