What are some cringy/embarrassing experiences you had as a begginner...

Training upper chest is literally more important than training lower chest for aesthetics, it's so easy to develop the lower chest but the upper chest takes so much more work

>dad got me a gym membership for Christmas when I was 17
>built up courage for a month to finally go
>Went in and they said "hey! Looks like your first time, want a tour!?"
>Socially awkward so I said "u-uh y-yeah you too"
>poor woman walked me around the place
>"This is our weight room, you can tell by the weights!"
>Oh wow
>"This is our spinning room, we do classes on Wednesday, whatcha think of that, Champ?"
>U-umm t-totally
>"Here's our smoothie ba-"
>L-looks good but think Im ready to lift now
>...
>Went over and did a 30 minute jog
>Hadn't jogged since elementary school field day so legs were Jello and I was lightheaded
>Decided I should do some core work next
>Decline situps no warmup, I could feel my abs tearing after 5 reps
>Moved on to a press machine
>atrophied arms and chest begging me to stop
>Tried to lat pulldown the stack
>Whole body on fire at that point
>Went in the yoga room and threw haymakers at the human shaped punching doll for good measure
>Stumbled out of the place and ended up with muscle strains for 5 weeks
>Never went back

>got you a membership
>didnt give you means for proper instruction
Boomer mindset of "let him learn himself" isn't right when it comes to the gym

>want to start lifting at 16
>gym is too expensive
>want to buy home gym equipment instead
>can't afford olympic barbell
>can't afford rack
>can't afford bench
>settle with ez curl bar, a single dumbbell, some cheap plates
>read about SS
>end up doing deadlifts with ez curl bar
>floor press with ez curl bar
>onehanded OHP
>replace squats with lunges
>have to hold plates cause i only have one dumbbell

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Got pinned down trying to bench 135...alone. And some girl had to help me out by lifting the bar off me.

Kill me senpai.

Doing hip thrusts to “fix my posture”

>nofap
>incline bench
>something about the positioning of the bench made me uncomfortably aroused
>repping it out
>last set
>squeeze and let out a really inappropriate moan at he top of the rep
>another fucking grown man moans in response
>goes completely quiet

never went to that gym again

I was doing 3pl leg press machine and let out a girly fart on the last rep. Thankfully the gym bro on the bench next to me had his headphones on and didn't hear it.

if ive ever had any, i genuinely cant remember them
before the first time i evre stepped in a gym i autistically looked up form for every single xercise in my routine because im not a drooling retard tho

oh god i suspect this is me

BRUH
MY FUCKIN SIDES

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Not exactly embarrassing in the gym but here goes
>be me 14 in 9th grade
>been to the gym a couple times to do biceps and bench press
>first time deadlifting but used good form
>do 10x10 with 2 minute rests
>next morning wake up and can barely get out of bed, every time I move my lower back cramps like I’m being stabbed
>go to chiropractor and there’s nothing wrong, just extreme muscle damage to lower back extensors
>gives me a brace that looks kinda like a lifting belt but with Velcro straps to wear for a few days until the muscles can recover
>go to school the next day wearing it under my shirt
>was a bit tubby at the time
>Changing into gym clothes for PE
>some lanklet shithead manlet wannabe chad goes “OMG ANONS WEARING A CORSET HAHAHAH”
>try to explain that it’s a brace from overtraining but everybody laughs and doesn’t believe me
>toxic ass friends I had at the time even joined in

Shit still haunts me 5 years later

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I did 8x8 but I know that feel

In short:
>doing chest press machine
>drop setting
>as coworker is leaving the gym he sees me struggling with like 45 pounds
>looks at the weight and then quickly says goodbye
>not enough time to explain to him

time to look for another job

Look at this dude with his corsett lol
Trying to justify it even now on the internet

Dirty bulking is pretty cringe

LMFAOOOOO

I squatted in the Smith machine because I was scared of falling over and didn't want to put anything less than 1pl8 on ever.

I dont get what's so wrong with squatting on the smith

i was using the pec fly machine on 250 lbs when the grip slipped from my hand and went flying at the wall. It smashed the fuck out of the thermostat and put a big ass hole in the wall desu

NGMI

I used to sumo deadlift

Having to balance the barbell hits stabilizers that the smith machine does for you. Using the smith machine is a crutch that you should never do. If your worried about dropping weight it would be better to squat 105lbs then use the smith machine and hit 135.

This gave me my best kek in months. Thanks love you.

>be me
>experienced with lifting but first time going to a commercial gym
>still too autistic to ask for a spotter
>get on bench
>start pumping out reps
>last one was really iffy
>"I can do one more"
>get pinned under the bar
>have to wiggle out from under like a fucking worm while some people are staring at me
>manage to contort myself enough to get out
>lady asks if I'm ok
>give her a thumbs up
>rerack the weight and put the bar on the hooks
>ask for a spotter next time

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dl, squat, overhead-press, bench press in SMITH MACHINE

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>retards staring instead of helping
>this kid actually feels embarrassed to literal human trash
I don't know who i want to murder more

Do I have to do flat bench of I only care for aesthetics? Can I just do incline instead?

Using the smith machine to squat

The bar can't fall away backwards so you can get stuck under it and snap your bones.

When I was first learning how to powerclean, I would catch it in the worst "starfish" stance ever. My mindset was "as long as I get the weight up" lol

Not that bad but generally being a clueless boy.

>random sets on random machines
>flat back bench with my puny arms
>time to curl again lol

Now I see puny teenagers working out in the gym today and they look so skinny and clueless, but I don't judge because it's a learning curve I've been on and at least they're there.

I did the pulldown machine sitting the wrong way around, aka back to the padding

just do incline, you'll still be hitting lower chest with it

Oh boy.
>doing SS
>benching
>every set is basically a new PR so have a trainer spot me every time
>halfway through one set fart really loud
>start laughing/faking a cough (?) to pretend I'm not laughing at my own fart
>gym trainer is a bro and keeps spotting me for my last set
Pretty cringe now looking back at it but for some reason I didn't care much at the time.

First time squatting.
I was grunting so much that the dude next to me suggested that i should use the pussypad because i seemed to be in pain.

Didn't do it luckily.
Now i have a meaty where the bar touches it when squatting.

A meaty neck*

Fuck me

Bars don't flip til like 3pl8s. Fuck off

Smith bars are 15 lbs stabilized, you were squatting 105
unless he threw on another 30 lbs, he was squatting 105 in the Smith

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I ripped a massive fart doing weighted decline sit ups once. Even more embarrassing cause there was a couple of qts in the gym

wasnt a standard bar, very skinny and light bar.

Dont move ur elbows

My first diet change i did 60/20/20 carbs fat protein. Made gains but you can infer the consquences. It was a bulk tol

I asked some random guy at my uni gym to see if my back was straight/form was good when I was squatting with the smith machine.
He said yes.

>doing skullcrushers with ez curl bar
>for some reason forgot to put clips on
>2 reps in the bar wobbles uncontrollably and a plate fall off then I essentially spin off the bench the other direction
>big dude and his gf just stare me down for the next 15 minutes while smirking

Yes. Maybe do some dips every now and then too to hit the lower pec

>Second or third day at Gold's
>Taking 45s off of the leg press and putting them on the squat rack next to it
>Four plates later I start my set
>Some boomer runs up to me and says 'If you put one more plate on there the whole thing's gonna fall and crush you
>wtf.mpeg
>Realized that I was putting the plates on the fucking bar and not on the rack itself
>There were no plates on the other side, so one more probably would have made it tip
>Never wanted to show my face there again
Been a regular for two years now

Feels, when I really first went hard at lifting in college I would get this doing core.

he heard.

I put my head on the seat part of the bench when doing dumbbell chest presses because I thought it looked like a headrest.

This was 7 months ago.

checked. Also why?

>be me 17 years old
>have my first gym so decide to sign up for a gym membership
>never really played sports or done anything physical
>go in and immediately start doing half-assed bicep curls
>buff black dude who works at the gym tells me to do full ROM to hit all of the bicep muscles, then asks me if I want a personal session
>I'm too scared to say no
>he has me doing all sorts of cardio for 10 minutes, then has me doing step-ups
>my body is on fire and I tell him I feel sick
>he yells at me to keep going, saying I can do it
>say I'm going to throw up
>he says to stop with the excuses
>I put my hand over my mouth to catch the vomit but it ends up spewing all around the floor in front of me
>tell him that I said I was going to throw up
>he tells me to go home

I didn't go back to a gym for 8 years after that

have my first job*

Help me I’m dying

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I used to slam dumbbells on the floor after DB bench press and I’ve rustled many jimmies

Sheesh tough one

Wtf my pecs outgrow my lower chest. Explain please?

I saw a motherfucker lifting in sandals and socks. MOTHERFUCKER.

I top keked hard

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Nearly strangling myself doing 20kg bench press.

Why were you benching with your hands around your neck?

Bump

The other night I went straight from doing chinups to bicep curls, I don't fucking know why. Needless to say I could barely pull two reps, realized what I had done wrong and had to do the walk of shame.

I still do this with skullcrushers and whatever else. Idgaf how many sweaty asses are now imprinted on my scalp it's just the right size and I can't be arsed to turn the thing around because I was facing the wrong way. Anyway I shower right after so who cares

I moved my body like an olympic rower while using the rowing machine. I moved my body back and forth. I heard people laughing at me but nobody told me why I was dumb. I learned my mistak a few months later.

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