sweetcell
Joined: July 18, 2006 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 06:42 PM UTC
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a while back, i was at the Gold's Gym in Tysons. it's a multi-level gym with a "cut-out" on the second floor allowing you a view to the level below. as i was racking a 5 or 10 pound weight, it slipped, rolled to the "cut-out", flipped over the edge and plummeted down to the floor below. thank goodness that weight didn't hit anyone - easily could have killed someone.
has anyone else had issues with free weights they would like to share?
Space Freely
Joined: December 13, 2014 at 07:28 PM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 06:46 PM UTC
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I'm just wondering what you were doing at a Gold's Gym in Virginia.
I have never used free weights in my life. Too high maintenance for me.
sweetcell
Joined: July 18, 2006 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 07:46 PM UTC
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while in consulting, the company's HQ was in tysons. when not on assignment, i reported back to the mothership. traffic on 495 between VA and MD is horrible, so after a at teh office i would go to the gym to kill time instead of sitting in traffic.
getting back to the topic at hand: the ledge on that "cut-out" should have been much taller.
bob72
Joined: January 15, 2016 at 02:58 PM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 07:49 PM UTC
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not a weight per se, but back in high school, some friends and I were bowling and this girl put a ball on an empty rack. What she didn't know was the rack was empty because the stopper at the end was missing, and the ball rolled off the end of the rack on to the guys head that was sitting there. lol.
jrpa
Joined: September 03, 2013 at 03:15 PM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 07:49 PM UTC
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bob72 wrote:
not a weight per se, but back in high school, some friends and I were bowling and this girl put a ball on an empty rack. What she didn't know was the rack was empty because the stopper at the end was missing, and the ball rolled off the end of the rack on to the guys head that was sitting there. lol.
This explains a lot about why you're so "special" Bob.
kmdobrz
Joined: February 10, 2000 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 08:30 PM UTC
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That never happens at duckpin alleys.
bob72
Joined: January 15, 2016 at 02:58 PM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 17, 2016 at 09:21 PM UTC
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Julian, wrote:
This explains a lot about why you're so "special" Bob.
sweetcell
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 18, 2016 at 01:37 AM UTC
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Nuke wrote:
That never happens at duckpin alleys.
OH DON'T GET ME STARTED… there will be blood.
Sidehatch
Joined: October 04, 2011 at 04:33 AM UTC
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Re: Free Weight Issues
March 18, 2016 at 01:42 AM UTC
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bob72 wrote:
Julian, wrote:
This explains a lot about why you're so "special" Bob.
you win