Monkey Blog

I made the biggest gym blunder of my short lifting career today.   It was chest day and we eventually started doing flat dumbbell benching.  I did 50 lbs with not as much effort as I thought I would need so my trainer for some reason decided I should jump up to 60 lbs.  Yikes, I would have gone to 55 lbs, but whatever.  I started doing them and like an idiot I got overconfident and let my mind wander for a second.  The next thing I knew I was thinking “Hey, where is my left arm going?”  I ended up awkwardly dropping the dumbbell that was in my left hand.  It made a huge clank as it hit the bench on the way down.  It felt like the whole place was looking at me.  I was able to laugh it off at the time.  It wasn’t until later that I started realizing I could have really hurt myself.  100% focus next time!

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