Today, my friend invited me to his boxing club for the first time. Since I'm somewhat short and scrawny-looking, he was worried that the workout would be too difficult for me. I waved him off and told him that I was tougher than I looked. Five minutes into class, I sprained my ankle. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, it was my first day at a new gym, which cost a fortune. Some skinny teen who had clearly never lifted in his life dropped a weight while I was stretching and broke my ankle. Money down the drain. FML
Today, I was at the gym, feeling pretty proud of myself for working out consistently for the past month. As I was about to grab a towel, I tripped and landed face-first into a pile of gym mats. People turned to look, and all I could do was try to laugh it off through the pain of what turned out to be a sprained ankle. FML
Today, I decided to challenge the jerk jock at work to a fight, since he kept poking fun at me for being a weakling. Having started taking MMA classes, I was confident I'd make him eat his words. Just my luck, he's an MMA instructor and kicked my ass effortlessly. Not what I had planned. FML
Today, I was at the gym with my friends when they invited me to do a few bench presses. Since I'd never done any before, I decided to start with no weights on the bar and work my way up from there. I wound up pinned beneath the bar, calling for my friend to come free me. FML
Today, I went with my girlfriend to the gym for the first time. I knew I was in bad shape, but I bet her that I could lift more than her. Not only did I get my ass handed to me by a 5', 115lbs girl in front of the entire gym, I also have to attend Zumba in bright pink spandex. FML
Today, I'd signed up to try a workout class at the gym. However, as soon as the instructor started the class, I realized it was much more intense than I had anticipated. I ended up passing out and had to be carried out of the class by the instructor. FML
Today, I went to the gym to do squats. I couldn't even do it without weights on the squatting bar because it hurt too much to rest it on my back and neck. Then my friend who was with me and who is skinny as a rail easily managed it with two 45 pound weights. He claims it's from practice. I guess I’m wimpy. FML
Today, as a male in his 40s, I went to "mixed" aerobics. I arrived late to find the entire female class had started intensely warming up. Within 5 minutes I pulled a calf muscle and left limping pathetically past a martial arts class. FML
Today, during a judo session, I was paired with a thin, frail-looking rookie. Before a mock skirmish, as I'm much bigger, I said I'd take it easy on her, but also to give it her best shot. She immediately threw me on my face to the floor, knocking me out cold in 7 seconds. FML
Today, I went to the gym after months of procrastinating. I walked straight into the glass wall next to the entrance instead of the door. A guy lifting near the front desk winced in sympathy. I still worked out, but I could see my face slowly swelling in the mirror. FML
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AndrewMoreira14 19
Time to go to Weenie Hut Junior
senor_octubre 24
Just because you're little doesn't mean that you are weak. I was the smallest guy in my platoon in bootcamp and still beat the shit out of my opponents when we did body sparring. Bad luck on the ankle sprain but come back once you are healed and show them what you are made of!!
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loueasy 23
I'm the shortest of my friends but one of the strongest. Don't let your size define you
swaglesshipster 23
Points for trying? :D
Dodge4x4Ram 46
next time take the friendly advice ********
CaroLouWho 10
In your defense, spraining ankles is apparently not hard to do. One time I was excitedly walking over to my dog to give her a hug and somehow managed to sprain my ankle pretty bad. Sometimes you just have to move it exactly wrong, and sometimes the exact wrong way is something random.
foxpug 24
Agreed. One time I managed to sprain my ankle while talking to a girl I liked. We were just standing in the retail high street talking, then suddenly my ankle decides it wants to be horizontal. I flailed, fell off the sidewalk into a parked car, which, by the way, happened to have an obnoxiously loud alarm. I ended up with a sprained ankle, an uproar of pedestrian laughter, a pissed off motorist, and a massive hit to my dignity. Effing Ankles. I sympathize, OP.
hellnosucka 27
I feel like you should have ended that story with FML.
ThatLastKid 21
@18 you should post that as an FML.
foxpug 24
I would have posted it, but this happened to me 11 years ago. Feels like I'd be cheating.
TheNewGuy03 29
I suppose it could be worse. I ended up tearing my ACL and medial meniscus in a pro fight, and it wasn't even my opponent's fault. All I did was circle out. Thankfully, sprained ankles heal relatively quickly, and you should be able to try again.
sirdannyboy1 20
Remember rule #1 about fight clu...
EwahWeeWah 21
Don't worry, just bad luck I bet. I doubt anyone thinks that you're weak just cause you broke your ankle. I'm very tall for my age (14 and 6'1") but I'm weak as hell, smaller people are actually probably stronger in many cases lol.
nelbom1234 8
Dude. You just broke the two first rules of fight club
Saikon1357 25
Your smaller stature doesn't make you weak. Sucks that you sprained your ankle, but YDI for disregarding your friend's advice about the intensity of training for a sport where objective is to beat the shit out if another person. Hope you feel better soon OP. Give it another try and improve your footwork.
aabhasj 20
Think of lionel messy as your idol OP, he is short but still he posses such good skills and endurance with hardwork and practice that he out runs many taller football players.