Embarrassing things that have happened while working out.
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I can only wear black shorts on account of embarrasing sweat.2
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deputy_randolph wrote: »Sometimes when I deadlift near 1RM, I pee on the floor. I just use the spray bottle of cleaner and paper towels to wipe up. I bring a change of pants on those days.
I've never had to clean up, but, yeah this. Darn kids.0 -
ladyreva78 wrote: »I wouldnt say embarrassing but shorts came unbuttoned and dropped during squats comes to mind.
Define not embarrassing... being the only girl in the gym and losing your pants while squatting does rank right on up there. Bonus... it's the work gym. Meaning I work with those guys.
Thankfully I'm good at making jokes and I have pretty thick skin. The guys from the assembly can be somewhat below the belt at times.
Lack of clothing doesn't bother me, actually more clothes do if anything.
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The first time I started swimming laps 2 years ago (I was on the swim team in middle school and figured I'd give it a go). I was nervous in the first place just doing something new but I got ready, took my glasses off and put on my goggles (so everything past 2 foot was blurry) and jumped in the closest lane. I leisurely swam a warm up lap, then hung out on the wall. I noticed the other lady and maybe her trainer in the lane with me were just staring at me (remember everything is super blurry) and I had no idea why. It was the walker/aerobics lane, not a lap lane. I didn't even know there were rules. I explained to them that it was my first time and that I was blindish but I was still embarrassed because of my ignorance, lol.1
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Worst I've done is get distracted leaving the platform and nearly bowl over one of the side refs.
I've peed myself squatting, greyed out while deadlifting, but those things are pretty normal and not embarrassing. Almost knocking a ref out of his chair at worlds, that made me blush.1 -
Lost my balance while doing walking lunges with weights and toppled to the floor in front of a bunch of guys. I was the only female in the free weight area. It was a few weeks before I ventured back to that area of the gym again, but at least I DID go back.
ETA: They all just stared at me and not one of the lunks offered to help me up.3 -
After goblet squats I went to hoist the 75-lb. weight up to the top rack of the dumbbell wall (ya know, re-racking like a nice human being) and proceeded to crack myself right in the crotch which knocked the wind out of me and caused me to drop the weight...which bounced off my bad foot. Literally was laying on the floor like a fool afterwards.3
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Scene: High School
Time: After gym class
We had just completed a grueling leg-day lifting session (my very first time ever lifting weights). Legs felt like jello. Unfortunately, the weight room is on the main floor, while the locker room is in the basement.
I'm in the middle of the line of people trying to go down stairs, not wanting to look wimpy by gripping the handrail. In retrospect, it would've looked a whole lot better than what really happened. The third step down my leg collapsed under me, bowling me forward into the next person ahead of me, who caught by surprise (and with similarly wobbly legs) fell into the next person in line, and so on.
After the dust settled, twenty kids are trying to pick themselves up off the floor, twenty more on the stairs above are staring at me. I died inside, especially under the giggles of the girls.
I was too mortified to be appreciative of it at the time, but I remember glancing back at the stairs before plunging into the locker room and seeing more than half the other kids all holding very tightly to the handrail...3 -
My very first yoga class I was pretty nervous, I knew I would be the biggest one there. I finally worked up the nerve to just bite the bullet and go. I was the biggest one there. I felt like everyone was looking at me. During class a woman farted pretty loud during one of the roll ups. I no longer felt all eyes were on me:)
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Also ouchy, and again another girl who will probably never start to lift
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my gym got snazzy new racks. one replaced the old solid-state all-in-one bench. new one has a free bench and the rack has this metal tongue on the floor with slots that you clip the bench into. me driving that thing in backwards was kind of embarrassing on the first day. i also just struggle with it generally. it's hard to drive it around without kneecapping yourself, at my body dimensions.
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Walking face first into the pole of a street sign while trying to log my run. I was tired, it was dusk, the pole was in the middle of the sidewalk, and clearly I wasn't capable of focusing on more than one thing at a time.
Made a nice, loud bang and knocked myself sideways. Could clearly hear snickering from the people still on the trail I had just left.2 -
Running backwards on the gym track, I fell and hit my head hard = concussion. While waiting for a ride home, a gym friend was trying to access my condition, and, unfortunately, I answered questions with a LOUD voice and then started sobbing uncontrollably! He told me not to be embarrassed and that even professional football players can get emotional after hits to the head!
I no longer run backwards.2 -
In my cross training gym, I split open the entire right back of my workout pants during a circuit. Someone convinced me it was really bad and I should go to the bathroom so I did. My entire right butt cheek was saying hi to everyone behind me. I had on underwear, but it was embarrassing.2
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I was squatting in the rack and just coming out of the hole and for some reason that I am still going over in my mind, I tore either the adductor or something else nearby. I just dropped to the ground and made the loudest crash ever. When I fail a lift I usually try to ease it down to the safeties but not this time. Of course it was one of the few times the gym was packed and everyone was looking over at the rack. This is one time where nobody could say "they aren't looking at you, they are doing their own thing."0
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ladyreva78 wrote: »I wouldnt say embarrassing but shorts came unbuttoned and dropped during squats comes to mind.
Define not embarrassing... being the only girl in the gym and losing your pants while squatting does rank right on up there. Bonus... it's the work gym. Meaning I work with those guys.
Thankfully I'm good at making jokes and I have pretty thick skin. The guys from the assembly can be somewhat below the belt at times.
Lack of clothing doesn't bother me, actually more clothes do if anything.
Hihi. Lack of clothes actually does bother me as it's currently not very esthetic (IMO). Ask me again after I lose the last 20kg I have to lose and I can proudly show off my loose skin. 2 -
Split my shorts front to back whilst attempting a 1rm squat PB.2
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Group training class, except I was the only one to show up. I farted. Had to blame the trainer
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Well, I was in the locker room, and I'm not attracted to guys or anything, but this dude's wang was huge. I look up from it to see him looking at me. Awkward.6
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Walking face first into the pole of a street sign while trying to log my run.
coming This Close to riding into an 8-foot trench across the bike road on my way home. it was dark, the 'stay out of here' signs had been up when i was on my way out that morning, but the trench had not been. and i was cranky and territorial about being bossed around and sent on long detours by the effin' city all over the place. so i bypassed the barriers and almost did the stupidest thing of my life.
that's embarrassing because it could have been serious and anything that had happened would have been 2000% my own fault. strike that. 3000%.0 -
Benching without a spot and having to do the roll of shame. Ah, well. At least I'm lifting heavy. LOL
I've failed on squats twice. Climbing out from under the bar is always a bit embarrassing. Again, at least I'm pushing myself.2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Benching without a spot and having to do the roll of shame. Ah, well. At least I'm lifting heavy. LOL
i never know why it's called 'shame'. i only feel goofy about the way i never seem to figure out how to get myself out from underneath the bar once it's down on the rails. i always kind of flail like a bug for a couple of seconds until i re-figure out how to make enough space to get out.0 -
After one of my first group fitness classes at my gym, a (very nice) woman pulled me aside and told me my pants were see-through. I was wearing a thong underneath. I was so humiliated that I contemplated never going back....but I finally did after a few days and just acted like nothing happened. I also make sure to wear spandex shorts or something underneath all my workout pants from now on, no matter what.1
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Doing pin presses. Didn't realize just how much closer than normal the bar was to the end of the bench. Sat down, lied back, WHACK! Skull vs. Barbell. Guess who won?
Heavy deadlifts. Pulling hard, let out a very loud fart. Noticed a guy looked over. Just shrugged - whatcha gonna do?1 -
Doing pin presses. Didn't realize just how much closer than normal the bar was to the end of the bench. Sat down, lied back, WHACK! Skull vs. Barbell. Guess who won?
Heavy deadlifts. Pulling hard, let out a very loud fart. Noticed a guy looked over. Just shrugged - whatcha gonna do?
Ooh, I about knocked myself out hitting my head on a bar. Forgot about that one. That freaking hurt!0
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