most embarrassing moment while working out...
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When I see the elderly gentlemen can walk much faster than me while on walking track.....0
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Farting during pilates.
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Years ago, I signed up to one of those expensive gyms with a Ladies-only fitness area. I was thrilled that I didn't have to workout and bounce around in front of the uber-fit class-goers, gym-bunnies and the huge bronzed guys who lift.
So I started going and seeing results, I did really see a massive transformation in a short space of time. I really pushed myself hard and was proud of my achievement that far.
Well, I was on the treadmill one day when an absolutely stunning gym-bunny bounced in and started running full-pelt on the machine next to me. She then started to ask me a lot of personal questions which I answered and she said really loudly "Well, you're big so why don't you aim to look like me? I started at 12st and now i'm 8st, all within a year and i'm a size 10. Why don't you try to aim for a size 10?"
All the other ladies looked round and stared at me and I was so embarrassed I left and never went back!
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I was in a bootcamp-style class, and near the end, when I realized the gusset seam (that would be the crotch) of my yoga capris had completely unraveled. I was glad that it was one of the rare occasions I was not going "commando" underneath.0
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Nothing surprises me now because as a fitness professional you will see it all. Exercise in any form will cause bodily functions to move!!0
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Coming out the other side after running through a field full of waist-high wet grass with my running club (mostly older men). This was the moment I realised that my light silver/grey running shorts go see-through when wet.
Without thinking, I exclaimed 'OH NO, MY SHORTS HAVE GONE ALL SEE-THROUGH!'
Just in case anyone hadn't noticed.0 -
Got a little show boaty in BodyAttack and fell flat on my *kitten*. Like a full on high velocity fall where I slid for like three feet afterwards. Got up and executed the next jump
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Uggg! This is embarrassing but I'll say it any way.
Bad: Just resumed working out after having my youngest. During warm-ups we had to do jumping jacks and although I tried with every fabric of my being, I couldn't stop the pee from escaping!
Worse: And it gets worse... during a new fab abs class, we were on an inclined step and right in the middle of getting those deep ab muscles, I begin to orgasm! I jumped up after that and RAN out of there. But I now take kiegels VERY seriously.0 -
You ladies should totally add kegels to your workout routine. That will take care of the dribble issue.
After four kids, my pelvic floor is stronger than it was when I was 16.
Off topic: Love the kegels! Ever tried the kegel balls? How are they?0 -
MIne was when I was recovering from a bad hamstring injury and doing some leg curls. I started at a very low weight to test it out. WHen I was done a lil ole skinny woman hops on and basically laughed at how little I was lifting!0
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Uggg! This is embarrassing but I'll say it any way.
Bad: Just resumed working out after having my youngest. During warm-ups we had to do jumping jacks and although I tried with every fabric of my being, I couldn't stop the pee from escaping!
Worse: And it gets worse... during a new fab abs class, we were on an inclined step and right in the middle of getting those deep ab muscles, I begin to orgasm! I jumped up after that and RAN out of there. But I now take kiegels VERY seriously.
Omigod, I just died! :laugh: You should try riding a horse...that's the only time that's ever happened to me!0 -
Years ago, I signed up to one of those expensive gyms with a Ladies-only fitness area. I was thrilled that I didn't have to workout and bounce around in front of the uber-fit class-goers, gym-bunnies and the huge bronzed guys who lift.
So I started going and seeing results, I did really see a massive transformation in a short space of time. I really pushed myself hard and was proud of my achievement that far.
Well, I was on the treadmill one day when an absolutely stunning gym-bunny bounced in and started running full-pelt on the machine next to me. She then started to ask me a lot of personal questions which I answered and she said really loudly "Well, you're big so why don't you aim to look like me? I started at 12st and now i'm 8st, all within a year and i'm a size 10. Why don't you try to aim for a size 10?"
All the other ladies looked round and stared at me and I was so embarrassed I left and never went back!
Kaela
Omg how mean! I cannot believe she said that. She must have lost a few brain cells along the way too.0 -
Peeing when lifting is pretty normal. Most of the women I know who are over 30 and have had children wear pads during a competition. It's standard gear. I prefer poise. I've passed them out at meets to some who forgot them. Most meets I've been to have had at least one platform pee.
I mostly train at home so the only one who witnesses the embarrassment is my husband. I sharted doing heavy deadlifts but finished my set. Heavy pulls while experiencing lower intestinal disquietude are always an adventure.
Hmmm that's interesting. I don't have any heavy lifting girlfriends and I had no idead I wasn't the only one!
Yeah. You can kegel until the cow's come home but the intra-abdominal pressure during heavy deadlifts, particularly when you wear a belt can result in some high psi pee.0 -
I took my 16 year old son to a Hatha yoga class a couple months ago, and during class I let out a little tiny fart... nothing much, especially by yoga standards... but he heard it and started giggling, and giggling, and then someone else in the class farted, and he started laughing even more.
Then everyone else started giggling because of his laughing. It was a good class.
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In this thread I learned that being a woman sucks. A lot.0
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In this thread I learned that being a woman sucks. A lot.
Wow. I don't think that was the message at all.0 -
I work out at home, but my husband thought this was hilarious when I told him what happened. I had mopped the floor and didn't wait long enough for it to dry before doing my arm exercises (one foot on each side of a door with bent knees, using a towel around both of the door knobs, and pulling to raise and lower my body weight). My feet slid out from under me and my whole body slid forward with them. I stopped sliding when my vagina forcibly met the door.0
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Towards the end of my work out, decided to throw in some burpees, was pretty damn exhausted at this point and on the 3rd one, my arms gave out on me and I face planted on the floor pretty loudly and badly and just laid there. lol, people walking by must've been thinking I was smelling the floor. :sick:0
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Peeing when lifting is pretty normal. Most of the women I know who are over 30 and have had children wear pads during a competition. It's standard gear. I prefer poise. I've passed them out at meets to some who forgot them. Most meets I've been to have had at least one platform pee.
I mostly train at home so the only one who witnesses the embarrassment is my husband. I sharted doing heavy deadlifts but finished my set. Heavy pulls while experiencing lower intestinal disquietude are always an adventure.
Hmmm that's interesting. I don't have any heavy lifting girlfriends and I had no idead I wasn't the only one!
Yeah. You can kegel until the cow's come home but the intra-abdominal pressure during heavy deadlifts, particularly when you wear a belt can result in some high psi pee.
I was going to say- I have a very strong pelvic floor- I dance- I use a lot of low internal muscles frequently and with great control. The two just are not the same thing. Putting on the belt and bracing makes me instantly turn into a the not fun kind of projectile pee-er.In this thread I learned that being a woman sucks. A lot.Wow. I don't think that was the message at all.
no- but he has a point. It does sometimes suck being a woman.0 -
Two (related) embarrassing moments
1. In college, I had just jumped off a small flight of steps on my bicycle. I start to turn around to go back and do the jump again. My tire get caught in the crack, I fall down and split open my chin and had to go to the infirmary to get stitches. A week later, I get my stitches out.
2. A week after I get my stitches out, I am drinking coffee in class...trying to hide my forbidden beverage. I spill my coffee. Trying to cover myself, I use my handy towel to soak it up. I leave class and don't want to put the towel in my backpack (Yeah, didn't think that one through). So I get the great idea of putting it on my handlebars so the wind can dry it out. In the center of campus, with TONS of students changing classes, my towel dislodges, get caught between my forks and front tire. I go over the handle bars, land on my...chin.
At least I was less than 200' from the infirmary this time.0 -
Come on, I can't really be the only person to hit fatigue on a barbell bench press and get trapped under it, can I? Managed to rack one end and not the other so it was on me at an angle and I just didn't have the strength to get it back up. Cue much squirming and red-faced grunting, legs flailing like a beached octopus.
Only then to have some gorgeous, muscular bloke come and lift it off me - with one hand...
Oh, the shame! He always keeps an eye on me when I bench now, so I can't even pretend it didn't happen.
Happened to me this morning, twice. I learned a couple of things.
1. The safety bars on a Hammer Strength cage are tilted and the gap between body and safety bar gets smaller as you roll the bar down your body.
1.5. The two possible positions for safety bars is too high and too low.
2. When you miss a week of lifting and you add weight to your 3 working sets because you feel awesome, don't use the last set as the maximum and add to it for the next workout day.
3. When using an app that adds increments for you, make sure you remember that it adds 10 lbs to your bench, not 5, so you should subtract 5 lbs for your working set.
4. Don't be cocky and think you can just do the 10 lb increment cause you don't feel like re-loading the bar
5. Failing on rep 5 of your first set leads to a missed 5th rep on set 3 with lighter weight, for today anyway.
Doing the roll of shame is bad enough, twice, even worse.
My other embarrassment was struggling so bad on my bench that I stopped after 2 reps because my left arm felt like it was lifting way more than the right. It wasn't embarrassing to fail, it was unloading the weights and realizing the left side had an extra 10 lb plate. I called it a day before I got hurt.0 -
For about half of you...don't worry. Farting is ALWAYS funny!0
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Oh boy. Well, my most embarrassing accident in the gym was when I was running on a treadmill. I wasn't going very fast, but it was at the end of my run. I closed my eyes for a second, and then I miss stepped. My foot hit half way on the tread and half way on the side of the machine. I was forcibly spun around and flung off the side of the machine into the elliptical next to me! My Mp3 player was flung across the room with my headphones. I was so embarrassed, I just laid there for a few minutes. But surprisingly no one came to check on me. O.o0
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I joined a gym for the first time in my life three whole weeks ago. I have no experience with any gym equipment and had to have one of the staff show me how to turn on the darn treadmill. Within the first week, I had knocked my MP3 player down onto the treadmill where it went flying off and of course, my first instinct was to come to a dead stop and pick it up. Forgetting, of course, that the treadmill keeps moving. Luckily, I didn't fall off the machine, only stumbled off. Two days later, I dropped my water cap the same way and almost repeated it.
Now that I've met with the trainer who showed me how to use the majority of the weight machines, I walk around doing each excercise with my cheat sheet which tells me which machines to use and what weight level. Yes, I'm the one who has to look at the number on the machine and the pictures of its use. I know I look like a complete newb and feel embarrassed to do it but I am so inexperienced that I have no choice. I just wish others had to do it too!0 -
Come on, I can't really be the only person to hit fatigue on a barbell bench press and get trapped under it, can I? Managed to rack one end and not the other so it was on me at an angle and I just didn't have the strength to get it back up. Cue much squirming and red-faced grunting, legs flailing like a beached octopus.
Only then to have some gorgeous, muscular bloke come and lift it off me - with one hand...
Oh, the shame! He always keeps an eye on me when I bench now, so I can't even pretend it didn't happen.
On bench day last week, the gym was unusually busy. Instead of just waiting for a bench, I started with some of my accessory work.
Finally a bench opened, and I slapped a couple of 5 pounders on the bar to warm up. Apparently I was more fatigued than I thought, and it was everything I had to get one rep of my warmup out - cue grunting and red face...with a whopping 55 lbs.
I'll never make that mistake again!0
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