Your worst/most embarassing gym experience?
Francl27
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The treadmill thread gave me this idea :laugh: :laugh:
For me, I was recovering from a bad cold, and decided to go to a Bodypump class. I went dizzy in the middle of it and thought I was going to pass out, the instructor asked me if I was ok, I said I needed to stop, and he stopped the class, made me sit down, called all the personal trainers (thankfully none I knew) and the nurse, and ended up calling off the class. I was mortified.
Needless to say, I never set foot in that particular class again.
For me, I was recovering from a bad cold, and decided to go to a Bodypump class. I went dizzy in the middle of it and thought I was going to pass out, the instructor asked me if I was ok, I said I needed to stop, and he stopped the class, made me sit down, called all the personal trainers (thankfully none I knew) and the nurse, and ended up calling off the class. I was mortified.
Needless to say, I never set foot in that particular class again.
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Well I haven't been going for long, but in my fifth water fitness class I fell off my noodle in the deep end and was pretty embarassed. I can swim, but the flailing around made it appear I couldn't.0
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oh, easy one!
At the gym, relatively new to the concept of treadmills. Dropped my cell phone so jumped off to get it - with the belt still going.
Somehow, imagined I could simply jump back on in a run.
No. Doesn't really work like that. Only in my head. In real life, I fell right off and hit the ground HARD.
That was a few years back. Hopefully no one there remembers me from that!! lol0 -
i was going to take a mirror selfie and the flash was on lol0
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It wasn't embarrassing, but the first had to be the worst. Planned to do 30-45 minutes, split between elliptical and treadmill...ha!
7 minutes elliptical. Muscles were starting to give. Shaky walk over to the wipees, cleaned it.
5 minutes on treadmill. Time to die.
20 minute drive to do a whopping 12 minutes of exercise.
Later, I learned that I don't like gyms. But that day I just learned I had a long way to go.
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The treadmill thread gave me this idea :laugh: :laugh:
For me, I was recovering from a bad cold, and decided to go to a Bodypump class. I went dizzy in the middle of it and thought I was going to pass out, the instructor asked me if I was ok, I said I needed to stop, and he stopped the class, made me sit down, called all the personal trainers (thankfully none I knew) and the nurse, and ended up calling off the class. I was mortified.
Needless to say, I never set foot in that particular class again.
This makes me sad. Because you said you don't like any exercise and you do BodyPump :frown: :happy:
Anyshway. I don't embarrass easily, but falling flat on my rump in BodyAttack should have been embarrassing I suppose! The move was to do a star jump - jump up with your arms and legs stretched out like an X, run forward, then run backwards to start. I was really getting into it and totally fell as I was running back. Tried to catch myself and everything but no luck, I fell so hard that I continued sliding like two to three feet backwards. I got right back into the next jump Lots of LOLz were had after class. Another time I totally crashed into the BodyCombat instructor when we were doing the circle run after the last track. I was cussing out my heart rate monitor for konking out on me yet again and dinking around with the watch, not looking where I was going. Poor gal! 0 -
Letting off a particularly unpleasantly scented fart during a boxing fitness class and trying to not start giggling, lest I gave myself away.0
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oh, easy one!
At the gym, relatively new to the concept of treadmills. Dropped my cell phone so jumped off to get it - with the belt still going.
Somehow, imagined I could simply jump back on in a run.
No. Doesn't really work like that. Only in my head. In real life, I fell right off and hit the ground HARD.
That was a few years back. Hopefully no one there remembers me from that!! lol
OUCH must have hurt !0 -
I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.0 -
I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.
People can be So rude!0 -
Sorry reply to wrong post !!!I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.
People can be So rude!0 -
I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.
People can be So rude!
I know that was a reply to the original post, but I didn't want to keep that on here, so I switched it to a less horrifying example of embarrassing.
But really, people are rude. Thank goodness my current gym is judgment free and the people, even the fit ones, don't even look at you twice, they just work out in their zone without giving you side-eye or making snotty comments.0 -
Sorry reply to wrong post !!!I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.
People can be So rude!
No, I edited the post and removed the horrifying content. I don't think that's exactly embarrassing as much as totally soul crushing.0 -
I was trying to wipe the sweat off when I almost fell off the elliptical.
I don't think anyone noticed...hopefully.
People can be So rude!
I know that was a reply to the original post, but I didn't want to keep that on here, so I switched it to a less horrifying example of embarrassing.
But really, people are rude. Thank goodness my current gym is judgment free and the people, even the fit ones, don't even look at you twice, they just work out in their zone without giving you side-eye or making snotty comments.
Good you got yourself out of that gym ! glad to hear your happy with your current gym !0 -
oh, easy one!
At the gym, relatively new to the concept of treadmills. Dropped my cell phone so jumped off to get it - with the belt still going.
Somehow, imagined I could simply jump back on in a run.
No. Doesn't really work like that. Only in my head. In real life, I fell right off and hit the ground HARD.
That was a few years back. Hopefully no one there remembers me from that!! lol
Totally off subject... but I love your Tardis ticker!! 0 -
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Oh my gosh, I just remembered this one.
I was in middle school and we were doing sit ups in gym class, the fat kid's most dreaded class, right? Anyway, this was in a gymnasium, so does it count? Anyway, I was struggling, and my shoe skidded on the floor and made this awful, awful "poot" noise. Everyone turned and looked and I was like "OH GOD NO IT WAS MY SHOE" but no one believed me.
I was traumatized, but for some reason I got the giggles over how ridiculous it was, so I was simultaneously laughing and crying.
I never tried to do a sit up again.
Until the other day, my trainer had me try, and I actually did one! VINDICATION! And my shoe didn't skid on the floor. So.0 -
I was doing a full power clean and press @ 155lb's. I did the the deadlift pushed with my hips for the clean. Hit the clean go down for the squat and my right ankle decided to roll. I pushed the bar a good 2 feet forward and went a good 2 feet backwards. It looked like a I did a NBA style Lebron James flop the guy next to me said.0
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Bumping thread so I don't have to start a new one.
So today some moron (that would be me) forgot to put the collar on one side of the bar. In the middle of a squat I felt a bit of a stumble and took a step to catch my balance and felt helpless as the bumpers went crashing down on one side and watched the bar whip over my head as the other side crashed down. Needless to say, yes there were plenty of people staring!
I did pick them up and reload, this time triple checking the collars and finished the workout.
In my defense I am breaking in my new belt and am having a bit of trouble adjusting to it when I am at the bottom and probably jerked a bit and bounced the weight off the bar.0 -
I once had the bright idea to go the gym whilst still quite hung over...
I reasoned with myself that id seen on Mythbusters exercising could help reduce the effect of a hang over so I thought "Oh this will be good for me"... ... ..it wasn't
I did ok on the treadmill but I was starting to get a little dizzy, so I switched to the rower machine thing (you know the one I mean right?) and I was pushing myself pretty hard on that trying to beat my performance from last time, but the constant sort of rocking forward rocking back motion turned out to be a very bad idea...I was about 5 mins into it and then I suddenly just thought "OMG im going to hurl!!" and I was so desperate trying to get out of the machine because my feet were strapped into the machine I was desperately scrambling to get out before I was sick..i left in such a hurry I just yanked one of my feet straight out of my shoe and took off to the bathroom with one shoe on and one shoe left behind still strapped in the machine!!:laugh:
I then stumbled into the bathroom and threw up in the sink :sick:
The particular gym I went to at the time had just recently been renovated from a child's indoor playroom to a gym and the womens bathrooms where still decorated with this hideous candy floss coloured pink with bright magenta stripes and like unicorns and butterflys and the...it was the most jarring colour and sitting there slumped on the floor the unicorns and fairies and butterfly's were really creeping me out!
I was so freaking embarrassed once I cleaned myself up I quickly ran back retrieved my other shoe and didn't go back there for a good 2-3 weeks0 -
I literally did a Briget Jones... Got off the bike and collapsed. Wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't work in the same gym...0
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"I will unrack all the plates from ONE side of the bar, THEN I will take care of the other side of the bar. Seems like a rational idea."0
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I came back from a workout and put my smelly socks in my pocket. Hopped in the car which my brother was driving with his friends.
Unfortunately, the not so pleasant smell invaded the car and my brother pointedly asked who was the stinky one. Among sympathetic nods of his friends, I sheepishly removed the socks from my pocket and put them in my bag.
It was funny because in a car full of dudes, there was just one girl and she probably smelled the worst.
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passed out while using the treadmill. Woke up on a bench with bunch of bruised all over me0
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Have fallen of the treadmill twice - I'll be going along great then I seem to lose all co-ordination and forget how to walk. Also nearly knocked myself out once - my keys were on the floor next to the exercise bike, bent down to pick them up and smacked my head really hard on the handlebars.
I like to tell myself that no one has noticed any of these happening :laugh:0 -
After pushing myself probably harder than I should have, I was super shaky and weak feeling (definitely hadn't had enough water that day either...whoops). I walk into the locker room and try to unlock my locker to get my stuff and go home. I can't for the life of me remember my lock combination.
I go to the front desk (thank god this was during the staffed hours at my 24 hour gym), and get the front desk guy to cut my lock off my locker. But first he asks "do you have the combination written down somewhere?", "Uh, yeah, on my phone which is in my locker. Oh, and at home, but my keys to both my car and my apartment are in the locker."0 -
When I was 19 my brother in law and I went to the gym as support for someone else. We got bored and got on treadmills and started racing. Our heart rates were way up and (yes totally dangerous) we kept going. Finally we had it turned up so high that my BIL got a cramp and fell and went flying backwards into the wall. I started laughing and that knocked off my flow and I flew back on top of him. It would have totally embarrassed me now, but not then. We laughed, and coughed, and laughed and laughed. Then we limped home. lol0
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I bent down to tie my shoe before class and threw my back out. I was only 25, that shouldn't have happened!0
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I was doing a PT session (one of my first ever) and we were doing really high step ups...
Somehow I stepped down but didn't step down properly and fell flat on my *kitten*...
My PT still hasn't let me forget and we now joke about it whenever I have to do step ups...0 -
I put my purse in my locker, locked it up, and went to work out. Later on when I came back in, I'd apparently forgotten which locker I put it in, only I was absolutely 100% SURE I knew where it was. I ran out crying to the desk telling them that someone had broken into my locker and stole my purse.
ETA: My gym has the automatic combination locks - no personal lock required, just spin a number and that's it.
I felt so stupid when the desk attendant opened up all the lockers and it turned out to be on the other side of the locker room. :noway: :blushing:
Luckily it was a Sunday afternoon and there was only one other woman in the locker room - and I haven't seen her since. Thankfully.0 -
I was at the gym walking on the treadmill in a very full gym. I also had morning sickness. So suddenly I jumped off the treadmill running across the gym to go throw up in the bathroom. Funny how no one looks at you running on a treadmill. But if you run across the gym everyone stares. I didn't go back the rest of my pregnancy.0
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