Gym fail blog

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  • Kissah
    Kissah Posts: 33 Member
    Whats funny is most of these are Tredmill accidents I like when someone gets on the tredmill next to me and runs at the same pace its like a mini race for me.


    LOL.... I feel the same way and wonder if they are doing the same... One time the person next to me kept upping the speed and so did I... I was running 6.3 which my regular speed is 5.0.... It was good competitive motivation.
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    Whats funny is most of these are Tredmill accidents I like when someone gets on the tredmill next to me and runs at the same pace its like a mini race for me.


    LOL.... I feel the same way and wonder if they are doing the same... One time the person next to me kept upping the speed and so did I... I was running 6.3 which my regular speed is 5.0.... It was good competitive motivation.
    Totally I end up working out super hard when I do this, one time though this guy got off his tredmill gave me a crusty look and walked away..:blushing: He obviously was not up to a friendly competition
  • buckskeen
    buckskeen Posts: 2 Member
    One time I decided I wasn't going to let the fact that I forgot my gym shorts deter me from working out once I got to the gym. I knew if I went home, I would be more likely to skip the workout that day. I hit the rack wearing a T-shirt and my favorite pair of jean shorts. I loaded the rack up and started in on my first set of squats. I get low into about the 3rd rep on my first set and blow out the backside with a big, loud rip. Since my ego tends to have me looking in the mirror during reps, the color of my bloomers was front and center for all to see until I could stand back up with the weights and re-rack as the rip went from the inseam clear up to the belt line.
  • Erin_goBrahScience
    Erin_goBrahScience Posts: 1,215 Member
    I have many...

    One time I was working with my trainer and he told me to warm up before I started to train on the tredmill. this was in a very small space before the BIG gym opened (so like a basement). While talking and not paying attention, I stepped on the tredmill and quickly flew off of it because IT WAS STILL ON! He ran over and was like "OMG Steph! Are you ok?" I was laughing so hard and saying "ow ow ow, I'm fine... but who didn't stop the tredmill?"

    My roommates fav story... ugh this one is def embarassing! I was in the studio working out with her and my stomach was just a disaster! We were the only two in there until this woman came in and started doing Yoga and meditation. We were jumping around and doing crunches... well, we decided to do the ab work where you hold onto the persons ankles and they push your feet (can't remember the name)... anyway, I let out a huge fart (I'm so embarassed typing this!)... she was in a headstand and fell over and a group of people walked in for a tour of the 'new gym'. I almost died!

    Another time I was working out with a trainer/friend and he wanted me to try 'something new!' I was a bit reluctant because he's crazy bananas like a monkey... none the less, he told me to jump on a bar and swing around it like a gymnist (not a stripper!). he did it first to show me and I was like "Oh yeah, I use to do this as a kid!" Anyway, it was my turn, the bar was WAY TOO HIGH so when I jumped for it, I landed on my freakin' knees in front of ALL the men in the weight room in my home town. It was awesome... I'm from a small city of about 55 thousand and knew 1/2 the people in there. He got me a bench and made me try again.

    Ok... that's 3... I can't think of anymore.
    OMG you Win!!! I laughed so hard

    I swear I have the sense of humor of a 5th grader sometimes. Fart stories always crack me up.

    And now that people are generally listening to music on the treadmill, I find people aren't afraid to let it rip.
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    One time I decided I wasn't going to let the fact that I forgot my gym shorts deter me from working out once I got to the gym. I knew if I went home, I would be more likely to skip the workout that day. I hit the rack wearing a T-shirt and my favorite pair of jean shorts. I loaded the rack up and started in on my first set of squats. I get low into about the 3rd rep on my first set and blow out the backside with a big, loud rip. Since my ego tends to have me looking in the mirror during reps, the color of my bloomers was front and center for all to see until I could stand back up with the weights and re-rack as the rip went from the inseam clear up to the belt line.
    Yessssssss!!!!!
  • CannibalisticVegetarian
    CannibalisticVegetarian Posts: 1,255 Member
    Just a few days ago I started going back to the gym after a long absence. When I got there, I noticed a few of the regulars whom I haven't seen in like forever, and so I go to chat aside from working out. After doing a few tricep exercises, my friend mentioned that he was finished with his workout and was about to go. He then opens his arms for a hug and came towards me. Somehow he bumped into the tricep pull bar (he's a fairly large guy) and the force knocked said bar back into my forehead with a light clanking noise.

    While it was semi-embarrassing, I've done worse to myself in the very same gym (all dealing with overhead bar incidents), so I couldn't feel too humiliated.
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    I have an awesome sense of humor so these stories are filling my afternoon with joy after a stressful morning
  • STurbs33
    STurbs33 Posts: 134 Member
    I was running on the treadmeal and caught my head phones with my hand. My iphone fell onto the belt and shot behind me.

    I've done this multiple times.

    Also, I once had to do the roll of shame after a failed bench press attempt. I wasn't lifting a huge amount of weight so I managed to laugh that one off. Miraculously, nobody saw me either.

    And... Just last week I was trying to use the seated calf press machine, but the seat was too close. I don't typically use machines, so I was unsure how to move the seat back. I got off the machine and tried to move it. Somehow I did it, but it was way too far back. So I tried moving it forward but I wouldn't work. I spent several minutes jiggling the seat until a guy came over, sat on the machine, pushed the lever and moved the seat with ease. Sure enough when I tried moving it his way, it worked perfectly. I had to wonder how long he watched me struggle though. Lol
  • ClassicPearl
    ClassicPearl Posts: 141 Member
    Last October, I was in a weight lifting class, in the back. And you know, I went there a few times, thinking "I got this! No problem!"

    So, I'm lifting these 10 pound weights with an overhead press (at the time, that was a lot for me), and I feel something weird going on in my right shoulder. No big deal. Moving on.

    Our instructor has us sitting on our benches and I went to grab my water bottle with my right arm and fell on top of it, twisting my right arm out of its socket... causing a dislocated shoulder. I wasn't able to even get up from the spot I was in; it hurt so bad... All I could do was sit there until class ended and feel the pain.

    Eventually, a trainer came in and helped lift me up and get me out of the class. And my Dad then came and took me to the hospital.

    At the time, it wasn't funny, but when I look back and think... I dislocated my shoulder going to grab my water bottle? LOL. Weird! The body is pretty fragile.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Can't think of any for myself, but I did feel bad for the poor guy who was walking around the gym with the poo stain on his shorts. I just couldn't bring myself to use any of the machines that he'd used. I was afraid of getting the poo on me! Someone pointed it out to him and he's like, "Yeah I know, but I still got one more set..." WTF? :noway:
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    Can't think of any for myself, but I did feel bad for the poor guy who was walking around the gym with the poo stain on his shorts. I just couldn't bring myself to use any of the machines that he'd used. I was afraid of getting the poo on me! Someone pointed it out to him and he's like, "Yeah I know, but I still got one more set..." WTF? :noway:
    OMG ewwwwwwww :laugh: :huh:
  • MrsPong
    MrsPong Posts: 580 Member
    I had my favorite black workout pants that fit likea glove, I wore all the time at my gym while my hubby was stationed in Japan.
    He came home from christmas and we hit the gym with my amazing black pants. We started to squat and he kindly informed me that my lovely black pants were SEE-THROUGH!! So everyone at the gym has seen my butt for a few months lol
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    I tried to lift a sandbell above my head and ended up hitting myself in the face with it. =D
  • lorihalsted
    lorihalsted Posts: 326 Member
    I was doing sit ups on an incline bench and my feet got caught somehow in the bar and I couldn't get out of the incline position without help. It was bad embarassing!!! But funny when I think of it today!
  • BriskaPacojame
    BriskaPacojame Posts: 195 Member
    Bump, because it's funny :)
  • BeingAwesome247
    BeingAwesome247 Posts: 1,171 Member
    hehehe all reasons I workout at home - that and I have gas when I work out lol
    I can let it out at home
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    hehehe all reasons I workout at home - that and I have gas when I work out lol
    I can let it out at home

    Hehehehehehe You are awesome!:heart:
  • amann_84
    amann_84 Posts: 33 Member
    Doing a set of squats one time and didn't have the little clamps on that hold the plates in place. Well the weights on the left side worked their way off the bar and needless to say instantly the weights right side fell off also. I had about 225 lbs on the bar so it made a little bit of noise when the ground and definitely got everybodies attention in the gym! haha
  • maddogg82
    maddogg82 Posts: 159 Member
    This happened to me yesterday.. so im on the teadmill working out.. breathing hard cus its a really good work out.. and i kinda have the sniffles but im not sick .. its just allergies anyway im breathing out of my mouth when i finally start breathing through my nose and POP.. a big ol.. bugger bubble comes out and pops... HAHAHAHa.. the guy next to me totally saw it .. i just grabbed my towel and wiped my face.. thank God i had a towel.. woopsi
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    I had a drier softener sheet hanging out of the back of my shorts during my entire workout. As I was leaving (after being there for almost an hour) a nice young girl said, "Oh sir, there's something stuck to your pants".

    Awesome.
  • sphomphak
    sphomphak Posts: 94 Member
    omg that is good one!! Thanks for sharing.
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    Doing a set of squats one time and didn't have the little clamps on that hold the plates in place. Well the weights on the left side worked their way off the bar and needless to say instantly the weights right side fell off also. I had about 225 lbs on the bar so it made a little bit of noise when the ground and definitely got everybodies attention in the gym! haha
    Been there, done that.
  • basslinewild
    basslinewild Posts: 294 Member
    When I first started going to the gym, my iPod always fell off the elliptical and treadmill. Now I use an arm band.
  • jujulamb
    jujulamb Posts: 195
    I had a drier softener sheet hanging out of the back of my shorts during my entire workout. As I was leaving (after being there for almost an hour) a nice young girl said, "Oh sir, there's something stuck to your pants".

    Awesome.
    I wasnt at the gym when this happened but once I went skating with my friends and skated around the rink 3 times before someone told me I had tissue fluttering in my pants behind me as I skated..and here I thought the boys were checking me out :indifferent:
  • basslinewild
    basslinewild Posts: 294 Member
    Can't think of any for myself, but I did feel bad for the poor guy who was walking around the gym with the poo stain on his shorts. I just couldn't bring myself to use any of the machines that he'd used. I was afraid of getting the poo on me! Someone pointed it out to him and he's like, "Yeah I know, but I still got one more set..." WTF? :noway:

    Gross!!
  • Today414
    Today414 Posts: 118
    Not sure if it's funny or not? (Was not funny to me at the time!!!)

    I used to bring 2 -3 bath size towels with me to my classes. One for for me and the others were for the floor!! I used to sweat so much I left puddles on the floor. I needed to wipe them up so that people would not slip and fall!

    Waaayyy better now! But back when I was beginning my struggle this was part of my every class humiliation.

    Another not so funny fail moment from the same class. The class was Capoeira (A Brazilian martial art that is not so well known). The local class was relatively new so the local news paper sent over a reporter/photographer for a profile on the class and my teacher. After setting up an action shot of the class, the guy stood up and called out to me to move to a corner of the room that was obviously out of the frame of his shot. Yup, getting fit is challenging! :-)

    I have a thing that I can do a Capoeira class through... did you like it? what's it like?
  • DrHeadBang
    DrHeadBang Posts: 22 Member
    I took a friend to a new pilates class a couple years ago. She had never done it and I had only done the videos in the privacy of my own home. We got there early and hid in the back of the class so we wouldn't be in the way. A little while later the instructor comes in and what we thought was the back was actually the front. Like right in front of hte teacher. She had to ask us to back up so she'd have room. And since the room was now packed we couldn't sneak into the back to hide.

    It had to have looked pretty hilarious to everyone behind us over the next 40 minutes. I wasn't even wearing appropriate clothes and my shirt kept riding up and showing off my gut in front of everyone. We couldn't keep up for any of it and the other students could transition like it was nothing. At one point my friend just laid down and looked kind of dead except she was wheezing out of breath. I tried to do every pose but I must have looked like an *kitten*, falling over or being unable to get up into position.

    I stick to weights and cardio at the gym and do my pilates at home.
  • hollyk57
    hollyk57 Posts: 520 Member
    Recently I was working out at my gym, and just finished on the bike. I wanted to cool down by walking around the track a few times. Part of the track runs right in front of the bikes. I cut in between the bikes, stepping over the long metal box/cover that hides all the bike wire/tv cables and stuff... fail. I caught right my foot/toe of my shoe on the edge of the box, flipping the top of it - it made a really loud crashing slam sound, and then, after feeling retarded, I spun around to go on the track and cartoonishly, and as if in slow motion, I nearly plowed down 'Mr.Fitness' (who he thinks he is) who was running on the track. He looked at me like I was a complete moron and trotted away.

    In other news, I saw a chick at the gym once, using the elliptical, and she tried to be all cutesy for this guy next to her and did this weird skip think on the pedals.... she accidentally kicked the back cover (that's over the gears and stuff, which went flying off, and then she slipped and fell off. I was embarrassed for her, but still laughed anyway ;)
  • rob1976
    rob1976 Posts: 1,328 Member
    My roommates fav story... ugh this one is def embarassing! I was in the studio working out with her and my stomach was just a disaster! We were the only two in there until this woman came in and started doing Yoga and meditation. We were jumping around and doing crunches... well, we decided to do the ab work where you hold onto the persons ankles and they push your feet (can't remember the name)... anyway, I let out a huge fart (I'm so embarassed typing this!)... she was in a headstand and fell over and a group of people walked in for a tour of the 'new gym'. I almost died!
    The Army has the next person in line hold your feet while doing situps for PT tests. I had a lot of sugar free candy the day before and we all know what that does to a person' digestive system. Poor Scott...he still won't forgive me for that day...
  • Today414
    Today414 Posts: 118
    When I first started going to the gym, my iPod always fell off the elliptical and treadmill. Now I use an arm band.
    I NEVER had this problem... until last night. It happened 3 times. I was pissed.

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