Most Embarrasing Gym Moment. . . .

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  • bonelessskinless
    bonelessskinless Posts: 147
    I joined a gym that was huge..It was soo big that I couldn't remember where the ladies locker room was and ended up asking a guy for help. I'm a butch lesbian (woman) but I look manly sometimes, well he pointed towards the mens locker room...
    OMG my eyes, naked men..yuck!!
    Count your blessings, they could have been naked old men.

    they were
  • duqtape
    duqtape Posts: 121 Member
    In college, I was at the school gym early, when only the football team was there. I was using the rack for split squats and the bar was a tad too heavy. I took a knee, but couldn't get back up. Or put the bar on the rack at all. I looked around aimlessly, not in any pain, but immobile. A nice football guy saw me and lifted the bar back on the rack with one hand like it was nothing and assured me to my feet. Not a fall on my face emberissment, but stuck to the floor. And feeing rather weak for only lifting the guys one arm curling weight.

    (Not?) suprisingly, this was not the only time a large amount of weight pinned me to the ground awaiting rescue.
  • duqtape
    duqtape Posts: 121 Member
    *assisted. Stupid auto-correct.
  • duqtape
    duqtape Posts: 121 Member
    I'm rather klutzy, to be nice.

    And outside of the gym one:

    The first time I rode my road bike with clipped shoes, I thought I could stop at a red light and stay standing on the bike, like the awesome guys do. Problem was, I had no idea how to do it and promptly fell over. I couldn't rotate my foot to get the pedal to release, nor could I reach the laces to untie my shoe. (You can't just push yourself back up. It requires a foot on the ground)
    While struggling to get free and upright, a car of college kids pulled up, rolled down the windows (I thought I was saved with some kind help!), then proceeded to point, laugh, and squeal away.

    I win at road biking.
  • paulstapleton
    paulstapleton Posts: 8 Member
    tripped and fell on treadmill,spat me out the back so fast ,it wasnt a good look still use treadmills though.
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    I joined a gym that was huge..It was soo big that I couldn't remember where the ladies locker room was and ended up asking a guy for help. I'm a butch lesbian (woman) but I look manly sometimes, well he pointed towards the mens locker room...
    OMG my eyes, naked men..yuck!!
    Count your blessings, they could have been naked old men.

    I have been there. I had just finished a heavy leg day, and could barely stumble back to the locker room, so I'm watching my feet carefully so as to not trip. I head in and move towards my locker, and hear the sound of a blow dryer from near where my stuff is. I look up to avoid running into the man presumably drying his hair and see instead an old man, bare as the day he was born, with one leg propped up on the bench and blow drying his testicle. I had no idea how to react, but he just looked up, gave a friendly wave, and went back to what he was doing. In order to get to my locker, I would have had to kneel down right at blow dryer level, so I decided that I perhaps had to pee. When I came back, he was dressing, so I sat down to change. He was a friendly guy, and chatty, but during the entire conversation, I just couldn't get that image out of my brain. Some things, once seen, can never be unseen.
  • BecahhRose
    BecahhRose Posts: 21 Member

    I have been there. I had just finished a heavy leg day, and could barely stumble back to the locker room, so I'm watching my feet carefully so as to not trip. I head in and move towards my locker, and hear the sound of a blow dryer from near where my stuff is. I look up to avoid running into the man presumably drying his hair and see instead an old man, bare as the day he was born, with one leg propped up on the bench and blow drying his testicle. I had no idea how to react, but he just looked up, gave a friendly wave, and went back to what he was doing. In order to get to my locker, I would have had to kneel down right at blow dryer level, so I decided that I perhaps had to pee. When I came back, he was dressing, so I sat down to change. He was a friendly guy, and chatty, but during the entire conversation, I just couldn't get that image out of my brain. Some things, once seen, can never be unseen.


    Bahahah OMG
  • misssexybelt
    misssexybelt Posts: 19
    *kitten* hanging out 2 yrs ago..ugh lol
  • CactusF1ower
    CactusF1ower Posts: 174 Member
    This thread has made for a late night baby feeding session filled with my unsuccessful attempts at silent laughter. Bumping for later, in case I remember a story to share
  • Synapze
    Synapze Posts: 499
    Hmm, twice now ive been in mid flight when ive hit the emergency tag on the treadmill. Its stops almost instantly and both times ive nearly ended up *kitten* over head.

    Packing more weight on the Tricep extension pull over and losing my balance, having it throw me back into the machine.

    Makes a massive 'CLANG"!!! Just so everyone notices.
  • FaerieCae
    FaerieCae Posts: 437 Member
    My first attempt at assisted pull ups with resistance bands on rings...you connect the bands to the rings, then pull them down to get each elastic under the middle of your foot, making a U shape back up to the rings.... Managed the pull ups okay, but when it came time to 'dismount' I could only get one foot out. Im standing on one foot, pulling down on the band that has my other foot trapped, of course thats when I start leaning backwards, the elastic going with me and elegantly spin round and round and a wide circle until coming to a stop when my butt hits the ground. I sat there laughing hysterically and still trying to get out of the darn thing! Thank goodness it was a saturday morning just after opening!
  • CeddysMum
    CeddysMum Posts: 101 Member
    LOL love these, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

    A few years ago I tripped on the treadmill (thankfully walking fairly slowly in 'cool down' speed), ended up 'walking on my knees' for quite a bit before I was able to get off.

    The guy two treadmills down (we were walking next to each other with several gym buddies) actually asked if I could do it again because he missed it LOL
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    So. Our local health club. Unbeknownst to me, the women in the locker room saw the bruises left by my wife's powerlifting suit (she's a world class powerlifter) and became concerned over spousal abuse.
    "Are you okay? Is everything alright at home?" they asked.
    "Oh, I'm fine." Jill prattled off oblivious to their concerns.
    They pointed to Jill's bruises. Jill unabashedly smiled and said, "Oh, I think it's fun."
    Their eyes got wide.
    Still not hip to the fact that they were not talking about powerlifting, my wife followed up with, "I like it. You should try it sometime."
    Now I understand why I got the weirdest looks when I walked in the health club that day.
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    Another one was when I was walking out of the gym past the daycare center. The attack came quickly...
    "Gee, mister. You're going bald."
    I looked down to see a diminutive second grade girl in a flower dress, hands on hips, assessing me confidently.
    "I know," I said. I squatted down so I could talk to her on-the-level. I tilted my head forward and rubbed the top of my head, so she could get a good view. "It's just that...when I was young, I...I...I didn't eat my vegetables."
    Her jaw went slack and her eyes glazed over as she reached for the top of her head. She turned and walked away, rubbing her head. As I had mine.
  • brandiuntz
    brandiuntz Posts: 2,717 Member
    Friend and I go running 3 times a week. We've recently been trail running. Always tripping hazards on the trails. A few weeks ago, I finally had my first serious fall. Was sprinting to leap a log, caught my foot about 4 feet from the log on a rock, and literally flew over the log and landed face first into the dirt. I was covered head to toe in dirt. Was hilarious.
  • Carfoodel
    Carfoodel Posts: 481 Member
    I thought my most embarrasing moment was when I was going like a madwoman on the rowing machine to reach a certain distance within the time - pulled too hard and went shooting off the back of the seat. landed on my bum behind the machine, with my trainers still in the stirrups - then I just burst out laughing at myself - miraculously noone saw me flying off the machine but everyone heard me laughing lol.

    that was until I went to try out the assisted pull up bar machine the other week there - looked at the weight and thought I would see how it felt before adjusting it up or down - grabbed onto the bars at the same time as I stood on the platform - but didn't grip properly and it was so light I just fell all the way down and landed on a crumpled heap at the bottom. leapt back up as it it wasn't anything and casually adjusted the weight haha everyone was pretending not to see a thing but ouch I was sore. I got about a dozen bruises all over my arms and legs over the next few days - like impressively massive bruises all the way up my arms lol.
  • KarlaH9801
    KarlaH9801 Posts: 362 Member
    Another one was when I was walking out of the gym past the daycare center. The attack came quickly...
    "Gee, mister. You're going bald."
    I looked down to see a diminutive second grade girl in a flower dress, hands on hips, assessing me confidently.
    "I know," I said. I squatted down so I could talk to her on-the-level. I tilted my head forward and rubbed the top of my head, so she could get a good view. "It's just that...when I was young, I...I...I didn't eat my vegetables."
    Her jaw went slack and her eyes glazed over as she reached for the top of her head. She turned and walked away, rubbing her head. As I had mine.
    You should tell my kids, lol, ,lol!
  • TruckersWifeTruckersLife
    TruckersWifeTruckersLife Posts: 408 Member
    omg that is so funny i had tears rolling down my face reading it:laugh:
  • kaleena1983
    kaleena1983 Posts: 64 Member
    I was doing box jumps and put my feet too close to the box. When I jumped up, my foot hit the top of the box and I fell on top of it. I did that twice in one day. LOL!
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    I loaded up my warm up weight for Squats yesterday, first squat, down in the hole, shorts ripped from *kitten* to the end-of-leg seam. Changed into the sweats I'd walked to the gym in, second squat, ripped them from the *kitten* halfway down the leg. Laughed again, and just carried on as they had a lining and I do wear underwear :P
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    A few years ago my husband and I were working with a trainer at a local gym. His "rule" was that we should get there 30 minutes early and do cardio until our sessions with him as warm up. I was also struggling with severe insomnia at the time - there were more than one occasion when I fell asleep on the recumbent bike during my warm up and he (trainer) had to wake me up and send me home!
  • FrnkLft
    FrnkLft Posts: 1,821 Member
    Can I be embarassed for the kid next to me?

    Maybe 13 years old looking nervous, one of his first times at the gym trying to figure out what he's doing (more power to him btw, totally cool).

    Anyhow he's on the smith machine right next to where I'm doing my military presses, and I'm doing my last set to excess... let out a big 'ol grunt and spooked the hell out of him... but he was already under the bar getting ready to unhook so he just jumped up into the bar and hobbled forward.

    I laughed and talked to him about what he was up to.

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