Most embarassing act at a gym?
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I've hit my head on the barbell before
dropped a weight on my foot
but my FAVORITE,
when I peed myself squatting (I blame the kids, they wrecked me)
I know the feeling. I peed a little pulling my 335 deadlift PR... A pantiliner was my only saving grace!
ETA: This was in school and not at the gym. I was playing tackle football with a large group of guys and our school principle. I slid on the wet grass and did the splits, it ripped my pants from the zipper on the front, all the way up the back of the *kitten*. I wrapped myself in 2 other kids' sweaters and waddle to the nurse so she could call my mom to bring me pants.
I did this again playing paintball with a group of kids I went to church with later that year.0 -
After running 4 miles, I started doing weighted lunges... Fell over flat on my back in front of all the guys lifting.... Layer there for a minute, stood up laughing as they were pointing and laughing and took a bow and went on about my business
epic save0 -
Today, I didn't realize that the volume on my phone was at full blast, and I put the music on and scared the crap out of myself while almost falling off the treadmill. hahaha0
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I had been running on the treadmill for a good while, I reached over for a quick drink and my towel to wipe the sweat from my face. As I put the towel back the person on the treadmill next to me - who happened to be a very attractive man - says "I think those are yours" pointing down at a pair of lace underwear that conveniently fell right between our treadmills. I was mortified.
From that day on I made sure to always, ALWAYS check my towels when I take them out of the dryer to ensure no underwear get folded with them.
One day I was running on the treadmill and I had yoga pants on. I felt a lump on the back of my leg, so I pulled my pant leg up to see what it was, and it was a pair of my underwear. So I stuffed them back in my pants, and kept running. I am pretty sure 20ish people saw too.
sneaky underwear I tell ya! :laugh:
I go to an early morning yoga class on Saturdays. One day I was running really far behind and I grabbed by tank top, pants, and towel out of the dryer and threw them on then out the door I went. I got there and rolled out my towel to find THREE pairs of underwear, I thought no big deal no one really saw (maybe a couple people but whatever). Then shortly into class my instructor nonchalantly grabbed a pair that had apparently stuck to my back due to static, that may have been more noticed.0 -
I think weekly I hit my head on the bar in the squat rack while putting the weights back. Between music and putting all the plates back I kinda get lost in my own world. I have hit my head on the lat pull down bar before as well. All in good fun though! Worst thing I saw was someone pass out and take a header off the dumbbell rack!
Yup--weekly occurrence for me as well! Happens so often I didn't even think of that as a #gymfail LOL0 -
Stepped on a treadmill someone forgot to turn off. I still have a scar on my knee.0
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the list is endless lol but more stupid ****e than dropping weights
*fell off a cross trainer
* tripped over my iphone headphones when my iphone dropped off the treadmil and royally stacked it
*went to train outside on my gyms balcony and went to a window thinking it was a door and tried finding a handle
* ran into the door thinking it was opened (it was dark)
and the worst just signed at a new gym and had a good leg session the day before and misjudged my step from the front reception area to a full display of people doing weights and tripped really badly my mate couldn't stop laughing and the trainer was like I feel so bad but so funny.
Hey at least they all know me now right haha
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Ugh. I guess I'll confess too:
- I farted more than once (different days) while doing squats in the male dominated free weights section. It got a few laughs, chuckles and weird looks.
- My legs were still Gumby feeling one day, so when I went to step on elliptical, I misjudged my footing and one of the foot rests circled up fast and nailed me in my chin. HARD. I keeled over in pain and practically crawled back to the locker room.
-I was spotting a guy on the bench press and he started building a tent...when he needed my assistance I was slack jawed, still staring at it.0 -
Pulling out a front weggie infront of some weird glass you can only see out of ......... Not into. Whups!0
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Honestly, the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me at the gym was probably when I fainted while running on the treadmill.0
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love this thread.
Last week I smacked my head on the roof while doing chin-ups. I thought it was cut open for sure but luckily no blood.
A little while back I was doing Bulgarian split squats and I wanted to do some heavy ones. I normally use db's but only had to up to 25kg at the time. SO I decided to use a barbell instead. I think I had 70kg on there at the time. I got up to rep 5 and just had a tiny little wobble. I thought to myself, "I wonder what would happen if I lost my balance" BOOM! Sure enough next rep, I went down and had a BIG wobble, centre of balance was off and I was tumbling left. Bar sort of rolled over my neck as I went down and in front of me. Took out a whole heap of old laptops that were sitting next to my power rack. Wish I had it on camera. Would have millions of views on youtube gym fails :laugh:0 -
During spin class we were spinning quite fast. My long flaired workout paints got caught in the back wheel while we are hovered over the bike spinning away, and before I knew it my pants got so caught up in the wheel to the point they are pulled down past my hips. I couldn't get off the bike as the pants are so embedded in the wheel that I was trapped. The instructor had to get some scissors and cut my pants so I could be separated from the bike. I left the gym in a pair of pants that were less than flattering. At least I had something to cover up my *kitten* as I walked the walk of shame. To this day I have not returned to that location as I left with half my pants stuck in a spin wheel....only I would have this happen, only I.
Oh, and a prior spin class I hopped off to get some water and walking in between spinners I ran into a back wheel and my pants where burned off and my shin was cut raw open. Good times I say...
hahahaha the first one wins hands downs (sorry for your experience) but the second one that's unfortunate because you hurt yourself
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After running 4 miles, I started doing weighted lunges... Fell over flat on my back in front of all the guys lifting.... Layer there for a minute, stood up laughing as they were pointing and laughing and took a bow and went on about my business
haha Im always unbalanced for some reason when i do weighted walking lunges and always fall over haha...now I just do them outside lol0 -
I completed an entire yoga class in the front row, since I was one of the more advanced students, the instructor had asked me to be in front so the new students could follow. I noticed after class that no one would make eye contact with me. "Your epic wheel and handstand intimidates them," I thought to myself.
NOPE! Turns out there was a sizable hole right in the seat of my pants. I only noticed when I got home, and stated taking the pants off to shower. I put them back on, bent over in front of a mirror and saw the problem: the entire class had basically given me a pelvic exam.
I never went back.
*LMAO* Sorry, it must have been horribly embarrassing, but I can't stop laughing.) 0 -
About 8 years ago I was sitting on the leg press with 1k on the carriage and a random thought crossed my mind as I was lowering down.. I started laughing, lost all ability to push the weight.. which made me laugh even harder. So I'm sitting there with a thousand pounds of weight on the machine and not a person in sight to come help pull it off me with the exception of the gym owner, who ended up recruiting the help of a couple shoppers from the grocer next to door to help pry my out of my torture device, the entire time I am just laughing away. I didn't do much walking the next few days after that and to this day I have flashbacks of that every time I sit down on a leg press.0
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Loud farting squats - classic!0
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A few recent ones.
I was planning for a big leg workout and hadn't eaten, so I wolfed down a banana and some yogurt on the way in the gym door. On my last set of squats, I puke on the second rep, but finish. My buddy says I got one more, so I try and have to dump the bar in the cage. Its redicously loud as it hits the stops and I fell forward right into where I had puked. There was one of the female trainers working out in the cage next to us and I look over and she's just staring shaking her head.
Workout parter and I were warming up with some medicine ball throws and bounce passes in a back corner of the gym. Out of the blue a very attractive woman comes jogging between us. Buddy throws a chest pass and it slams into her, knocking her back into me. I catch her under the arms to keep her from hitting the deck and my hands end up in a perfect grope of her boobs. I'm not sure who was more embarrased. After some appologies she walks off and is not out of earshot before my dumbass buddy loudly asks 'Were they real?'0 -
Two words: *kitten* sweat.
Of course I wipe it off, but getting up between sets and forgetting I left an imprint of my butt there...0 -
I was deadlifting at an anytime fitness (I had a traveling job so I was always in a different gym at that time). I loaded the bar up to 6 plates and a 25 on each side so everyone at the gym was staring at me. I lifted it and the bar bowed a lot, which is normal with a whippy bar, but when I set the bar back down it didn't straighten back out. It was completely bent and useless. To top that off, when I stood up from setting the weight down, blood started spewing out of my nose and made a huge mess all over the floor. I could see the whites of everyone's eyes as I lumbered off towards the bathroom with my hands over my face.0
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I was walking and talking back to a friend.
I walked straight into the concert pillars that hold the roof up, split my head and had to get 3 stitches
The pain of it made my eyes water.
I laughed my *kitten* off afterwards0 -
I was working out at a machine and was apparently doing it wrong. Someone helpfully told me how to do it, but then he stayed there for a little too long looking at me strangely. So he leaves after an uncomfortable period of time, leaving me to wonder what his deal was. It was then that I suddenly looked down and saw a huge dark mark on the crotch of my grey shorts. I'm apparently a huge crotch sweater and grey is probably the worst colour to hide sweat stains. It looked like I had massively peed myself.0
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I tore something while on a leg press and had to be carried out on a stretcher.0
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Probably one of my worst. I was so busy talking to my training partner, that unloading the squat rack I failed to notice him not unloading his side. Well after yanking the third 45 off my side the bar popped up, smacking me in the face and knocking me on my *kitten*. (Probably more fell down than got knocked down, but you get the picture.) The noise must have caught everyone's attention in the entire gym, as the bar flipped and hit the ground. And of course my training partner afterwards was literally rolling on the floor laughing.0
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It wasn't at the Gym but at the swimming pool. My physio therapist had recommended a break from my normal cardio exercise routines. Her actual words were " no more contact sports - no hockey - no basketball". So after 2 sessions ( 5 weeks per ) I had learned to swim. In the last week of the course the instructors were teaching a few of us the kick turn. The rest of the class was in the shallow end so we would swim to the wall in the deep end and practise - practise - practise. Had all the normal failures - swam head first into the wall at speed, flipped to early and my feet couldn't touch the wall to spring away. Then it happened the perfect turn and a great push off the wall with my legs.
Suddenly my trunks were sliding down my legs, gone. Stop - panic - do a dive to recover the trunks. You want to try something challenging put a pair of wet trunks on while in the deep end of the pool. For some reason my swimming friends now call me "Monty" as in the Full Monty.
Some call me Bob from the multiple Bobs up and down I made while recovering. Needless to say I bought new Smaller trunks the next day! Darn weight loss. I laugh at it now, and it motivation to continue and see if I can lose another pair of trunks.0 -
I tried a step aerobics class once, was totally uncoordinated and fell off the step half way through the class. That wasn't so bad, but the instructor stopped the entire class to see if I was OK, that was embarrassing.
Also, never wear light gray pants to Zumba, the butt and groin sweat pattern is not attractive!0 -
I completed an entire yoga class in the front row, since I was one of the more advanced students, the instructor had asked me to be in front so the new students could follow. I noticed after class that no one would make eye contact with me. "Your epic wheel and handstand intimidates them," I thought to myself.
NOPE! Turns out there was a sizable hole right in the seat of my pants. I only noticed when I got home, and stated taking the pants off to shower. I put them back on, bent over in front of a mirror and saw the problem: the entire class had basically given me a pelvic exam.
I never went back.
*LMAO* Sorry, it must have been horribly embarrassing, but I can't stop laughing.)
omg!!!! hilarious!0 -
^ yah I've done a lot of embarrassing things, but that one sticks out among the many.0
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Suddenly my trunks were sliding down my legs, gone. Stop - panic - do a dive to recover the trunks. You want to try something challenging put a pair of wet trunks on while in the deep end of the pool. For some reason my swimming friends now call me "Monty" as in the Full Monty.
Some call me Bob from the multiple Bobs up and down I made while recovering. Needless to say I bought new Smaller trunks the next day! Darn weight loss. I laugh at it now, and it motivation to continue and see if I can lose another pair of trunks.
I love this story. Cheers to you losing another pair of trunks.0 -
One day after lifting weights and then walking the treadmill for a bit, I treated myself to a stay in the sauna before taking a shower. After the shower, I returned to my locker only to learn that I'd forgotten to pack myself a set of clean underwear. No biggie... I'm heading home after the gym, right?
I dress and gather my things. As I'm walking across the locker room, it becomes obvious that my weight loss efforts had gleaned some amount of success as my shorts quickly fall to my ankles, in front of everybody.
Not a major issue as I was still in the men's locker room and, although I'm not the type to draw attention to myself (normally) I'm not a towel-dancer or one who showers in his underwear. The laughing and cat-calls were embarrassing then, but funny now when I think back on the situation.0 -
Went to a gym class today, and there were about 5 other people in it. At one point we were laying on our backs with our feet in the air, holding an exercise ball between our feet. We had to move the ball around in a circle above our heads, so of course I drop mine straight onto my face, and it bounced off and rolled into the main gym into someone using the resistance machines.
Only the trainer found it funny.
Super awkward.0
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