Your worst/most embarassing gym experience?

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.

i was going to take a mirror selfie and the flash was on lol

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!

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 !

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 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.

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 !

Bump!

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.

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 weeks :embarassed: :embarassed:

"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."

passed out while using the treadmill. Woke up on a bench with bunch of bruised all over me

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."

I bent down to tie my shoe before class and threw my back out. I was only 25, that shouldn't have happened!

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.