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  • Syreeta6
    Syreeta6 Posts: 377 Member
    Accidental farts in yoga/pilates class. I usually try not to lol at the culprit but on the inside I am DYING!!
  • Syreeta6
    Syreeta6 Posts: 377 Member
    I wear boxer-brief type undies to avoid VPL in tight pants/shorts. :smile:

    My peeve is the people who crank the incline all the way up on the treadmill, then hold on to the top. Isn't that defeating the purpose of the incline? Wouldn't it make more sense to lower the incline to the point where you can walk without holding on for dear life?

    LMAO!!!
  • Brandy3827
    Brandy3827 Posts: 42 Member
    The woman who gets on the treadmill next to you and changes the television set from music videos to THE FOOD NETWORK!!! Seriously? Who does that?! Not to mention there are 5 other television sets not being watched.
  • msbanana
    msbanana Posts: 793 Member
    I need to share- I had myself yet another embarassing moment at the gym. If the girls that were behind me are on MFP they'll share their version I'm sure.

    So, I've been increasing my food intake slowly working toward maintenance. As I've done this I find that my body chooses funny times to start digesting. I was on the tread at the gym and it was busy. Like REALLY busy people waiting everywhere for a machine. Well two bippy twats (you know the one in impractical workout gear clearly there to be seen and not ACTUALLY work out) were standing behind me (I caught them out of the corner of my eye). They were clearly waiting to get 2 treads together. I was doing HIIT and I'm sweating and I'm sure they were trying to figure out what I was doing (normal pace, run, sprint, normal pace, run, sprint...) well as they stare I start another round of sprinting and feel the bubbles in my guts... oh no, I'm gonna fart. :noway: yeah, totally gonna fart. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to clench your butt cheeks together at 8.5mph?!?! yeah, well it doesn't work and it flies. I think, "well at least it was quiet. wait, no I'm wearing head phones." :embarassed: I glance over my shoulder and they are both gaping and me and then I catch the smell... damn it :sick: . I started to smile, then I started laughing because as the smell drifted toward them in a nauxious cloud they backed away and picked a couple elliptical machines farther away. MUCH farther away.

    And that friends is why I can't wait to start running outside again! :laugh:
  • corpus_validum
    corpus_validum Posts: 292 Member
    I need to share- I had myself yet another embarassing moment at the gym. If the girls that were behind me are on MFP they'll share their version I'm sure.

    So, I've been increasing my food intake slowly working toward maintenance. As I've done this I find that my body chooses funny times to start digesting. I was on the tread at the gym and it was busy. Like REALLY busy people waiting everywhere for a machine. Well two bippy twats (you know the one in impractical workout gear clearly there to be seen and not ACTUALLY work out) were standing behind me (I caught them out of the corner of my eye). They were clearly waiting to get 2 treads together. I was doing HIIT and I'm sweating and I'm sure they were trying to figure out what I was doing (normal pace, run, sprint, normal pace, run, sprint...) well as they stare I start another round of sprinting and feel the bubbles in my guts... oh no, I'm gonna fart. :noway: yeah, totally gonna fart. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to clench your butt cheeks together at 8.5mph?!?! yeah, well it doesn't work and it flies. I think, "well at least it was quiet. wait, no I'm wearing head phones." :embarassed: I glance over my shoulder and they are both gaping and me and then I catch the smell... damn it :sick: . I started to smile, then I started laughing because as the smell drifted toward them in a nauxious cloud they backed away and picked a couple elliptical machines farther away. MUCH farther away.

    And that friends is why I can't wait to start running outside again! :laugh:

    LMAO...I just pulled my transverse abdominis after reading your inTOXICating post. This is right up there with the jump rope on a treadmill copycat!!!
  • emmaleigh47
    emmaleigh47 Posts: 1,670 Member
    Haha Haha I love the stories....
    I also love the people who were fine with admitting what people in their gym think of them ..

    If you would like to know my recent experience ... check out my blog http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/emmaleigh47

    Now as to what people would say about me.
    1. I am that fat girl who slooooowly runs around the track ... around and around... for much longer than most people (I have been known to have to do my long runs there 14.5 miles = 159 laps lemme tell you NOT pretty!
    2. I bring my Jeff Galloway timer ... and it beeps every 2 minutes... you dont like it... suck it!
    3. No VPL for me... commando all the way!
  • Steph70508
    Steph70508 Posts: 110
    I need to share- I had myself yet another embarassing moment at the gym. If the girls that were behind me are on MFP they'll share their version I'm sure.

    So, I've been increasing my food intake slowly working toward maintenance. As I've done this I find that my body chooses funny times to start digesting. I was on the tread at the gym and it was busy. Like REALLY busy people waiting everywhere for a machine. Well two bippy twats (you know the one in impractical workout gear clearly there to be seen and not ACTUALLY work out) were standing behind me (I caught them out of the corner of my eye). They were clearly waiting to get 2 treads together. I was doing HIIT and I'm sweating and I'm sure they were trying to figure out what I was doing (normal pace, run, sprint, normal pace, run, sprint...) well as they stare I start another round of sprinting and feel the bubbles in my guts... oh no, I'm gonna fart. :noway: yeah, totally gonna fart. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to clench your butt cheeks together at 8.5mph?!?! yeah, well it doesn't work and it flies. I think, "well at least it was quiet. wait, no I'm wearing head phones." :embarassed: I glance over my shoulder and they are both gaping and me and then I catch the smell... damn it :sick: . I started to smile, then I started laughing because as the smell drifted toward them in a nauxious cloud they backed away and picked a couple elliptical machines farther away. MUCH farther away.

    And that friends is why I can't wait to start running outside again! :laugh:

    LMAO!!!


    I can imagine someone saying that I am some weird machine stalker. The gym I go to has only one stepmill and I usually do that machine first because it is the hardest and I get the best burn. When I arrive in the morning and someone is on it I usually given them "the eye" and then find a machine right next to it and watch them till they get off so I can jump on it before anyone else gets it.
  • Selaen
    Selaen Posts: 31 Member
    The other day I was doing my 'arms' circuit and as I was facing the stairs to the gym (my gym's upstairs, changing rooms & reception downstairs), I saw this folded towel bop up the stairs.. A bloke was just leisurely walking up, swinging his (very much free) arms about, with a folded towel on top of his head. I thought that it was a tad strange, but maybe he just picked one up off the reception and for some reason needed to pop it on his head.

    That's until he went up to the cord pull-machine-thingy and started working out. With the towel still folded, still on his head.

    The bloody thing stayed there for at least 15 mins as he was grunting away!
  • msproducer
    msproducer Posts: 101 Member
    The ladies wearing make-up and perfume in water aerobics!
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    The other day I was doing my 'arms' circuit and as I was facing the stairs to the gym (my gym's upstairs, changing rooms & reception downstairs), I saw this folded towel bop up the stairs.. A bloke was just leisurely walking up, swinging his (very much free) arms about, with a folded towel on top of his head. I thought that it was a tad strange, but maybe he just picked one up off the reception and for some reason needed to pop it on his head.

    That's until he went up to the cord pull-machine-thingy and started working out. With the towel still folded, still on his head.

    The bloody thing stayed there for at least 15 mins as he was grunting away!

    There's a guy at my gym who does the same thing! I call him Rocky because he wears American Flag boxing shorts like Rocky Balboa did. Anyway, he also walks around with his towel perched on his head, he does cardio with it on his head. He doesn't like tie it there, like a headband...it just lays there.
  • Jena_72
    Jena_72 Posts: 1,057
    Twinkle Toes!!
    I just noticed this guy tonight... He was young-ish (mid twenties tops) looked rather fit (he's tall (well over 6 feet) and lean) he was wearing your standard matching nike running gear. He was on the treadmill tonight and if he was going faster than 4.5mph I'd be shocked. He was making the motion like he was jogging but taking REEEEEEEEALLY tiny steps. I was waiting for him to bust out a eukele and start singing "Tip Toe Through the Tulips"

    He kept this up for the better part of my 30 minutes on the elliptical. I got to watch this in all it's glory as I was right behind him. I was staring in wonderment when the hot guy on the stair stepper next to me stifles a laugh... I look at him and realize he too is witnessing the spectical and we both lost it. People turned to stare at us the Crazy Laughing Cardio People.
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: may i join the Crazy Laughing Cardio People???? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Jena_72
    Jena_72 Posts: 1,057
    At my gym we have these two girls who show up, follow the trainers around at their sessions, and then do the same workout! Hello.... I PAY for these sessions! They make everyone mad. One of the managers last week even went up to them and said something like "If you are interested in personal training sessions I would be happy to talk with you about the cost. If not, then I think now would be a good time for you girls to go and do some cardio on the machines." They just told him they were enjoying their workout and would appreciate it if he left them alone. Seriously? The rest of us would appreciate it if you would stay away and leave us alone!
    that aint right smh
  • manymuses
    manymuses Posts: 162 Member
    ALL of this stuff is why I work out at home. Ha.
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