Have you ever felt utterly ridiculous doing a work out? Share that cringe story here!

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  • goddessofawesome
    goddessofawesome Posts: 563 Member
    Yup. When I used to take step there were several times where I was always facing the wrong direction. After a while though I'd just laugh and wave at the class LOL.
  • wonko221
    wonko221 Posts: 292 Member
    zaxx1953 wrote: »
    Jogging, I tried to get into jogging, and realized why I had been avoiding it for my whole adult life.

    Shinsplints and a big *kitten* upper body aren't a good combination.

    Sometimes you have to work with the body you have.

    I'm in your boat. Quit smoking, have 100 lbs to lose. Started walking. Started trying to jog short bursts while walking. Initially,couldn't make it twenty yards without sputtering and wanting to vomit. Now i'm up to 1/4 mile, and i slow to a fast walk to let my ankles recover, not because i'm about to blow chunks.

    Keep at it. the human machine is incredible, as long as you challenge it in medically sound, reasonable ways.
  • JenWhite4022
    JenWhite4022 Posts: 27 Member
    I tried the Zumba DVD's at home and looked ridiculous. I couldn't keep up with the moves they were trying to teach me and it became more frustrating then helpful. So when I joined the Y I took a class hoping for the best and it was great! The instructor was helpful and actually slowed down to teach us the moves. I still looked ridiculous but the more I tried the better I got. :)
  • Jolinia
    Jolinia Posts: 846 Member
    Today. Just got back on a bicycle again, and I'm really wobbly and having a hard time getting off the thing without landing on my butt. So I just gave up and got off and started walking the bike past people who were out with their dogs. My neighbors are nice, none of them snickered at me.
  • MamaRiss
    MamaRiss Posts: 481 Member
    I have no coordination, I look like a doofus just trying to walk sometimes. Tried a hip-hop dance workout thing with my daughters dance instructor, OH MY GOD. IT was a wonderful burn but there was not one moment in his classes that I was even close to doing any of the moves correctly. Thankfully I'm at the point in my life that I really don't care what others think anymore, I just cracked jokes the whole time, aparently I'm much wittier when I'm struggling to breathe and stay on my feet at the same time
  • ishepelska
    ishepelska Posts: 59 Member
    TurboFire. Heard so many great things about it; ladies seem to love it, finding it fun and effective.
    Khm... All three times that I tried it, I cried and yelled in frustration. Those moves are impossible to repeat or memorize. Anyone who manages to do that is my hero.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Rarely.

    I worked really hard doing ridiculous things. No one gives you *kitten* about doing anything if you're busting your butt to do it.

    This is so completely and totally true.
  • dustyyellowstar
    dustyyellowstar Posts: 15 Member
    marie3221 wrote: »
    during a swim class, my boob came out of my bathing suit. Even worse, my instructor was also a teacher at my high school, so no avoiding him!

    Oh nooo!
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Rarely.

    I worked really hard doing ridiculous things. No one gives you *kitten* about doing anything if you're busting your butt to do it.

    This is so completely and totally true.
    yep.

    nice thing is too if you're busting you're rump- you're just honestly WAY to busy to be noticing if people are noticing you.
  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    I'm also in the barbell hip thrust group. I always get someone staring at me when I do them but the worst was the old guy. He just draped himself over a machine, propped his chin up on his hand and openly stared while I did them. I swear if he'd had popcorn he'd have been eating it.
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    I tried a Zumba game for the Wii, I just couldn't get it. Not my thing. I don't even want to know what I looked like.

    I'm doing Les Mills Combat right now, and while I love it, I can't seem to wrap my head around the jumping knees. I'm sure I look ridiculous as all 4 limbs flail out, and I land really heavily so I'm sure my neighbours are wondering what I'm doing. Don't care though, I'm having fun :)
  • Poodles56
    Poodles56 Posts: 20
    I always look ridiculous in the gym, ugly tennis shoes, pants that fit poorly, old T shirts - too cheap to buy nice gym clothes!
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
    I have tried zumba LOL never again. I looked ridiculous trying to make the moves "sexy" LOL I have no sex appeal. I love to kickbox but I have more than once punched myself in the face.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I bought a cheap DVD with 5 different cardio workouts on it. Started one up and it was like..."step touch step touch JAZZ SQUARE PIVOT PIVOT STEP BALL CHANGE" and I literally just stood there with my middle finger pointed at the TV.
  • CarlydogsMom
    CarlydogsMom Posts: 645 Member
    Box jumps when I could only jump on the 3" aerobic step. And even then, I was a klutz.
  • RGreenthumb
    RGreenthumb Posts: 22 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    And I have punched myself in the face during kickboxing. Whoopsie.

    Me too! Only I wasn't actually in the class at the time, but the changing room. I'd recently got engaged and was trying to work out how secure my ring was and whether to leave it on or not. I thought I'd test out a few moves and ended up whacking myself square on the chin. Ring stayed on though!
  • dustyyellowstar
    dustyyellowstar Posts: 15 Member
    sofaking6 wrote: »
    I bought a cheap DVD with 5 different cardio workouts on it. Started one up and it was like..."step touch step touch JAZZ SQUARE PIVOT PIVOT STEP BALL CHANGE" and I literally just stood there with my middle finger pointed at the TV.

    Lol! I know the feeling.
  • takumar
    takumar Posts: 42
    I was so unstable and spastic in a Bodyflow class that the participant behind me eventually just packed up and left half way through. She probably thought I was going to eventually topple on her- best to leave this train wreck.
  • llUndecidedll
    llUndecidedll Posts: 724 Member
    Every time I go to the gym I feel ridiculous. Especially when lifting. Even if it's just walking on the treadmill. I feel like everyone's looking at the extremely sweaty, fat woman who's panting at walking 3 mph.

    I have no balance when it comes to doing barbell squats. The last time I did squats I fell backwards and hit my head on the barbell. This was months ago and I still have that bump on the back of my head. I may see a doctor about getting it reduced/removed. I haven't squatted since, but only because I really haven't been feeling weight lifting lately.

    The same day, I started doing bench presses for the first time. I was being ambitious. I had no problem with 95 lbs the first few sets, but then I couldn't lift the bar up off my chest. I know how to get out of a failed bench press, though, so I just rolled it down to get it off.

    I was already embarrassed during the workout, so failing at doing the workout just made my day.... but I still felt rather good after all that, though.
  • thecharizardtamer
    thecharizardtamer Posts: 73 Member
    There's an exercise called the Fire Hydrant, you kneel with your hands, forearms, and elbows on the floor, you raise your right leg out to the side. 10 reps, never fails people stop and stare, it's so funny.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the one and only time I did Zumba I looked like I was being electrocuted.

    95% of the people who do Zumba look like this. I used to do (authentic) Latin dancing at a fairly high level. I stand in the front of the class when I do Zumba. Whenever I turn around around, I am pretty horrified. Most people who do Zumba are awful, uncoordinated dancers.
  • Wenchiness
    Wenchiness Posts: 126 Member
    Pluh-eease.... I've had people screaming to bring me anti-seizure medication quickly. But while standing in a horridly long line during Christmas shopping, and listening to Zumba tunes, I must have been rocking it a little because some dude walked by and dropped a dollar into my jacket hood. Yay me? Too bad more people don't do that, eh?
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    edited February 2015
    enchampion wrote: »
    ZUMBA ZUMBA ZUMBA

    I danced and cheered for 15 years and thought I would love it. It was awful the lady made us wear sarongs with jingles on them. I laughed the entire time and didn't get a workout at all. I will never do zumba again.

    These are Arab hip scarves, or caderines in Spanish.

    I've danced all my life, but I never tried belly dancing until I was in my 30s. Boy do I suck at that! It's intended for women with large hips and butts, with narrow waists. I'm exactly the opposite...
  • HealthyEscape
    HealthyEscape Posts: 255
    I tried a Les Mills Body Combat class at the gym last night. I'm not a stranger to this style of class, I have done Turbo Kick Boxing (TKB) before, which is more dance-y, but damn, the class last night had me feeling like a joke. I couldn't pick up the sequence and would go the opposite direction of everyone else, which is no fun when you are kicking! I ended up in the very back of the class, where I could make sure I wasn't going to accidentally punch or kick someone. I still put in 100% effort and kept moving, and man, I feel it today!
  • charlotteX92X
    charlotteX92X Posts: 344 Member
    Another one for Zumba here :) always a few steps behind the rest of the class but as long as you're having fun it doesn't matter.
  • caryb2015
    caryb2015 Posts: 38 Member
    Iron_Miss_Canada wrote: »
    Turkish get ups. Enough said.

    Agree!

  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    edited February 2015
    azulvioleta6 wrote: »
    enchampion wrote: »
    ZUMBA ZUMBA ZUMBA

    I danced and cheered for 15 years and thought I would love it. It was awful the lady made us wear sarongs with jingles on them. I laughed the entire time and didn't get a workout at all. I will never do zumba again.

    These are Arab hip scarves, or caderines in Spanish.

    I've danced all my life, but I never tried belly dancing until I was in my 30s. Boy do I suck at that! It's intended for women with large hips and butts, with narrow waists. I'm exactly the opposite...
    1.) those jangly hip scarves- are not really "Arab hip scarves" they are what we call air port specials- and pretty much no one who is a full time student and or professional would use them.

    Secondly- the bolded part.
    That is the biggest line of bullhockey. EVER.

    Middle Eastern dance is a social dance- it is not "intended" for anyone. Men do it- small children do it- women do it.
    - All of them of all shapes- and sizes.

    Please go right ahead and tell me this guy isn't doing raqs sharki
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pn0Xu0epc

    I'll give you one of the most famous Turkish Dancers as well
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-qrN3P1_TA

    Thirdly

    You could do it if you so chose. It takes time and effort. ANYONE can learn to dance- there is no such thing as "I have no rythm or coordination" everyone has them- people chose to just not use them- or let their own inhibitions get in the way. It has about jack all to do with your size and shape.

    Some of the reasons "belly dancing"- or raqs sharki is difficult are the following:
    > Often requires layering skills (so patting your belly while rubbing your head kind of thing)
    >Requires musicality- and most of the music you hear is not in the time time signature- and the rythms are distinct to Egyptian, Turkish, or North African regions- so stuff we aren't familiar with- with accents all in weird a## places.
    >Requires getting to know your music on a comfort level that most people rarely know (Sweet Caroline, Stairway to Heaven and I got Friends in low places- the kind of music EVERYONE knows ALWAYS... that kind of familiarity) and it's HARD to get to that point.
    > it takes time to learn something outside your culture

    and most of all

    it takes letting go of yourself a little bit and realizing it's okay that you don't get it right away- and that it's a skill- and you WILL look and feel silly.

    most people can't get past the first one long enough to touch the others- so they give up.

    But- no it's not for women with big hips- or old women- or young women- or even for women at all- there are many genres and cultures that go with this- you can't just write off and entire dance form and the culture with it and say "oh well I'm not built like that"

    That's so ignorant it isn't even funny.


    *edit to add the fabulous Ozgen
  • softblondechick
    softblondechick Posts: 1,275 Member
    I once went to a yoga class that was WAY too advanced for me. I was barely keeping up. I thought yoga was sort of a laid back, relaxing, meditation...wrong! We never stopped moving! I could barely breathe, and the sweat was pouring off me.

    No more advanced yoga classes for me.
  • Ms_LisaKay
    Ms_LisaKay Posts: 103 Member
    Lifting the "dead" medicine ball overhead and hurling it to the ground for 3 sets makes me feel ridicuous every time. Love my trainer, but that exercise makes me feel foolish.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    edited February 2015
    One time I had just done my regular squat session and then my GF and I went straight to a hip hop dance class after.

    We walk in and there are all of these people in their sweet dance clothes. I have some mma shorts and a singlet on and am walking a bit like a baby deer after my squats. Got through the class ok but was about half a beat behind the rest :stuck_out_tongue:

    The other time was when I had an injured shoulder and had already done a lower body session that day. Had some time to kill. Did more bicep curls and tricep extension than I've done in my life in one session. #brotastic alright
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