That awkward moment in the gym...
Alia_R
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So lately I’ve been having these awkward moments in the gym while I’m working out. Sometimes I get people watching me while I’m weighty lifting. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or they just haven’t seen a woman lift heavy weights lol but it’s so DAMN WEIRD borderline ANNOYING. I try not to pay too much attention though.
What’s the most awkward thing thing that’s happened to you in the gym?
What’s the most awkward thing thing that’s happened to you in the gym?
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A guy kept following me around the pool and sauna. Lol1
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The gym I go to is super chill - as in - it's a university gym so either students or old people like me are there (the workers). There isn't really any awkwardness as people tend to mind their own business.
I think I probably make people feel awkward tho. Like when these young student guys were trying to change the bar height on the bench press and couldn't get the little pin back into place and were struggling with it I just walked up and said "here you go" and clipped it back in in 1 second.
THEY looked embarrassed and awkward.
I didn't though.
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Once I sprained my ankle dancing to "Uptown Funk". I was alone in my gym but still pretty awkward and embarrassing
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An older guy walking up and down the pool deck watching me swim laps. We were the only ones in the pool/hot tub/sauna area at the time.
Maybe he was just looking at my form but it was definitely an "I need an adult!" moment! 3 -
Once I sprained my ankle dancing to "Uptown Funk". I was alone in my gym but still pretty awkward and embarrassing
You can't not dance to Uptown Funk.
My gym is very bodybuilding/powerlifting focused. There are bikini competitors walking around in their tiny suits, powerlifters grunting and lifting ridiculous weight, etc. So, the first time I peed on the deadlift platform was pretty awkward. But once you realize it happens to most older female powerlifters, it becomes no big deal.3 -
So lately I’ve been having these awkward moments in the gym while I’m working out. Sometimes I get people watching me while I’m weighty lifting. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or they just haven’t seen a woman lift heavy weights lol but it’s so DAMN WEIRD borderline ANNOYING. I try not to pay too much attention though.
What’s the most awkward thing thing that’s happened to you in the gym?
In reference to people watching you:
I find myself zoning out between lifts. Lots of times, I am looking in someone's direction when I zone out. So it probably looks like I'm watching them, and I really am not.
Other times, they are doing something interesting and I'm watching to see if I want to incorporate it into my workout.
Once in a great while, they are doing something really ridiculous and it's like a trainwreck. You can't look away. But I'm talking standing on a bosu ball with weight on your back trying to do squats ridiculous. If you aren't doing anything like that, @Alia_R, don't sweat it!4 -
I was teaching a morning water aerobics class and had my back to the pool wall (facing out toward the deep end & the students). I had the music playing and I was really focused when, all of a sudden, someone pulled my ponytail & swatted my butt!! I am not sure if I was more shocked or the man was more embarrassed to remember that I was subbing his wife's class whilst she enrolled their little one in kindergarten! In all fairness, she & I have been mistaken for one another multiple times, but generally just from a distance! LOL!11
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I closed my eyes once while on the treadmill and was dancing. I slid off the side, i jumped back on and kept going like nothing was wrong. The guy next to me ended up stopping his run and walked away cause he was laughing so hard.
OOPS lol
Other then that, not to many awkward moments. Maybe I just don't pay attention to my surroundings. lol. probably should work on that. 5 -
I was teaching a morning water aerobics class and had my back to the pool wall (facing out toward the deep end & the students). I had the music playing and I was really focused when, all of a sudden, someone pulled my ponytail & swatted my butt!! I am not sure if I was more shocked or the man was more embarrassed to remember that I was subbing his wife's class whilst she enrolled their little one in kindergarten! In all fairness, she & I have been mistaken for one another multiple times, but generally just from a distance! LOL!
Hahaha! I bet he was mortified. I did something similiar as a teenager in a store. My dad was buying boots and I had been spacing staring at the floor. I grab his arm and hug it to my side, only to look up and it was a total stranger! 2 -
My iPad fell off the elliptical once and banged against the side of it on the way down. It was super duper loud. Amazingly, the frame dented but the screen did not crack. The guy I took it to to get it fixed said it was a miracle.0
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I think we have all overestimated our strength on the bench press, had no spot, and got pinned?
Amirite?
Nobody? Just me? mmmk lol5 -
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Homegym user for this, among many other reasons. My cats do like to spectate though, sometimes creepily from a shadowy area across the basement. Otherwise they just want bellyrubs between sets.4
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Haven't had any recently... but most embarrassing life moment happened in a gym. High school... coed lifting class...was doing squats in the rack and my buddy decided to pants me. Unfortunately EVERYTHING came down. I couldn't just drop the weight and pull things up. I had to waddle back within the rack, rack the weights THEN pull things back up. Oh, did I mention there are mirrors where the rack was!? Yeah... by the time I pulled everything back up, EVERYONE got a fantastic look of everything I had to offer :laugh:6
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I think we have all overestimated our strength on the bench press, had no spot, and got pinned?
Amirite?
Nobody? Just me? mmmk lol
Only once... when I was 14 years old, at home.... alone.
The people I see get pinned at the gym are usually high school age boys. Even then, it's pretty rare.
awkward or embarrassing at the gym as an adult ? for me?
nothing really, maybe the occasional orthostatic hypotension after a big lift.... but nobody has ever noticed.
Last year, I was talking to a friend at the gym and he just dropped like a sack of potatoes being dropped off the back of a truck. Remember to Hydrate.
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bestrongbefit1 wrote: »I closed my eyes once while on the treadmill and was dancing. I slid off the side, i jumped back on and kept going like nothing was wrong. The guy next to me ended up stopping his run and walked away cause he was laughing so hard. OOPS lol
Other then that, not to many awkward moments. Maybe I just don't pay attention to my surroundings. lol. probably should work on that.
I did the same thing years ago lol I was dancing on the treadmill and decided to do a spin (why?!) and of course fell off haha. I was too embarrassed to look at anyone to see their reactions. I just hopped back on and kept doing my thing, sans spin lol1 -
I went to a women-only "gym" with a friend one time and it kind of scarred me for life. I thought we would all sort of mind our own business and exercise. Wrong. Most of the women were just standing around talking about essential oils and their kids and asking me and my friend a bunch of personal questions. Hated everything about it and definitely one of my most awkward social encounters ever.4
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Another woman and I were on the leg abductor and adductor machines. Both of us were in shorts, no big deal. There was a chain link wall separating our section from the weight room. We were right by the wall. A middle-aged man just stood right at the wall, fingers poking through the links, grasping them tightly, intensely watching us open and close our legs. I asked him nicely to give us privacy, and he had the nerve to act affronted. Don't be this creepy, guys!! LOL2
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A woman next to me in Pilates farted really loudly while doing squats. The whole room was quiet for a second, then she said "Woopsie!!" and everyone laughed.2
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Homegym user for this, among many other reasons. My cats do like to spectate though, sometimes creepily from a shadowy area across the basement. Otherwise they just want bellyrubs between sets.
Whenever I try to do yoga or Pilates at home my dog thinks I'm on the floor to play with her and won't get out of my way. LOL2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Once I sprained my ankle dancing to "Uptown Funk". I was alone in my gym but still pretty awkward and embarrassing
You can't not dance to Uptown Funk.
My gym is very bodybuilding/powerlifting focused. There are bikini competitors walking around in their tiny suits, powerlifters grunting and lifting ridiculous weight, etc. So, the first time I peed on the deadlift platform was pretty awkward. But once you realize it happens to most older female powerlifters, it becomes no big deal.
OMG, this is a thing? I just started lifting and am nowhere near deadlifts or a lot of weight yet but I'm 47. Is this related to having kids? I was embarrassed just using puny weights and am just starting to feel comfortable in the weight room! Glad you were able to move past it!0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »I find myself zoning out between lifts. Lots of times, I am looking in someone's direction when I zone out. So it probably looks like I'm watching them, and I really am not.
Where I go, it's a lot of machines packed into a tight space. Everyone there has a trainer, so you don't deal with seat adjustment, weights, or even counting reps. Just lift as directed, move to the next machine and start lifting again without delay. I tend to just zone out and focus on form and intensity... or focus on the way the belt deflects as the cam rotates inside the machine, how the stack is slightly off center in the hip adduction/abduction machine, etc. But to keep your head and neck neutral, you kind of have to be 'looking' into the space.
This gets kinda awkward though as you're doing something where you're facing away from the wall and someone comes by doing a lateral walk or something. In the tight quarters its a little too 'personal' for me, but as awkward as I feel about it I know its going to be me doing lunges or something past them next.
Having a trainer there constantly means nothing goes unwitnessed. Like losing your balance doing lunges and tipping over sideways.
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bestrongbefit1 wrote: »I closed my eyes once while on the treadmill and was dancing. I slid off the side, i jumped back on and kept going like nothing was wrong. The guy next to me ended up stopping his run and walked away cause he was laughing so hard. OOPS lol
Other then that, not to many awkward moments. Maybe I just don't pay attention to my surroundings. lol. probably should work on that.
I did the same thing years ago lol I was dancing on the treadmill and decided to do a spin (why?!) and of course fell off haha. I was too embarrassed to look at anyone to see their reactions. I just hopped back on and kept doing my thing, sans spin lol
I've flown off the treadmill twice! First time a gym employee threw a racquetball my way and it bounced on the treadmill and I bent to pick it up and flew off the back. The more serious time was in physical therapy after back surgery. You write the time you do and place the paper in a jar on the floor. It landed on the treadmill and I bent to pick it up. My therapist was real mad at me, I set back my therapy a good week!
Recently weird at the gym- a man was on a resistance machine the row in front of me and we were both doing sets and resting. I glanced over at him in and he started waving frantically in the mirror reflection. I gave him a little smile and made sure he was okay, then did my next set assuming he was waving to someone else. Next break the same thing happens. It happened three times, I ignored him, and he never came up to me. I have no clue if he thought he knew me or thought I was staring, I'm still curious!0 -
I was doing a class and we were doing toe taps when i stomped on the bosu. It flung me back on to my butt.
Then this other time after my work out i was stretching. I fell a sleep. Talk about embarrassing1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Once I sprained my ankle dancing to "Uptown Funk". I was alone in my gym but still pretty awkward and embarrassing
You can't not dance to Uptown Funk.
My gym is very bodybuilding/powerlifting focused. There are bikini competitors walking around in their tiny suits, powerlifters grunting and lifting ridiculous weight, etc. So, the first time I peed on the deadlift platform was pretty awkward. But once you realize it happens to most older female powerlifters, it becomes no big deal.
OMG, this is a thing? I just started lifting and am nowhere near deadlifts or a lot of weight yet but I'm 47. Is this related to having kids? I was embarrassed just using puny weights and am just starting to feel comfortable in the weight room! Glad you were able to move past it!
It’s a thing, but I’m talking about a 350 lb deadlift when it happens.2 -
I absolutely made a rather loud toot, mid-push-up, with my trainer standing behind me! Our bodies are strange, amazing things.0
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quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Once I sprained my ankle dancing to "Uptown Funk". I was alone in my gym but still pretty awkward and embarrassing
You can't not dance to Uptown Funk.
My gym is very bodybuilding/powerlifting focused. There are bikini competitors walking around in their tiny suits, powerlifters grunting and lifting ridiculous weight, etc. So, the first time I peed on the deadlift platform was pretty awkward. But once you realize it happens to most older female powerlifters, it becomes no big deal.
OMG, this is a thing? I just started lifting and am nowhere near deadlifts or a lot of weight yet but I'm 47. Is this related to having kids? I was embarrassed just using puny weights and am just starting to feel comfortable in the weight room! Glad you were able to move past it!
It’s a thing, but I’m talking about a 350 lb deadlift when it happens.
Definitely a thing. I’m nowhere near a 350lb deadlift, but for me it happens close to 2XBW. Also with front squats for some reason.0
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