That TOTALLY awkward moment when...

coraliethomas
coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
edited November 12 in Chit-Chat
Whats your most embarressing gym/public workout moment??

Mine was the other day, I had the treadmill set for HIIT and darnit, the damn thing doesnt really warn you when its speeding up to sprint mode, and I had it set to 7.0 from 4.5.... well, I was watching the TV one moment and was kissing the floor the next!

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  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
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  • Jodi827
    Jodi827 Posts: 40
    Don't mean to laugh (and hope you didn't hurt yourself) but that's hilarious! I hate that part about those machines too. Hope it doesn't happen again.
  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    Whats your most embarressing gym/public workout moment??

    Mine was the other day, I had the treadmill set for HIIT and darnit, the damn thing doesnt really warn you when its speeding up to sprint mode, and I had it set to 7.0 from 4.5.... well, I was watching the TV one moment and was kissing the floor the next!

    :blushing:
    lmao
    well i only had 1 embarrasing moment, when i started, i was doing close grip bench presses with 95lbs and i couldn't lift anymore so one of the guys who i workout with now came to help me and said "be careful man". LOL
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
    The first time I did HIIT on the treadmill and I heard someone say...

    http://www.hark.com/clips/znmfwknrdq-impact-tremor
  • biddysaurus
    biddysaurus Posts: 156 Member
    I crashed off a stability ball once. That was pretty embarrassing! lol
  • Megclark37
    Megclark37 Posts: 111
    when you think it's gonna be a silent one and it AINT.
  • coraliethomas
    coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
    Don't mean to laugh (and hope you didn't hurt yourself) but that's hilarious! I hate that part about those machines too. Hope it doesn't happen again.

    LOL! I laughed about it afterwards!! This REALLY old guy who was going like .05 on his treadmill came and helped me up and asked if I needed some advice on how to use the machines.... I wanted to die!
  • Ramseyyy
    Ramseyyy Posts: 58 Member
    Well, mines is sort of just like yours. . . I let go of the handle bars and stopped paying attention on the treadmill and flew into the wall behind me
  • Merc71
    Merc71 Posts: 412 Member
    That awkward moment in the gym. Ah, yes.

    When you're on the treadmill. You're in the zone. Working up a good sweat. Good pace. Good pace. Keep up the good pace. Whew, I'm killing it today. Good pace. Steady breathing. Oh. Crap. I gotta fart. I gotta fart. I can hold it. Can I hold it? Concentrate on the treadmill. How many more minutes left? 20? Crap. Okay. Hold it in. Hold it in. Can't hold it in. My stomach is starting to hurt. Look around. No one's around. Cool. Take out my headphones just to make sure it's not loud. Let it out slowly. Ah yes. Much better. Oh hell. A foxy lady is coming in now. And occupying the treadmill next to mine.

    Exit stage left....
  • biddysaurus
    biddysaurus Posts: 156 Member
    LOL! I laughed about it afterwards!! This REALLY old guy who was going like .05 on his treadmill came and helped me up and asked if I needed some advice on how to use the machines.... I wanted to die!
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    thats hilarious! but at least someone cared! at my gym, sometimes I wonder if anyone realizes they aren't the only ones in there. But it's kinda nice that everyone is really into what they are doing or really into strutting...at least I can sneak in unnoticed. lol
  • SirZee
    SirZee Posts: 381
    Well, at my work's wellness center, the leg press machine is right in front of a row of treadmills (Basically its under the TV's), so here I am doing my whole stack (400lbs) 15 reps, 4 sets workout, and near the end I had to give it everything I got, and in the compressed position some air escaped at the wrong end pretty loudly (in front of a full set of treadmill runners), so that was pretty embarrassing, with no particularly good way to recover from it.
  • jennyhooper
    jennyhooper Posts: 2
    I got a cupping massage done on my back and have huge red circles all over my back. Totally forgot about it and went to the gym with my top on that exposes about 3 of the spots. Was running on the treadmill at least 5 mins before I realised and just kept going. I wonder what all the others were thinking I had all over me!!!!
  • coraliethomas
    coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
    That awkward moment in the gym. Ah, yes.

    When you're on the treadmill. You're in the zone. Working up a good sweat. Good pace. Good pace. Keep up the good pace. Whew, I'm killing it today. Good pace. Steady breathing. Oh. Crap. I gotta fart. I gotta fart. I can hold it. Can I hold it? Concentrate on the treadmill. How many more minutes left? 20? Crap. Okay. Hold it in. Hold it in. Can't hold it in. My stomach is starting to hurt. Look around. No one's around. Cool. Take out my headphones just to make sure it's not loud. Let it out slowly. Ah yes. Much better. Oh hell. A foxy lady is coming in now. And occupying the treadmill next to mine.

    Exit stage left....

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • sdereski
    sdereski Posts: 3,406 Member
    I was on the treadmill and doing speed work. the arrows on the buttons are faded off. I was doing the speed part of the workout and when I started hitting the buttons to slow the machine down, I was actually speeding it up. I was hanging on for dear life trying to get the machine to slow down.
    Felt like something right out of a "I Love Lucy" episode. :tongue:
    I too had a good laugh about it later, but at the time I thought I was going to fly off backward.
  • blueandigo
    blueandigo Posts: 296
    When I am working out and give a good laugh and no one knows what is so funny. *kitten*.
  • aprilholland
    aprilholland Posts: 2
    Face plant in an aerobics class... That I was teaching.
  • coraliethomas
    coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
    I think treadmills need seatbelts and airbags....
  • angied80
    angied80 Posts: 713 Member
    You are talking to someone, getting ready to walk into the raquet ball courts (which have glass walls) and you run smack dab into the wall.
  • SirZee
    SirZee Posts: 381
    Face plant in an aerobics class... That I was teaching.

    Ouch :)
  • fuzzimama
    fuzzimama Posts: 85
    Well I wasn't in the gym, but yesterday I bounced out of an office feeling very full of vim and vigour and walked smack into a glass door leaving a big, smeared nose and mouth impression on the door. Was both embarrassing and painful (and the worst thing, as my DH reminded me when I told him), it's not the first time I've done it.
  • stevewynjones
    stevewynjones Posts: 1,052 Member
    During a rugby match, running to score a try (touchdown in American football) when I get tackled by someone grabbing onto my shorts....and quickly realising I'd forgotten to wear anything underthem!

    Not the first time Id been naked during a rugby event....but thats just normal :glasses:
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    When I am working out and give a good laugh and no one knows what is so funny. *kitten*.

    Ummm, yeah. Been there, done that. *kitten*.
  • Dilfster
    Dilfster Posts: 416 Member
    happened today. i was feeling out of it & when i finished using the elliptical machine i got a towel to wipe it down, but I ended up wiping down a totally different machine. lol. i forgot which was mine.
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I went up to the cardio room at the gym a few years ago. There was only one treadmill available, so I eagerly hopped on it before someone else grabbed it. Little did I know it was on.. so I went flying backwards in front of about 30 people. And no one asked if I was okay.. haha.
  • Elizabeth0913
    Elizabeth0913 Posts: 61
    OMG, I got a good laugh out of this one and all of the comments. Sorry for your misadventures but thanks for the laugh!
  • coraliethomas
    coraliethomas Posts: 336 Member
    Oh these are awesome! I dont feel quite so bad... cant wait to read some more later!
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I was on the treadmill and doing speed work. the arrows on the buttons are faded off. I was doing the speed part of the workout and when I started hitting the buttons to slow the machine down, I was actually speeding it up. I was hanging on for dear life trying to get the machine to slow down.
    Felt like something right out of a "I Love Lucy" episode. :tongue:
    I too had a good laugh about it later, but at the time I thought I was going to fly off backward.

    LOL that's hilarious!! I can only imagine. :P
  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    I went up to the cardio room at the gym a few years ago. There was only one treadmill available, so I eagerly hopped on it before someone else grabbed it. Little did I know it was on.. so I went flying backwards in front of about 30 people. And no one asked if I was okay.. haha.
    lol if you got up it means you're ok... everyone knows that...otherwise you stay laying on the ground and an idiot asks if you're ok (when you're obviously not)
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I went up to the cardio room at the gym a few years ago. There was only one treadmill available, so I eagerly hopped on it before someone else grabbed it. Little did I know it was on.. so I went flying backwards in front of about 30 people. And no one asked if I was okay.. haha.
    lol if you got up it means you're ok... everyone knows that...otherwise you stay laying on the ground and an idiot asks if you're ok (when you're obviously not)

    This is true.. guess I'd never thought of it that way. I got some crazy linoleum burn on my legs that day too.
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    At the beginning of the year I switched to a new gym. My first day there I completed my workout and hit the shower. Now being a former big girl I always feel more comfortable with more space so went into the handicap accessible shower. I work out hard, was tired, and there is a bench attached to the wall that you have to flip down. Figured I'll sit, enjoy the hot water. About one minute after I plopped my butt down, the bench pulled out of the wall, crashing to the floor, taking me with it. I flail out and end up grabbing the shower cutain, pulled it and the curtain rod down on top of me. Sat there for a couple seconds in my stunned naked glory and a lady comes over and hands me my towel, then asks if I am ok. Apparently more concerned with having to see my nakidness vs my well being.

    So get up, uninjured except for a scraped elbow, finish up and on my way out go tell the front desk what happened (apparently the woman who gave me my towel and who was the only other woman in the locker room never told the staff before getting on the treadmill I saw her on). The front desk kid- probably all of 20 - said , sorry about that, its probably our fault. Ya think???????

    I have broken a couple of chairs in my time but not since I lost 260 lbs, lol.
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