What is your most embarrassing moment at the gym?

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  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    I lost my pants wriggling underneath a guy.

    Okay, so I was in krav maga, and we were doing some endurance work. The teacher had us work in pairs. Person one would do slow push-ups. Person two (me) would crawl military-style underneath person one when person one was up, and then run to person one's other side while they went down and back up.

    The only problem with the military-style crawling is that I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the class who was never in the military, so I had no clue what I was doing. In any event, I did something that ended with the floor pulling down my pants, completely exposing my underwear.
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    I can't believe I am going to admit this outloud but in the spirit of it all...here it goes!
    My most embarrassing moment wasn't at a gym. It was on a soccer field at a championship game infront of about 300 people. The ride to the location we were playing was several hrs. When we arrived there was no time to use the restroom before the game started. I unfortunately had my monthly reminder that Eve ate the apple! The best I could do was to hope that "giant Q-tip" I had would hold out. Needless to say it did not!!! I had a mess all over my white goalie shorts and my coach was so intent on winning that he refused to take me out of the game! Finally a ref took pity on my situation and blew the whistle calling a time out for me to resolve the issue. I had to walk from the far side of the field to the school building infront of everyone who by now ALL were pointing, gasping,etc. To top it off when I finally reached the building it was locked and I had to stand there until a janitor could be summoned to let me in. At least we won the game!
    :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed:

    Poor you! I'm not even sure how you PLAY soccer without going potty first. I would have peed myself by that point.
  • jk262
    jk262 Posts: 1,597 Member
    I was doing a treadmill tabata workout, when I hopped back on my sneaker caught the edge of the belt and I fell off. When I fell, I was in such shock that I fell that the belt totally ripped skin right off my leg. I still have a scar and this was over a year ago now! I got back on the treadmill, finished my workout. Then went up to the front desk, started laughing and asking them if they had any bleach because I left part of my leg on the treadmill. The guy was horrified when he saw my leg, it was bleeding everywhere and wanted to clean it out with alcohol. I'm like hell no! way too big of a baby for that. There was a bunch of people at the gym behind me but thankfully I don't think anyone saw.
  • jk262
    jk262 Posts: 1,597 Member
    I usually lift weights at home, but one day I decided to lift at the gym. I loaded the same amount of weight on the bar that I usually do for bench presses and started my first rep. I got it out of the rack, it felt waaaaaay too heavy and I dropped the bar on myself. A guy had to come and lift it off me. I said "I guess I'm having an off day" and he helped me take about 10 pounds off. I couldn't lift that either! Once again we took some weight off and I'm sure he was starting to think I've never lifted a weight before in my life and have no idea what I'm doing. I finally had to take all the plates off and just bench the bar. When I got home and told my husband what had happened, he asked my to describe their bar, I did, and he let out a big laugh. The gym apparently has an Olympic style bar (which is way heavier than our regular bar). I had been trying to bench about 50 pounds more than I usually do. Oops...

    I did this exact thing! I was so confused at why I couldn't bench what I had before! All the guys that were working out came up to me after and they confessed that they were watching in the mirror to see if I could really lift all that weight! I just laughed it off, who knew that bars are different weights!
  • maidofstone
    maidofstone Posts: 62 Member
    Had a hangover and fell off the treadmill :embarassed:
  • Broderick50
    Broderick50 Posts: 842 Member
    when i was 18 me and a friend where working out there was probably 5 other people there including one older woman on the bench press i was doing power clean and when i squatted down to get the weight i let out a long loud fart i just finished my rep when i looked over at the woman she was laughing and had dropped the weight on her chest
  • Easywider
    Easywider Posts: 434 Member
    I had just switched gyms and their version of a squat rack was foreign to me. In fact it's not a rack at all..it's like this bull**** cage thing for the cognitively disabled. Anyway, I had some WRACKS on the bar...I mount up...Lift off..Back pedal to center myself in the cage. My headphone cord gets lodged underneath the bar so I try to snap my head around to free it up a bit...Well the momentum sends one side of the barbell into a side of the cage...causing the plates to separate..throwing off the whole balance of the payload. (I don't use clips that **** is for beta use only). Anyway...One side of the barbell RAINS down 45's like a 105mm cannon on a spooky and subsequently the opposite side pours down it's plates also. I was so upset. ;'[
  • AshQuill
    AshQuill Posts: 11 Member
    Did you go back?
  • AshQuill
    AshQuill Posts: 11 Member
    "me and my friend Carol was working out in the gym at work.....i was teaching her how to do squats and when i went down to do a really deep squat i passed gas and it was a long one..heheheeh....we laughed until we cried.....thank God it didnt stink....i know that's bad, but it was funny=)"

    You missed the perfect opportunity to tell her "that's when you know you've done it properly"
  • NikkiSmo
    NikkiSmo Posts: 180 Member
    While making an attempt at getting in shape several years ago my husband sign he and myself up at a very popular local gym. We went during prime time so it was very crowded, I always only did the treadmill while he lifted weights. I noticed all the treadmills were taken except 1 but it was still running. I figured the person using it must of hopped off and forgot to stop it. I tried to be cool about it and jump on and of course i fell flat on my face. So the extreamly skinny woman on the machaine next to me simply leans down and tells me "um that treadmill is TAKEN" and she goes ack to her work out. So I gathered myself and stand up walked out of the gym and NEVER went back!!!!
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    mine just happened last night. I had just completed a set on the back extension machine and forgot about the footpegs, when I went to step away from the machine I tripped on the pegs and went flying, doing a faceplant into the floor. :blushing:
  • Jain
    Jain Posts: 861 Member
    Not at the gym but on my way there. I managed to fall off my trainer and go over on my ankle so badly I heard 2 cracks!:noway:

    Turns out the cracks were my ligaments tearing a flake off a meta wosit bone.:grumble:

    Still hobbling round with a cast on.
  • Jessamine
    Jessamine Posts: 226 Member
    I was running on the treadmill and getting really annoyed because my ipod ear bud cords kept whacking me in the face. I was wearing a tank top, so I got the bright idea to stuff the cords down the front of my shirt. It wasn't an easy task to accomplish while running. While I was trying to work on this, I turned and noticed a man several machines away who was craning his neck at an impossible angle to stare at what I was doing to my chest area. It kinda looked like I was feeling myself up. :-/

    My husband sure got a kick outta that one. LOL
  • KMA1973
    KMA1973 Posts: 10
    I was running on the treadmill and getting really annoyed because my ipod ear bud cords kept whacking me in the face. I was wearing a tank top, so I got the bright idea to stuff the cords down the front of my shirt. It wasn't an easy task to accomplish while running. While I was trying to work on this, I turned and noticed a man several machines away who was craning his neck at an impossible angle to stare at what I was doing to my chest area. It kinda looked like I was feeling myself up. :-/

    My husband sure got a kick outta that one. LOL

    HAHAHA:laugh: That's funny. There is always someone who will notice and make you feel silly.
  • tgh1914
    tgh1914 Posts: 1,036 Member
    Yeah I got one. I went to the squat rack which was already loaded but noone there, so I went to deload it for warmups. I did not notice that, on one side, the plates had been left on the virtual edge of the bar making it more weighted to one side than normal. As soon as I deloaded one side the other flipped up into the air, dropping the existing plates onto the ground with a crash, and sending the bar up vertical, and then it crashed into the mirror. I have absolutely NO idea how the mirror did not break, but it sure was loud! The entire gym was staring at me holding the smoking gun plate I'd just removed. Oh, and I was "showing" a little lady how to do squats - she got an education of why to be careful de-loading the bar at least. :ohwell:

    Then, about 10 seconds later the bro that left the uneven plates on the rack came over to say he wasn't done yet :huh:
  • jadesign19
    jadesign19 Posts: 512 Member
    Slipped and fell on a naked colleague while exiting the steam room.
    Wasn't that a Seinfeld episode?
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    I had my shorts fall while running on the treadmill
    I almost fell off an exercise ball, ironically after laughing at someone who did
    ripped a shoe during a basketball game
    and have tried to sip a capped water bottle more times than i can count
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    I smacked myself in the face with a 30lb sandbell. -_-
  • allisonmrn
    allisonmrn Posts: 721 Member
    I had my music blasting in my ears,,,thought noone was in the locker room. It was a SUN morning at the YMCA...nobody is ever there. So I start singing loudly and air drumming while Im getting my stuff together. Yep, there were a bunch of women from the mommy and me class. They were laughin and doing like "hell yeah" nods, so I guess it wasn't too bad...lol
    And I've lost my phone off the back of the treadmill about 100 times.
  • smilingselena
    smilingselena Posts: 141 Member
    im gonna have to say falling off the stupid tredmill !!!
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    I wiped down the wrong machine. not the one i used. lol
  • V3ggieL0vinGinger
    V3ggieL0vinGinger Posts: 235
    I do silly things all the time. My latest one? I was reaching for an exercise ball (they're up high on a rack on a wall) and there was this super hot guy in the room. I knew he could see me so I reached for the ball all nonchalantly and cool. I lost sense of my balance and tripped a bit, causing at least 5 exercise balls to fall off of the rack and bounce around me, rolling all over the floor. I awkwardly ran around trying to stop them and when I got them all back on the rack I just booked it out of the room. I'm pretty sure the hot guy was watching me the whole time but I can't be too sure as I was kind of focusing on my embarrassment!
  • V3ggieL0vinGinger
    V3ggieL0vinGinger Posts: 235
    I also repeatedly slap myself in the face and legs with the skipping rope and get ginormous red welts all over me body. Why do I continue to use the skipping rope....it's not really worth it :P
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    I wiped down the wrong machine. not the one i used. lol

    i do this all the time...its worse when i feel like someone behind me noticed lol
  • ACEgirl1
    ACEgirl1 Posts: 133 Member
    This is a great thread!

    I was trying to do regular pushups in the (crowded) main weight room and my arms gave out on #3. The song playing was, "I'm sexy and I know it"! I'm self-conscious anyway, but this was too much! :)
  • iRebel
    iRebel Posts: 378 Member
    On the squat machine and right in the middle of my set, I let out a loud, reverberating fart.
    When I turned to see if anybody noticed, everybody was glaring right at me - some laughing, some scowling and others just owl eyed.

    I hate doing that, especially in front of ladies.
    oh, deleted his account.. musta been traumatic.
  • dianniejt
    dianniejt Posts: 175 Member
    Mine didn't happen at the gym but at my parents house while they had a ton of out of town guests who had come for my grandmothers funeral. I was on the treadmill and my husband was walking around eating beef jerky. I told him to give me a piece. He stood in front of the treadmill and told me if I could grab it while running I could have it. So being smart like I am I turn the treadmill way up and start running. I haven't run in 20 years but I figured I could make it. I was wrong I fell flat on my stomach and flew off the back and into the sliding glass door. Everyone inside and out saw what happened or the aftermath so I had to relive the story to every family member. Thankfully I laughed about it the whole time and still laugh.
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