most embarassing moment(s) at the gym?
last week, i went to the gym and when i went to throw out the paper-towel i used to wipe down the machine, i accidentally dropped my key in the garbage can. i went to tell the gym-supervisor and she had to dump the garbage can out in the middle of the gym and route through it to find my key.
and another time around a month and a half ago, i was on the elliptical with my earphones in. due to a crappy ex boyfriend if mine, i no longer have an ipod, so i have an oldschool walkman. an older woman tapped me on the shoulder to ask me something and it made me jump and my walkman went flying across the gym.
these incidences made me think.. what are YOUR most embarassing gym-moments?
Being fat.
Haha, that is really funny!
Hmmm... I have been to a gym about three times (prefer outside running), but I have still succeeded in embarrassing myself. I was running on the treamill, and decided to see if it would be less boring if I closed my eyes. I opened them only to find myself going backwards, and I tried in vain to stop myself falling. I ended up falling off and lying sprawled over the floor. I tried to get back on, but it was going so fast I ended up falling again! It wouldn't have been so bad, but there was a really goodlooking guy my age across from me who found it very amusing!
Half dozen eggs for breakfast. 'NUff daid.
I have one - similar to yours gurlywurly - I was in my apt. complex fitness center at night all by myself and I was running on the treadmill. I had a TV on to provide distraction, when suddenly I heard a noise behind me that made me think someone else had come into the fitness center. I turned my head and didn't see anyone by the door, so I got startled and turned the other way around to see if a person was in there that I hadn't seen (night time, alone at the fitness center, single female, OK so I was worried). I promptly lost my balance and stepped off of the belt, so when I put my other foot down I went FLYING off the end of the treadmill. When I landed on my butt at the end of the belt, my sweat pants got CAUGHT in the moving belt and I couldn't pull them out! I saved myself by taking them off and getting up to turn off the treadmill (so THAT'S what those emergency red stop plugs are for). At that point, 3 guys walk into the fitness center to see me standing, sweaty and bruised and pantless, on the stationary treadmill. I was utterly humiliated. At least one of them (laughing) helped me get my pants detangled from the belt. I fled to my apt. as soon as I could to nurse my pride and ugly purple bruises. Oh, and that noise I heard? It was the automatic AIR FRESHENER going off!!
The other day I was on the treadmil and I was watching WIPE OUT on tv. ( A show about extreme obstacles, VERY FUNNY to watch). One guy on the show totally wiped out and as he was about to smack into something my whole body jerked cause I felt his pain and I tripped up on my own feet and started stumbling, trying to catch my footing...(was at a higher speed)....I LOOKED sooo dumb..but I didnt fall (phew)...and thankfully it was just my sister and I on that side of the gym. I just said..."wipe out!!"
One time, I was working out with this guy....and I sat on one machine that you pull down over your head (for you back and arms) I was just resting there and I seen that someone left weight on the machine, so I pulled the tab thing and sat it on top of the stack of weights...(doing a good deed, see)...As I sat there, the guys face turned upside down and he RAN over, started yelling something, I couldnt make out...and he caught the bar that you pull on...Apparently without any weight in the machine the bar comes down...Almost hit me in the noggin....(that was very long ago...I knw MUCH better now).
Once...I walked into the path of someone who may have had half a dozen eggs and was taken by surprise and I started GAGGING full out, really loud....
I was working out at the school gym during a free day in October and I was on the elliptical. I wanted a strong finish, so I kicked it up a notch and went full out. That's when one of the varsity soccer players walked by a liiiittle to close. I was going so fast, I didn't realize he was there and I ended up whacking him in the thigh! He could hardly walk and I had to help him all the way to the infirmary, which is a good fifteen minutes away.
A few months ago, I was on the stationary bike at my hometown's gym and some one I used to go to school with came up behind me. They tapped me on the shoulder and I literally jumped off the bike. (It scared me out of my mind!) I ended up on the floor, on my stomach, about a foot away from this woman lifting weights! I haven't gone to that gym since!
At my gym they have tv's up near the treadmills and ellipticals. One day after I finished running I went to fill up my water bottle...the fountain is in the front row right under the tv's. After I filled it, I turned around to walk away and I banged my head right on one of the tv's!! It made the loudest sound ever and because I was in the front row everyone doing cardio saw me! I had a headache and a bruised ego!
I have 2. One early morning before Spinning class I put some baby powder on to help ease the chaffing from the bike seat. I put my biking shorts on and didn't think twice. When I got to the gym my instructor pulled me aside and pointed out I had a big white triangle right you know where on the front of my shorts
Then there was the time in Yoga when the guy on the mat next to me cut the cheese extremely loud and instead of being cool about it I burst out laughing and then couldn't stop and I think most of the people in the class thought I had done the deed.
You guys are so funny! I almost laughed out loud and I am at work, so that would be bad. 
Oh my gosh...you guys are freakin' HILARIOUS!! These are great stories. I go to a gym on a regular basis so I can totally feel your pain/humiliation but I can also see it happening and it makes me giggle. Thanks for the laughs! (in a good way!) 
Fortunately I haven't had anything too embarrassing happen yet. Just a couple of almost falls on the treadmill. Oh, and my trainer was having me use gravity boots (that's where you hang upside down and try to touch your toes. Ab killer for sure) and he was helping me flip right side up and I loudly 'queefed' - or however you spell it. Women, you know what I am talking about 
It's not air from your rear end but from the other place. I was mortified and couldn't look at him for the rest of the workout. He didn't say anything but I know he heard it and, knowing him, was laughing on the inside.
I was at the gym, and after a work out I decided to eat a bar,
by accident I took my brothers bar - and I wasn't paying attention to what I was eating. Im allergic to nuts, so this cute guy was walking pass me and my face started to turn red, my skin was itchy and I was having a hard time breathing. Anyway the cute guy that walked right past me helped me - he dumped my bag looking for my pin (but I didnt have it on me)- all my stuff on the ground. Anyway, I had the Parmedic come and I was taken to the hospital. All of my things that were in my bag were place back in, but I was missing my clean pair of underwear....
Couple days later I was back to the gym with my BOYFRIEND... The cute guy saw me & returned my underwear (cookie monster undies!!!) he just held them up and said "hey you left your underwear behind from last week " I was like "HUUUH" my boyfriend was not happy and I was just all red and embarrssed...
I was at the gym and someone got on right next to me. They had their settings one level/one speed higher than mine, and kept giving dirty looks at my levels. So, I decided to take the little [explitive]'s challenge. Well, by the time we got to 12 high/6.4mph, my shoe came untied and I tripped. Needless to say it hurts to be flung off of the tredmill and out into the open. Got a few scrapes and bruises that day and didn't want to show my face there for a few weeks.
Original Post by mortalmonkey:
Half dozen eggs for breakfast. 'NUff daid.
Yeah, an instructor was giving me private instruction during an abs class when I farted, pretty much right in his face. I was MORTIFIED but he said something about how it happens all the time and just means the body is working correctly. I still wanted the floor to swallow me whole.
I was sating on Stronglift's 5x5, I am feeling really good about how my squats are going, on the last squat of my last ste, I let out the biggest fart of my life. This wouldn't have been as bad IF THE GYM WASN'T DEAD SILENT AT THE TIME. Needless to say, the girl I was trying to impress that day wouldn't talk to me >.>
Very funny stories!! However, now I am even more nervous to start going to the gym.
i dont have any near what u all have. but i go into the yoga room at our gym to do my swiss ball exercises, abs stuff, and squats and lunges. except, once i opened the door to do my routines and there was a yoga class going on inside! i was like whoops! and closed the door and silently walked away lol!
keb, dont be nervous. i was nervous too, cuz i thought ppl would be condescending and like uppity towards a newcomer. like psh look at her! what does SHE know??!! idk i guess sorta like a territorial thing. but, the ppl at my gym are so nice and friendly. and understanding and such. :-) i always look forward to going to the gym! i hate sitting still anymore! sometimes, i even go twice a day.
When you get done with your workout and go to change...you realize that the rear of your shorts are wet from sweat. Lovely...butt sweat.
Once I was sitting on the ball doing crunches, and when I finished my set, I leaned back a little to stretch out my abs and rolled right off the back of the ball! I was working out with a friend and we were both dying laughing. So embarrassing! But, it couldn't have been as bad as the guy I saw once who was lying back on the ball, doing upper body with free weights and the ball popped! Sounded like a gunshot and he hit the ground, dropped his weights....no good. Everyone was laughing, and he was NOT amused. :)
I dont have any bad ones like you guys to, But i go to a small gym and have have farted and stunk up the WHOLE gym, other times if done stuff that i dont know if anyone els noticed but, iv done a entire workout before realizing my shorts where on backwards, and iv done the same thing with a shirt, one more it never fails that the one time you try to shoot your paper towel into the trash you miss and everyone happens to be looking, then u have to do the walk of shame and walk over to the trash and pick it up,
Thanks your all the laugh
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