Your most embarassing fitness moment?

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Maximus

Cathlete
OK I'm only posting this b/c even though it happened to me like 15 years ago, & it is without a doubt THE MOST embarassing moment of my life, it still makes me laugh.

I was just starting out and, like all women, really wanted those six pack abs. One of the trainers there offered to help. So this is back in the day when people used to do really stupid stuff to train abs. He has me sit at the end of a bench facing him, & he's sitting on my feet. I'm basically doing sit ups off the end of the bench (back then it seemed to make sense, today I'm thinking OMG, what was I doing to my poor lower back?).

Anyway, what happened as I was doing these situps & the guy's holding my feet is, I passed gas. Yep, you read it correctly. Right in his face. :eek:

I still get red just thinking about it, but even I have to admit it was funny.......oh if you could've seen his expression! I left the gym that night & never looked back. Had to take out a membership someplace else. :p

Edited to add: Steve, if you're out there, I'm really really sorry! ;)
 
Similar story here = I passed gas while jogging with a friend, don't know why, but I was embarassed..........
 
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA - oh Maximus, that's priceless! Poor Steve;)

Never really having worked out in a gym, I don't have any like that.

However, a friend of mine was working out in a a gym in Toronto, and was running on the treadmill. The escalator from the lower level exited right in front of where she was running happily away. She looked up, and Jean-Claude Van Damme was getting off the escalator. Right in front of her. So she completely lost her footing and went flying off the treadmill, landing unceremoniously at Mr. Van Damme's feet as her passed behind her. Apparently, he wasn't very gracious about the whole thing and basically looked at her like she was a pile of trash someone had dumped on him. She was quite mortified. But now she has a great story to tell:)

I did fall off my stability ball on Saturday doing Core Max:p
 
That IS pretty funny, Maximus.
Years ago, I used to be a cardio queen at the gym. I was really into fast walking on the treadmill. Well, this one time I was wearing shorts with a Tunebelt (a rubberish belt that holds a walkman) strapped tightly on my hips since it couldn't be made small enough for my waist.
So, I'm walking and walking and the Tunebelt is gradually riding up to my waist - gripping my shorts. You got it!! I was doing a Daisy Duke in front of everyone!!
It was a good long time before I even realized it.
Susan C.M.
 
I don't workout in the gym either, so I've never had anything like that happen. But...if I DID work out in the gym...well, I can tell you I'd have a hard time. I get very gassy when I'm exercising. I don't know why...
 
Maximus I nearly screamed with laughter at my desk. That's truly embarassing.

I think the most embarassing things that happen to me in a gym was when I just (and I mean "just") getting into weights and the trainer tried to show me bench press with 5lbs....well I tried and the wt hit me right in the mouth. You guys had to see the trainers face. Well I always laugh at my mishaps I did and never went back why b/c the trainer was drop dead gorgeous.

Another time was when I went to visit my dh in the gym and I was not working out at all and the staff member realized my membership was expired and he started yelling in front of the entire gym that I was expired, of course I had to retaliate before leaving.


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Haydee
 
Ab work always does that to me! Doesn't help when I eat the Russell Stover Low Carb Chocolates which makes my stomach blow up with gas. Eeeewwww! Too much information, I know. LOL
I can't remember any embarrassing fitness moments because I never really was into fitness until about a few years ago. Looking back, I have to say that I will never forget the time when I was in 3rd grade taking a very important test where you fill in the circle with a #2 pencil and I was leaning back in my chair and I fell with the desk on top of me. Very embarrassing!

Charlotte~~
 
Hey Maximus --

Don't be too embarrased, the "passing gas while doing abs" thing is pretty common. Lots of trainers have stories about that kind of thing. It's not that bad! It's actually a bit funny.

Well...here's mine. When I was just starting out in fitness, I used to teach step at a little gym in MO. I also had an aversion to wearing underwear (OK...you can already see where this is going). One day I decided to wear some nylon shorts that I'd just bought -- and they were long enough to get by without underwear. When I got home from teaching -- there was a huge rip down the crack of the shorts. To this day, I don't know if I taught the whole class with my ass-crack hanging out OR if the rip didn't happen until later. I shudder just thinking about it :)

There...top that one!

Shonie
 
Donna,me too! I don't know what it is. I've been thinking about after the baby comes along taking a pilates reformer class, but I'm too scared of what might happen.
 
OMG Shonie!!! That is TOO funny!
I would hope that if it were ripped during the class, someone would at least tell you afterwards; but then again, maybe not.

I can't top that one, that's for sure.

Shirley
 
Oh that is priceless! All of your stories are. I'm sitting here eating my lunch and nearly spit on my keyboard from laughter! :) :) Too funny!

Jo
 
Why is it that bodily functions are the highpoint of hilarity when it comes to working out?

When I was a senior in college, it was during Volleyball practice. At the end of practice, during our cardio 'wind down', Coach had us doing suicides with dives. You sprint to one line, dive, turn around and sprint back to starting point, then run to the next further line and dive, return, next further line, etc...for about 4 or 5 intervals. It was the LAST set of intervals and we were all just starting out, and I tooted as I dove at the first line. Everybody cracked up, but tried their hardest to hide the laughter. I, being team captain, was mortified. All I could do was say Excuse Me and kept on going.

Gayle
 
My most embarrasing moment had to be when I was going to do chin ups on this really big cable machine they had at my gym that had a long bar accross the top with little handles to grip specifically to do chin ups. Well, the thing the gym had as a "step" to get you up to the bar (I'm only 5'2" so of course I needed a big boost) was a plastic crate turned upside down. Well this crate had obviously been stepped on so many times that the center part had broken through so you had to stand on the edges or you would fall through. I got up just fine, but when I was done and went to get down I didn't land on the edges of the crate right and it flipped out from underneath me and I crashed face first on the floor. My DH was standing next to me when it happened and immediately helped me to my feet. I wasn't really hurt, but I was very embarrased and my face turned bright red. Either no one really noticed or they all felt so sorry for me that they didn't want to embarrass me any further by asking me if I was okay. I did end up with a big bruise on my arm where it hit the crate when I fell.

Katie
 
You guys crack me up! I suppose working out at home is a plus for gas issues.

I fell off my treadmill a few years ago. It was on the fritz, and when I went to press the button to slow down, it sped up really fast, so I reached for the red plug to turn it off, I missed and fell face first on the basement floor. It must've looked like a cartoon or something. Never been on one since.
 
I was at a Hi/lo aerobics class about 2 years ago, and the class was almost over (I was always the one in the back singing and hollering with delight, and I was always going super hard core)..well we were doing these kickboxing moves on a carpeted floor and I tripped on my own 2 feet and severely twisted my ankle.. and when I fell.. my bladder just let go too, and I thought I was going to die!!
My friend had to leave early to take me home and I knew that I really messed up my ankle bad.. plus I smelled like pee!!!
No workouts for about 3-4 weeks...My foot was so swollen and painful..Ouch!

My foot has never been the same since that happened!!

I felt like a total idiot!! LOLOL

I kinda quit going there to workout after that happened to me..I was always worried I would twist it again..LOL

One time I slipped off an exercise ball at a different gym, with a wood floor and landed flat on my back and it was a very loud..SLAP!! and everyone stopped and looked at me... and boy did it HURT when I landed as I just plopped down...I was not able to break the fall at all!! I was mortified!! OUCH!LOLOL I am always a little wary of my exercise ball..sneaky slippery when your body is sweaty little suckers

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I had a table at a Art Fair with my mom and her boyfriend. I was lwaning back in a wooden directors chair,on the street. I leaned back too far and started falling backwards(slowly). I reached out for a wooden Do Not Park Police sign which promptly fell on top of me as I crashed to the ground in front of a gazillion people. My moms boyfriend looks over his shoulder at me and says in a very straight face "Quit fooling around!". I laughed so hard I peed my pants.
 
This is a funny thread!!

I was in a hotel fitness center during a convention a few years back running on the treadmill. Several of my customers ( all men) came in to workout while I was running. I kind of already felt weird exercising in front of them ( they are used to seeing me in suits and professional) but I kept running, determined to finish.

Imagine my dismay when after I finished the run and walked by the mirror to see that my thong was totally hanging out in the back and also that I uh, had, MAJOR party hats ( you know what happens in the chest area when it is cold!)

I have to admit I felt pretty awkward later in the day when I had to see them during some meetings!! ( And, you can bet I wore a high rise pant, and a REALLY thick shirt that day!! :)

Lynn M.
 
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