Your most embarassing fitness moment?

lol you guys!
here's mine, about a zillion years ago before step aerobics really took off, i was just starting out in a floor aerobics class. well i was in pretty good shape and thought i was MISS THING. a Prince song came on and i was really into it, well one of my left feet caught on the carpet and i flew and rolled onto the cassette player that they were using at the time. i was unhurt but the cassette player was not so lucky! they had another one so class resumed after a few minutes, but i was a little more laid back after that.
oh well, i still think i am MISS THING just in my own living room!


have a healthy day!:+
 
Funny! I think maybe your username should have been "MissThing" -- I LIKE it and think perhaps I'll use it in the future.

Good story too. That kind of thing happens to me ALL the time. Just when my ego gets a little too big -- WHAM...something comes along to put me in my place! I'm picturing you mutilating the cassette player...:)

Shonie
 
Denise, not once but twice? You know they come in three's, don't you. Stay home when you work out! That was hysterical. Thanks for the laugh, you poor girl.:) :D ;-)

Marla
 
OMG! ROFLMAO! this is ab-killer funny ladies! whew!:eek: :+ :7 }(

Now, Shonnie, you know that when i see you on the 16th i am going to picture you stepping awaay with your ass hanging out and become hysterical! I warn you now! i hoe it doesn't happen when i have a mouth full of vodka!:p

Denise: oh, honey! that is terribly embarassing and painful! please do be careful!

fortunately, i don't have any embarassing exercise storiesm but i have a ton of non-fitness related ones, so if anyone calls me on it, i'll share 1 or 2

jes:7
 
These are hilarious. Denise, yours takes the cake, poor thing!

My hubby and I were building a big wooden playset for our kids a week or two ago. I decided I could push myself up with my arms, with my back facing the playset. Well I wasn't as strong as I thought I was. I fell face first on the patio chair I was using as a boost. I started crying and screaming like a banshee, because I was pretty hurt. My husband was like "don't scare the neighbor's".

I also have broken my ankle jumping on a trampoline, and swinging on a swing when I was in my twenties. How do you do that?? :)

Lori
 
Well, Jes -- maybe I'll just show up on the 16th with my ass-crack hanging out and then you won't have to imagine :)

At least I can laugh about it now...it's important not to take ourselves too seriously, right?

Shonie
 
Oh...I just remembered a couple more that I had blocked from my memory. The story about the playset thingy and the trampoline brought back my repressed memories of childhood attempts at fitness gone awry:

#1: The "monkey bars" incident. When I was in 1st grade, I climbed up to the top and hung from a bar (on the school playground). I guess I didn't think the whole thing through. I didn't know how to get down other than letting go and falling. I was too scared to let go so I hung there for a LONG time until someone ran and got a teacher to come over and get me down. Lots of people stood around and watched while waiting for the teacher :-(

#2: The "learning to roller skate" fiasco. Somehow, I broke my arm learning to roller skate in gym class when I was in Jr. High.

#3: The "closing my eyes while riding my bike" adventure. I have no excuse for this one. One day while riding my bike near my house (when I was about 9 or 10), I thought it would be fun to close my eyes. I ran into the mailbox and fell into a ditch.

Wow...I'm starting to see a pattern of stupidity here :)

Cheers,
Shonie
 
I've got a good one but not sure I should share as it happened to someone else, but I was involved! :p I was at a class where the instructor (a good friend) was teaching and we were on the floor doing the toning/sculpting part and she was sitting facing us with her legs apart doing a stretch. Just so happened that her long yoga/stretch tights had a hole in the crotch and she had no underwear on, plus had a tampon string hanging out the hole!!! I felt sooo bad for her and not only were there ladies all facing her in the class but men & women from the church were coming in and out to prepare for a funeral dinner after the class. I got up and went over to her and whispered that she had a hole in her pants w/o mention the string and she thanked me. She preceded to turn around and did the rest of the class facing the front wall. One reason I share this about her is that I would HOPE someone would let me know! Okay, now for my moment....a couple weeks ago, I came home after a class I taught and caught a peek of me from behind and saw what looked like a HUGE MaxiPad from the waist down to about 6"! I thought what in the world. Here I had forgotten to tear off the three sales tags that were still attached and it made it look just like a pad! I said something to my students the next class and they all said they noticed but figured my pad had worked it's way UP! They said, "What did you wnat us to say, that your pad is showing?" I said, "YES!" OH MY GOSH, talk about embarrassed!
Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH (AKA "Den Mother Debbie")http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
OMG Debbie that first one is WILD!!! I would die from shame.

I have two bike riding ones. One when I was 8, and I decided that riding "no hands" was so cool. Saw someone I knew and proudly turned to wave at them, thereby hitting a large rock and going face first over the handlebars, landing on my chin and my knees. Seven stitches in the chin and gravel scars on my knees to this day.

A few years ago I was riding my bike, decided to get all "mountain bikey" and rode down some long steps into the park. Put my brakes on to slow down, but only put on the front ones, so the whole back end of the bike flipped up and over, with me on it. Again with the knees. Was on crutches for a week.

Proud moments:)
 
Debbie!! Your first one! I had to cover my mouth! How embarrassing!!!

Your second story about the pad is too funny!!!! :))))
 
I used to ride no handed too. I was riding my bike and I put my hands in my jacket pockets. Well, the zippers zipped from the top down, and they slid closed while I was riding, trapping my hands. I tried to remove my hands from the pockets so I could steer around a parked car. I couldnt get my hands out, smashed into the car and landed on the hood unhurt, but laughing hysterically.

I also have a dog walking story. I had a huge german shepherd who hated cats. We were walking down the sidewalk and I got distracted, he saw a cat, took off with me running behind holding the leash. The cat ran between 2 parked cars, dog followed, and I ripped a sideview mirror off a car with my shoulder. That hurt, but I still couldnt stop laughing, but at least we stopped running 50 mph.
 
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>I also have broken my ankle jumping on a trampoline. How do you do
>that?? :)
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>Lori


There's a guy I work with in my office. He was also in my graduating 1986 H.S. class. He was a very popular football jock. Anyway, when I moved to this office we realized we knew each other from H.S. Only now he's in a wheelchair and paralyzed from the chest down (he can move his arms) from a trampoline accident. :( Those things are dangerous. He had the accident not long after H.S. graduation.
 
I took an art history class in college and the professor stood on a stage and he loved to have his hands in his pockets. One day he was up on stage with his hands in his pockets and his pants unzipped. Yep, you could see more than you wanted. It didn't help that he was an older man and somewhat overweight. I had to leave the auditorium because I was laughing sooo hard.
 
Debbie that is so funny, as long as you were not in her shoes of course!

Thank goodness I workout at home, I really do not think I could workout in a room full of people. The only bad thing I have done is tripping and falling off my step years ago when I was learning to step. That hurts major!
 
since we are delving into childhood traumas, when i was around 8 or 9 we had a big and very tall pine tree in our backyard. i used to climb up but not very high. one day i don't know what possessed me but i climbed up as high as i could. that was the day i found out i am deathly afraid of heights. i just couldn't climb down and i was crying so my poor mom had to climb up and get me. first and last time that ever happened.x(
 
LOL! This is great! i too have a bike-related incident! Picture it: Christmas morning, i'm 6. i get a bike. pink with a banana seat and training wheels. to break, you pedal backwars, only no one told me and so i'm riding up and down the street smiling into the camera b/c dear dad is photo crazy. so i don't even realize there is a ditch and i drive right into it. it was full of cold gross water and i was NOT happy! my dad was too busy laughing to help me out, so my mother who was watching from the window came running to retrieve me. i wouldn't speak to my dad for 3 days!

jes
 
Debbie, the Tampon string is just too funny! I'm like you I really want someone to tell me!

Ok, my turn it's not as good as all the rest but here goes.

Before I started wearing darker bike shorts (for sweat reasons--another story) to the gym, I was wearing this one set of hot pink shorts/bra when I looked in the mirror while in class and realized that they were kind of see through and I was wearing flowered undies!

What made it so bad was that the whole back of the aerobics room was glass windows with the circuit machines on the other side. Every guy there saw my polka-dot butt! After that I always make sure if my shorts are light colored, I wear white undies!


Nadine

~~Happiness is an Attitude~~
 
Sabrina,

OMG! I had the exact same thing happen in my Astronomy class! I sat second from the front and couldn't remember a thing about that day's class! I was trying too hard not to look at his fly (and NOT to laugh!) It didn't help that our class was VERY small! Also that I was in my early 30's at the time so I was expected to behave responsibly!

Sad to say I left the class without telling the poor guy! (and here I just said to Debbie how I want people to tell me when somethings wrong!) But it would have been sooo awkward!

I've had undone zipper moments myself and now DOUBLE check my zipper when I leave the potty!

Nadine

~~Happiness is an Attitude~~
 
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