From the article: 10 Most Embarrassing Moments at the Gym
Have you ever fallen off a treadmill in front of a room-full of exercisers? Or maybe you split your pants while lifting weights? Whatever your blush-inducing moment, we've all been there. Don't be shy! Tell us all about your most embarrassing moment at the gym...trust me, we can all relate. Share your stories
running around but naked
- Once I was jogging on the spot and my shorts fell off. I was wearing no undies and my shorts were loose then I started running around the gym and everyone was looking at me. I thought they were weird until I felt a slight breeze on my butt and I looked down and saw that I was NAKED! Everyone started laughing except for me.
- —Guest jojo
Falling off Trendmill and losing pants
- I just fell off the treadmill the other day at my University's gym and when I fell I face-planted onto the treadmill and was shot off the back. Unfortunately my pants fell down in the process. Thank God I wasn't wearing a thong that day. Needless to say I will be wearing spandex under my sweatpants from now on.
- —Guest Megan
How NOT to play tennis...
- I was taking a tennis class with a friend through my local fitness center and we were pretty excited to see a group of hot guys in the same class. I started flirting with one of them so I missed part of the instructions. When it came time to practice the new moves, the instructor immediately came to help me because I had no idea what I was doing. She had emphasized earlier never to stand behind someone playing. So naturally I didn't think she would make that mistake! I really wanted to impress this guy with a perfect hit so I swung the racket as hard as I could and accidentally spun around, hitting my instructor right in the face! The guy was not impressed - he was actually annoyed that I "wasn't paying attention". To make things worse my instructor had to go to the hospital because I broke her nose! i was mortified!
- —Guest Emily
Most embarassing moment at te gym
- At a all women's gym doing a exercise class. I was at the last couple exercise in the cool down stage of the class. When as the class we were on our backs stretching our legs open when someone waiting for the next class noticed something wrong about me. As I set up to do the last stretch with hands over my head, she came over to me and said, You're bleeding through your clothes", I looked quickly down and noticed that I was menustrating. Good thing class was over and I got out of there.
- —Guest Edith 47
Every One's Looking At Me!
- When ever I go to the gym I go in the cardio room by myself.So once there was a cute guy in there that kept looking at me, and so I would smile back. And it kept going that way for a while, untill I thought I knew him from some where. So I stoped looking at him to think about where I had seen him from untill I realized that he was from my church(and I had sat behind him that previous Sunday)While he sat with his wife.
- —Guest Megan Maxwell
Thanksgiving
- It was Thanksgiving weekend and my friend and I had just started a step aerobics class. Usually I would only put one step under each side but this time I decided that I would try two. Bad idea! A few minutes into the class as I placed one foot on the step I lost my footing hurling myself into the air like a gymnast landing safely I might add on our clothing in a pile several feet away. It made quite a commotion while the instructor looked at me mouthing the words, "are you okay?" but by that point both my friend and I were laughing so hard that neither of us could barely breath!
- —Guest Andrea
Bench step ups
- on my first training session with my personal trainer I had completed 2 sets of ten step ups on a bench with hand weights when I fell straight off and landed flat out on my face, my poor trainer was apologising profusely and decided to do a different excercise luckily I didn't hurt myself.
- —Guest Christinefromaus
Falling
- I was working with my trainer, I dont know what you would call the move. I had to step on to a bench and the step back down. The bench was about knee high. I did this exercise every day so I was pretty good at it. One day I was doing this step ups and my ankle decided to twist on me(I have weak ankles) and I fell off the step. It wouldnt have been so bad if there wasnt a shelf behind me where the radio sat. I hit the shelf and knocked the radio off and ended up leaning up against the yoga balls that were to the side of the shelf. Just a tad embarrassing. After getting help from my trainer getting up I checked out my ankle and went right back to what I was doing.
- —Guest Heather
I've done a few of these
- When I first started lifting, back in my early 20's, one day I decided I was finally going to bench a full plate (135). Needless to say, the first rep dropped too low and there I was, pinned to the bench. Two guys were nice enough to pull it up off me and not laugh too hard. The farting thing is tough too. Hard to hold it in at the bottom of a squat with a few hundred pounds on your back.
- —Guest Fat Boy
Dropping a ton of weight
- Back in college, when I more or less lived at the gym, I was squatting with about 450 pounds. I didn't use collars on the bar and the bar was bent from all of the weight on it. My spotter was waiting until I was ready to do my first rep to get into position. I stepped back from the squat rack and leaned too much to the left. CLANG CLANG CLANG!! Weight plates dropped off of the left side, causing me to do a side bend to the right until some plates fell off of that side. This series of events was completed one more time until all of the weight was off of both ends of the bar. I had EVERYBODY'S attention in the gym. At least I didn't blow out my back.
- —Guest Joe K
Lifting Too Much Weight
- I was at the gym with a couple of friends and we decided to go to the weight room. My friend got on the leg press machine and after a set, she decided the weight was too light. So she added weights to the machine, but soon found out that she couldn't lift it. Instead of locking the press back in place to get off she let the weight fall to the ground. I was laughing my butt off trying to pick the weights up o put them back in place, but it wouldn't budge. The a guy, who I like to call THE CUTE ONE, came over and lifted the weights for me. I said thank you, and all three of us rushed out of the room in embarrassment. But, at least I got to meet a nice guy!
- —Guest nicolett1225
Hitting the instructor - oops!
- I was taking a balls and bands class and the instructor had us on the floor, ball between legs and the band around the ball...I sneezed and let go of the band and flew up and hit my instructor square in the face!!I just piped up and said "I told you I didn't like that move" We were BOTH red in the face!
- —Guest wyominggal010
Always check your sweat pants crotch!
- I was doing cable side raises laying down on all 4s trying to be as discreet as possible with that position (the proportion was something like 9 guys to 1 woman at the weights room). Then while checking my back at the mirror for good posture I noticed the sweat pants crotch had gotten ripped apart!!! I think it was the second set of many reps - long display from what it seems. Anyway, the guys didn't seem to mind - I could safely say I'm more popular in the weights room now ;)
- —Guest Mariluce
Wardrobe malfunction
- I was walking on the treadmill and after awhile I started to run, after a few mins, my right boob poped out and 5 males saw it. never went back to that gym again, I was too embarrassed.
- —Guest Dianne
Talking to myself
- My gym was always empty at 4:30 am when I went, I was literally the only one there. I recently watched Oprah and it was all about positive self talk. I finished my workout feeling great. I started out telling myself in my head what a great job I did. That turned into me telling myself out loud. Which turned into a little self boxing in the mirror which lead to a little cabbage patch dance and so on. After about 10 minutes of positive self motivation I laid down on the mats to stretch. When I looked up there were about 6 security cameras peering down on me. I came back the next day in the afternoon hoping no one had watched the security cameras. The manager approached me and asked if I was the woman who always worked out alone at 4:30 am. I admited to it. He smiled and said that he likes to see people enjoying their workouts to the extent that I do. I thanked him and slinked out the door never to return during business hours again.
- —Guest Amy
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