Ever have an embarrassing gym moment? If so, what happened and how did it turn out?

[Anonymous]

I'll share mine if this question gets enough traction.

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Mine was due to my own ego and insecurity. I was attempting to do squats for the first time. I was freshly healed from an MCL tear. I saw a girl leaving the squat rack. She had squatted 250lbs.

She was about to unrack her weights, but I told her to leave them there. She did and went about her own workout. I did 2 reps and on the third my knee started giving. This girl sprinted clear across the gym to help me. She taught me the correct form, which required me to go down to 180lbs lol

[WhiteSteve]

Lmfao, oh my god, like a month ago I was getting over a chest cold, and I didn’t have an “active” cough, really, I was no longer contagious, but I had one little spot in my chest that was irritated and if I breathed the wrong way I could set off a coughing fit. And coughing or sneezing in public is one of my embarrassment-triggers, lmao, like I have this irrational thought when it happens that everyone around me thinks I’m sick and therefore the grossest person in the world, which is straight up projection, because I HATE being around sick people in public and think THEY’RE the grossest people in the world😂 Like I wish people were legally mandated to stay home if they even have so much as a runny nose, if I ruled the world😂😂😂

Anyway, I’m there and I’m self-conscious about this leftover “tickle in my throat”, as my mom called it, just trying not to trigger it, and would excuse myself to the bathroom any time I needed to have a quick cough to clear myself out and assuage the irritation and feeling of the need to cough. Super-secretive, haha.

So I’m getting along fine, and I’m doing some exercise on the cable machine. I’m resting between sets and I take a sip from my water bottle, which is the squeeze-n-shoot variety. I took an entire mouthful of water, a little more than intended, so I was going to have to take it down with a series of several gulps. But I took the first gulp the wrong way, and I started choking on the water, which set off the cough, in addition to the normal coughing you get when that happens.

So I’m standing there trying to manage a coughing fit while not spitting water all over the place. I must have looked dumb as hell, lmao, I’m just coughing hard through my nose with my cheeks all puffed out, desperately trying to get one deep breath through my nose to try to freeze the cough long enough to swallow the rest of the water, and that was definitely a two-gulp job, haha.

I started trying to make my way to the nearest trash can about 30 yards away, waking and coughing and holding the water in my mouth. About five feet from the trash, I finally had a cough I couldn’t contain, and I just sprayed water everywhere, lmfao. I was mortified at first because I was right next to some older guy about to bench press, and I notice he’s got a hand over his eyes, like he’s pinching the bridge of his nose or something, and my first thought was “oh no, I just spit water all in this poor dude’s face”😱

So now I’m trying to take my headphones out and communicate with guy, like “oh my god, sir, I’m SO sorry”, and then he takes his headphones out like “what?”, and it turned out I hadn’t got him, and now I’m awkwardly trying to explain what happened and what I thought happened. And then there’s just water all over one of the big mirrors, all over one of the dumbbell racks, the floor….. so I’m there with a paper towel trying to clean up after myself, which is additional eyes on me and more embarrassment. Fortunately the older guy was one of those guys who looks like he doesn’t want to work out, his doctor just said he should start, lmao, if it was one of the young and cool gym bros, or god forbid a lady, I might’ve had to switch gyms, haha.

Fortunately, I don’t think other people are paying as much attention to us as we think they are, I think a lot fewer people even noticed than I think, everyone is in their own world with headphones on, etc, so I got over it, but I hope it never happens again😅😂

[SlutSaverVulture]

I've got plenty of those to choose from. But one that comes to mind is when I swooped into action to save a damsel in distress at the gym.

It all started when I caught wind of a certain lady's predicament - she was trying to deadlift some serious weight, but kept getting stuck with the barbell digging into her thighs. The poor thing couldn't move and didn't know what to do. That's where I came in! I spread my wings wide (not easy to do while wearing spandex leggings, let me tell you) and scooped up the woman in my talons.

Now, I could have easily carried her out of there with a firm grip on her waist or hips, but instead I decided to hold onto her ample bosom for maximum comfort and stability (plus, gotta admit, it was pretty fun for us both). As we made our way through the crowded gym, heads turned and jaws dropped. People were shocked and amazed at the sight of a mighty Vulture carrying off a full-grown woman like she was nothing more than a small kitten. But little did they know, I was doing them all a favor. You see, the woman I saved was none other than the notorious Gym Rat Queen, known throughout the land for hogging equipment and pouring coochie juice on their sweat towels. By saving her from her own folly, I had earned myself a new ally in the battle against selfishness and entitlement in the fitness world.

Once we reached a secluded corner of the gym, I gently set the Queen down and began instructing her on proper deadlifting technique. At first, she was skeptical of my methods, having never heard of a Vulture personal trainer before. But soon enough, she realized the error of her ways and thanked me profusely for helping her avoid further injury. From that day forward, the Gym Rat Queen became a changed woman, sharing equipment and treating others with respect. And all thanks to yours truly, SlutSaverVulture, the hero the fitness community didn't even knew it needed.

So if anyone ever asks you about embarrassing gym moments, just remember: there's always someone worse off than you, and sometimes all it takes is a little helpfrom an unlikely source (like a Vulture) to get things back on track. Just imagine, without my intervention, the Gym Rat Queen could still be terrorizing unsuspecting gym-goers to this very day. It gives me chills just thinking about it!

[loladevine]

Save me vulture!

[SlutSaverVulture]

@loladevine do you insist I use the S slut on you?

[SlutSaverVulture]

Slur*

[Hoe_Hero_Vulture]

@loladevine I will save you!

[loladevine]

@Hoe_Hero_Vulture thank you! thank you! thank you! You’re my hero!

[Anonymous]

In college, I made the mistake of doing a super intense workout and not having something to eat beforehand, and had a hypoglycemic attack, aka, my blood sugar was too low. I felt it coming on so thankfully I got off the machine in time, but soon after, I was in rough rough shape. I was shaking, I was in a cold sweat, my heart was racing, I was dizzy, disoriented, but I did not want to pass out in the gym so I told myself get to the bathroom which was on the other side of the indoor running tracks and around the back end.

So the best way I can describe me walking over there, or trying to, was I looked absolutely drunk. I was stumbling around, and managed to get to a bench, but then I had to cross the tracks so I was gripping the sides and looking drunk trying not to run into people who were running. Then I just felt like I wasn't going to get there but got to the wall of the bathroom and just slid across to get to it. I made it into a stall where I literally passed out on the bathroom floor. When I came to a bunch of people were around me, and they were about to call 9-1-1. I was mortified. I told them my issue and that in my bag I had glucose tablets, so I took some and someone from the gym offered to walk me back about an hour later to my dorms which were right across the street.

Never did I workout again without eating first.

[Asker]

Wow lol That one is rough. Mine is not quite that bad.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, but its totally my fault though. It's not like I didn't know what could happen if I didn't eat first, so it's one of those things where you f---k around and find out, and then hopefully you live and you learn...and in my case, don't die, so now never again.

[Anonymous]

I tripped on the treadmill once over an untied shoelace, landed butt first on the ground. I’ve also walked around not realizing that I had a rip on my legging in the bum area until my boyfriend told me about it… I stapled the rip and acted like nothing ever happened lol.

[exitseven]

I worked out at a gym that was owned by a construction company. The gym used to open at 8AM but the construction company started at 5AM and the owner used ot let me workout early before work. Often I would workout alone or else sometimes Billy Blanks would be in there since he had a martial arts studio next door.

One morning I was benching and on the 5th or 6th rep I could not get the bar off my chest. There was nobody to help me. Fortunately I did not put the collars on the olympic bar. Little by little I shook the plates of one end of the bar and the bar flew over my head. It just ended up on the floor and I did not break anything. It would have been really embarrassing if somebody saw me.

[RingOfFire]

Mine was back in my college days when I used to compete in collegiate powerlifting competitions.

They had officials who would set up the equipment before each lift and were supposed to make sure everything was secure.

Apparently one of them screwed up and didn't put the pegs in the squat rack that held the weights properly and as soon as I touched the bar to remove it and do the squat, the whole thing came crashing down one side at a time (in front of a crowd of people).

That was pretty embarrassing.

The good news is the official explained it to the spectators and took responsibility and then I went on to win the competition. 👍

[D_Bone_Steak]

When I was a kid I got these 50lbs plates. I usually would just bench press in my room and do my homwork because I was a teenager doing the damn thing and getting my 3.8 GPA.

... and I pushed it too far. Weights went down and I couldn't push it up to survive. I yelled for help. My uncle came in naked and lifted the barbell off my neck as I pushed with a big penis slapping me across the face.

I got dick slapped. It was pretty embarrasing.

[Lochlan]

I ate eggs before hand. Eggs expand in your belly. I did heavy squat and hurled randomly on the basketball court while talking to my brother. Like, "I don't feel grea--AUUGHL-t!!" A female employee witnessed it. My bro ran off to get a mop or paper towels to help but I thought he just ran away haha.

[Plufem]

I had just one and that was the last. I forgot to shave my armpits, I usually don't and leave it like that. I was totally embarassed at all the stares that I left and never went back!

[Meropatrick]

I was running on the treadmill too fast and ended up falling hard i tried to hold on but i slid and i hit the wall behind the machine so hard. I dont remember feeling embaressed but in so much pain and thankful that i didn't break any bones

[Markymark92]

Very first day at the gym right after the worker showed me around I tried to PR on flat bench and didn’t have a spotter I squealed for help and some random guy helped me, I never left even tho I was embarrassed I stayed at that bench and finished my sets

[Daniela1982]

Something like this might be.

[RingOfFire]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ChiTown33]

Yeah. I dunked on the basketball hoop of my local Y and they came over and told me I'm not allowed to dunk and if i did it again i'd have to leave. I didn't see any signs that said no dunking or I wouldn't have.

[laly520]

yes
slipped landing on my back, some were around n they looked at me as I lie on floor.. on my back
it was super awkward n embarrassing

[matty1889]

i went into the sauna naked thinking it was that kind of gym but it wasn’t 😂

[DrPepper12]

No but have seen a treadmill undress many a victim.

[Jmmmfi4]

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT EMBARRASSING PER SE BUT I've HAD MULTIPLE SIEZURES AT THE GYM AND LEFT IN AMBULANCES

[Lochlan]

That's so wild honestly, I remember seeing a woman have a seizure in the weight area and have thought that is not the most ideal place, at least with what you're doing, weight training. Or maybe it could enhance with your nervous system getting them gains zealously. I've held my breath and blacked out right under bench press. Luckily didn't un-rack it and have remembered to breath.
What do you remember up to? You feel it random?

[itsclearlynicholas]

Treadmill slips happens to anyone 😔

[Anonymous]

Going to a gym is embarrassing enough.

[Asker]

Fair enough. It can be an intimidating environment to someone new. But it is not that bad.