No....but you can come pretty close with Farming, chasing cattle, nonstrenuous

The Dog was on vacation.....that's hilarious!

My funny moment is more of an EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW moment.....the woman who must be in her 60's who wears thong underwear under her leotard while doing yoga poses....that's just WRONG on soooo many levels...well at least she's wearing the leotard I guess...

I'm with Meg - when I'm working out I have my headphones on...I'm not at the gym to socialize...

When I was at a gym a few years ago a woman and her adult son came in to look it over. The woman was very "snazzily" dressed and dolled up, but not in that great a shape. She looked at all the people working out and said to her son... "Ewwwwwwwwwww look at how much they are all SWEATING!!" Her son looked at her and said... "Mom... that's what WE should be doing!"

Those of us who heard it had a good laugh out of it.

I think the funniest thing I've ever seen, is me and my personal trainer working out the muscle at the front of the leg. We worked it.. then we walked around the machine a couple of times on our tippie toes, then we walked on our heels like penguins. I was laughing the whole time because of how silly it looked.

What an awesome thread! Thanks everyone for sharing the funny stories.

Our gym has plenty of these as well. Although I’ve never exactly thought of the noises as “giving birth noises”. Good one.

We also have a woman who wears all one color outfits with matching headbands, think 1980’s aerobics gear, full make-up and hair. She makes frequent trip to the bathroom to touch up with the tools and products she keeps in her sparkly fanny pack that she wears all the time.

Gah! I have those grunting he-man guys at my gym too!
I remember when I first started going there with my Aunt 3 years ago. There was this man who would always try to work with more than he could lift. He would be doing leg lifts with like 170 pounds or some crazy number.. all I know was that he was using all the weight that the machines offered. @_@... my Aunt and I would just shoot looks at each other. And I remember when he was bench pressing with so much weight I thought the bar was going to snap. And he was having a hard time just lifting it off the supports and he did this with NO spotter *gasp* My Aunt and I had bets going on when he would finally hurt himself.

I do admit that I've done some funny things myself. A few weeks ago I started listening to books on Audio because I was just SO bored with music. Anyways. I had grabbed one that turned out to be one of the most funnest stories I've ever heard. People would look at me as I burst into laughter at nothing at all (I had the tiny earbud things that I hide under my hair). It got to the point that I was laughing so hard I had to stop whatever it was I was doing ( I think I was on the bike)

I don't even want to guess what they were all thinking

I laugh out loud too when I am running and watching the TV, especially Ellen Degeneris, she's such a hoot that woman... I love when I run and I'm watching her time flies by...

Most of the funniest things or calamities at the gym that I've seen feature me. Maybe that just proves that most of us are really just paying attention to ourselves.

I'm usually careful to NOT wear my trainer shirt when I'm trying something for the first time, but last week I was trying a new (and very difficult) balance exercise involving a stability ball under my toes, one arm on a flat bench and attempting to do a dumbbell row with the other arm. I fell off the ball every time I tried to move. Most gym members know me, but an older woman I'd never seen before came over and said "sweetie, you're just not very good at that. Would you like me to hold the ball?"

I have

• been stuck under a too heavy bench press bar with no spotter (aka wearing the iron necklace)
  
• fallen off a treadmill and cracked two ribs
  
• stood up and smacked my head on a squat bar
  
• worn my shorts inside out for an entire day (and no one told me!)
  
• done platform squats with a bar that was too heavy and ended up just sitting there unable to move
  
• tripped over every piece of equipment in the gym more than once
  
• chased men into the men's locker room for leaving 12 one hundred pound plates on the leg press

I'm sure I've done a few other laughables, but having smacked my head so many times, I can't remember them!

Mel

You reminded me of the dumbest thing I ever did - walked into the round end of an Olympic bar on a squat rack. I had a perfectly circular bruise in the center of my forehead for more than a week.

Chick in Hat: Ummm. Thong, leotard, yoga. It all sounds too complicated for me. Something bad is bound to happen there. Make sure you are not anywhere near her for the next class.

Shan: We have a few women who choose to wear makeup during their workouts too. I sweat so hard within the first fifteen minutes that I could not stand the thought of anything on my face except a towel.

Sakai: "People would look at me as I burst into laughter at nothing at all"
This is one of my fears as well. I listen to music and I really have to restrain myself from singing along with it. One day, I just know, I'm going to forget where I am and just really embarress myself. I did catch one young woman singing along to her ipod while she was running on the treadmill. She just looked so happy to be in her own little world singing her tunes without a care in the world...

Mel: Hopefully all of those bad things didn't happen to you on the same day. But, if you have a tendency to wear your gym shorts inside out...well, I just don't know what to tell you. And NOBODY told you?! Awwww. That's just not RIGHT. Where's the LOVE?! That's just too funny.

Okay, it is time for me to 'fess up with my own embarressing tale. I decided to bring a little reading material along with me for the treadmill. I knew that I could not hold the book open to read it and still walk so I used two giant paper file clamps to hold the book open. I clamped them into place at home while the book was closed. When I got to the gym I hopped on the treadmill, programmed the machine, began walking and then proceeded to open the book. Yep, you guessed it. The darn clamps both sprang off my book in two different directions and I screamed "LOOK OUT!" They flew off so fast they scared me. Fortunately, no one was injured. But man, they really travelled far. There is a lot of tension in those springs!

My gym has quite a few of the "workout Barbies" in regular attendance, too, and my story is about one of them.
I almost always see her when I go to the gym, and she's in good shape, 40ish-but she is always there sporting full-face makeup, lots of jewelry, and an entire can of aquanet-never a hair out of place. You can't help but notice....skimpy outfits and REALLY huge implants on a very small frame. I am always there in some ratty old shorts, sweating profusely, with chunks of hair falling away from the lopsided braid I did in my car in the parking lot , so I guess I just don't understand why people go through all that trouble to primp for the gym when you're gonna need a shower afterwards, anyway.
I recently decided to start venturing outside the circuit training, and went in another room of the gym to use the tricep machine, where they also have free weights. She was in there lifting a barbell from the floor, to over her head a few reps, and back to the floor (I have no idea what that's called). She was starting a new set and had just picked it up off the floor, when I guess in the strain she farted.....it was funny enough that this happened to someone who appears to be so "about appearances", but the best part was that she didn't even flinch-never batted an eye, or looked around to see if someone noticed-nothing! I had to leave the room to keep from laughing out loud, and now I'm terrified to make eye contact with her for fear I'll get the giggles like some juvenile idiot.

I used to work with a "workout barbie". I never actually saw her at the gym (different gym), but I saw the pre-gym ritual. She'd get through a whole day at work with no makeup and normal hair. Then at 5pm she'd get her hair straighteners out and do her hair. Then she'd put make up on. Then she'd go to the gym.

I asked her once why she made such an effort (it wasn't as though she'd tarted herself up for work and then just went on to the gym afterwards, it was specifically done for the gym).

Her explanation? "I do my hair and makeup before I leave (I think she usually went on elsewhere after the gym) and I want to arrive looking as good as I leave so people don't realise I don't always look like this"

Having said that, she did have a track record of picking up blokes (including trainers) at the gym. None of them seemed to be worth it though.

There's this middle aged guy who goes to my gym. Every day he wears the same outfit of blue jeans and walking boots, which looks uncomfortable enough but lately he's taken to drinking a large 32oz coffee whilst on the machines. It's kinda funny watching him on the ab machine whilst trying to balance his coffee in one hand.

Another funny sight was a group we cruelly called "the meatheads". They were 4 massively muscled guys and 1 skinny fake tanned blonde (girlfriend to one of the meatheads), who used to take up the entire free weights room and make very loud grunting/birthing noises whilst encouraging each other with cries of "come on baby you can do it". By the way, it was the guys calling each other baby, the girl used to just stand there looking bored. It was all I could do to stay focused on the treadmill. Comedy gold. Thankfully, they must have found another gym because I haven't seen them for months.

We've also got various elderly folks with fondness for massive headgear/antennae. Oh and Meg, that lady with the book seems to go to my gym too .

Walked into the men's room my first time at the gym...seen things that scarred me for life

At the gym I used to frequent, there was a man about 45-50, very slim, and with an Elvis type hairsprayed slicked hairstyle. Of course he never did any cardio, always did weights in a wife beater and slim cut black jogging pants.

gah! yesterday I saw this lady at the gym that I've never seen before. She was in 80's style work out clothes.. Baggy shirt and tights. @_@ and she had like 10 pounds of gold around her neck. why the heck was she wearing all that to the gym??