Ok - so I thought it might be interesting (& a source of relief) to share our embarassing gym moments. So often there are threads about hesitancy to join a gym that I thought this might help people feel less foolish.

I'll start: I went to the gym one day with a friend & we started on the treadmills. Now, at this gym the cardio machines are lined up in two lines facing each other - so it's a little hard not to see each other. I started off at a walk to warm up & I guess I was paying more attention to our conversation then to my feet & I fell. Well, instead of just flying off the end I held on! You could hear the skin being rubbed off my knees until I finally let go & slid off the back of the darn machine. Totally embarassed my friend help dust me off & said "Just take it slow." I was Walking!!!

Geez - I hope I'm not the only one who joins this thread....

They have a pass at my gym that you turn in when you enter and retrieve when you leave. I once had a poor employee looking for over 10 minutes (and call another to help look) for my pass that was (you guess it) in my pocket. Before I found it, they both had asked me several times if I was SURE that I didn't have it, and I had confidently told them that I certainly did not.

Man, I hate customers like me!

Well, I tend to sweat a lot whenever any physical exertion is involved. So one day, I was doing my usual thing working out on a stationary bike and when I was done, I went to the locker room to change. There are large mirrors all around and I happened to catch a glimpse of my backside. It must have been the underwear or pants (or the combination) that I was wearing, but my bottom was drenched with sweat and it looked as if I had accident. Fortunately, the bike I was using was very close to the locker room, which was empty at the time so I don't think anyone else noticed. Since then, I've tried to be somewhat mindful of what I wear and how well sweat will show.

I just joined the "Y" last week and I'm trying out different classes. Today I went to a yoga class and during one of the postions the man next to me passed gas! I pretended I didn't hear it but had I been in there with a friend, and I would have cracked up! I'm just glad it wasn't me!

I was working in a gym and went back to walk on the treadmills with the owners wife. We were walking and talking about the show on the TV's when a staff member came back and started talking to us. I shuffled to far to one side so one foot was on the moving track and one was not...so I did a very painful set of splits before I hit the ground. I just stayed sitting on the treadmill and kept talking....said I was done anyway!!

I can't count how many times I have bent over to adjust the weights on a machine and nearly knocked myself out because I slam my head into the equipment. I use free weights a lot more now.

My cute male trainer was showing me how to do lunges. I warned him that I have really bad balance and coordination and don't think I can do them. "Nonsense" he says. So off I go, one lunge, fine, change legs, lunge, fine, change legs agin, oh no I'm going to fall, so I start to fall and instead of just watching me he tries to help. Ok so I'm 5 foot four he's 5 foot nothing, I'm 260lbs, he's about 140lbs, he never stood a chance.

So we're there on the mat, both of us laughing our heads off. Luckily neither of us was hurt, he managed to roll quickly out of the way. I am so glad I have my sense of humour in check, the old me would never have gone back there again!

He wasn't in a hurry for me to do lunges again!

That's usually me I don't know what it is about yoga...

After joining the gym, I descided to go out and buy myself a more fashionable gym suit (sometig that looked more in the lines of Lulu Lemon's stuff, since 80% of the people there wore that collection). So I go out and buy this realy nice pant and a nice T-shirt with a nice patern on the front ( I never wear Ts with paterns).

My first day to wear this, I go and change , jump on the first treadmill I find and just start my workout. During my workout, I'm sweating bullets and getting realy irritated with my new t-shirt, it's sticking to me like glue. I'm also trying to sign to my gym buddy that I'm hating my new outfit but in vain (we both have our earphones on).

Well Idiot me got dressed so quickly (so no one would see me) that I had put my pants and top inside out. My black pants had this big white tag sticking out on the back, my t-shirt was sticking to my skin because of that patern and , of course, my tags were sticking out like a sore tumb.

My gym buddy noticed my wardrobe as we were leaving for the changing rooms....after we met our big big boss and talked to her for about 20mins.

I was so embarrassed since at the next meeting I had with her, she sort of mentionned my wardrobe malfunction.

I have heard this about yoga and gas....one of my friends told me it was because you hold your stomach in. In fact they call her Stinky in yoga class.

You're supposed to hold your stomach in during yoga? I was led to believe it was just the opposite. That when you inhale, your stomach and ribcage (as well as your lungs) should expand, as if you were filling a balloon. And when you exhale, you purposefully (but not quickly or forcefully) push the air out, deflating the balloon.

I'm no expert by any means (have only done a couple of yoga DVD and read a few yoga sites in the last month), but I thought deep, rhythmic breathing was an essential part of a yoga practice, not holding your stomach in.

Have I misunderstood about the breathing?

Regardless, I wouldn't want to be in a class full of farty-pants. Ick.

goodbye chubby, haha! I'm the same way. I was cooling down on a bike after doing 60 on the elliptical. Well I stood up and I had two perfectly round butt cheek sweat marks. I snuck back to a corner and stretched for a looooong time until it dried enough to not be quite so visible.

Other than that, I'm usually just hitting myself in the head with equipment.

I think that the yoga thing could be that your muscles sometimes relax a little too much and start letting stuff out...

Oh yeah, I've had the sweaty-crotch-looks-like-I-just-peed-my-pants look. That's great because we're walking through the gym all confident because we just had a great workout, little do we know how we look.
My sister and I were playing raquet ball a few years ago and I did something stupid, started to laugh and peed my pants a little, couldn't stop laughing because I peed and peed some more. I ran to the bathroom, which was just outside the court and didn't notice that they had moved the women's changing room and put the men's in it's place . Luckily noone was in there, just a bunch of men's clothing. I had to go back to the court and grab my sweatshirt with my sister in hystarics laughing at me. I wrapped it around my waist and causually left the gym like I did nothing wrong. I hate pee-my-pants stories.