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A little while back I was getting in position to do dumbbell pullovers, the weight was kinda heavy and I am not, so when I positioned myself on the bench ( I didn't anchor my feet) and let the weight fall back for the stretch - down went the dumbbell and up and over went my feet and I basically flipped backwards over the bench.

Of course I jumped up right away like Inspector Clouseau and acted as if I intended to do it that way.

Thank God the gym wasn't that busy.

Safe workouts always
Joe

i had my back on a stability ball and i was doing dumbell shoulder presses. when i increaed the weight i lost my balance and went head over heels. i too was lucky that no one was really there. but i still felt like a moron

Well, it wasn't really embarrassing, but it got me a lot of unexpected attention...

I was working out at the gym by myself when the barbell I was using to do bench presses missed the rung I was trying to put it on and came crashing down on my head! No joke! Luckily, someone else just happened to turn their head and see it happen, and rushed over to get the thing off of me. I never lost consciusness or visual acuity, but MAN did that hurt! So as you can see, it left a pretty good gash in my head, which I am happy to report healed a long time ago and left no scar.

Still, I am really grateful that it was not worse. As my buddy Joe from South Boston put it (and these are his words): "Ya lucky ya aint in da ICU droolin' like a ve-jet-able with toobs comin' outta ya clumsy ass!"

Inelegantly, but accurately put, Joe. But he is 100% right. Guess I do indeed have Someone looking out for me. and I indeed learned a lesson from this... Next time, have a spotter nearby

LOL @ Sahems 'Joe' comment!

I tried taking my sweat shirt off whilst walking on a treadmill with disastrous results. It wasn't pretty!

I was once getting ready to teach a class in a studio that was separated by these retractable room dividers. Each one of the dividers had a mechanism that locked it into the floor so that it wouldn't move after it was opened. The mechanism was operated with a plastic-coated metal cable attached to a metal handle. As you pulled the handle towards you, the locking mechanism lifted away from the floor, and then you could move the whole divider to a closed position.

I pulled the handle (as I had done a hundred times before) and the whole cable snapped, causing my fist to also snap back. I hit myself in the face with the metal handle, knocking myself onto my ass, knocking myself unconscious for a few seconds, and splitting open my face under my eyebrow.

All the people waiting to take my class were watching. I really don't remember what happened, but I came back to consciousness with blood pouring down my face and a sore butt.

When people notice the scar I tell them that I punched myself in the head.

Not exactly the gym, but related...
The first time I went for a swim in a warm ocean was in Florida. It was a real novelty because I had never been in the surf before without a heavy wet suit. I went for a tumble in a moderate-sized wave, and was surprised when it stripped the baggy shorts right off me! I never did find them. I had to make a dash for my towel, at the back of the beach.

This also shows how gay I am...

I had gotten out of the shower and I guess I was rushin to get dressed and I didn't realize that I dropped some moisturizer on the floor...
needless to say when I put my socks on I did a not so elegant Tom Cruise ... Risky Business slide across the locker room floor

Probably the time in kickboxing when the instructor had us try something new. She had us lay stomach down on a stability ball, then told us to rock forward so our hips were on the ball.

Well, I hadn't done this before, rolled foward and it compressed my balls up against me. I fell off to the side with a yelp, and being the only guy in the class, no one had a clue why.

It didn't happen to me, but I'd think that's the worst embarrassment ever.

our gym has a huge indoor pool taht's visible from the general gym area. One day i was going to swim, and warm myself up in the steam room in the men's shower. a guy in there was all nude, walking around as if he own the place, kinda annoying. anyway, i went out to swim. and when i took a break, everyone from the pool to the jacuzzi, all the people were screaming, because the old guy in the steam room walk out to the pool, forgot that he was not wearing anything.

the poor guy was half way to the jacuzzi when he noticed all the screaming, and quickly, almost slip, went back in to the men's shower. later i went back to the steam room, he was still standing there, sighing and totally red.

I usually just work out with dumbells and weight machines because I'm a small guy. A few years ago, I ran into a friend and he wanted me to spot him doing some incline chest presses with a barbell. He offered to then spot me, and we guessed how much weight I could lift. Well, we both overestimated and one arm buckled at the elbow and the weight plates slid off that side then, because the bar was unbalanced, the bar tilted to the other side and those plates dropped to the floor. Fortunately, the gym floor was padded. But, it still made noise and everyone turned to see what was going on. My friend and I had a good laugh over it. I don't think I trusted his spotting skills again.

about a month ago i went to do plate shrugs. i hold one in each hand. they are rubberized so they have a hole on each side to move them with. i go over to the weight tree and notice two on the same post side by side. i also noticed a small space dividing them. what i did not notice was the 10 pound plate that was hidden in between them. i pull one 45 plate off with my left hand at the same time i pull one 45 plate off with my right. so no free hand to catch the 10 pounder as it drops to the floor and right onto my big toe on my left foot. since i am a total PUMA whore, the protection my gym shoes offered by toe was minimal to say the least. it hurt worse than just about any feeling in my life. i had two choices.....A....throw up from the agony...or B...cry like a six year old girl. fuck it. i opted for number 2 !!! not too many people were around to see the scene, even tho the ten pounder rolled about 10 feet in a nice wide circle before coming to rest in the middle of the walk area. i sat down on the nearest selectorized machine until the throbbing subsided enough and the tears, which i hoped would be construed as good old shoulder workout sweat, subsided enough for me to make my escape to the locker room!!!

Trying to "catch the soccer ball." I was eight.

doing biceps curls on the cable machine with the str8 bar on the floor, starting at waist level...well every time i would lower it back to start position it would hit my, ummm, and well it got ummm, hard ....every dang time. i was so embarrsed. oh and the next day same thing happend on the stationary bike. that i will not ride again, because for whatever reason it happens when i get on it and start going.

doing crunches with my female personal trainer holding my feet and not being able to stop myself from breaking wind....LOUDLY....

OK so here goes, I was in the college gym with a few of my friends in class, that don't know I am bisexual. One of the guys was talking about he was at the gym and started talking to a guy that he found out later was gay. He said it made him feel uncomfortable. I think some people in my class know about me so. I feel some of the guys are uncomfortable around me, not that they have anything to worry about. Most of them are younger than me and in better shape also they are not very mature. I am pretty embarrassed thinking that some of the guys I work out with see me differently, and that is why the story came about in the first place. I am not the type of guy that just comes out and shares with everyone I am bisexual, but I guess that would stop everyone from guessing. I am masc and don't feel that my sexuality is my whole persona so if they ask, I answer honestly if I want them to know. Alot of the straight guys around here are such homophobes. You really have to be kinda leary with some guys here in TN.

I was getting ready to do some cable pull-downs and i took the pin out to adjust it to the weight i wanted and the the cable and the attachment (a long bar for wide-grip pulldowns) dropped and hit me on the head. Apparently this cable machine was broke and no one had bothered to tell me that you had to hold the plates down when you remove the pin lest they fall and hit you. Not many people saw it happen but my head hurt for a good minute.

Doing dumbbell lateral raises for shoulders (side flyes). When I came down I caught the head of my wanker inbetween the dumbbell plates. It was kind of hard to hide that one.

I got boner while riding the recumbent bike and the guy next to me noticed. But at least he didn't point and giggle.

RBY71 saidI got boner while riding the recumbent bike and the guy next to me noticed. But at least he didn't point and giggle.

LOL me too, now I try to avoid sitting next to anyone when i ride bike.

scottNV saidDoing dumbbell lateral raises for shoulders (side flyes). When I came down I caught the head of my wanker inbetween the dumbbell plates. It was kind of hard to hide that one.

LMAO!!! omg I'm actually crying from the laughter!

Oh when I was doing crunches shirtless on a yoga mat. Evertime I came back down a loud farting noise would emit from the (haunted?) mat. The worst part is that I do my crunches intensely and my facial expression and redness apparently matches the noises...hmm...

This was a pretty embarrassing episode...

I was fighting a cold a couple of years ago, so I decided to give the Zicam nose spray a try to help fight it off. The package said that nosebleeds were a possible side effect, but who really reads that stuff anyway.

So I'm sitting in the sauna at Golds with, thankfully, just one other guy. I'm feeling pretty good after my workout, relaxing with my eyes closed and getting a good sweat going when all of a sudden the other guy taps me and says, "dude, you're bleeding".

I opened my eyes and looked down to see my whole just covered in red... my blood. Mortified, I quickly thanked him and got into a shower as quick as I could.
How embarrassing and completely NOT sexy can you get: naked and covered with blood in the gym sauna!!!

I've been lifting for a while, and the regulars at the gym at least recognize me for always being around, and one time I was doing an overhead tricep extension with a cable machine and I had set an extra 5lbs on the weights and didn't realize how light it was-

I extended really hard and sent the 5lbs weight flying after an extremely loud clank as the weights hit the top....whoops! I didn't know what to do but just grab the 5lbs off the floor and put it back up and change the weight and go on with the exercise!

I was running on the treadmill at the busiest time during the day and the guy next to me (who was mindblowingly cute) kept glancing/staring at me for some reason...so I got distracted...lost my pace and overstepped the strap on the machine thus putting my foot on the plastic guard thingy...lost my balance, fell to my knees and went sliding right off the treadmill onto the ground with the ppl around me staring and me red from embarassment. I got up right away and tried to pretend like nothing happened but still...now i keep note of where my foot is going while running

it was at the pool at my gym. it is a co-ed gym and I was doing some laps. needless to say there were some hot girls along with some other folks (parents with kids, old timers, some dudes. so trying to show off I decided I wouldnt use the steps to get out, instead I tried to pop out of the pool real quick, macho style by using my hands at the edge to sprigboard up and out....well I made it out of the pool but my swim shorts didnt. the string must have come undone and there I was for a brief but seemingly forever few seconds. I know alot of people saw from the silence.

you seen of those southwest airline comercials that say.."want to get away?"...that was my moment

ok, well I was already horned up. normally I nut before the gym, but I hadn't had the time on this particular morning. so I get there and there is this girl (ya, I know...a GIRL!) who is really hot and has a smoking body and she's really touchy feely with me. She's always like "Morning baby," and grabbing my shoulder or she'll walk by me and rub my back...whatever. its normally not a problem but of course on that morning it became one. Now the guy I workout with is TOTALLY hot...I mean Men's Health Cover Model hot..but also totally str8 (so far, heh heh).

anyway, me and my friend are warming up on the elliptical machines and this girl comes over to say hello. I can see her walking toward me and I start to get wood. when she gets over to me she says hi and puts her hand on my bicep...for whatever reason the body contact at that point was too much and I got a full stiffy. as you may know from my previous posts, I generally dont wear underwear, lol...the girl didnt seem to notice, but my friend did...and he started laughing.

ok, so I get my shit under control by the time we get off the ellipticals..and we go workout..everything is fine. I had started us on this ab exercise where one guy does crunches on a swiss ball while the other guy punches his ab muscles...it hits your abs really deep and as a bonus I get to put my hands all over his abs...especially the LOWER abs, lol.

so we start doing this exerise toward the end of our workout and OF COURSE I get hard again, but this time its all me laying on a swiss ball with my cock standing at full attention, lol...luckily my workout partner is cool and he was like "dude...are you hitting on me?" and started laughing.

I told him it might be a good idea to skip that exercise for the day...

tommysguns2000,
That is one hot story! lol, the perfect tale of a horned up testosterone driven stud! UBERSEXY!

My most embarrassing moment was when I went on a date with gay muscle guy, we started the date with a workout at my gym.

I was new there at the time and didn't know many people. This dude had a very deep, loud masculine voice and wouldn't shut up about all the piggy kinds of sex he's had and all this stuff about gay beaches, cruises, etc.

UGH, it really bugged me! I kept laughing and shrugging it off and pretended to be cool about it. But I kept thinking, "everybody can hear this and I have to go here and workout every week with these people and they're gonna be worried that I'm gonna be cruising them up in the showers."

Needless to say it didn't work out between us. I didn't fit into his world of House music and weekends in P-Town.

Personal: I got to the gym one day, and wondered what that awful smell was. Turns out it was dog poop on the bottom of my own shoe.

Other: I have read countless stories online of guys farting or crapping their shorts while doing squats. Ever since then, I make sure I go to the bathroom first on leg day.

I dropped a 100lbs. dumbell on my foot once. I don't know if the reason it didn't hurt was because it just didn't hurt, or if it was because I was so embarrassed about it, because of course the only people surrounding this skiny dork that day were huge gorillas.

In karate class (I was 14) we were doing this exercise where we step and punch at the same time towards the wall of mirrors. Well, I mis-calculated the distance between me and the mirrors and punched right into them full force. I didn't break anything but I remember a few tears.

One day with my female trainer we had a barbell over my head. While I was doing my exercise we were both checking out this really, really hot guy and both of us lost our focus. The barbell ended up falling on my head. I actually saw stars.

i was doing crunches and i dozed off for 5 minutes ...SNORING ...that's what the gym instructor said.

zimatar saidi was doing crunches and i dozed off for 5 minutes ...SNORING ...that's what the gym instructor said.

LOL! How did you end up pulling that one off?


So my embarrassing story. I took a sip of water from the fountain, and as I was walking away and swallowing, I began to choke on some of it and ended up coughing some water out. :X

I was doing squats back in the day and my zubas split wiiiiiiide open. All the way across my arse and down. When I stood up in shock and awe, a mighty wind was blowing right through my former pants.

I don't know which is more embarrassing -- that I split my pants ... or that I was wearing zubas.

I was goin to do some abs on the ball one day at the gym, and the gym floor just happened to be quite dusty i guess, so i put the ball down..choose a good ipod song...neglect to hold the ball with my hands....sit down.....and shoot the damn ball out from under me hitting another person and thus hurtling my ass toward the ground only to let out a yelp. Yes, the gym was packed, and yes, people laughed. I loved the world a little less at that point.

When I was first starting out to work out legs, I started doing Barbell squats. I was cautious at first, not bending down too far, but eventually my more experienced friends and workout buddies encouraged me to keep going down farther. I started feeling pretty good about it and going down farther and farther and before I knew it I fell on my ass. Luckily I was using the safety bars so the weight fell on that and not on me, but it did manage to hit my hand, which hurt for a few days. I can't say it was too embarassing seeing as I expected it to happen each and every time I did a squat, but I did get laughed at by my friends and myself!

Yesterday I picked out just the most PERFECT gym outfit (my new pink short shorts), and when I show up at Gold's Castro, I see this little BITCH wearing the EXACT SAME THING. I went up to her and scratched her eyes out.

K

OK that actually didn't happen, but sometimes I imagine I hear that in the background when I'm working out

Not really that embarrassing since no one really saw it but my trainer.
it was one of the first couple days i was working out with him, and my first time doing decline bench presses. I got my knees on the pads, and leaned back. Caught the bar right under that little bump on the back of your head.
wound up going to the emergency room later that night, cause 12 hours later i was still really dizzy. thought i might have a concussion, but i didn't.

Well, one time I was doing bench press and I wanted to add more weight to the barbell. I did and I did two sets with no problems but by the third one I was tired and I kept pushing it and pushing it. Well,by the last rep of that set I couldn't hold it anymore. As I lifted the barbell my elbow buckled and all the weights on the left hand side fell to the floor making a lot of noise. Everyone was looking at me, since then I dont do bench press.

On the treadmill, chatting with my cousin, slipped and nearly fell but thankfully held the handle bar just in time. Legs were dragged, shoes nearly came off.

have 2

1: running on the treadmill and one of the tv's were staticy..I kept looking real hard and somehow you could make out a porn channel in the background of the static and it was some guy eating this woman out, I fell of the treadmill and hurt my knee.

2: was taking the weight off of an ez curl bar that was resting on the top of a bench and because I was watching some hot guy I took all the weight off of one side first...all the sudden I heard this crash, bang, boom!!!! Looked and the weight on the other side of the ez curl bar had flown it across the gym... I was so embarassed, luckily it didn't hit anyone.

WOW I FEEL DUMB NOW...

I JUST started a post called the most embarrassed ive ever been! and i didnt noticed this one was here....lol so ill copy and paste


So I was at the gym today. And MAN it was agreat day. I mean my arms are so pumped they dont look like mine lol. Badass.

So im in the middle of my tricep pushdowns and I have my headphones on bumpin to some crime mob. Well This really hot dude walks by, and i SWEAR I WHISPERED IT, but appearntly not, cuz he heard me say "god hes hot"....but i couldnt tell how loud i was saying it because of the music...well he turned around and said "what", and i pulled my headphones off and i said "uh....nothing" and he just smiled and said "god i love your kind!"


hahaha but o my gosh i have never been so imbarrased in my LIFE.

and i mean itsnot like he was mean to me....cuz he wasnt being sarcastic when he said he loved our kind....but i was just shakin my head the whole way home like damn tyler, just damn lol

I watched the movie Pumping Iron with Arnold. I remember him saying no pain no gain..or something like that. I wanted to be huge and to do so I thought I needed to bench some massive ammounts of weight. At that time my one rep max was around 330. I actually thought I could put up 400. I get to the gym..getting my self all pumped to put up 400 pounds. Some guy asked me if I needed a spotter..I'm like nah man...I got this. Needless to say, I didn't. I knew I was in trouble as I was lowering the weight down. I tried to get it up with everything I had..it wouldn't budge. I held it for a sec before I realized I needed serious help or I going to really injury myself. I shouted out to the dude and he had to come pick it up off of me. LOL..serves me right.

When I wasn't running fast enough on the treadmill and I got propelled off the end! That was humiliating, and it was at Bally's.

Letting a toot go on the hack squat machine.

Lol

Can you imagine if we were all working out at the same gym at the same time?
The freakin place would fall apart!!!

ha ha ha
Anyways, here's mine:

My college has these ancient Nautilus benches, and I decided to use the one for preacher curls. So I load the EZ bar with low weight because I was trying to work on form that day, but then had the stupid idea of start messing with the little seat of the bench, you know the one you can move up and down...

Well, since this one was one of the ones made before the Cold War, it had no pins or any other security measures. Just put your hand underneath it and pull up and away from you to raise, and pull up and push down to lower.
Whatever.

Halfway thru the first set, the damn thing collapses under my weight and goes all the way with me to the bottom, almost to floor level, while at the same time CREATING TORQUE in my elbows and almost propelling the EZ bar up and behind me...

I felt like an idiot, sitting almost in the floor, legs spread out, with my arms up lifting a bar over my head.
And i got a perfect shot of it being in front of the mirror

I laughed my ass off
It was youtube material, im telling you

Threw my shoulder out doing overhead dumbbell presses. The gym called the fire department and ambulance. It ended with the paramedics walking me out with my arm locked in an elevated position. Great fun.

I read in Men's Health that you can use the stability ball for many weight-lifting exercises. So one day I thought I'd give it a try. I was doing dumb-bell shoulder presses. I used the regular weight that I normally do on a bench. Well, I did one or two and tried to keep my balance. On the third attempt I lost my balance and fell backward. Luckily, I didn't get hit with the weights as they fell. I don't think anyone saw me... at least no one mentioned anything. I had a bruise ego but now I know if you use the ball use less weight.

I don't even go near stability balls
There's one thing I do not have and that's coordination

They don't inspire me any confidence.
I know they're safe, but my imagination always takes over, and boy, can my imagination produce funny scenarios...

When I started the 12 week Muscle-Building Workout, I had a problem with doing chest presses. After doing only 5 or so presses, with only 20 pounds added to the bar, I couldn't lift anymore and had to roll it off of me. No one (not the trainer who was nearby, nor any of the buffed up gym rats) came by to help when they saw me struggling to keep the thing off of my neck.

The third time it happened wasn't so bad since noone was around and I was on an incline. I still pretended like I meant to let the bar rest in my lap.

Auryn,

Man, if i was there i'd help it off you. Next time, just yell for help.

I pulled the pin all the way out of a lat pull down machine and the bar weighed more than the lightest plate, and the bar hit me on top of the head.

Pretty sure at least 5 people saw it.

Once on a treadmill I was going to take a drink of water, half missed my mouth but got enough water in to choke on, then continued to kind of slip/trip, then fall on my ass which promptly went flying off.

then I started laughing

neon4u saidAuryn,

Man, if i was there i'd help it off you. Next time, just yell for help.

Thanks Neon,
I'm still too shy to talk to many people there. I've recently started to talk to the trainer that was in the area the first time it happened. So, maybe I'll feel more comfortable asking for his help if it happens again. But I think I've learned to start light and work my way up.

Well I had a (flirtatious?) moment with a really hot guy (straight I think) at a Gym in Atlanta. I was clearing off an easy curl bar I was using and one of the 10's fell off on the floor and rolled a good 20 feet until it stopped right between the feet of the hot guy. He clamped the plate which was still upright by closing his legs/feet and looked up at me, as I approached to retrieve it, and he said grinning as he bent over to pick it up, "Nice pitch!!" ... without thinking about it I responded "Nice Catch!"

Another incident which involved someone else happened at a predominantly gay L.A. Fitness in Atlanta that I would go to on occasion. As I was leaving the gym I was walking past the row of treadmills and cardio equipment. All the sudden I hear something bang a drop and ricochet on one of the tread mills. Then I see this big chrome cock-ring (the kind that looks like a bracelet) rolling across the floor in front of everyone. I tried not to bust out laughing or look at the guy it came from as I walked out the door.

I worked with a lady once and she knew I worked out. She said she wanted to try aerobics one time so she went to the YMCA for an aerobics class.

She said in a gym full of women they started doing stretches and as soon as she bent over to touch her toes she let a huge fart!

She said she grabbed her things and ran out and never went back...

Farting at the gym

I was going hard on the elliptical and decided to switch directions, my foot slipped and fell into the lady on the machine next to me, who in turn fell into the guy next to her.

The three of us became very good friends and I became her ballroom dancing partner, picking up a new skill and friends.

This happened recently: I was doing concentration curls on the bench, and curled the weight too high and bonked my forehead. I don't think anyone noticed...