At the start of a new year, many of us make plans to hit the gym with the intention of losing weight and getting fit. However, if joining a gym was one of your New Year’s resolutions, be prepared that you might get more in your workout session than you bargained for.
These Reddit users are confessing to some of their weird, embarrassing, and downright hilarious gym experiences:
1. Unsuspecting gym-goer gets a protein shake shower
“Shaking my bottle without putting the lid on properly, with the result that a poor old man, about to do some squats, gets covered in my protein shake.”
marc_fm
2. Splat on the treadmill
“I saw a woman fall off a ridiculously fast treadmill and my way of dealing with it – once I realized she was okay, of course – was to burst out laughing. I couldn’t help myself. I felt so bad. I got a lot of looks that day.”
naughty cat
3. The dangers of working yourself too hard
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“A man was trained by my friend and overexerted. He explosively pooped himself so hard he passed out. His sister arrived just in time to pick him up to see him being wheeled out by the paramedics.
RandomSarcasm
4. Choose your pre-workout snacks carefully
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“I was in between work and going to class and knew I had to have a snack before I subjected myself to the 90-minute Bikram sequence. I had a hard boiled egg. What a mistake. Poor guy behind me. I couldn’t stop accelerating and I was so bloated! Not to mention the class taught with just the teacher speaking along, with no music. Had to pick the time to throttle when some movement going on with some noise! Never again!”
Paper_Thin_Walls
5. Strange encounters in the bathroom
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“I walked into the bathroom a few weeks ago and a portly man wrapped himself in Saran Wrap…”
datbwoymjp
6. A traditional Viking workout
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“I was minding my own business doing free weights when this huge red-haired Viking sat down next to me on the couch, grabbed the biggest weight there, looked at himself in the mirror and started yelling, ‘YOU ARE A WARRIOR’ as he its representatives do. I had to run out of the room lest I laugh at him and be torn in half by his inevitable Viking rage.”
clrtxf
7. They Don’t Work That Way…
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“There’s a lady who comes in every Wednesday and walks back and forth in front of the treadmills…”
hamlet91
8. Strange occurrences in the hot tub
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“In the hot tub at 24-hour fitness. An old Asian lady with a snorkel head submerged in hot water… I can’t explain.”
PokeriDontEVNknowher
9. The importance of wearing appropriate gym clothes
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“I went to the gym for a while to climb, but I didn’t have jeans or a good pair of pants to climb in, so I decided to use DryFit Nike shorts that were made for running. For about 30 minutes, everyone kept watching and then look away and i had no idea what was going on i had come to find out the crotch in my shorts had been ripped open the best part was i was four stories up and about to reach the top when I came to this realization because the harness was rubbing against the inside of my leg.
cbseether
10 Leave your emotions at home
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“I once made a man cry at the gym because I was lifting heavier weights than him. He looked skinny and we happened to be doing the same exercise side by side in the free weights section. He kept looking at me and finally dropped his dumbbells on the floor and sobbed how unfair it was that I could lift more than him. He then literally stormed out of the gym.”
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