Comments on: Jump. Go ahead. Jump.

By: Adolfo Burnett

Adolfo Burnett — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:33:42 +0000

how much do you wanna bet the increase in the sale of these two drugs mentioned hear will increase whether this really works in humans or not?

By: Patti

Patti — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:20:41 +0000

Skiing down hill in Colorado for the first time. Thinking I am doing great and then I have a sea of 3-4-5 years olds (about a hundred of them) Flying past me like I wasn’t even moving. Ok maybe I wasn’t moving real fast but I felt like I was. Have a great night

By: Tesha Nas

Tesha Nas — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:48:13 +0000

Speaking of Rocky…here is my exercise disaster! I am in the midst of planning my wedding, and like so many other brides out there, I have been trying out a variety of exercise classes and routines to find out what works best for me. I have always taken a liking to boxing and kickboxing (Read: Bill Blanks Tae-Bo) So when I noticed a boxing gym near my local Golden Spoon, I thought I would give it a whirl. I knew that I would need some serious confidence to walk in and start training with these very athletic, at times scary, men. I went in the following day for my trial class, and I was thrown into the world of jabs, crosses, and squats. While I felt I was getting the hang of it and was feeling pretty good about myself, the instructor set-up a conditioning circuit with activities such as jumping rope, push ups, pull ups, and tire jumps. Everyone flocked to the stations, leaving me to the tire jump station. I had never had the pleasure of jumping up and off of a monster truck-sized tire before, but I was now finding myself in that position. I once again willed up the confidence to give it a try, tripped half way up the tire, kicked the guy next to me, and ended up face first on the tire. My nose was bleeding, as were my shins and arms from trying to protect myself from hitting the floor. The whole gym stopped and stared, and there was about a 45 second time period where everyone kept staring in shock. I got myself up and went home crying to my fiance. But after spending the night basking in my humiliation, I decided I would go back again the next day, and have been going back ever since!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:45:31 +0000

My exercise disaster would be anything that has to do with balance. I have no balance when it comes to working out. I fall off the step in my step class all that time. I also can not do the yoga poses with my wii fit. The tree one, I usually fall over.

By: jen [@bwJen]

jen [@bwJen] — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:43:15 +0000

I am a klutz!! I have tripped over nothing (literally, I am not kidding even a little bit). One time, when I was in high school I was walking my dog and I tripped and my mom had to take me to the ER for x-rays. This was on Valentine’s Day. Pick a holiday and my mom had to take me to the ER with another ankle the size of a canteloupe. Oh did I mention I only sprain the right ankle?

Ok ~ so about a year and a half ago my husband and I quit smoking! YAY! [we still don't smoke] I decided to join a gym. I joined “Contours Express” which is a ladies-only gym very similar to “Curves.” I was going steady for about two months when disaster struck. Contours has a circuit thing with stations alternating between weights and cardio. The point is to do each station for 45 seconds. I was going about the circuit and feeling good. I was talking with a few girls while I was working the circuit. I stepped off one cardio step the wrong way and my ankle rolled out and was swollen in seconds. I could barely walk and I was crying and mortified. Even worse than falling and crying in front of a gym full of people (thank goodness they were all women!!) I had to go home. My husband was already home and when he saw me limping out of the car he just laughed. Then got mad at me for not being careful enough and then he laughed again.

I haven’t been back to the gym since. Partly because of doctor’s orders.

By: stepher

stepher — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:36:27 +0000

Wow, there are some interesting stories up there! As I read I could feel myself experiencing each and every one of them…

My fitness disaster story happened in a pool.

I’m a big girl but I’m also a swimmer. My problem came when I reached the end of the lane and needed to turn around. I was trying to learn how to do flipturns and it wasn’t going well. In the course of one day, I managed to:

hit my head on the bottom of the pool

nearly break a finger as I accidentally swam into the wall

make myself lightheaded and dizzy from too many flips and

almost drown b/c I inhaled when I should have exhaled

and best of all – totally half-moon EVERYONE at the pool when my swimsuit rode up one of my butt cheeks as I was flipping. To make it worse, I couldn’t reach back there to correct it until the next turn so I had to swim an entire lap like that.

I haven’t been back to that particular pool since.