Self Mag Giveaway!!!
There’s not really anything exciting going on here today. I’m still trying to breathe and workout at the same time. I’m determined to workout through this head cold. The rule of thumb is to workout if its above the neck, and to take off from working out if its below the neck. The good thing is that its 65 degrees and that should making breathing much easier today.
Do any of you not subscribe to Self Magazine? Well if you don’t today may be your lucky day!
My subscription is up for renewal and they’ve offered me a free one for a friend! Woot Woot!!
You can get two entries for this giveaway. Leave a comment telling about your funniest gym or race day story. As I could use a good laugh today.
And for a 2nd entry, you can tweet about the giveaway. You can follow my twitter here. Please include @fitchicknyc in the tweet saying you saw the giveaway on my blog or that you want the free subscription.
The winner will be announced on Monday, December 7th. Have a great Thursday!
I am a huge magazine junkie! Oh geez, being that I worked at a gym for so long, I can’t even THINK of all the funny stories we’ve encountered. I can’t think of one specifically, but some of my favorites are when the senior citizens come to work out in jeans, heels and full hair and makeup. Also, the countless times teaching BodyJam and having an extremely spastic participant. It was a workout just trying not to laugh!
haha so i’m running on a treadmill back in college and this super suave baseball player gets on the treadmill next to me right? so he says hey to me (we were acquaintances just from both of us playing a sport in college) and he thinks hes like super cool running and watching the tv above him and all of a sudden i hear BOOM BOOM BOOM and i turn around and HE’S ON THE GROUND. hahahaha the dude tripped and fell off the treadmill! hahahaha i had to get off bc i was laughing so hard. the dude was totally not so cool anymore
hahaha hope that gave you a chuckle. i’m laughing now thinking about it
Jessica- I can imagine you have as many funny stories as I do!
Julie – Yes I am laughing already! Thanks for sharing!
There is an air-bowler at my gym. He randomly will practice his bowling moves. I just shake my head and wish I had a video camera feature on my phone so I could capture the magic on film.
Ha not really relevant to my life now but…
When I was about 6 my mom left me in the gym daycare and I snuck out and decided to do a little treadmilling (even though I didn’t know what a treadmill really did). I hopped on, turned it on, and went flying off. I do believe I got in quite a bit of trouble over that one.
I can think of a funny gym story from this morning actually… and sadly it has nothing to do with working out.
I have an earring with a backing that is stuck and I am trying to get it off! I asked a few women in my gym for some advice… which then turned into me laying on my side in the locker room while a woman dumps conditioner onto my ear and tries to pull the backing off. Another woman offered up a pair of dull scissors. I had a crowd of women around me watching.
And if you’re wondering, the backing is STILL stuck! And my ear started to bleed. The woman that was trying to pull the earring backing off works at the gym so I told the women entering the locker room that this was a part of a new gym incentive program.
I can’t think of any funny stories but I am following you on Twitter & Tweeted about the giveaway.
http://twitter.com/miss_moneymaker/status/6307162834
sarahjd766 at yahoo dot com
Thanks for the chance to win!!
The only funny story I have is when I was in Yoga Class and I wore the wrong Sport bra and when we were in downward dog, my “girls” decided to play peekaboo…and I noticed half way through the class so only God knows who saw the peep show lol. I was mortified!
My self subscription ran out a few months ago and I never renewed it!
Hmmm…. a funny gym story… how ’bout the time I accidentally passed gassed while I was on the elliptical and covered my noes and mouth as if someone else was the culprit? 
Love this giveaway
Just tweeted about the giveaway!
so i’m walking through the gym, and i pass by the stair steppers. NO JOKE some girl was on the stair stepper EATING BAKED LAYS AND STEPPING.
other fun times: i was doing the seated shoulder press, and some guy steps in front of me, sticks his face into the mirror and procedes to POP HIS ZIT in front of me.
Hmm, my funniest gym story would have to be when I was in a pilates class I took for school, it was a class I took twice a week for school so we knew the group pretty well. One day our professor fell asleep when she was stretching in Child’s Pose. We woke her up and she told us that she had been up all night fighting with her boyfriend. Many of us sympathized. We decided at that point that our 40 minutes would be better spent walking on the track and talking about what was going on in our lives, so it turned out for the better. But, boy, was she embarrassed.
hmmm…i don’t think i have a really good story to tell, except that i’ve started being uber rude to the trainers who have started approaching me, trying to sell sessions. i cut them off immediately and turn into quite the bitch. is that funny? probably not to them, but it kinda is to me!
Funniest gym story? How about this one. In seventh grade I was doing sit ups and a guy was holding my feet. After about 50, I farted.
AHHH, so humiliating! It figures I have IBS by age 25.
I think I should get the SHAPE magazine, simply because I admitted to that! Great giveaway, by the way. I tweeted!
If you want the treadmill laugh which is my favorite, check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBH4qcH_B98
Funniest gym or race day story…well not really funny but once the porto-potty line pre race was soooo long that I ummm just ran and found some trees. I couldnt wait any longer!
and I just tweeted it!
When I was wiping off the elliptical machine with the cleaning solution, I accidentally squirted the person next to me with the water bottle! Ahh. Great giveaway!
tweeted!
http://twitter.com/healthybeachbum
My funniest gym story is defiinitely when me and my best friend were running on the treadmills, she looked at her ipod to change the song, and all of a sudden she was on the ground at the end of the “track” She was fine, and we both died laughing!
I’ve never had a Self Subscription but I’d happily take one! How generous to share the free subscription with a blog reader!
My best contest worthy story would be waiting in the LONG lines at the porta potty before the marathon and finally giving up with 3 minutes until the start of the race. There was supposed to be porta potties along the course and I looked at each water station and never found one. Finally I had to pull off into the weeds somewhere and prayed to the marathon gods that 1. no one saw my lily white butt and 2. I wasn’t squatting in a patch of poison ivy. The second prayer was granted but I’ll never be completely sure about my first prayer.
Sigh mine deff have to be the locker room stories. This woman was blow drying her hair- butt naked dancing to the song that was on the radio. LOL
Thanks so much for the give-away! The funniest scenes usually occur after working out when I am in the locker room. Some women have no inhibitions and will do or say anything. I guess that I shouldn’t “laugh,” though, since a good dose of body confidence can be great!