ANOTHER EMBARRASSING MOMENT

I realise I have been making sounds during my Muay Thai sessions. Kind of like feminine grunts. Especially when I do knees, or kicks. It happens unconsciously, sort of like moaning and groaning during sex. You don't know it will happen until it happens. It took me a while to realise I was grunting.

Now, I often hear guys grunting, shouting, making weird noises when they lift heavy (or not so heavy) in the gym. They get weird looks from everyone around them, me included, and reactions like "Yeah we know you are macho, but you don't need to announce it" or something similar.

So I was horrified to find myself doing the same at Muay Thai. I tried to control it, because it is so unfeminine. Now this is worse than the previous episode of wiping my nose on my sleeve (Please check out the other post....it is less crude then it sounds.), because the wiping can be carried out surreptitiously. Turn away, quick swipe and its done. Now, grunting.....is grunting. Unless there is some way of rendering everyone within hearing distance deaf during the grunts, everyone around is going to KNOW....that I did something UNFEMININE.....horrors.....

But unfortunately, like what happens during sex, I learnt that grunting cannot be controlled. As long as maximum effort is applied during the session, the grunt just leaks out by itself. Trying to suppress it ends up suffocating me. And it seems that the louder I grunt, the better I kick. Catch-22 again.

So again....I have to live with it. I really wonder how those pretty girls I see at the boxing gym deal with it.

At least it has not happened for the heavy lifting workouts yet. During those sessions, we do this little hiss thing when we exhale, but no grunting.

I guess when the grunting starts, it is a sign that I'm finally REALLY strong.