Uma Avaliação Física

So after my earlier embarrassments, I finally joined the gym last Thursday. As part of the enrollment you have a health evaluation, which I went to do tonight.

I went there, met my consultant (whose name was 'Cleverton' - Brazilians seem to have an obsession with  names that end with -ton..), and answered a few questions about my health. Next, he said,  tá bom, Shiva, agora tira seus sapatos e fica de top para tirar medidas, which I understood as 'take off your shoes and XXXXXXX so we can take some measurements.' De top? I asked, confused. Tira a camisa, he clarified, making a gesture (so I thought), for me to strip down to my underwear. 

I slipped off my tank top and as I started to take off my gym shorts I said, mas hoje estou usando calcinha feia! Today I'm wearing ugly underpants!

Não!!! he cried, pointing to my chest, isso  é um top!

And that was how I learnt how to say 'sports bra' in Portuguese.