GymsGetting fit should come with a health warning, warns PJM. "In my pursuit of the body beautiful, I've broken three exercise bikes and two running machines, concussed myself and, most distressingly, bruised my testicles." And he's yet to try and get out of his contract...
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 13:45)
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Have a sympathy click or sevenI took a boom (as in, 30 foot long piece of hardened steel reinforced with carbon fiber attached to the bottom of the mainsail on a 38ft racing yacht) to the chest once during my sailing stint when we were doing about 10 knots and the wind violently changed direction.
Knocked me clear off the deck and into the water about 20 feet away, and when they picked me up again I found it very hard to breathe - turns out I had cleanly cracked my rib-cage along the left side of my sternum.
Upshot of this means that my sternum sometimes slips under the left side of my ribcage. This makes it hard to breathe. It also is very, very painful.
This means I sometimes look like I'm having a heart attack - though I can just stretch hard and crack my ribcage back into place after the cramping stops. This is apparently not a particularly funny party trick.
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