Sylvester Stallone, the mega-buff star of 1980s classic films like the Rocky and Rambo movies, sustained 14 injuries on the set of his latest movie, The Expendables.
Still in incredibly good shape at 64, although possessed of what appears to be a truly impressive set of moobs, he told reporters during a press junket for the movie, "Exercise, I tell people, can kill you." He ruptured an ankle, broke a tooth, and developed bronchitis and shingles while making the movie. I can relate. While I'm a good bit younger than 64, I'm a pretty major klutz and have had my share of exercise injuries that have nothing to do with the actual exercise I was doing.
Some years ago, I was working out at the gym, bent to retrieve something I'd dropped, and came up without looking ... WHAM into a barbell. That won me two stitches in my eyebrow and a tetanus shot.
Just this past winter, I hopped on a treadmill at the Y and went backward onto the floor, shrieking like a fool all the way. Some idiot had left the belt running and walked away, and the next idiot (me) didn't notice it when I stepped on. And back in my street running days, I had tons of skinned knees and bruises from tripping on uneven pavement or slipping on the ice. Awesome.
What's your most embarrassing (or funniest) exercise-injury story?
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Haha well I'm a klutz, I thought that's why exercise was dangerous for me! One of my most embarassing ones wasn't even when I was actively exercising.
We are at this pioneer museum where the buildings and everything was set up like the old days. We were looking at this old boat and then went to go another building, well my foot ended up in this divet and I went down flat on my face. People in the building even saw me go down. I ended up twisting my ankle but had a good laugh about it.
Even funnier was that the grass was as flat as could be, I had somehow managed to find the only divet in this huge area of land... only me! LOL
Slipping in the halls of my high school when we were running in them to keep from running in the rain......I fell in to a huge puddle.