Here's a good one:
Been working my ass off all Spring to get my 40-year old self in the best shape of my life (I typically keep myself in the 10-12% bf range, but two weeks back, I was at 9 and flirting with 8). We had a vacation coming up that I decided to use as a 'goal' for my Spring workouts.
No gym, mind you, so this was all with a square piece of carpet in the basement and two sets of dumbells and many buckets of sweat. No treadmill either - I got very familiar with my neighborhood on my morning runs (it was a brutal cold Spring up here in Cleveland).
So we go to the Outer Banks last week...and I am so psyched. I look good, I feel good, I'm get to go run on the beach ever morning, sit by the pool...the whole nine yards. And so what do I do? I jump into the pool on the first day and break my foot!
How, you ask - by trying to win a dunk contest with my 11-year old!!! (just imagine the Jordan logo and a shallow pool and you get the idea)
Oh man, the pain. I knew the second my foot hit the side of the pool I was screwed. My foot is jacked and the urgicare people want me to go the hospital on the mainland right away. Well, needless to say, I got a second-opinion once I got home and the prognosis is much better - no surgery, just a boot for 6-8 weeks. Either way, I'm done running this Summer (and probably most of the Fall), I ruined my vacation (and was a huge, immobile burden to my wife), and basically spent my first week off in over a year on a sofa with a laptop.
The moral of the story: don't be an idiot like me!!! When the sign says 'Don't Jump', follow it!
But seriously, I'm glad to see this thread going strong. I check out everyone's progress here pretty routinely, and it's nice to see that the pandemic hasn't stopped our collective fitness goals!