Two things you need to know before I start today:
1) I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting the Dark Knight Rises- the last Batman movie by Christopher Nolan- in which is seems Batman finally meets his physical match in Bane. Bane, who broke the Batman's back in the comics.
2) I get bored with workouts and try to do things frequently to spice it up.
You remember I mentioned a while back the pull-up bar that caught me in the eye? Well, today I had it up for inverted sit-ups. I do a handstand, hook my legs over the bar and proceed to do sit-ups while hanging upside down.
I do not tell you this to brag, I tell you this to relay my stupidity.
The key thing to doing this exercise is making sure the bar is secure. It's a righty-tighty kind of installation, with rubber ends that are supposed to hold it in place when properly installed. SUPPOSED TO.
Two things may have contributed to what comes next. The bar was not exactly level, just a slight degree or ten below level. The other was the two decade old, and until recently, unused rubber stoppers.
In any event, as I was sitting up for the my second sit-up, I heard a pop. Then a "whump!" In split second, I was on my back, legs still up in the air- on the verge of having the breathe knocked out of me. My lower back was sore, and my head was a little twanged. Laying next to me was the bar, the end of one of the rubber stoppers blown off and the washer spinning on the floor. On the door frame is a nice long, black streak where the bar fell.
I am thankful I was in the "up" position, so I landed on my back and not my head. I am thankful for carpet. I'm glad I didn't have the bar as high as I originally had it. I'm glad no child or animal was underneath me. I am thankful I too will be somewhat crippled like Bruce Wayne in this Batman movie- he is a hero of mine, after all.
Now, to find a new way to do dangerous sit-ups....
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