I'm a real PT now

I've been hazed at work - not on purpose, mind you. I'm now a real personal trainer, given the accident I had at work yesterday. I've often said that you don't really work in a gym until you've fallen off a moving treadmill. Well, yesterday I fell on and fell off.

My hazing took place as I was moving around gym members, cleaning the treadmills. I cleaned about four, then went to clean a fifth one. I walked around to get on, carefully avoiding the member who was running at 10km/h next to me. I stepped up onto the deck as per normal, and the next thing I know, I was airborne - followed by a sickening bang and a whole lotta pain.

I hadn't noticed that the treadmill was still running because someone did a funky sidestep off it and left it at 8.5km/h. Ugh! I stepped up onto the belt, and my left knee hit the deck first. I instinctively put my hands out to stop myself but ended up flying off towards the concrete wall behind the treadmills. At some point I bashed up my right thigh, and I've pulled some stuff in my right shoulder and upper arm region (mostly my pec and delts, with a side of tri and traps), I felt a snap and a pop/bang in my shoulder. It wasn't pretty. 

My left knee looks like someone doing a horror movie makeup course has taken to it with gusto. Basically, I have skinned and bruised the living daylights out of it. Nasty! It's really painful and swollen and gross. I've iodined it like there's no tomorrow, hence why it looks all yellow and brown and stuff. Ick.

Thanks to my hazing, I'm not able to train for a few days. I thought I could still swim yesterday, but with waking up to find my buggered shoulder making life difficult, that's off the menu too. I'll have to settle for spa pooling it in Sydney if the knee clears up, and the odd bit of walking as I can tolerate it. Hannibal the gallstone has been a whiney little troll but at the moment with all the pain in the knee, leg and shoulder he's pretty quiet. I guess my pain response has been overtaken by the injuries. Ha, take that Hannibal!

In other news, I'm off to Sydney tomorrow night and to be honest, a little less excited about it now that I'm all banged up. I had aspirations for running around the harbour and swimming in a nice pool but sadly it looks like staring at the harbour from CQ and taking a nice leisurely spa instead.

Ah well...I can always come back when I don't look like I've done six rounds of Muay Thai against a brick wall...