hier die Erinnerung von Kevin Ogar:

“I stepped up to the bar, and it was my first attempt. I snatched the weight up, but it didn’t feel great, so I decided to bail—I remember feeling the bar just slightly skim the top of my back on the way down, then I fell backwards and felt myself crash on something on my back. All I could think about was how much it hurt. Everything in my body was on fire,” Kevin says.
Kevin Ogar: Recovery Update | BoxLife Magazine

Was ein reiner Gewichtheber evtl. nicht machen würde ist das, was er an dem Tag vorher gemacht hat:

Ogar began that Sunday with a three-mile run in which each runner held two kettlebells during the first mile, one during the second mile and none during the third. He had three or four hours' rest after that, according to his friend Matt Hatchcock, himself an elite CrossFitter and owner of the Denver-area gym where he and Ogar train and coach together. Hathcock and Ogar focused on Ogar's recovery after the weighted run, as they do during every rest period.
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