Years ago (around the early 1990s), I was in the Air Force, and a fair amount of my time each week was consumed with exercise or fitness routines. I won't say I was that positive with the time dedicated to this, it's just that you were kinda forced into the routine of fitness and weight management.
What's curious about this is that you'd arrive at a gym....sometimes at 6 AM, and you'd kinda notice about every ninety days or so....some dramatic injury or accident....requiring a medic or ambulance team.
The first ever that I witnessed....was some old retired guy on the jogging track at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.....around noon one day, with the heat near 115 degrees, and he collapsed. Ambulance folks came out, and carried the guy off....heat exhaustion. He was lucky.
Around six months pass after that, and in the weight-room.....we had some going to lifts with weights, and couldn't handle the weights, with the bar crashing down on his upper chest. Ambulance crew had to come and pick him up. He was lucky.
I was looking at some story this morning, and they brought up this curious number.....114 people dead, from free weights and weight machines.....from 1990 to 2007.
No one says if they were mostly men or 50-50 with women involved. Just taking a humble guess that it's mostly all men.
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