No pain, no gain: a former Bachelorette star recently took to social media to tell fans she'd broken her back due to a "speedy" vibration plate.
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In an Oct. 2 post on her Instagram, Gabby Windey explained how a workout got a bit too intense.
"I've broken my back due to a speedy vibration," she began in her post, alongside shots that included flattering mirror selfies showing off her bare back, X-rays, and a selfie flaunting her curves while wearing a hospital gown and sitting on a hospital bed. "And I've barely lived to tell the story," she added before plugging her Substack.
Indeed, her essay "Broke back, no mountain," was published on said Substack detailing the 35-year-old's harrowing workout injury.
"Most mornings, I vibrate. On a plate," the reality TV personality wrote in part. "The vibration plate is designed to rid stagnant lymph fluid, by shaking up the turgid and sallow with probable microplastics, from my rotting carcass. And then one excretes the toxins by way of pissing it out."
These sorts of plates are something of a gimmick for those of us who hate to actually work out. Essentially, you tense up and stand on a platform that vibrates, hoping that it does more than simply promote a little circulation. Probably while glancing over at real workout equipment like free weights and treadmills.
Bachelorette Star Says She Cranked Vibration Plate Up to "Supersonic Speed"
On the fateful morning, the Bachelorette alum was injured; she dared to crank the plate up to level 30, calling it "supersonic speed."
"Seemingly, subtly, somewhere on the way to 30, maybe 10 or 20, my vertebrae turn crooked and rub against each other," Windey explained. "A small piece breaks off from friction. It catches air. Then it lands softly, too softly, so softly the landing's in question."
"And that's what did it. The straw and the camel. I assume the camel couldn't feel the last straw and I couldn't feel the crooked or the crack," she wrote.
"It was too fast vibrations I guess, and too many vibrations maybe, and too much pressure to shake. And it broke. Broke right off, like your ex-boyfriend's bumper," the Traitors star added.
Despite the flattering hospital selfies, Windey shared that she had lasting side effects from the injury. She detailed the one that she described as "tormenting," before amending it as something of a postiive...
"If I had to pick one word to describe this tickle of this nerve, it's tormenting. No. Maybe tantalizing. No, titillating. Yes, titillating!" she wrote.
In a somewhat more serious note, the reality TV personality implied she missed work due to the injury.
"It is debilitating in its affliction and indignant in its movement. And mind you, reader, it is an extremely acceptable reason to call out of work," she insisted.
In the extremely lengthy essay, Windey went on to count herself as a "bad backer."
