One of the therapeutic exercises the physical therapist has me doing is squeezing a soccer ball between my knees for ten seconds, five times.
Beside helping me regain my loping, lumbering gait, these exercises might just pay off for me in a field I had never even heard of, until I read that a Turkish woman squashed five watermelons in one minute, using only her awesome thighs.
This feat accomplished by Gozde Dogan set a new world record, you should know.
There's a video showing Ms Dogan seated, surrounded by watermelons, picking up one at a time and giving it the thunder-thigh treatment. And she cleans up her mess, which is not a feature of the July Fourth Hot Dog eating contest.
It would probably take me many years to achieve the level of proficiency displayed by Ms Dogan, and watermelons aren't cheap, but it gives me something to plan for this summer.
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