If you think that is a chestbeat, you are an insensitive, self-involved moron.
You'd have to have a pretty boring life to be chestbeating about a gym accident. It was more a comment on the direction these threads usually drift to... 20 posts down and someone is describing how, after their partner left them for dead in a crevasse, they sewed their own arm back on with dental floss and a Russian titanium ice screw, blasted their way out of the crevasse with Nitro, pushed their Islamic terrorist captor off a clif, then crawled for three days to a techical, Class V whitewater rapid that they floated down on a log, then tamed a wild burro and rode it 5 days to a hospital.