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Countdown to hell

Debra Rosado-Bohac, 42

My muscles burned, but I gave the weights one last push.

‘Good work!’ my husband Luke, then 43, cheered.

It was only two days after Christmas last year, but we were back in the gym, training.

Working off those festive chocolates.

As a professional bodybuilder, I’d competed in championships across the country, even won a couple.

So Christmas was no excuse to slack.

Moving on to the leg press, I pushed the 385lb weight.

Only, a red-hot pain shot through my right leg.

Agh!’ I screamed.

‘Let’s not push it,’ Luke said,

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