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Simon Cowell says horror cycle smash in 2020 was wake-up call that transformed his fitness
SIMON Cowell told how his horror cycle smash in 2020 turned out to be a wake-up call that helped him transform his fitness.
He had six hours of surgery after breaking his back falling from his electric bike.
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But he says the accident showed him how bad his fitness had become.
He was late becoming a dad and said: “I always worried, ‘How on earth am I going to keep up with Eric?’
"But weirdly when I broke my back, it was like it was meant to happen — because I realised in my recovery that I was not as fit as I thought I was.
“I didn’t realise that I actually hadn’t walked for 20 years.
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"I thought I was a fit person, but I was really, really, really unfit.
“And so while it was bad when it happened, I feel better now than I did before the crash.
"And I’m just about managing to keep up with Eric.”
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