It makes sense when it happens to supreme athletes because they have abnormal masses of muscle that we didn’t evolve to handle on average ligaments. Remember you can grow muscles but can’t grow your achilles, acl, etch. They also extensively strain their joints and body repeatedly. But an ordinary person who isn’t fat and does not have strained ligaments shouldn’t tear his achilles by just running like that. Holy shit we would’ve gone extinct if we were that fragile lmao
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My Achilles snapped in a situation with a quick change of direction playing sports. Sounds similar to SatsMcd mechanic scenario where you are reacting quicker than your body is able to keep up. It’s not going to be 3 weeks though to recover if it is a torn Achilles. More like 9 months to a year.
And you likely won’t ever be the same again. Unfortunate. Sorry to hear that.