Gregg Bell is perhaps the last person you’d expect to have a heart attack.

He’s a personal fitness trainer who owns his own gym, Nexxt Fit, and is a former professional triathlete.

So when he heard paramedics say, “he’s having a heart attack,” while he was lying on a stretcher in the back of an ambulance, Bell asked who they were talking about.

“I went from feeling like, you know, a world-class cyclist to, ‘Oh my gosh, I gotta take a nap,’” Bell recalled.

He was cycling through the King William neighborhood when he stopped in a patch of grass to lie down.

After Bell propped his bike up next to a tree near the intersection of Beauregard and King William streets, he fell backward.

“That’s when the couple was walking down the street, said, ‘Do you need help?’ I don’t even remember seein

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