Aiden Turner Edyta Sliwinskas Dancing with the Stars Battlefield

For "All My Children" hunk Aiden Turner and his "Dancing with the Stars" partner Edyta Sliwinska rehearsals for the premiere of the hit ABC series are like a dance war.

"In the first week, I had an injury in my groin area and a sore back, but it went away after a massage," Aiden tells "The Insider." "This week I am doing well and taking ibuprofen to keep down the inflammation."

That said, Edyta&reveals that she&accidentally jammed her stiletto heel into his foot -- and he has a cut finger.

"I wanted to bite off something more than I could chew,"&the British hunk&says, explaining why he decided to do the show. "In drama school, I didn"t really do any dancing. I tried to avoid it in the beginning, but now I think it will be good for me."

Aiden turned to his former "All My Children" co-star Cameron Mathison for advice, because Cameron did the show a few years back.

"He told me to dance as well as I can," Aiden says. "Not to take it too seriously, but to work really hard."

And Aiden is in it to win it. He is hoping all the fans who watched him during his time as Aidan Devane on the hit ABC soap will vote for him, and he and Edyta have started a twitter page.

"I never had one of those before and I have had a lot of Facebook requests from people. I am reaching out to them," he says.

"Dancing with the Stars" premieres Monday, March 22 at 8 p.m. on ABC.