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Originally Posted by kawika
Someone from the company over got rhabdo about 3 months ago. He started feeling ill and went to Clark clinic the day after a relatively mild workout(50 power snatches @135) and was found to have rhabdo. In his case however this was the second workout attempted of the day. He was dehydrated and drank copious amounts of coffee the morning off and polished off the workout session with a 6 pack of beer. He's my buddy so I won't say anything to major, but yea pretty ingenious right?
My point is crossfit doesn't have anything to do with it, in fact I would argue the opposite as most of their workouts are less than the 30 minute mark, albeit at a very high intensity. It was much more common when I was running track in that circle than what i've seen in crossfit/military athelete.
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While his dehydration and post-workout alcohol consumption were very unwise choices, 50 power snatches @ 135# is hardly a mild workout. One of the biggest problems with cases like this is the individual not being able to check their ego and scale things when starting the program. Just because you have the physical ability to perform a workout, doesn't mean you should do it. Example, I recently came off 4 months of following a program that focused on lifting heavy nearly every single day. Even the conditioning workouts were done with heavy weight. Bodyweight stuff rarely came up, and when it did it was nowhere near the amount of reps that some CF workouts prescribe. After finishing that program, my first "regular" CF workout had 100 pull-ups in it. I did it, and I even had the fastest time at the gym that day. However, it was 3 days before I could fully straighten my arms, and it was a week before I could straighten them without pain. I had the ability to do the workout, but it wasn't very smart of me to do so.