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Ah, the old Crossfit disease: https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-secret-97bcce70356d https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-li

Ah, the old Crossfit disease: https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-secret-97bcce70356d https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-sec... I've been relatively active (compared to most people) for most of my life, and I've never come anywhere close to rhabdomyolysis. It's incredibly rare. Hell, I'd never heard of it until I heard of Crossfit. Once, my mountain rescue team rescued a guy with a mild case; he had been lost in Death Valley for seven days. The key is two-fold: like biesnecker says, listen to your body and don't overdo it, but secondly, you have to build up to these things. As secfirstmd says, people are not backing up their goals with the hard work necessary to achieve them. You can't just go from couch to marathon in one day. This isn't helped by the spreading of the lie (mostly by fat acceptance bloggers) that "fat people can do anything healthy weight people can!". If you're fat, you're not fit. The hard part is past a certain level of fitness/training, you have to keep pushing to improve. The key is knowing the difference between injury and just normal aches and soreness. If you have to ask, you aren't at the level where you need to keep pushing, and you should take a break.

watwut 9y ago
Pretty much all examples of rhabdomyolysis I heard of were non-fat physically very active people able to do hundreds of repetitions. Most examples involved such people after few weeks break - no where near to become excessively fat. If you are fat, you wont be able to do as much exercise rhabdomyolysis requires to build. Your muscles will fail much sooner, so fat acceptance or not, blaming fat people for condition that does not happen to them is odd.
- npsimons 9y ago
  My apologies; perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I believe rhabdomyolysis is like terrorism: scary enough to get you to clickthrough, but not really something most people will ever have to worry about. In the vein of people hurting themselves through exercise, it is extremely more likely that someone will think "hey, I'm obese by muscle, I can deadlift 500lb!" or "I can run a marathon without training!" and then end up injuring themselves permanently, and even if they don't, they'll never take up physical activity again.

watwut 9y ago

Pretty much all examples of rhabdomyolysis I heard of were non-fat physically very active people able to do hundreds of repetitions. Most examples involved such people after few weeks break - no where near to become excessively fat. If you are fat, you wont be able to do as much exercise rhabdomyolysis requires to build. Your muscles will fail much sooner, so fat acceptance or not, blaming fat people for condition that does not happen to them is odd.

npsimons 9y ago
My apologies; perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I believe rhabdomyolysis is like terrorism: scary enough to get you to clickthrough, but not really something most people will ever have to worry about. In the vein of people hurting themselves through exercise, it is extremely more likely that someone will think "hey, I'm obese by muscle, I can deadlift 500lb!" or "I can run a marathon without training!" and then end up injuring themselves permanently, and even if they don't, they'll never take up physical activity again.