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In other news: as sedentary lifestyles intensify, a host of harmful side-effects grow more common.

• notacoward 9y ago
  It's not the sedentary lifestyle that causes rhabdo. In fact, your average couch spud probably can't get rhabdo. Their heart and lungs will give out long before that. They'll collapse into a puddle before their arm or leg muscles are even fully warmed up. As others have pointed out, it's often the very active and fit who get rhabdo. It's the hyper-macho hyper-competitive types. The people who brag about how sore they are, who look down their noses at people who don't hit lift enough weight, hit the gym often enough, etc. Maybe those who post in public forums about how unfit everyone else is. I see there are people right here, in this thread, humblebragging about how they got rhabdo. Those are the people for whom no level of fitness can match their need for validation, and push themselves beyond any sane limit.