The University of Iowa confirmed Wednesday that 13 football players were hospitalized this week with an unusual muscle disorder following grueling offseason workouts. The players have rhabdomyolysis, a stress-induced syndrome that can damage cells and cause kidney failure in severe cases.
On Jan. 20, an Iowa football player posted about a staggering workout on Facebook: "I had to squat 240 pounds 100 times and it was timed. I can't walk and I fell down the stairs ...Sounds like some S&C coaches were trying a little x-fit.
The negatives are just what you'd think they'd be, but a view from the flip side of the coin can be found here http://talktomejohnnie.com/football/iowa-football-rhabdo , it is written by John Welbourn a former NFL Lineman.
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As i sit here and read this article, the first being what happenend to the football players at Iowa from doing a 240lb back squat for 100 reps and then doing a 100 yard sled drag for time, (that work out is stupid, too much volume for dudes that probably never did something like that). Which will lead me off on a tangent, because now you have S and C coaches who think they can just throw together some kind of Crossfit workout for D1 athletes becase they are D1 athletes. As all of us know on this site, even when we had been Crossfitting hard for over 2 years we would still come up with some workout that would literally destroy us, and we wouldn't be able to train for several days to a week afterward. Now what is the point of that, I just took myself out of the game for 1 week to get 1 hour of training in, how does that make sense. Now crossfit does have it's place, I will do something close to that kind of training when getting ready for JIu-jitsu tournaments, I have to Olympic Lifting will get me strong but it won't get my lungs where they need to be for that kind of competition. My point with this is I (we) do it responsibly. We don't make these retarded workouts with 1000 rope climbs and 1000 air squats. As I read this article i get the sense that, the person who wrote it, is very biased towards the Crossfit community. Any of us who know who wrote it (i will keep names out) know that he owns a gym, made a new type of Crossfit workout and is part of the HQ staff. SO with that said, what kind of response would the person who wrote the question expect to get. There is a part where the person who answered the questions says that having extreme muscle soreness and mud colored piss is normal in the NFL. I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT HIGHLY. Any NFL doc that let that happen, or training staff wouldn't be around for long. However, I do agree with some of the other things that are said in the article. The writer basically goes on to say that between the coaching staff and the players they both fucked up and need to take more time and energy to make sure this does not happen again. How to do this? Ramp up programming slowly and intelligently. That's it. That's the answer to everything in training. As long as you do that and let your body follow at the pace it's going to based on what your consume as far as macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) then you will be fine. If you suck down pop-eyes all day and then go do 1million rounds of tabata something else you will die, and you deserve it, because a moron like that doesn't deserve to breath my air. that's all i have on this subject.
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