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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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Drugs and yeah, it's called rhabdo.
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It’s funny in the elite-level athlete community, giving yourself rhabdo is sometimes considered a badge of honor, despite it being a terrible life-threatening condition
Even I don’t train at that level. To give yourself rhabdo, you have to do so much damage to the muscles that they begin to literally dissolve, which causes them to dissolve into your bloodstream. The liver doesn’t know how to break down dissolved muscles, and so they cause huge amounts of damage to the liver
I’ve overtrained before, and when you are constantly working out and paying attention to your body, you are more able to “feel” things like high cortisol and overtraining. For me, when I’m pushing overtraining, I start to ache all over, joints, muscles, everything. Even stuff that isn’t sore aches. And I lose grip strength. When the cortisol sets in bad, I can’t sleep. I dance on that line of overtraining, but even overtraining isn’t rhabdo. I would have to push past even that, which to me is just insane because it’s so obvious my body is telling me that I’m overtraining. In addition to potentially killing you, it also doesn’t make sense from a progress perspective because at that point all that insane work isn’t even making progress but destroying it