Jay wrote:
I don't blame him at all for that blog post, and I can also tell you that I know of a few athletes who have gotten rhabdo from offseason workouts, but at the time we didn't know what it was called other than "dude I am pissing brown??"
There are some old-school coaches who beat the fuck out of you to condition you. In my senior year of high school I came in weighing 190 and ended up at 170 at the end of summer camp. And I wasn't chubby at 190. We had 2 players that year that had to be hospitalized, but back then that wasn't an issue. Now it would be all over the local news.
I expect university strength coaches to know better, and especially NFL strength coaches.
Well, I understand the coaches beating the shit out of players. We lose a few players every year to overzealous coaches who don't believe in letting kids drink water or recover from their impending heat stroke.
I got rhabdo myself way before @fit from working out with someone who had drastically overestimated my abilities.
It just shouldn't happen, period, whether its the result of bad programming or strength coaches who don't understand the concept of adaptation. I've worked with quite a few high school athletes who have been all but destroyed by idiot coaches.
And in the end, it all comes down to this:
"...People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue--a highly intellectual virtue--out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." Ayn Rand