37 Modulating Extremes While Exercising

The Power of Ten workout, as discussed here at The Inform Fitness Podcast, is a high-intensity, slow-motion strength training protocol closely modulated with your very own one-on-one, personal trainer.
Here in Episode 37 we discuss the potential dangers of not closely modulating a high-intensity exercise program such as CrossFit, excessive spin classes, or marathon training.  Working out under very extreme conditions could result in a rare but serious health condition called rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo). 
Rhabdo occurs when muscle tissue breakdown results in the release of a protein (myoglobin) into the blood that can result in kidney failure.  In this episode, we explain the symptoms rhabdo, the short & long-term effects, and how can you avoid it?
Good Morning America recently reported on the dangers of rhabdo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXSN-1HA4

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37 Modulating Extremes While Exercising Transcript

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

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SPEAKERS

Tim Edwards, Mike, Adam
 

Adam  00:06

No, our motto has been, for a long time, the exercise you need to live the life you want. And part of knowing what exercise you need is basically, if you want to get down to it, we're modulating your intensity, how intense is enough to get the responses that we need. Exercise is not about building and seeing how much you can endure, you know, and the more you can endure, doesn't necessarily mean you are getting healthier and healthier, the more you can endure, and it ends up getting into law of diminishing returns. I mean, you don't get out 10 times more results or fitness or health by doing 10 times more work.

Tim Edwards  00:52

Inform nation, welcome to episode 37 of the inform fitness podcast 20 minutes. With New York Times bestselling author, Adam Zckerman and friends. Now we say 20 minutes, but you know, as as the show continues to evolve, so do the topics and 20 minutes sometimes just doesn't seem like enough. So we may have to change the name here pretty soon. But

Adam  01:15

I remember I remember when we were working, thinking about the concept, going back and forth about how we're going to do it. And I was like, if we can't explain something in 20 minutes, then it's not that we don't know our subject well enough, you know, and like, so much for that or subjects. Well,

Tim Edwards  01:32

so much for that.

Adam  01:33

Theres a lot to talk about. I mean, we try our best. 

Tim Edwards  01:36

Well, just the opposite, I think because there's

Mike  01:38

the workout on its own is 20 minute workout. In fact, it's quite a bit less than that, you know, when you add up the actual time that you're under load on all the machines when you're in the workout, but yeah, sometimes these these topics that need to be discussed or questions with clients, they this they run out a little bit and usually, I mean, it's stuff's complicated, oftentimes, the answer is there is no answer, we have to sort of look over time and see, you know, try to locate patterns and, and hypothesize and go from there. 

Tim Edwards  02:06

And that ties into the podcast too, because you know, when we initially tried to keep the podcast, the approximate length of of a traditional workout at inform fitness. But these topics, there's actually I think just the opposite what you said Adam, earlier was, they're so complex, that 20 minutes doesn't even seem like enough. And that's proven itself.

Adam  02:27

Well, what I want to start doing going forward, actually, with some of these podcasts, these episodes, what I've been noticing, while we've been doing it, and looking back on all this is that we have, we've taken on broad subjects, and we've talked we've had some very broad, but within the subjects that are there are topics among themselves. So like, that's what I'm gonna we're gonna start doing some narrowing down a little bit some of these issues that we've been talking about, for example, last week, when we're talking about two weeks ago, when we're talking with Doug Brignole, we did those two episodes with Doug, you know, Rhabdo came up or or rhabdomyolysis came up. And that that's a condition where your muscles literally bust apart and their innards kind of spread out. And it causes all kinds of problems, which we're going to go into, you know, that that in and of itself is a subject, which is what we're going to talk about a little bit today. And Rhabdo is a good example of a subject that comes up in broader talks now. So for example, we were talking about intensity when Rhabdo came up, and how intense is intense. And how intense should something be how often. And that's what I kind of want to get a little bit deeper into this idea of intensity, this idea of going to extremes. And Rhabdo is just a symptom of that. Oh, by the way, Rhabdo is short for rhabdomyolysis, lysis meaning to explode. And what happens Rhabdo which is short for rhabdomyolysis is through. Usually it's a condition that happens through trauma. Like they call it crush trauma, where you're in a car accident, or you fall two stories out of a window or something like that. That's probably the most common cause of Rhabdo. And of course, during this type of trauma, your muscle cells break open and the myoglobin in particular comes out all the fluids come out, and your kidneys have to deal with that and flush it out. And that can be an overload and you get into all kinds of kidney problems. And you might have to go on dialysis if it's bad enough. It's something that's really never been talked about unless you're basically an ER physician. It rarely was something that talk was talked about in exercise, but it's been coming up a lot and it's been around in exercise I mean endurance ultra endurance athletes who are experiencing Rhabdo you know, marathon runners, the Tour de France and you know, they probably been you know, each year in the endurance athletic world 25 50 cases a year. would occur. And now we're reading about it in The New York Times, which is, it's been so not only do we talk about it last week with Brignole but and when it comes up when you talk about intensity, but now it's coming up in pop culture, like the New York Times article talking about, it's in its fitness section in the science section, it talks about Rhabdo. Wow. And why is that? Why is it all of a sudden being picked up and its causes become prevalent in the exercise world, more so than even in the medical world where there's trauma

Mike  05:33

and cited more specifically, and in spin classes, high intensity spin classes, with newcomers?

Adam  05:41

So it brings up this whole idea of, of extremes of how much how intense is enough. And ...