There's a joke that could be made here about lacrosse players, but I'll let Dan Crenshaw make it later in the article.
I'm really not joking with you: A dozen lacrosse players from Tufts University outside Boston were diagnosed with a life-threatening muscle condition last Monday after a single 45-minute workout led by a US Navy SEAL.
The SEAL worked these college athletes so hard that 12 out of 50 had their muscles break down from extreme stress.
The university confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press that five students remained hospitalized with Rhabdomyolysis after undergoing a 45-minute workout on Monday.
Rhabdomyolysis is a rare condition (26,000 cases a year in the US), that occurs when a person's muscles break down due to extreme trauma (being crushed by falling debris or snake venom or mega-intense workouts without enough fluids and electrolytes).
A whole bunch of things happen in the body (fluid gets sucked into your muscles, causing them to swell painfully), but what can kill you is the muscle death that leeches ions and proteins into your blood. Your kidneys have to try to filter that out.
Head Coach Casey D'Annolfo was not present for the training, but it was voluntary and the SEAL who led it was a graduate of the school.
HOW INTENSE WAS THAT WORKOUT?
The Mark Wahlberg film "Lone Survivor" did a good job showing the hellish intensity of the BUD/S training that SEALs endure. It is far beyond what your average lacrosse player can handle:
Was the man who led the workout a true graduate of the SEAL program? What drills did he run that had these players on the verge of death?
No answers on that as of yet, but the school has appointed an investigator to look into what happened.
Dan Crenshaw, a Tufts grad and a former SEAL, poked fun at the athletes though:
"Gentle college students"
😂 😂 😂
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