Health
How an ‘intense’ workout almost killed young woman – Gympie Times
Kiana Alvarez thought the pain she was in was brought on after CrossFit. But when it worsened to the point of excruciating, she knew it was something more.
Forget “no pain, no gain” – training too hard at the gym left a 23-year-old make-up artist desperately sick in hospital. Kiana Alvarez found herself in this nightmare two days after an intense 90-minute workout.
She remembers doing a “heavy session”, including abdominal work, but nothing to cause the excruciating pain across her stomach and back that kept her hunched over and unable to take a full breath.
Ms Alvarez went to her GP and was eventually diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a potentially…
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