Hey, i’ve been working out for a year, and my buddy decided he wanted to try working out… I’m an avid person for “injury” prevention… Well this is how the workout went: 5 minuts warmup cardio, FULL body stretching… Then he did 3 warmup for bench press… then 3 work sets for 10… (first 2 were way under weight)
(was gunna get him todo rows, to even out the pushin and pulling, but we were really pressed for time)
then did did bench dips… 3 sets…
and he did dumbell curls 2 warmups 3 worksets, I MADE sure he stretched in betweeen all the sets…
I also got him todo some squats, but I only did the bar, plus 2 tens, i made him only do 3 MAJOR prefetique sets, just to get the movement…
anywase it was a very basic workout… he’s now in the hospital, cuz he was peeing up this RED substance… they said theres something in his system, thats aparently 2000X more then a reg person (something that deteriates muscle)…
I’ve heard of that happening from overexertion. There’s this bike race in Vancouver where the last 10k is up the mountain to SFU & this one guy basically sprinted it & peed blood afterwards. Hockey players, etc have it happen when they get a hit in the kidneys too & they get a bit damaged so blood comes out.
It’s not uncommon (at least several years ago, maybe things have changed) for marathon runners to have some blood in their urine for a couple days after a race.
This could be realted to a problem with your myoglobin levels. When muscles breakdown and catabolize, myoglobin is released in the blood. The kidneys are the primary source for filtering this “toxin”. What happens is that if the kidneys filter too much myoglobin, they can be damaged.
I could be wrong, but I believe it has something to do with his creatinine levels (not Creatine). They come from the break down of muscle tissue too rapidly and can build up in the kidneys and create stones. I had a similar problem after basic training. I went in pretty fit, but a little too big, around 275. Toward the end of Basic, I had lost about 40lbs, and a great deal of that was muscle. Losing all that weight so fast caused me to develop the stones due to the build up of creatinine in my blood. Dumb ass doctor told me I must have been eating too much protein…
Either way, he shouldn’t have been broken down that much after one workout…
OK, He called me today, and he’s gunna be in the hospital for 3 more days… I have a little more info, it’s because his CK levels are aparently 10000X that of what they are supposed to be… He’s on intervenus, and they are filtering his liver…
The doc said they are gunna go and and Do some tests to see if he has some freaky form of muscle disease… at a better hospital…
This is directly from the mdausa webpage, they had best description that I could cut and paste instead of writing it all out:
"CK, also known as phosphocreatine kinase, or CPK, is a type of protein called an enzyme. It catalyzes, or “encourages,” a biochemical reaction to occur. The normal function of CK in our cells is to add a phosphate group to creatine, turning it into the high-energy molecule phosphocreatine. Phosphocreatine is burned as a quick source of energy by our cells.
However, the normal function of CK isn’t as relevant, in this case, as what happens to CK when muscle is damaged. During the process of muscle degeneration, muscle cells break open and their contents find their way into the bloodstream. Because most of the CK in the body normally exists in muscle, a rise in the amount of CK in the blood indicates that muscle damage has occurred, or is occurring." Hope that helps!
In faith,
Matt
You did it to him man!! I’m sure he’ll be alright but this is probably a direct result of the training routine you had him do. I know of another instance where the EXACT same thing happened to another individual…This guy was a raw beginner and his workout partner wanted to make sure he “had what it takes” so he totally ran him into the ground the first week…forced reps, 20 rep squats, heavy deadlifts…just very hard and basic lifting. After 3 days the guy was pissing blood and had to be hospitalized for a short time but within a week he was back in the gym going at a much easier pace.