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If you need an excuse to bail on leg day, how does the possibility of ALMOST DYING sound for an alibi?
A pair of Chinese teenagers challenged each other to a 1,000 squat challenge, an arduous competition only made more difficult by the fact that the two girls were not used to grueling workouts.
Nineteen-year-old student Xiao Tang told China Press:
“We both did not want to lose and so we kept trying to beat each other, resulting in us completing 1,000 squats.”
Naturally, the following day, Xiao felt sore, but still managed to carry on with scheduled activities. Then, as is standard for people who don’t work out habitually, the following day came with a vengeance.
“First of all, my leg was not only sore, but I couldn’t bend it. Then I went to the bathroom and found that the urine was brown.”
When she arrived at the hospital, doctors reported her myoglobin readings to be astronomical.
Myoglobin is the protein that’s produced when muscles break down. The brown piss is the result of myoglobinuria, when dead muscle fibers are released into the blood stream. Myoglobinuria is the most common symptom of a more dire condition called rhabdomyolysis, where the kidneys can’t process all the waste content floating in the blood from the muscle break down. In some cases, the kidneys can become nonfunctional and the result can be fatal.
“The kidneys get gummed up, and they start to fail,” FBI medical officer Bruce Cohen explained to Live Science.
“[Normally] by the time you’re peeing brown, it’s too late.”
Fortunately, Xiao was rehydrated on a drip to protect her internal organs and her myoglobin was monitored until they reached healthy levels.
When Xiao was healthy enough to call her friend and competitor, she was told that she too had been admitted to the hospital with the same condition.
1,000 is child’s play. Hailey Kalil did 1,000,001 squat to prepare herself for her SI Swimsuit shoot. No hospital necessary.
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