Would you be willing to expand on your thoughts on this article?
I read the article and did some quick Wiki-checking into Rhabdomyolysis.
6 occurences per 100,000 people. (according to the article you linked)
What is the rate of occurence for heart attack during exercise? Or stroke? Serious infections or illnessed picked up at the gym? Or a traffic accident on the way to the gym?
It sounds to me a bit like fear-mongering.
Exercising yourself (literally) to death is a possibility even for a fit person, but my original inclination to this article is that certain people are predisposed to be adversely effected by the intense training associated with Crossfit, and that may lead to rhabdomyolysis.
How is that any different than any other predisposition and it's implications on which activities an individual should be cautious of, or avoid altogether?
I read the article and did some quick Wiki-checking into Rhabdomyolysis. 6 occurences per 100,000 people. (according to the article you linked)
It is 6 occurences per 100000 people in base population, but much higher among people who do CrossFit. That was exactly the point of the article:
...And here we have arrived at CrossFit’s dirty little secret. The coach was unusually familiar with what is normally a very rarely seen disorder. It’s so rare that one study reported the overall annual incidence of rhabdomyolysis to be 0.06%. (...) How, I wondered, is it
Here's an internal dialogue I just had.
Q: How do we test rationality skills?
A: We haven't come up with a comprehensive test yet.
Q: Maybe we can test some part of rationality?
A: Sure. For example, you could test resistance to akrasia by making two contestants do some simple chores every day. The one who fails first, loses.
Q: That seems like a pointless competition. If I'm feeling competitive, why would I ever skip the chores and lose?
A: Whoa, wait. If competitiveness can cure akrasia, that's pretty cool!
Now we just need to figure out how to make people more competitive in the areas they care about...