Well we exercise for many reasons to maintain a healthy way to lower their risk for disease and to improve our mental health but across country some people are heading to emergency rooms because they have pushed themselves too hard during workouts they push through the pain and so they can't push them and keep pushing and keep pushing it's the point where they just tear their muscles apart it is a condition called rhabdomyolysis that happens when high intensity movements cause muscles to tear so much that they release toxins into the bloodstream wcco's Angela Davis shows how the condition usually happens and what can be done to prevent it build muscle resonate to people who want to be fit but pushed too hard and some folks could be at risk of a rare life-threatening condition the rhabdomyolysis is when your muscle cells break down and they release their enzymes and electrolytes into the bloodstream dr. jonathan fin off is the medical director at Mayo Clinic sports medicine Center in Minneapolis he says the main symptom is excruciating pain if you're pushing way beyond what your body is telling you you should be doing then you can break down the muscles too much and then it becomes a serious medical condition he says rhabdomyolysis can happen when someone is exercising and try something they're not accustomed to doing like an extreme number of squats do some squats but then one day you do lighter weights and you do 100 squats in a really short period of time that can break down your muscles so much that it causes rhabdomyolysis or too many repetitions when lifting weights and as you come up the muscles shortening and as you lower down the muscle is lengthening and that will cause significant muscle damage another risk factor exercising in the heat and getting dehydrated runners need to be cautious when they're sprinting or participating in marathon and then there's spin class a study recently published in the American Journal of Medicine found that newcomers to spin classes are at a high risk of developing rhabdomyolysis funny guys go 3 B 1 and just smacks lips it is a personal trainer and a high school soccer coach he's also the owner of the powerhouse at Highland in st.

Paul a gym where strength training classes are very popular he says it's important to ease into any type of workout that's new to you anytime you start a new form of exercise there's gonna be an adaptation phase where your body's getting used to using those muscles in that way doctors say it's normal to be sore after exercising it's not normal to have severe muscle pain accompanied by dark urine so if you have swollen painful muscles and you're starting to get a dark sort of coca-cola colored urine that's serious and you need to go to the hospital doctors treat rhabdo by giving patients lots of fluids to help flush the kidneys if left untreated the condition can cause kidney damage even failure so as you're going down dr. fennhoff says fear of injury shouldn't stop people from working out you know the things that kill people are heart disease diabetes strokes exercise treats those and prevents those so you're way more likely to die by not exercising than my sighs Angela Davis WCCO 4 News Angela says the people who take certain medications and supplements that are higher risk of developing rhabdo as are people who have the sickle-cell trait researchers at the Mayo Clinic are studying how often this condition occurs in Minnesota.