Men's Health Article on This Subject
I wanted to hightlight this part..such a good example.
The trainer, it turns out, had put her on a dietary plan that included ephedra, even though Capati had told him she was on high-blood-pressure medication, which should never be mixed with ephedra (she died of a brain hemmorhage).
From "stupid shit people say": What doesn't kill you makes you stronger....Tell it to Christopher Reeve.
"Teutonic hard-guy and perpetual locker-room poster boy Friedrich Nietzsche isn't helping either: "So many people buy into that old ‘What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' mentality," says Kyle Battis, C.S.C.S., a personal trainer in Concord, New Hampshire, who has been outspoken about abuses in his profession. "The truth is, what doesn't kill you will ruin your training, or put you in a hospital, or drive you out of the gym. And a good trainer should know that. Too many don't, and neither do their clients. So when a guy gets hurt, he thinks it's normal--just a down payment on the ‘No Pain, No Gain' system."
A Certified Sham