Another untimely passing.
Bodybuilding for the most part can be a relatively safe and healthy endeavor. Building up the body to make a stronger and healthier form is a primary goal of many average individuals. For those wishing to become champions however, it’s necessary to push the body to limit in order to bring about ultimate gains.
Every amateur and professional bodybuilder understands that pushing the body hard is all apart of bringing about massive muscle growth. But this kind of training brings inherent danger and can be life altering in some cases, and even deadly.
Colombian bodybuilder Rodolfo Torres Rojas, 31, was simply hoping to take his bodybuilding career to new heights when he moved from his native homeland to Russia. While in Russia, Rodolfo married a woman he met online and settled into life in his new foreign land. His bodybuilding training would continue to progress until suffering a terrible injury in a freak accident in the gym.
Rodolfo would suffer a severe tricep tear in his right arm. He sought help at a local clinic where he was given prescription drugs and told that he’d make a full recover. This however wasn’t the case. Instead, Rodolfo developed sepsis from the his injury. The bacterial infection entered his bloodstream and infected other major organs in his body including his heart, brain, and kidneys. Five days later Rodolfo collapsed at home with skyrocketing temperatures and intense pain and was rushed to the hospital. After remaining in a coma for 20 days, the young bodybuilder passed away. Now his father is claiming negligence as the reason for his son’s untimely death. His father would go on to state the following to Colombian media:
“We believe that during the clinic’s procedure for pain control, my son was infected with bacteria. This plus some medical negligence, caused his death. He was diagnosed with sepsis, the infection progressed through his whole body. His heart had been affected and also part of his brain. At the start, it was thought his arm had to be amputated, but they decided to treat him with medicines. Then his kidneys were affected and he went downhill.”
Rodolfo’s mother added:
“His wife Anna called us to tell us that she had been told that my son was in the morgue, so that we ask the national government to help us in the repatriation. The pain is so much. But he is now in God’s hands, and the only thing I want is to bury him here in Colombia.”
The recent bodybuilding deaths have been truly shocking and bringing more awareness that the number one priority in this endeavor should be safety.
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