Our client was at his first personal training experience at a facility in League City, Texas when he suffered nearly fatal injuries.  The gym and its trainers held themselves out as certified and qualified trainers in an extreme and trendy form of exercise.  No physical assessment was performed on our client to determine his ability to do the extreme exercises which included lunges and leg presses with over 200 lbs. of weight.  Despite complaints of extreme pain, the instructor continued to push him and tell him to trust her judgment.  Finally, our client could not continue anymore due to the pain.  He tried to cool down and consumed large amounts of water in an attempt to recover.  The severe pain never stopped and about 3:00 am the next morning, he woke up to urinate.  His urine was brown and caused severe pain when urinating.  He was rushed to ER and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a condition caused when muscle cells rupture en masse and release their contents into the body.  These particles then build up in the kidneys where it can cause permanent kidney damage, renal failure, heart failure, and death.  Our client spent some time in the hospital as a result of these severe injuries.  He contacted us for help after getting the run around from the Defendants who initially claimed they had no insurance and tried to use a “waiver” to avoid liability for their negligence.  It did not work and our client wanted to prevent this from happening to other people.  The case resolved for a confidential sum in litigation.