“This is a failure of the strength and conditioning program — an epic failure,” said Douglas J. Casa, chief executive of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. “Somebody made a dramatic mistake in terms of how the workout was organized in terms of intensity, volume, recovery. Something was dramatically wrong.”

Multiple members of the men’s lacrosse team at Tufts University were hospitalized last week with a life-threatening muscle condition after doing a Navy SEAL-style workout, the school confirmed.

Five men’s lacrosse players at Tufts University remain hospitalized after a voluntary supervised 45-minute Navy SEAL-style workout left them with a dangerous condition called rhabdomyolysis.