Pre-Steroid Bodybuilding

Summary The article How many rugby players use steroids? It’s more like how many don’t by Steve Howell, is about the amount of people who use steroids to enhance their skills or to gain the body they want faster. He discusses how body builder are in denial of the problems with steroids and how in rugby they would be able to go “untackled” for years.

From lifting weights or using performance enhancing drugs; high school athletes, professional athletes, and bodybuilders wants to get bigger and stronger. From using drugs such as creatine and anabolic steroids. Creatine is an increases the body’s ability to produce energy rapidly according to Risher. Anabolic steroids, an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration. Both substances are being abused by high school and professional athletes that want to gain muscle in a short period of time.

Athletes who abuse them use them the wrong way. They use them to get an upper hand n competition and take advantage of what steroids can do for them, and who are willing to use them under the medical risks that come with using them. Athletes who use them like that are using to enhance muscle mass, and give them an energy boots so they can train linger and harder. They are using them fr all the wrong reasons when there are healthier ways to enhance muscle mass and get better at something without the aid of drugs. I strongly believe that using steroids is cheating in competition.

Occasionally a news report of a well-known athlete using steroids pops up. Steroids enhance an athlete performance. Body builders and weight lifters also partake in steroids to intensify their abilities. Others contradict the usage of steroids as altering an athletic activity even discrediting the loyalty of a game. Each athlete has a right to enhance performance in whatever way he or she see fit.

The first reason he explained was how it would increase the level of intensity in today’s athletics. Smith believes that steroids would boost athletics to a “higher level.”

Bryan Arana English 1C Professor Breckheimer 10/20/15 Steroids in Sports Should sports be only about the performance? In the world of sport, competition is to be the number one reason why steroid use has become popular among athletes. This is a controversial issue because it makes the athletes get to the point of make the risk to using steroids.

Every year the size of players ascends and these abusers continue to get away with little to no punishment. Highly sought after high school recruits turn to these to put on size before their first season of college football and collegiate players use them to prep for their possible future in the NFL. Due to the lack of testing, the upside for student-athletes to juice has almost become greater than the latter. Particularly in high school, the chance of a player actually getting busted does not deter them from cheating and trying to pack on excessive amounts of muscle. Every year parents lose kids that have thought they needed steroids to get bigger or improve their image.

“One of the health risks involved with the use of steroids is the effect they have on the brain. Unlike some abusive drugs, steroids do not cause immediate effects on the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is responsible for the “high” one gets while using drugs for recreation. Long-term use of steroids, however, can result in disrupting some brain pathways and chemicals including dopamine and opioid systems. If this occurs then steroid users can develop aggression, which is where the term “roid-rage” comes from, along with other psychiatric problems, which scientists term as a “psychosomatic state” (Fahey, 1998). The heart is an area of major concern for steroid abusers.

Steroids are something that runs ramped throughout gyms and sports. There are high schoolers who take steroids to try and get ahead of other people who are on the same team as them. People take steroids to try and get ahead of other people and they are taking the easy way out. They do not want to actually work for it and get bigger on their own, so they take steroids to do that. I do not think these people ever think of the side affects of taking steroids can do to them.

The goal of a bodybuilder is to increase muscle size (muscular hypertrophy) and definition (low percentage of body fat) all for the purpose of aesthetics. Whilst there will be a certain level of increased strength the large muscles do not mean a package of potential terror; all show and no go as it is said. Whereas strength & conditioning training has a focus on applied GPP and SPP improvement in areas of strength & conditioning. Athletes would focus more towards increases in neural activity in muscle fiber recruitment, and its application in force production and speed.

The use of steroids affects the integrity of sports; sports are not about simply winning. The purity and innocence of sports have diminished since the use of steroids. “Sport, after all, isn’t just entertainment” (Martin 581). The Olympians took their competitions seriously. They showed their abilities in their competitions.

Nowadays, whereas bodybuilding once ruled the roost, Powerlifting is instead looking at taking the number one spot when it comes to popular gym activities. Rather than simply looking to improve the way their bodies, look, people nowadays are instead training for form and function, which is part of the reason why Powerlifting has become so hugely popular over the last decade or so. Strongman contests and competitions are far from new as they’ve been practiced for decades upon decades, centuries in fact, but it is thanks to the popularity of these strongman contests, that Powerlifting has taken off so much. Powerlifting is all about form and technique, rather than just brute strength like many people tend to believe. It is notoriously difficult and insanely physically demanding, which is why only a select few individuals will ever make a success from it.

Steroids are very unhealthy for multiple parts of the human body, many health issues can arise from the use of such a drug. Primarily, the users’ continuous use of the drug will deplete the body’s ability to produce testosterone

But for a variety of reasons, some bodybuilders on both sides of the meat debate choose to take steroids to boost their performance and aesthetics. Although not all steroids are inherently bad, they tend to be abused because they work so well. Once the effects those steroids have become clearly apparent to those who start taking them, it can become a slippery slope between healthy and unhealthy.

Individuals desire to be able to compete with one another, particularly in bodybuilding. As Judith Lorber points out, there are social pressures on each gender to play their expected role, which is clearly seen in the studies by Petrocelli. Although it is unclear whether nature or nurture is more influencing, it is obvious that cultural expectations play a role in the pressure to use steroids. As suggested by Petrocelli, it would be beneficial to examine such muscle magazines that “did not produce the effects promised in words and pictures” to “shed light on an industry that is not known for its truth in advertising” (763). Although it is difficult to understand why someone who lifts weights as a hobby would take such drastic measures to be good at it, a look around at all the thriving products that rely on low self esteem is quite an enlightening view on our culture and the pressures to be someone we are