Stallone, the rock etc have proven it's safe to be juiced up all your life
Imagine if they get juiced to the gills, but then still can't beat some records.
Then do we assume those records were set by juicers?
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Stallone, the rock etc have proven it's safe to be juiced up all your life
Imagine if they get juiced to the gills, but then still can't beat some records.
Then do we assume those records were set by juicers?
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Strongman competitors at most (if not all) levels are juiced to the max, it's unspoken common knowledge - there's not been too many "hearts exploding" in that realm!
Also, let's not forget a certain Lance Armstrong whose heart hasn't yet exploded.
Also, let's not forget a certain Lance Armstrong whose heart hasn't yet exploded.
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Thoughts:
-nobody will want their name associated with open illegal substance use funding-wise (‘xyz pledged x amount’ does not support the continued existence of a professional sports body/athletes). IFBB Bodybuilding is untested a full of ludicrous amounts of drugs, but it’s not openly talked about because nobody wants police going through their fridge contents.
- nobody actually elite level will do it, maybe washed out former pro’s that are banned for life and want some publicity that are past their best anyway.
- many of the PEDs people use are made in underground labs (aka someone’s bathtub). Nothing like your source getting raided by the police in the lead up to comp.
- the human propensity for ‘more is better’ means you’re guaranteed fatalities as a direct result of doping.
- how are you going to encourage ‘safe use’ when the whole point is to push the limit? People who try and err on the side of caution will just get rekt by people who won’t.
- if you want world records smashed you need to start doping children (which is what already happened in some countries w/state sponsored programs in the past) so that you get more training/bigger numbers as they go from sub-junior to junior to senior. Current drug-testing isn’t perfect but it discourages this practice. If there’s no barrier to drug use coaches and some parents will disregard children’s heath for their sporting success. Places that do this see athletes as disposable commodities who get put through the meat grinder and then the ones left standing are the truest freaks (see Bulgarian weightlifting in the past).
- lots of talk about keeping athletes healthy, 0 policy/evidence to back that up and given the amount of clinical research on PEDs (a handful of studies over decades cuz ethics), unless you’re relying on anecdotes on internet forums and self-proclaimed PED experts how do you really know what’s safe and what isn’t?
-nobody will want their name associated with open illegal substance use funding-wise (‘xyz pledged x amount’ does not support the continued existence of a professional sports body/athletes). IFBB Bodybuilding is untested a full of ludicrous amounts of drugs, but it’s not openly talked about because nobody wants police going through their fridge contents.
- nobody actually elite level will do it, maybe washed out former pro’s that are banned for life and want some publicity that are past their best anyway.
- many of the PEDs people use are made in underground labs (aka someone’s bathtub). Nothing like your source getting raided by the police in the lead up to comp.
- the human propensity for ‘more is better’ means you’re guaranteed fatalities as a direct result of doping.
- how are you going to encourage ‘safe use’ when the whole point is to push the limit? People who try and err on the side of caution will just get rekt by people who won’t.
- if you want world records smashed you need to start doping children (which is what already happened in some countries w/state sponsored programs in the past) so that you get more training/bigger numbers as they go from sub-junior to junior to senior. Current drug-testing isn’t perfect but it discourages this practice. If there’s no barrier to drug use coaches and some parents will disregard children’s heath for their sporting success. Places that do this see athletes as disposable commodities who get put through the meat grinder and then the ones left standing are the truest freaks (see Bulgarian weightlifting in the past).
- lots of talk about keeping athletes healthy, 0 policy/evidence to back that up and given the amount of clinical research on PEDs (a handful of studies over decades cuz ethics), unless you’re relying on anecdotes on internet forums and self-proclaimed PED experts how do you really know what’s safe and what isn’t?
I can see it being beneficial to the human race, a new stage in human evolution as it were.
With proper clinical research in to PEDs and later physical and mental augments all done in the name of sport (aka capitalism) it could make disabilities a thing of the past. However, I've played Deus Ex so know how it ends...
With proper clinical research in to PEDs and later physical and mental augments all done in the name of sport (aka capitalism) it could make disabilities a thing of the past. However, I've played Deus Ex so know how it ends...