I'll chip in a little bit...
Firstly...
"all of your sporting heros use steroids"
That's absolute BS, where I work, (in a university, I work inside of a school that deals with athletes, monitoring performance and training and developing further training techniques). -some of the athletes that competed in the olympics and the common wealth games are trained here...
to say that all your sporting heros are using drugs is just stupid and completly negates the amount of scruitinty their performance is under 24hours a day 7 days a week.
for example: I'm currently taking part in an exercise trial.
I'll explain exactly what I've done so far, and this is akin to what pro athlets do on a regular basis.
firstly I've been completly measured with skin fold calipers to find my distribution of body fat, I've been masured and weighed in every way possible.
I've done basic tests of fitness that involve running on a treadmill that goes at an ever increasing speed and incline whilst wearing a heart rate monitor and having my expired gasses collected for gas analysis.
I've also had an entier body xray to accuratly dipict my body fat and muscle distribution.
then (on a different day), I have blood samples taken (befor breakfast), and exercise to 70% of my Max limits for as long as it takes for me to expend a certain amount of energy, (basically running on a flat treadmill whilst having my heart rate monitored again and having my breathing monitored and recorded and monitored for gasses
after the energy is expended (it was a little over and hour of running), I had further blood tests.
then wear a heart rate monitor a for a few days whilst recording physical activity and what food I eat (including weighing the food) to detrmine my energy intake and reough expenditure.
I did another test yesterday and anm currently having to record my food and stuff...
and I'll have another test next week where again they will take and analyse blood...
and I'm not a pro athlete! I'm just taking part in a study... if somebodies balance of chemicals in their system/body weight/fat/muscle suddenly change... people do notice!
but that is the sort of stuff pro athletes go through. pretty much all the time. in addition to that all pro athletes will give blood/urine samples before events so that officials can check for drugs...
and if drugs are found it's usually the end of their career...
So no... not all sporting heros are on drugs, mostly because they all know (or at least the smart ones know) that they couldn't get away with it.
and how do I know this... because I work along side the people that are training testing and measuring some of the best pro athletes in britain!
I was once offered steroids from a friend whilst we were training for rugby games. needless to say I turned them down. aside from anything else they are expensive, (even if your first 'dose' is free) secondly the chemically change your body and can do more harm than good.
thirdly, (and what most people don't get) you have to train intensivly... it's not like you take steroids and then go to sleep. you take steroids and then train harder...
if I'm going to train harder nyway then I'd just do it the natural way...
(i.e so I don't look like the freak in the picture linked above).
steroids are not dangerous in the same way that a drug like heroin is.
however, steroids do chemically change you body, (just like any other drug).
they are [psycologically] addictive (just like any other drug)
and they can have disaterous effects on your body. (just ilke any other drug).
they destroy sports by making the honest people who don't 'enhance' their performance loose.
and if you're really into sports, and it's found out that you are doign steroids, it will ruin any chance of a sporting career...
steroids are illegal, and rightly so!
Firstly...
"all of your sporting heros use steroids"
That's absolute BS, where I work, (in a university, I work inside of a school that deals with athletes, monitoring performance and training and developing further training techniques). -some of the athletes that competed in the olympics and the common wealth games are trained here...
to say that all your sporting heros are using drugs is just stupid and completly negates the amount of scruitinty their performance is under 24hours a day 7 days a week.
for example: I'm currently taking part in an exercise trial.
I'll explain exactly what I've done so far, and this is akin to what pro athlets do on a regular basis.
firstly I've been completly measured with skin fold calipers to find my distribution of body fat, I've been masured and weighed in every way possible.
I've done basic tests of fitness that involve running on a treadmill that goes at an ever increasing speed and incline whilst wearing a heart rate monitor and having my expired gasses collected for gas analysis.
I've also had an entier body xray to accuratly dipict my body fat and muscle distribution.
then (on a different day), I have blood samples taken (befor breakfast), and exercise to 70% of my Max limits for as long as it takes for me to expend a certain amount of energy, (basically running on a flat treadmill whilst having my heart rate monitored again and having my breathing monitored and recorded and monitored for gasses
after the energy is expended (it was a little over and hour of running), I had further blood tests.
then wear a heart rate monitor a for a few days whilst recording physical activity and what food I eat (including weighing the food) to detrmine my energy intake and reough expenditure.
I did another test yesterday and anm currently having to record my food and stuff...
and I'll have another test next week where again they will take and analyse blood...
and I'm not a pro athlete! I'm just taking part in a study... if somebodies balance of chemicals in their system/body weight/fat/muscle suddenly change... people do notice!
but that is the sort of stuff pro athletes go through. pretty much all the time. in addition to that all pro athletes will give blood/urine samples before events so that officials can check for drugs...
and if drugs are found it's usually the end of their career...
So no... not all sporting heros are on drugs, mostly because they all know (or at least the smart ones know) that they couldn't get away with it.
and how do I know this... because I work along side the people that are training testing and measuring some of the best pro athletes in britain!
I was once offered steroids from a friend whilst we were training for rugby games. needless to say I turned them down. aside from anything else they are expensive, (even if your first 'dose' is free) secondly the chemically change your body and can do more harm than good.
thirdly, (and what most people don't get) you have to train intensivly... it's not like you take steroids and then go to sleep. you take steroids and then train harder...
if I'm going to train harder nyway then I'd just do it the natural way...
(i.e so I don't look like the freak in the picture linked above).
steroids are not dangerous in the same way that a drug like heroin is.
however, steroids do chemically change you body, (just like any other drug).
they are [psycologically] addictive (just like any other drug)
and they can have disaterous effects on your body. (just ilke any other drug).
they destroy sports by making the honest people who don't 'enhance' their performance loose.
and if you're really into sports, and it's found out that you are doign steroids, it will ruin any chance of a sporting career...
steroids are illegal, and rightly so!
