[Closed] Roid Rage... (more gym / fitness content)

Dirtygirl, for the effect of steroids on cyclists, try looking for pix of Tammy Thomas... it's frightening and irreversible.

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Tommy Thamas

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It's a sad state of affairs when a sport has to have a special club just for those people who don't use drugs.
And that's power lifting, I believe the situation is far worse for body builders.

I'm the opposite to the average gym member, I have to train upper body to prevent the T-rex look! I'm 37 now and have been weight training since I was 15, it does seem like the natural folks are becoming the minority!

It's a sad state of affairs when a sport has to have a special club just for those people who don't use meat.

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I used to work with a super serious body builder type

in meetings he would randomly go bright red and start panting, also very prone to mood swings.

nothing going on there then hey?

It's a sad state of affairs when a sport has to have a special club just for those people who don't use drugs.

Much better to compete on a level playing field and be open and honest about it.

Is enhancing your performance using certain drugs any different from enhancing your performance via surgery (laser eye etc.) or other medical interventions (cortizone injections etc)?

Discuss...

When you tear a bicep off they drill a hole in your bone and stick the tendon in to fix it. The fix is better than the original. Hmmm....

Gene therapy will be (is?) the next big thing.

Hardcore!

Personally I think that in the gym... hand straps, weight belts and gloves are all cheating a bit.

By that logic having tread on your tyres is cheating too 😉

*takes stanley knife to nobblies*

You get my point though... you need straps to do deadlifts, then your arms are too weak... etc

No I don't at all 😆

It's not a competition for who has the strongest handshake, it's who can do the biggest deadlift.

For competition you can't use wraps, you use gum or chalk. But... in competition you do one lift at a time. In training you do reps and lots of them. Grip will always be the weakest link. Remove that weak link and your training volume increases and your unaided lift goes up.

And.. of course, your hands get torn to bits training raw.

Not if you toughen your hands up? 😕

Using steriods is pretty shamefull IMO. That's why very few like to admit to it.
Mainly used by people who want everyone to be impressed by their buffness; pretty pathetic.
It should quite rightfully be banned from every physical competition as it becomes more about who is more technically adept at taking drugs than talent/physical prowess. It's comparable with having motors hidden in seat tubes.
Also, they do not increase or decrease the size of your jake, but do shrink the bowlacks.

meh, doubt you'll ever stop drugs in sport, and maybe especially things like roids among wannabe big men as opposed to competitive athletes (who'll have to find new methods that are not yet detectable). If you're not a pro/high level competitor, it can't be worth the health risks IMO

epo - ooh, it's a terrible thing, but it's OK for well-funded athletes to spend ages altitude training for broadly same benefits.

i always take drugs when doing sport... slowing myself down with some crack, its the only way i can stop myself from beating everyone by a massive margin.

I trained alongside Charles Clairmont some while ago, hell of a physique. The level of dedication to get to that stage is impressive, whilst people may not approve of the results or the methods, i personally admire the discipline its takes to acheive.

As for whether steroid are cheating, not sure. As has been mentioned above, some surgical procedures give beter than natural results. I remember hearing that Tiger Woods had corrective eye surgey which gave him better than normal vision (whatever that means). Does this give him an advantage when playing golf?

Makes me laugh when people deride bodybuilding, work hard, build a strong physique and thats wrong. Yet cosmetic surgery is somehow more acceptable.

My gym is full of stupidly fit people who would not dream of touching any non-recreational drugs. There are also some very well built people who are fit as a butchers dog. It is a uni gym though.

Are you implying that there are fit steroid junkies at your gym then SBZ?

Or just saying there are fit people and fit people at your gym?

TSY, out of interest which Gym do you go to?

Ooh that's pretty personal.. near my work in Didcot.

Ooh that's pretty personal.. near my work in Didcot.

Sorry about that, but the reason I ask is that I've used a couple of gyms in Witney and there is a noticeable lack of the type of guys you’re talking about (which in my opinion is great as it gives a much more laid back atmosphere).

There will be people taking steroids, HGH and HCG who want to be insanely fit, rather than huge - I'm sure some adventure racers, triathletes etc. It only makes you grow huge if you do certain type of training.

Yeah, The Sports Centre one used to be fine if a little crowded. Pirates is okay too I think. All the steroid guys used to go to the Palace gym but pretty sure that's closed now.

It does seem to be a time of day thing as well. The guys that I suspect are taking 'roids seem to be down there in the evenings.