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(Under the circumstances of a short performance career, playing for big money, such use of
steroids is logical, albeit illegal and prohibited by baseball).
Steroids, with training, sufficient calories and proteins, increase muscle mass and strength,
and enhance recovery. It is up to the athlete to go beyond that.
Hey, if you give steroids to a hard training clod, soon you have a stronger clod. Steroids
can't make a silk purse out of a Sow's ear.
Once more, as difficult as the subject is, there's another thing that needs to be said. I
believe the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant once made a statement to the effect that
even the most beautiful hypotheses get dented by ugly facts. There is NO causation
correlation between a teen using steroids and said teen committing suicide.
When questioned on the subject, about specific actual causation, too many experts cop a
plea and say, "The effect of steroid use on the mind of a teenager is extremely variable."
This is avoidance of the specific question of causation through obtuse generality. If we
argue that steroids cause teens to commit suicide, then (post hoc, ergo propter hoc), so
also must we say that teen steroid use causes one to become a famous Governor.
Something as horrible and desperate as teen suicide is dependant on a panoply of factors
from limbic chemistry to social, family and peer issues. But, the ugly facts tell us that
hundreds of thousands of teenagers worldwide start steroids a-new without any run on rope
at local hardware stores. Harsh on my part perhaps, but, while I may sling manure, I don't
have to step in it at the same time.
EXERCISE FRAUD
I believe that bodybuilding exercise has been lies for 40 years, and once more, I have
participated in the lies (and still do). Besides the nonsense that aerobics is somehow
superior for overall health than is weight training, there is a lot more. Back in the early
sixties, (61-66), we had a handful of "bodybuilders" (literally about 5 guys) who had
`discovered' steroids, and `naturally' (no pun intended), they were featured heavily in the
top muscle mags of the times. Planned or not, their development was correlated to more
amazing training methods and food supplements.
The lies then continued. Over 40 years, thousands of training programs have been featured
in all the muscle magazines without any mention, ever, of the types of drugs used the
cycles and how many of these drugs were being used. Not to mention such use now is also
a criminal offense.
Indeed, we have a magazine industry partially fabricated around the training of schedule 3
drug users. Indeed, today 700,000 1 million muscle magazines sell each month and most
are loaded with drug users. In my opinion, at the IFFB pro bodybuilding level, 99.98% are
heavily on steroids. We all know bodybuilding makes baseball look like Bible study.
Who is responsible and what to do? All of us are responsible. Many of the magazines print
the supposed training of the champions and covertly suggest you follow them as there are
never any caveats. I DO NOT do this and never will. It is impossible anyway, unless you are
combination MD and licensed pharmacist.
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