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What Is The Future For Bodybuilders? (Part 2) |
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What is the Future for Bodybuilders? (Part 2)
by Mick Hart
Fifty or more years ago, drugs played little part in bodybuilding. The first we heard of drug use in sport was in the late 1950s and top level bodybuilders were starting to use Dianabol in the early 60s. It was about this time that all the major drug companies thought that they could make lots of money if they developed their own steroid drugs and almost all the steroid drugs which are still in use today were developed then. Of course steroids were never the great bonanza that drug companies expected and when the first reports of drug use in sports started to appear, a lot of companies abandoned the products. There are lots of steroids that had patents registered but were never fully developed - some of them quite good products too.
During the 1960s and 70s it was Orals that were mainly in use resulting in some of those bodybuilders developing liver and kidney problems, probably caused by excessive intake over periods now considered too long. As a young bodybuilder in the seventies I would never exceed 10 x 5mg Dianabol tablets daily and always over short time periods. More normal was between 4 and 6 Dianabol daily with 200 mg per week of an injectable [Deca or Testoviron] the total intake was between 300 and 400mg per week maximum. Quite basic stuff if you compare it with present day levels.
This was considered a normal stack during this period although others used more and normally through extra orals. The fact of the matter was that gains were being obtained through drug use. Nowadays even beginner competitors are taking 1000mg per week or even more, which can include quite dangerous stuff such as Oxymetholone, Halotestin, Parabolan, etc. It's common knowledge that you are limited to some of these with different names through several suppliers outside of Europe, but the toxic effects of the basic drugs still remain the same.
Some novice bodybuilders use some impressive stacks these days. As your aspiring top bodybuilder moves up the competitive ladder doses of steroids continue to increase and then we find that there are various other products thrown in. Like DNP [di-nitro-phenol], various diuretic products, anti-catabolic drugs [Aminoglutethimide (Orimeten)], Nubain even, prostaglandins, IGF-1 [perhaps], plus insulin and growth hormone. The costs are rising not only in sheer money terms - and with growth hormone on the list; we are talking about serious money - but also in health risk terms. I know of many instances of health problems linked to these sorts of drugs.
Who can blame today's youth in not taking the drug issue seriously if you take the tobacco industry as an example. Health warnings seem to be to the point, but why does the UK government need $16,000,000,000 in tobacco related annual revenue, when it costs 5 times less to treat all smoking related diseases. It's understandable that the youth are not convinced about the dangers of recreational drugs.
These dangers are very often exaggerated and they will only find out by their own experiences. Many who start bodybuilding used or still do use a combination of recreational substances and deciding to take a few bodybuilding drugs as well does not faze them. For the more serious bodybuilders, it should be mandatory that all the recreational stuff is abandoned. But many won't and the load on their body systems will be increased as their kidneys and livers [particularly] try to deal with the heavy loads of toxins.
In bodybuilding at all levels, doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have increased and are still increasing and we have to start to believe that this is having an effect on the health of competitors. All bodybuilders at the top levels are using very high doses of steroids and other drugs. Take no notice of those who say that they only use low doses and that it's the other bodybuilders who use far more than they do. Don't believe it; they are lying.
Certain individuals may have incredible genetics and can grow and condition themselves with a lot less gear than other bodybuilders. But should this be true, and if he had used more, he could, perhaps, be the best in the world. Will he continue saying that he will not use more? If you think the answer is no, that he will not use more, then you have a different understanding of bodybuilders than the one that I have. What would I do in that position? I would use more and more until problems began to develop! Anyway, we think that problems only happen to other people. Or am I wrong? (Coming soon Part 3)
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