Body Builders and their Futre (Part 2)

Just fifty years back, drugs had yet to appear on the bodybuilding scene. It wasn't until the late 50s that we begin to hear about drug use in sport and by the early 60s Dianabol was being taken by bodybuilders. This coincided with the big drug companies seeing their opportunity of making big money through the development of their own steroid drugs most of which are still in use today. Things didn't quite turn out as expected though as the initial drug use reports appeared and many companies abandoned their products. Although many good drugs were actually patented, they were never fully developed.

Right through the sixties and seventies there was major use of orals and some bodybuilders of the time have suffered liver and kidney problems, which were probably exacerbated by the use of large amounts of such drugs over very long periods. In the seventies, as a young bodybuilder, I never used more than 10 x 5mg Dianabol tablets per day and even that was not for long periods. More normal was 4 to 6 Dianabol per day with 200 mg per week of an injectable [Deca or Testoviron] the total intake was about 300 to 400mg per week maximum. Pretty basic stuff compared with today.

But that was a fairly normal stack at the time. Some guys used more, usually via extra orals - the fact was that those drugs did produce gains. Now, even novice level competitors use 1000mg per week [and some use much more] including some quite toxic substances like Oxymetholone, Halotestin, Parabolan, etc. I know that some of these are only obtainable with other names from various suppliers outside of Europe but the toxic effects of the basic drugs remain.

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.

Today's youth don't really take the drug issue seriously and who can really blame them. Let's take cigarette smoking as an example, where health warnings are in place. The UK government takes a total of $16,000,000,000 from tobacco revenues per year, which is about 5 times as much as it costs to treat smoking related diseases. It's sad to say that the youth are just not convinced about the dangers of recreational drugs.

These dangers are very often over exaggerated and they will only find out by their own experiences. Many who begin bodybuilding used or still do use a mixture of recreational substances and deciding to take a few bodybuilding drugs too does not faze them. For the more serious bodybuilders, it should be compulsory 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 [especially] try to deal with the heavy loads of toxins.

In bodybuilding throughout all levels, doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have multiplied and are still on the up and we have to begin to believe that this is having an effect on the health of competitors. All bodybuilders at higher levels are using extremely high doses of steroids and other drugs. Don't pay any attention to those who say that they only use low doses and that it's the other bodybuilders who use a lot 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)

By: Mick Hart

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