blog 5

I feel cheated after hearing this video. I do not feel cheated because I myself want to use steroids, but because I feel like the government and sports officials have lied to everyone as to what the side effects are of steroids. This video fails to address the concept of steroid rage. I dont know how real steroid rage really is but they say it was what caused Chris Bennoit to kill his family and himself. I definitely think steroids can be used responsibly. I know plenty of people that use other legal supplements and even they dont use them all the time. They use them for a while to increase their capability and then stay at that capability for a while before using the supplements again. these supplements include creatine and NOS.
I definitely feel as though the competitiveness of sports changes the need for steroids as opposed to the guy who casually takes them. If I am taking steroids just to increase my lift and look better, I am only doing it for myself, and do not necessarily have to one up the next guy. In the world of sports there is no second best. In the case of football players the guy who takes the most steroids becomes the biggest and fastest, only causing other athletes to increase their consumption. With this being said people would not be able to cycle off of them, but be forced to take them constantly. The reason that the effects of steroids in sports is so noticeable now is because the few people who take steroids have an advantage. If every player was allowed to take steroids they would still all be on the same level.
I feel like there should be equal standards for both pro and high school and collegiate levels. Unfortunately in the high school and even collegiate levels there just isnt quite the funding available to be able to test people for steroid use.
The need for using steroids is definitely a result of our cultures need to be the best. Everyone has to look better than the next guy or has to be more athletic than the next guy or be able to lift more than the next guy. In the country with the highest obesity rate, people still perceive that appearance is the most important thing in the world.