More from Congress "Steroid use is a national public health crisis. This legislation is aimed at not only getting rid of performance enhancing drugs on the professional level, but also sends a message loud and clear to the young people of America: Steroids are illegal. Steroids are dangerous. They can be deadly. And there is no place for them in our sports leagues or our school grounds," Davis said I don't know about a public health crisis but I am pretty sure the rest has gotten out. The problem is nobody believes this stuff because we don't have people using them in bodybuilding and other sports dropping like flies. I am not saying they are good for you but if you always say in every situation the sky is falling people will tend to blow off your warnings. Once again I must ask " Don't these people have anything better to do?"
I haven't read this whole thread so I'm not sure if this has been covered or not. But what I think a lot of people overlook is the fact that steroids, while giving you an immense amount of strength and testosterone, make your body a LOT more vulnerable to injury. Yes, steroids enable you to add loads of muscle to your body. But the same cannot be said for ligament or bones, the very infrastructure of your body that supports these muscles. When your muscles are growing at a much faster rate than your body's infrastructure, you become a lot more fragile, and in the worst possible places. It's much 'better' to pull a muscle or sprain an ankle than it is to tear a freaking ligament. That alone could end a career. Why do you think there are so many more injuries now than there used to be? The game of baseball itself hasn't gotten any more dangerous. There aren't big spikes sticking out of 1st base that causes these players to annhiliate their knee or ankle by running over the damn bag. Hell I once knew a fella that was into 'roids pretty bigtime. He would literally shoot them directly into the muscle group that he was about to go workout. He got all huge and bowed up (and looked like a complete douche). Well, the last I heard of him, he completely blew out his knee stepping off of a GD 6" curb in Florida. Not running, or tripping, walking down the damn thing on the way back to his car. His muscles had simply become entirely too large for his ligaments. With this sort of injury such a very real threat, I can't see why anyone would use them.
Well while I am not condoning the use of steroids. I am sure that you can find people who don't use steroids have the same injuries while walking over curbs, stepping off buses etc. Roids also help the body heal faster for that matter from some injuries and muscle tears. And they also do add to bone mass. They can be very benificial is used under the right supervision. But like anything else abuse is stupid. Hell woman have been doing HRT for years but if a man does it he's is into some wierd medicine. Basically all his is doing is not allowing his body to become inefficient. My only point here and through most of the thread is for congress to do what they were supposed to do and quit posturing on these personal issues. But because most of the population does not use them / even care about them or understand them congress can take this issue and act like they did something. IMO
Sure they do. Just not nearly as often. Further, you'd expect someone with Barry Bonds stature to be more resistant to such futile obstacles. But in fact, it's just the opposite. Your body's infrastructre simply cannot develope nearly as fast as your muscles do on 'roids.
