Body Builders And Their Futre (part 2)

It was just about fifty years ago that drugs began to appear on the bodybuilding scene and it was in the early sixties that we hear about bodybuilders taking Dianobol. At this stage the major drug companies began to develop their own steroid drugs, many of which are still in use today. The downside came when reports began to appear regarding drug use in sport and many drug companies abandoned their products resulting in many good patented drugs never being developed.

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.

Nowadays novice bodybuilders are using some really impressive stacks and as they move up the competitive ladder the steroid intake increases and other products are also taken on aboard. Some examples being DNP [di-nitro-phenol], various diuretic products, anti-catabolic drugs [Aminoglutethimide (Orimeten)], Nubain even, prostaglandins, IGF-1 [perhaps], as well as insulin and growth hormone. We are now entering a critical phase regards both cost and health risk as I know of many health problems related to these types of drugs.

The youth of today has a very blas attitude to drugs and who can blame them. The Establishment makes lots of noises about cigarettes but does little - after all the UK government still collects 8,000,000,000 per year in taxes from smokers; and that's about 5 times what it costs to treat smoking related diseases. The young do not believe anything they are told 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.

Doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have multiplied in bodybuilding throughout all competitive levels, and are still increasing and we have to begin to believe that competitors' health is being affected. Extremely high doses of steroids and other drugs are being used by most bodybuilders at higher levels. Don't take any notice of 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.

There are guys out there who may have the most incredible genetics and can grow and condition themselves with a lot less gear than many other bodybuilders. But should this be true, and if he had used more, he could, maybe, be the best in the world. Will he continue to say that he won't use any more? If you believe the answer to be no, that he won't use more, then I think 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)