Let me explain why you simply must use steroids to play football at the highest level.
#1 Everyone else is using. Nobody ever gets any smaller after they test positive by the NFL.
But here are the reasons that performance enhancing drugs increase the SKILLS needed to play the game.
First of all, if you are not big, and strong, you cannot play on the line, period. Performance enhancing drugs can put 60 lbs of lean body mass on you and increase strength 120% or more. Try competing with that without the drugs. The amount of weight these guys lift is more then anyone will ever lift without steroids, most linemen can lift more then Arnold Swartzenegger ever lifted. And they can usually do it by the age of 21. So they lift more then he did at 34 years of age at the end of his career, and he used steroids since the age of 16 (or younger) And they do are supposed to be able to do this naturally?
If you are not fast and or agile, you really cant play any skill position. How many people can really run 4.5 or faster in the 40? Steroids will take 3/10 off your 40 time, and stimulants can take 5-8 hundreths off your 40 time. So all these football players who run 4.3-4.4s, are lucky if they can crack a 4.70 40 without the drugs. There are not really special there.
Then for skill, you may not realize that an increase in strength, leads to an increase in power, wich is the foundation for an increase in speed, agility. Steroids increase your quickness, motor unit activation. As do stimulants.
GH, causes hyperplasia of muscle fibers, and it increases the strength of connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage, and bones. If you can lift huge weights without performance enhancing drugs, it is going to take days for you to be able to recover enouph to even run sprints, let alone clash with 300 pound monsters on every drug you can imagine, without them your tendons and muscles being weakened, in the short term after a heavy weight training session. A weak joint from a heavy workout is a sitting duck for an injury. Lifting for example 500 lbs in the bench press will cause micro tears of the tendons ligaments, and muscles, and weakening of the bones (all in the day to 2 days after the workout) and a person on GH, and steroids will heal those fibers 10x faster then a person not on these drugs. This statement alone shows you that you have not a prayer of playing against someone who has these benefits. The strength of the actual joints is just as important as the strength of the muscles. You take the GH, and then you do Plyometric, ballistic, and other power training, and you will stimulate a response in your body to increase the efficieny of this type of training drastically. So you get a hyperplasia of the FAST TWITCH TYPE IIB FIBERS. This is usually primarily genetically predetermined. And its not that easy to develop these fibers in training naturally. But, if you need mass for your sport and you build up the type IIa and I muscle fibers, you will have to train like a bodybuilder to get them big; this will exhaust your Central Nervous System, and weaken your joints in the short term. This will lead you to also put on extra muscle weight and force you to lower your strength to bodyweight ratio, and it will be like carrying around a dead weight. And this will cause your joints to weaken in the short term and exhaust your nervous system, pushing through multiple sets to failure. This will also train your muscles not for explosiveness, but it will train them to be slow, due to going to failure on most, if not all sets. That is a recipe for disaster. Iinjury wise, your joints will BE FURTHER WEAKENED. This will not help your game skill technique, and it will lead to technical bad habits. (due to exhausting your central nervous system, and joints, and muscles) You will need longer to recover between workouts and will not have as much time to work on your skill technical training. And if you don't have technique, you have no chance of playing at the highest level. This is why bodybuilders can't play football so well. Also your heart will have to supply these huge muscles with oxygen. This is clearly not the answer.
You take EPO, and ATP and you increase your endurance capabilities by 20% or more. This my not sound like such a great thing, but it will then allow you to maintain world class form in your training longer. It will take you much longer to get exhaused in training your skills. This increase in endurance, will then allow your muscles to rebound MUCH faster after weight sessions, to on the field training. Being exhaused and still working on highly technical aspects will cause injury, and lead to bad habit. You cannot effectively train for technique if your muscles are exhausted from weight/power training. Once either of those happen you will have a hell of a time getting back into the game at a high level. This drug EPO has a profound effect on your ability to go from weight training, to plyometric training, to sprint training, to football practice. Especially it will help your in season overall training program at such a point that it is insane to think you can keep up with someone on this stuff. What happens in the 4th quarter when the guy across from you is in the same condition that you were when you started the 2nd half? You are screwed. At the elite levels this alone is another thing wich is going to be **** near impossible to compete against. Because when you are dealing with 2 athletes of equal strength and equal size, its kind of like doing a leg workout, and then going up against another athlete who is the same strength and size, and skill, everything else being equal, he is going to utterly destroy you if he is fresh and you are exhausted when you line up against him, after you have squatted 500 lbs for 6 sets of 10 for example, and he is 100% fresh, and just popped some Cheque drops, shot up some Halotestin, and took amphetamines. Good night sucker!
Then you have the steroids like Halotestin wich can greatly increase strength with no increase in bodyweight (if used for that purpose) This alone is an advantage wich cannot be overcome at the highest levels. Higher strength in proportion to bodyweight is one of the primary goals for skill position players. If you are a WR facing a DB on Halotestin for example, you have no chance of beating him, all other factors being the same. This is another one of the most important factors in elite sports, higher strength in proportion to bodyweight wins every time, if all other factors are the same.
Then the steroids and all other drugs will increase every type of strength from Elastic, to Maximum strength, to ballistic strength, to plyometric strength, and your body will respond 10x more to power training then if it were not on the drugs. So you have the automatic increase in these types of strength but also the effects of your training for this type of strength being so drastically more effective. And if GH causes hyperplasia of the type IIb fibers, and you are getting a synergistic effect of this drug with steroids, this is a combo wich is so totally impossible to overcome for a natural athlete that it is sad.
So you decide you want to take all these drugs? Well it is going to cost you at least 1300$ per month. How many aspiring athletes can afford that? Then top it off, how many athletes can train uninterrupted, all out for a period of 6 years or more on the drugs. (once they have hit 18) Then to get a world class coach for the highly technical aspects, how many athletes ever get that? Then you look at the ideal body composition, such as being at 4% bodyfat for a WR to run his best. (no world class sprinter is much more then 4% bodyfat) Maybe 1% of the population has ever been that low in bodyfat.
Then you throw in supplements like HMB, creatine, glutamine, NAC, chrysin, ecydosterone, methoxyflavone, magnesium, zince, vitamin B12, 200 grams of protien powder daily, you can get an increase in strength and put on another 10 lbs of lean body mass, combine them with drugs and get an even greater synergistic effect. This is going to run you about 300$ a month alone. Who can afford that for a peroid of several years?
Arnold Swartzenegger would not be CA governor without steroids. Steroids are so rampant in sports that John MacEnroe admitted to steroid use over a 6 year period. If he is on them who the hell isn't in sports?
You really can see that it is chemical warfare. There are hundreds of thousands of athletes with equal levels of athletic skill. I tell you the ones who make it to the top do the thingsthat I have written about in this article. You can take a person, and choose a different course of training, and compare the exact same person 4 years later and you will not have any idea who that person is, the change can be so drastic.
It sucks, I really don't like it. But it can be used to your advantage, because 99% of talented athletes never use GH, multiple steroids, EPO, and Insulin, and every supplement you can imagine. So the odds of making it, should you choose this route go up not just a lot, but astronomically.
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