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What is the Future for Bodybuilders? (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.

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.

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.

Who can blame today's youth in not taking the drug issue seriously if you take the tobacco industry as an example. Health warnings seem to be to the point, but why does the UK government need $16,000,000,000 in tobacco related annual revenue, when it costs 5 times less to treat all smoking related diseases. It's understandable that the youth are not convinced about the dangers of recreational drugs.

These dangers are often much exaggerated and they will learn only by their own experiences. Many who come into bodybuilding used or still do use various recreational substances and deciding to take a few bodybuilding drugs as well does not faze them. For those who are serious about their bodybuilding, it should be mandatory that all the recreational stuff is abandoned. But many will not and the load on their body systems will be increased as their kidneys and livers [particularly] try to cope with the heavy loads of toxins.

In bodybuilding at all levels, doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have increased and are still increasing and we have to start to believe that this is having an effect on the health of competitors. All bodybuilders at the top levels are using very high doses of steroids and other drugs. Take no notice of those who say that they only use low doses and that it's the other bodybuilders who use far 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)

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