I suspected one person in particular of using steroids during my college years, but I do not believe steroid use is widespread in masters swimming. There simply is not a sufficient payoff. Why on earth would you risk the significant health consequences to set masters records? It doesn't make any sense.
The urge to win can overcome common sense.
Juicing is just an extreme example of losing a grip on reality in the quest to win. Overtraining, the least severe on the spectrum, also defies common sense and can be quite damaging to the body. In other words, we fitness nuts can easily forget common sense in our quest to achieve our goal.
There is a very interesting video"Bigger, Stronger,Faster" that raises some interesting points about steroid use.I know of one Masters swimmer I am pretty sure was using.Some guys just want to be bigger.Aside from the health issue,it is CHEATING.
Get over it. Tons of masters swimmers use anabolic steroids, and they're not harming anyone by doing it.
How do you know?
The only sure way to know for sure is the neck 'n nuts test.
If the person's neck is thicker than his head, and he has not been diagnosed with microcephaly,
AND
his testes are the size of raisins,
THEN
he's a juicer.
Jazz Hands, of course, knows this, but he doesn't want to publicly admit that he checks for both signs in the locker room.
In women, the neck test also applies, but the real key is an expansion of a body part that is ordinarily hard for guys to find, but which becomes in the presence of juice too large to ignore. In fact, if might make guys like me feel inadequate in comparison.
--Dr. Jimi, purveyor of advice a real doctor would never give
I really like this quote from the NYTimes article:
“This notion of ‘we’re getting old; it’s bound to happen’ doesn’t make any sense to me,” Bellizzi says.
It matters not whether it makes sense; that's life. The reasoning behind Cenegenics is seriously flawed: Hormone levels decline with age, so they should be replaced. What could go wrong? Well, you have only to look at the consequences of hormone replacement therapy in women for the answer.
His last name is "Life". Did he have a different name which was replaced, too? :rolleyes:
According to the article, the family name was changed from the German word for "life" (Leben?) into the English by his immigrant father.
According to the article, the family name was changed from the German word for "life" (Leben?) into the English by his immigrant father.
Thanks. Life started then, and is being renewed now :)
At first I didn't notice the name, then it struck me as funny when I read:
"Life didn't give a thought to his testosterone level..."
"That changed the day Life...picked up Muscle..."
:D
