Anabolics - Fighters Who You'd Guess...

The mental image we have of ourselves seldom matches the physical image others have of us,its known as perception ,or , more accurately, REALITY.:nono

 

It's cloudy here. :sad2

 

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I like the way you use the 3 syllable word "anabolics" when you could have used the 2 syllable word "steroids". It show much about you - or, in terms you would understand - the chosiosity of your verbiage envisions the plentificality of the mindset of your writification.

 

I am. Being a smartass too.

It's a good thread actually.

 

Shame on me, yes.

 

It is a good post, but most athletes (aside from bodybuilders) use steroids to promote recovery, and not to bulk up.

Simply put, a drug that will grow muscle is a drug that will heal muscles. If you recover faster you can train harder. And more often. Any athlete can benefit from this. That's why they all do it.

A side effect of steroid use is increased aggression (remember 'roid rage?). It's obvious how this would aid a fighter - especially an older or poorly motivated fighter (cough - Jones - cough- Mosely - ahem...)

Steroids are bad for you. There is a cost to using them. If there was no benefit to outweigh that cost to boxers, boxers simply wouldn't do it. But they do - that's been proved time and again.

They wouldn't do it if there was no benefit.

 

I don't see the connection myself with cutting weight and rehydrating for a fight and anabolic steroids.
Unless,of course you think that one of the functions of steroids is to increase your weight and blow up your muscles in the timeframe of a few hours.

 

It's especially paradoxic when you consider that the bulkiest boxers - heavyweights - don't need to make weight.