RE: PED-Performance enchancing drugs
The long term effects of PED's is typically not positive. And the influence they have on younger kids is profound when they see athletes they admire caught of PED's. I remember hen Mark McGuire had Androsteendiod in his locker...which was used to cover up the fact he was using Steroids. But he, Sosa, Bonds, Palmeiro were just killing the baseball. 50 homerun seasons were common.
Now with testing and punishment it becomes a question of Risk vs Reward. Is it worth it to get suspended for using PED's. Baseball has an 80 game suspension on your first offense, a full season 2nd offense, and lifetime ban for a 3rd offense.
Football it ranges 2-8 games i believe for a 1st offense. But Marijuana counts the same as a PED.
MMA with USADA testing has cleaned up the sport a lot and a fighter can be suspended 6 month to a year. Which is a lot of money out of their pocket.
So in all I think it's not worth it. For your health and career. Although I can see if I a guy has no shot at making it or needs a monster year in the last year of his deal he just goes for it. Like a Ryan Braun. lol.
I totally agree with you. There are many bad side affects of using PED.
We could write pages about why not use them. This time I wanted to explain from another point of view.
What kind of person are you becoming when you cheat others with taking this kind of drugs.
Maybe we can understand proffesionals when It's all about money. But to many amateurs use them to step forward and don't care what they are doing to their bodies.
You know that is GREAT point. One thing I remember that has stuck with me in regards to PED's is BJ Penn. He is a MMA fighter I LOVE. He is clean and fights fighters WAY BIGGER than him. But unfortunately he ha gotten into fights with guys HIGHLY suspect able for using PED's.
But he said something in an interview that has always stuck with me. Since he is clean...every time he trains for a fight and pushes his body...the next morning he can BARELY get out of bed. Dudes on PED's recover much faster thus having an advantage. Plus he mentioned in MMA you are out there to Kill or be Killed and it's not right if someone CHEATED to have an advantage to KILL you.
Exactly:D Once I was talking with my friend. We've been together in martial arts for 2 decades. And as I remember he was using PED for more than 10 years.
Few years ago he flew to Florida(we are from Europe) to pass a belt test. After a month there his body ran out of supplements he was taking and in a phone call he was explaining me how tired he is, sour, everything hurted him,....
All I could answer him was.....my dear friend this is NORMAL....we all live like this. When you train hard, it hurts...and it takes days to recover:)