David Robson - The Steroid Dilemma: Mr. America, Steve Michalik Gives His View.

**webmaster** · 04-15-2005, 05:32 PM

Steroid use in bodybuilding has always been a contentious issue. Many feel steroids should be outlawed for health and ethical reasons, while a large percentage believe their use is essential and bodybuilding would be a waste of time without them.

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04-17-2005, 10:27 PM

"This is planet Earth, a place full of deceit, lies, scams, and a whole bunch of frightened beings trying to survive. Cheating is rampant. Ethics and morals are but fleeting memories of a race that values the almighty dollar more than their very soul; where honor is replaced by winning at any price."

Very well stated, I also enjoyed the statement about insulin loading and hormonal manipulation, this is the key. You will grow in strength and size like crazy if you know how to properly do this for yourself. I can teach anyone how if interested.

04-18-2005, 01:23 AM

i think this guy abused steroids. i think a lil bit can actually be benifical; for example deca can lube the joints.

now i dont think a person needs any hormones when there younger, but when the person is older i think some hrt is good.

the main thing we really dont need any of this if we have normal tesotrone ranges.(if the persons test level is low i can understand) it all depends on what the person wants to do and how well the person can handle doign steroids pyschologially.

just keeping diet in check can lower estrogen levels and raise test levels.

in summary steroids can be benifical. if you do use them be safe with them,so itll be healthy and benefical for ALL CONCERNED, and use measurable precaustions with them.

BigJoe15 · 04-18-2005, 09:00 AM

I agree with what the guy said on many levels, I do agree there are positive uses to steroids hence doctors perscribing them for certain things still. However I respect this guy for telling it like it is and basically saying how the pro's use isn't a possitive use. I wouldnt say steroids are "bad" or anything like that but I could see the bodybuilding world being better off without them, or at least better off without HGH and Insulin. I appreciate his views on the physiques of today and realise some say that banning roids would collapse the bodybuilding industry. Frankly I feel as long as there are people who like to train, build muscle naturally and show it off, bodybuilding will stay around. I couldnt give two ****s about all this comercial bodybuilding industry stuff, it was never like that at the start. Bodybuilding already has recognition in the general publics eyes with the arnold classic etc. Bodybuilding can never go mainstream but it CAN be accepted and appreciated as a desplay of the human form, unlike currently where it is a desplay of the human form combined with chemistry and a wealth of unatural anabolic agents!
Just my 2 cents, feel free to flame lol.

BigJoe

**str8flexed** · 04-20-2005, 11:16 PM

To be honest I hope the IFBB doesn't ban them. Even if they "banned them" their tests would be a joke and everyone would think the guys were "drug free" It would also cause a severe blow to the real natural bodybuilding organizations who have fought so hard for their sport to survive by using stringent testing.

BigJoe15 · 04-21-2005, 08:16 AM

Yeah, I would like to see them banned properly. But I can see your point, some of the IFBB's so called practices are a bit of a joke at times.

BigJoe

homer77 · 04-21-2005, 11:22 AM

just like anything else, if the consumer is educated in the subject they are much better off. I know many guys who are on and they are not the crazy, mood swinging, crazy people that you say. I take offense to that. On the mental side of drugs it's all what you already start with. If you are already a jumpy person it's just gonna push you over the edge. If you are laid back, it makes you more laid back. I really dont want to fight over the rights and wrongs of drug use. the point is it is here to stay. SO EDUCATE

lucubration. · 04-21-2005, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by str8flexed

To be honest I hope the IFBB doesn't ban them. Even if they "banned them" their tests would be a joke and everyone would think the guys were "drug free" It would also cause a severe blow to the real natural bodybuilding organizations who have fought so hard for their sport to survive by using stringent testing.

I am unclear here. I thought, technically, in the IFBB, that steroids were banned? Don't they have tests like once a year or something? I'm probably wrong...

forklift · 04-22-2005, 03:45 AM

what about freedom? or we don't trust other people to make their own decisions...

**str8flexed** · 04-22-2005, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by lucubration.

I am unclear here. I thought, technically, in the IFBB, that steroids were banned? Don't they have tests like once a year or something? I'm probably wrong...

not really, they have banned diuretics... but not steroids

lucubration. · 04-22-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by str8flexed

not really, they have banned diuretics... but not steroids

But basically the IFBB is a marketing ploy for underground steroid dealers?

j/k

**admin** · 04-25-2005, 09:34 AM

A message from a visitor by email:

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First, let me say I love Bodybuilding.com. I have purchased many supplements and read it several times a week. I was quite disappointed, however, to read in the Steve Michalak article on his anti-steroid campaign that Lyle Alzado died of brain cancer due to steroid abuse. This may or may not be true. No one really knows. We do know, however, that no medical link between his steroid usage and his brain cancer has ever been made. Lyle may have believed this to be true, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. This a widely distributed piece of misinformation, and I was disheartened to see it on such a fine website as yours. Again, NOT ONE DOCTOR has ever determined his brain cancer was induced by steroids. Yes,
steroids can be very dangerous. But please stick to the facts.

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**str8flexed** · 04-25-2005, 09:39 AM

I agree with the emailer in that respect; however I don't think it's the authors fault... he was merely conducting an interview.

as far as cancer goes, most evidence points to prostate cancer being exacerbated by steroid use and some studies seem to indicated it may cause prostate cancer but it's still up for debate.

-Layne