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Simon Gama
What’s happening in bodybuilding today is a travesty and the indiscriminate use of drugs is the culprit. It’s on a par with what’s happening in our society today.
The emphasis is on winning at any cost and anything goes just to win. Kids in baseball, soccer, hockey, football, etc..are expected to win, win, win.
I believe that this emphasis on winning is in part responsible for the predominance of drugs not only in bodybuilding but also in other sports.
I also believe that you’ ll never stop it as long as the pressure is on winning. I’ve talked to bodybuilders who know that talking steroids and drugs will take years off their life, but they don’t seem to care.
That dream of winning is like the carrot before the horse. Today a bodybuilder has to get his or her muscles larger and larger, more out of shape and more grotesque in order to win.
Unfortunately, it can only be done with drugs. It should be the drugs. It should be the other way around, the body should be in perfect shape in other words,good symmetry and without drugs.
The use of unlawful drugs will destroy you mentally physically, morally and spiritually. The users are only cheating and lying to themselves.
They are also breaking the law as well as nature’s law. It wasn’t always that way.
I started out in the dark ages when we were ignorant about physical fitness. There was weight lifting but no scientific bodybuilding.
The average person and even the doctors thought that weightlifting would cause you to become muscle-bound, to have heart attacks, haemorrhoids, and could shorten your life.
The movies made weightlifters out to be clumsy, stupid freaks. Today, drugs and steroids actually do make the bodybuilders who use them look like freaks.
Back then it was unheard of to use drugs, bodybuilders wanted to develop bodies that bodybuilders wanted to develop bodies that looked like the Greek sculptures.
The works of Phidas and Praxiteles were thought to be the best examples of perfection of proportion of the male human figure.
Personally, my idol was Anorld Schwarzenegger a bodybuilder from USA who I thought had perfect proportional body.
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