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Though not generally a big fan of Flex magazine other than the pictures....lol. I did find this month's editor's page very interesting.
Here is a summary:
"This magazine will periodically cover the issue of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in mainstream sports, such as baseball, in the form of journalistic commentary that recognizes drugs are a fact of life in nearly all, if not all professional sports. Yet, Baseball Weekly doesn't have articles on how to inject testosterone. Basketball Digest doesn't offer advice on taking growth hormone. Sporting News doesn't tell you where to score drugs in Mexico. Why should Flex?
Many in the bodybuilding media are obsessed with the subject. If you were to believe themm you would think that training and nutrition are secondary to illegal steroids. This is a dangerous myth, one that is usually promoted by those outside the sport, but is it any wonder that with these views promulgated by insiders it's so hard for bodybuilding to gain respect from the mainstream?
Gym Drug dealers also perpetuate the myth that the type of development we see at the Olympia level is all due to drugs. They act out of their own self interest, of course. These same people are the ones who said six-time Mr. O Dorian Yates won all those Sandows because he had a secret drug or combo that no one else had. Rubish! Hard work, supreme tenacity, the right genetics and a warrior mentality - not something found in a needle or a bottle - made Yates the champion he is.
Here's the truth: Ronnie Coleman wone eight Mr. Olympia contests because he had the best body in the world, not because he had the best drugs. That's an inescapable fact. To assert otherwise contradicts reality and common sense. If drugs really do make the bodybuilder, then only drug gurus would win Mr. Olympia contests.
The late Dan Duchaine, the first and most famous of the so-called steroid gurus, told me in the only coversation we ever had that he tried every steroid combo he could think of, and he still never got to be more than 180 pounds. Look at the in-house steroid advisers writing for other bodybuilding magazines. Have you seen any of those people on the Olympia stage lately? I wouldn't of thought so.
Genetics and drive are what make bodybuilding champions, just as they make champions in other sports.
........"
Discuss.
Here is a summary:
"This magazine will periodically cover the issue of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in mainstream sports, such as baseball, in the form of journalistic commentary that recognizes drugs are a fact of life in nearly all, if not all professional sports. Yet, Baseball Weekly doesn't have articles on how to inject testosterone. Basketball Digest doesn't offer advice on taking growth hormone. Sporting News doesn't tell you where to score drugs in Mexico. Why should Flex?
Many in the bodybuilding media are obsessed with the subject. If you were to believe themm you would think that training and nutrition are secondary to illegal steroids. This is a dangerous myth, one that is usually promoted by those outside the sport, but is it any wonder that with these views promulgated by insiders it's so hard for bodybuilding to gain respect from the mainstream?
Gym Drug dealers also perpetuate the myth that the type of development we see at the Olympia level is all due to drugs. They act out of their own self interest, of course. These same people are the ones who said six-time Mr. O Dorian Yates won all those Sandows because he had a secret drug or combo that no one else had. Rubish! Hard work, supreme tenacity, the right genetics and a warrior mentality - not something found in a needle or a bottle - made Yates the champion he is.
Here's the truth: Ronnie Coleman wone eight Mr. Olympia contests because he had the best body in the world, not because he had the best drugs. That's an inescapable fact. To assert otherwise contradicts reality and common sense. If drugs really do make the bodybuilder, then only drug gurus would win Mr. Olympia contests.
The late Dan Duchaine, the first and most famous of the so-called steroid gurus, told me in the only coversation we ever had that he tried every steroid combo he could think of, and he still never got to be more than 180 pounds. Look at the in-house steroid advisers writing for other bodybuilding magazines. Have you seen any of those people on the Olympia stage lately? I wouldn't of thought so.
Genetics and drive are what make bodybuilding champions, just as they make champions in other sports.
........"
Discuss.
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