Mark McGwire Admits to Using Steroids – No…Really!?
Mark McGwire finally admitted he uses steroids for a period of 10 years.
This is hardly surprising considering how big this guy was. Have a look at this picture. If you want to look like this, then you need to use drugs.
You can't get an arm this big without drugs, and he admitted it!
This is part of the reason so many guys get caught up in the trap of trying to be bigger and never getting there. Many guys will look to sports figures such as McGwire or Bonds, or some other pro athlete and assume that it is possible to get to the same size without drugs.
If you don’t know these guys personally you will never know if they are taking drugs or not.
I’d guess that most major league baseball players who are in any sort of shape that people look up to are on some kind of performance enhancing drugs.
We’ve seen a bunch of them get busted now including McGwire, A-Rod, Palmeiro, Clemens, Sosa and on and on.
You’d have to be pretty naive to think these guys were the only guys who did it and that the rest of them are ‘clean’.
It seems logical to conclude that if these guys did them, then that is simply what it takes to compete at the major league level, and by default most guys who are excelling at that level are also using.
And this is just baseball. I would guess that most of the NFL and NCAA football players are also using many different drugs considering they have hundreds of guys as big or bigger than McGwire.
The bottom line is that it’s rather obvious that most of the fitness models, bodybuilders, pro athletes (and even some celebrities) are using drugs or other items to enhance their body.
If you seriously want to look like them you also have to be prepared to do what they’re doing to get that look.
The choice is yours to make.
John
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January 13th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I agree John. Between steroid usage and referees fixing games, I can’t hardly believe anything I see on sportcenter anymore. Nevertheless, I don’t feel so bad looking at my athletic but slim stature in the mirror now. Atleast it’s the Real me.
January 14th, 2010 at 4:18 am
hey John I have a question..so your saying that a calorie is a calorie..so eating carbs is ok as long as you are in the right amount of calories for the day and not gain weight?
January 14th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Hulaggrl,
yes.
JB
January 14th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Hey John,
In bollywood, well muscled physiques are all the range, much more aesthetic than the skinny men of hollywood (tobey macguire, shia leabouef, etc.)
Do you think this actor is on steroids?
How can you tell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoIPIwFc7I
Before, I was sure he was clean based on looking at him and his public comments, now after this post, I may need to find a new idol (or start taking roids).
January 15th, 2010 at 5:12 am
I live in the UK so had never heard of Mark McGwire before, after reading this I put his name into Google and the first thing that sprung up was this ENORMOUS set of traps, not by bodybuilding standards, but for an athlete. I don’t know if there are more androgen receptors in the trapezius but it’s funny when you see a guy do his first course and he gets that amateur wrestler look. Either way I looked at him and thought “So there was like a time when people thought ‘sure that guys natural!’ funny what people will believe…”
January 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Andrew,
Pretty ridiculous. The mainstream public that doesn’t go to a gym really has no idea how big steroids make a guy compared to a guy who is natural.
JB
January 16th, 2010 at 11:34 am
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January 19th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
On the other hand though, I know/ train with/ have trained with, a lot of guys who use a scary amount of gear who don’t even really look as though they train too hard. It’s scary how prevalent it is in my home town. I must look like I work out because any time I bump into someone I haven’t seen in a while, they start telling me how much gear they’re on, I always feel like asking them when they plan on beginning to train.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Andrew,
I’m with you, most people have no idea how common steroid use is. About half of my high school football team was on them, and I’d say that was about average for most of the high school teams in our city. I’d also say that approx 25% of all the guys in any gym that I’ve ever been to are on something. And of course this accounts for the top 25% (with respect to size and strength)
Most guys who’ve never been in those circles will never really get how many people are ‘on’ and the difference between what is achievable without drugs vs with drugs.
JB
January 19th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Talking about this just reminded me of two guys I used to know, who picked up some Equipoise from a friend, like £1000 worth of Ganabol, but the only training they would do was to run up and down a flight of stairs and do some press-ups a few times a week, which doesn’t seem too bad until I found a out they’d drink like 5-6 pints of lager every night before and after their “workouts”. Brilliant.
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