steroids
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jaysheldon21
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steroids
Ive been told that steroids would help me in my martial arts training has anyone got any advice about this please? I would be grateful for your advice. thanks
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I don't see in what way would steroids help you in martial arts. Only hard work and dedication makes you a martial artist.jaysheldon21 wrote:Ive been told that steroids would help me in my martial arts training has anyone got any advice about this please? I would be grateful for your advice. thanks
Steroids could help any performance athlete.It could help you make weight if you want to move up a weight class,can help you train longer and harder,and the 'roid rage could give you increased aggression when fighting.
There are lots of risks with taking performance enhancing drugs but those should be given to you by someone far more knowledgable than me.
The main thing you have to assess is the increased benefits compared to these risks.
If you aren't a pro who needs to win to get paid and live(and even then it isn't something i'd consider or risk) i don't see the reason to risk your health.
Dragon.
There are lots of risks with taking performance enhancing drugs but those should be given to you by someone far more knowledgable than me.
The main thing you have to assess is the increased benefits compared to these risks.
If you aren't a pro who needs to win to get paid and live(and even then it isn't something i'd consider or risk) i don't see the reason to risk your health.
Dragon.
Yes, some countries have legalized them: selling them as pharmaceutical drugs. In my home town, for example, I know some young novice bodybuilders who buy drugs based on steroids at the local drugstore. Once I heard at Tv that a young bodybuilder died from taking steroids. And he was only 17-18 years old. So, think better before you act!
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jaysheldon21
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jaysheldon21
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Dragon, with respect, I disagree with your statement that anabolic steroids can help any performance athlete. To my knowlege, the relation between steroid usage and connective tissue injury is still unknown. I did a quick google search but couldn't find anything conclusive, just some random concerns.dragon wrote:Steroids could help any performance athlete.It could help you make weight if you want to move up a weight class,can help you train longer and harder,and the 'roid rage could give you increased aggression when fighting.
There are lots of risks with taking performance enhancing drugs but those should be given to you by someone far more knowledgable than me.
The main thing you have to assess is the increased benefits compared to these risks.
If you aren't a pro who needs to win to get paid and live(and even then it isn't something i'd consider or risk) i don't see the reason to risk your health.
Dragon.
Also, I'm not sure that increased aggression is always a good thing in fighting. Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance here, but my understanding is that many top martial artists -- especially those studying Chinese arts -- spend a great deal of effort on "dissolving the ego" and "fighting with balanced emotions". The problem is that when you get overly aggressive, you tend to focus only on offense and leave yourself open, tend to develop "tunnel vision" where you focus largely on the target you are aiming at at the expense of peripheral vision that is necessary to detect roundhouse and cresent kicks, and telegraph your moves with grimises and other such facial expressions.
Anabolic steroids are clearly a benefit to bodybuilders. For athletes involved in explosive combat sports, I'm not so convinced of their overall benefit.
-Mark
It is hard to find legitamate medical infromation on the internet(which is why i suggested someone more knowledgable than me advises).mmeloon wrote: To my knowlege, the relation between steroid usage and connective tissue injury is still unknown. I did a quick google search but couldn't find anything conclusive, just some random concerns.
The info i have refering to injuries comes from the theory(or it may be fact,i don't know) that because of the muscle growth stimulated by anabolic steroids they are used to speed injuries were muscle damage has occured.
Cortisone(the injections you may have to recieve for injuries) is a steroid.
My explanation of the "aggression" thing was far too brief.Yes,increased rage when fighting offensively can cause stupid mistakes and wild shots that easily miss the target.From a defensive point of view though,aggression/adrenaline has an anaesthetic effect that could help you when under attack.Sometimes the pain doesn't set in for a while after you've calmed down.mmeloon wrote:Also, I'm not sure that increased aggression is always a good thing in fighting. Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance here, but my understanding is that many top martial artists -- especially those studying Chinese arts -- spend a great deal of effort on "dissolving the ego" and "fighting with balanced emotions". The problem is that when you get overly aggressive, you tend to focus only on offense and leave yourself open
You may have felt this if you're a contact fighter or if you've been unlucky enough to have been involved in a more serious physical altercation.
I certainly don't have all the answers(or maybe even the right ones).Just trying to be as objective as possible.
Dragon.
Yes, but cortisone, prednisone, and their ilk are corticosteroids, not anabolic steroids. You may be correct that anabolic steroids are used to treat damage to muscles. What my post was getting at is that I'm worried that using anabolic steroids may have a detrimental effect on connective tissues, although indirectly. While corticosteroids are often used to treat inflammation of connective tissues, anabolic steroids most certaintly are not. Maybe this is an old wife's tale, but I was always told that because anabolic steroids build up muscle but don't assist in strengthening of connective tissue to support those new muscles that athletes were setting themselves up for injury.dragon wrote:It is hard to find legitamate medical infromation on the internet(which is why i suggested someone more knowledgable than me advises).mmeloon wrote: To my knowlege, the relation between steroid usage and connective tissue injury is still unknown. I did a quick google search but couldn't find anything conclusive, just some random concerns.
The info i have refering to injuries comes from the theory(or it may be fact,i don't know) that because of the muscle growth stimulated by anabolic steroids they are used to speed injuries were muscle damage has occured.
Cortisone(the injections you may have to recieve for injuries) is a steroid.
I may be completely wrong. After all, I suspect many football players are taking anabolic steroids. As I say, I did a quick look around the web before posting my original message and couldn't find anything conclusive regarding anabolic steroid usage and connective tissue injury.
-Mark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroids
(contains list of positive and negative effects)
Anabolic steroids also have virilizing effects, but by taking an aromatase inhibitor and/or a SERM (these drugs affect aromatisation and estrogen receptor binding respectively), you might reduce the risk of irreversible gynecomastia. (SERM tamoxifen prevents binding to the estrogen recepetor in the breast.)
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You can't bypass the negative feedback by taking Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (which would increase testicular production of testosterone and prevent testicular atrophy) because of the receptor downregulation that follows the initial increase in LH and FSH, which in turn results in a profound hypogonadal effect.
Note: The most effective steroids also have the strongest androgenic characteristics.
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Conclusion:
Do not take steroids!
As testicular atrophy might only be temporary with a moderate intake, gynecomastia is not. (Not yet convinced? I am...)
It also increases the chance of an adverse cardiac event occurring in later life. (One day you suddenly drop dead on the floor...)
Heavy and long-term users of steroids might also experience liver damage and prostate cancer or other medical illness.
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"On October 22nd, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 (S.2195). (Effective from January 20, 2005)
This legislation places both anabolic steroids and prohormones on a list of controlled substances (a new type of 'regulatory control').
Anabolic steroids is a Schedule III drug:
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.
These drugs are available only by prescription, though control of wholesale distribution is somewhat less stringent than Schedule II drugs."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_substance)
(contains list of positive and negative effects)
Anabolic steroids also have virilizing effects, but by taking an aromatase inhibitor and/or a SERM (these drugs affect aromatisation and estrogen receptor binding respectively), you might reduce the risk of irreversible gynecomastia. (SERM tamoxifen prevents binding to the estrogen recepetor in the breast.)
---
You can't bypass the negative feedback by taking Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (which would increase testicular production of testosterone and prevent testicular atrophy) because of the receptor downregulation that follows the initial increase in LH and FSH, which in turn results in a profound hypogonadal effect.
Note: The most effective steroids also have the strongest androgenic characteristics.
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Conclusion:
Do not take steroids!
As testicular atrophy might only be temporary with a moderate intake, gynecomastia is not. (Not yet convinced? I am...)
It also increases the chance of an adverse cardiac event occurring in later life. (One day you suddenly drop dead on the floor...)
Heavy and long-term users of steroids might also experience liver damage and prostate cancer or other medical illness.
---
"On October 22nd, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 (S.2195). (Effective from January 20, 2005)
This legislation places both anabolic steroids and prohormones on a list of controlled substances (a new type of 'regulatory control').
Anabolic steroids is a Schedule III drug:
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.
These drugs are available only by prescription, though control of wholesale distribution is somewhat less stringent than Schedule II drugs."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_substance)