There has been widespread use of anabolic steroids among athletes, bodybuilders, people seeking to lose weight and those seeking to gain weight. Many athletes have been fascinated with steroids due to its ability to enhance their performance by boosting the energy levels. Those athletes participating in activities such as swimming, and marathons have been able to increase their endurance while competing. This however gives them an advantage over all the others and that is why they have been banned by the IFBB.
A lot of bodybuilders, including professional bodybuilders use steroids due to its ability to make them overcome a bodybuilding plateau. This is the point where a bodybuilder is not able to achieve further increase in muscle size due to complacency. Steroids are able to enhance the synthesis of proteins and this is why they are effective in breaking the plateau.
Very many people have been unable to realize love of self, no matter how many self-help books they have read. Let’s face it, you can not be able to feel good about yourself if you do not like the way you look. If you are overweight then the only thing you need to do, so that you feel good about yourself, is to lose weight. There have been various articles posted on the net and magazines which offer guidelines on the proper way to lose weight. The problem with the solutions offered on these articles is that they are always contradicting with each other that it becomes difficult to make a decision. People who are overweight have also been able to lose weight thanks to steroids.
For the hard gainers steroids have also enabled them to gain weight especially since the fitness industry has neglected their needs. A lot of people are not able to gain weight due to misinformation and misunderstanding. These two words although closely related mean totally different things. Misinformation occurs due to poor quality information due to lack of adequate research and data analysis. Such misleading information could drive people to try out implausible weight gain programs. This weight loss programs could end up endangering the health of the individual. Misunderstanding occurs due to erroneous conclusions reached by these articles. Steroids are much easier to understand and use than any weight gain program.
Steroids have other benefits apart from helping people transform there body. They have been of great benefit to old people because they reduce the adverse effects of aging such as; a decrease in sexual drive, a decrease in energy and feeling of fatigue, lack of sleep at night, feeling of depression and withdrawal syndromes, loss of hair, weakening of the nails, increase in fat, loss of muscles, weakening of the bones, and wrinkles.
Steroids also have some side effects which include; enlargement of the clitoris, shrinking testicles, low libido, low sperm count, impotence in men, loss of hair, growth of facial hair in women, coarse voice in women, increase in aggression, heart problems, liver conditions, kidney problems and sleeping disorders and irregularity in women’s menstrual cycle.
