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In personal use it's fine, when competing it raises the bar to you needing to use steroids to compete. Anyone not comfortable with messing with their hormones and dealing with the effects will never keep up



This is why (according to lots of videos I've seen on youtube) there are two "tracks" for body-building competitions. One "track" has rules that prohibit steroid use, and do regular testing to enforce the rules. The other track has no rules prohibiting steroid use. They're not required, naturally, but it's basically understood that if you want to use them it's fine... which means you'd have to be a freak of nature to compete effectively on that track without taking them.

Might be interesting to see what it would look like to have two tracks for other sports as well.


Every bodybuilder in any competition that isn't labeled as a natural competition uses them. That's just how bodybuilding turned out. Sure, you could debate on if that is good, but then don't argue about the athletes using them, but the orgs allowing it.


Nearly all athletes are on PEDs, many even at the recreational level.

That ship has long sailed.


Idk people always say that but athletes get suspended when their caught and it's always a decent sized scandal when it happens




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