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- From: laurie@bnr.co.uk (Laurie Constantin)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: perspective (is it just me?)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:25:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.033520.28797@athena.mit.edu> aleck@athena.mit.edu (Aleck H Alexopoulos) writes:
- >
- >He is well aware of the risks. Its all one big calculated risk.
- >He figures he can achieve the "ultimate" - like a 800lb bench, a 1200 lb
- >squat, a 7000lb back lift etc - by a certain age and then stop
- >the drugs and hope that his body can recover.
- >
- >|> What I am getting to, in a round-about way, is that in our quest for higher
- >|> performance, and general physical excellence, is that each of us only has
- >|> one body, and it's gotta' last us the rest of our lives. I see no point in
- >|> doing things that are guaranteed to destroy your health in the name of
- >|> fitness.
- >
- >I dont think anyone disagrees! What i would add is that if someone
- >chooses - with good knowledge of the risks involved - to take steroids etc
- >in order to reach his ultimate limits of size and strength its not our
- >position to judge him. Only if that person comes out saying that hes
- >natural then one can maybe call him dishonest (probably not to his face
- >though.....).
- >
- >
- >Aleck
- >
-
-
- It's very sad that bodybuilding and powerlifting can be at both
- extremes of the health scale - on the one hand, recreational body
- builders and powerlifters (and natural competitors in those sports)
- are probably a group of the healthiest, fittest people on the planet.
-
- On the other hand, however, competitive bodybuilding and powerlifting,
- where the big bucks and drugs are, contain people who consider their
- short and long term health as a very minor part of their lives; even
- when others are dropping dead at their feet.
-
-
- Laurie, a concerned and drug-free powerlifter.
-
-
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