Post by Steve Gardener on Nov 29, 2008 11:00:58 GMT
Yet again inspired by the idiocy of some members on other forums... and to a lesser degree some buddies from Gymnation.
I must be getting old because the ease with which some use Cialis, Viagra and the like, combined with booze and various class a drugs on top of, no doubt, some gear use is to me a little amazing.
Now it's either a case of pick a little from box a, something from box c and enjoy - in other words 'just what I do' or, which is more worrying, because the person in question hasn't joined the dots.
Let's start with the Gymnation lads. In to the laps of a few came some end of line, just past their sell by date, pseudo steroids. These are prohormones in name only and, as I did, a little back ground checking basically shows several warnings to treat them as low dose oral anabolics. If you do so then, like many do with oral AAS, you take certain precautions. Or, as per my my buds, you don't. Cue one getting a mild case of Jaundice, all bar one using more than the recommended dose and all bar one take the aforementioned precautions (and he came to see me for, as per Arnold's line in Pumping Iron, 'zee advices').
In the case of the other group they are, using their own turn of phrase, arming themselves for a heavy weekend. Basically caning it big style and wanting to be ready for 'action' if said opportunity arises (ahem). So they can drink themselves silly, do some coke, maybe get lucky and still be able to perform. I can, having been 18-25 a while ago, get my head around the idea. But as Cialis and the like were intended for those with problems in that area (indeed all the previously mentioned drugs were meant to help with something originally) it has been said that use of said aids will, in time and especially if abused, result in you ONLY being able to perform with their help.
If, in the gym, you persistently get an aching shoulder then perhaps you're doing something wrong. Painkillers take away the ache but the injury remains. 2+2. If you work 80 hours a week, barely get any sleep and feel run down with the sniffles non-stop perhaps you're over worked = 2+2.
Now if the only way you can enjoy yourself or more specifically get 'up' is to use viagra then either she's damned ugly, your just greedy, or perhaps you're overdoing it. 2+2.
There is, even among us older fools (I nearly said old but not yet dammit!) a desire to perform - in the gym mind - I'll allow for an act or two of folly. But surely so many acts, all those drugs, even in the younger 'I'll change when I get older I'm just enjoying myself now' crowd be a small sense of 'I may not recover from this abuse'. Is there a small 2+2 to be added??
I'm not telling those with a few spare quid, in the time we're all calling 'the credit crunch', still young and capable to going out and having a grand night with the lads and lasses to stay at home and become young old fogies before their time. But I am suggesting there might be a price to pay. Indeed almost certainly.
But payment aside the main 2+2 here is not thinking. In the case of my Gymnation buds one is a drug free association referee. Now unless he's jacked it in (I don't know) did he think because it's an OTC product it'd be ok to use according to his fed rules? Did he think it being OTC means it isn't like a roid and precautions didn't need to be taken? Did none of them bother looking at reviews and comments of others on-line that he used the product?? It seems that way.
2+2 guys for fucks sake.
I must be getting old because the ease with which some use Cialis, Viagra and the like, combined with booze and various class a drugs on top of, no doubt, some gear use is to me a little amazing.
Now it's either a case of pick a little from box a, something from box c and enjoy - in other words 'just what I do' or, which is more worrying, because the person in question hasn't joined the dots.
Let's start with the Gymnation lads. In to the laps of a few came some end of line, just past their sell by date, pseudo steroids. These are prohormones in name only and, as I did, a little back ground checking basically shows several warnings to treat them as low dose oral anabolics. If you do so then, like many do with oral AAS, you take certain precautions. Or, as per my my buds, you don't. Cue one getting a mild case of Jaundice, all bar one using more than the recommended dose and all bar one take the aforementioned precautions (and he came to see me for, as per Arnold's line in Pumping Iron, 'zee advices').
In the case of the other group they are, using their own turn of phrase, arming themselves for a heavy weekend. Basically caning it big style and wanting to be ready for 'action' if said opportunity arises (ahem). So they can drink themselves silly, do some coke, maybe get lucky and still be able to perform. I can, having been 18-25 a while ago, get my head around the idea. But as Cialis and the like were intended for those with problems in that area (indeed all the previously mentioned drugs were meant to help with something originally) it has been said that use of said aids will, in time and especially if abused, result in you ONLY being able to perform with their help.
If, in the gym, you persistently get an aching shoulder then perhaps you're doing something wrong. Painkillers take away the ache but the injury remains. 2+2. If you work 80 hours a week, barely get any sleep and feel run down with the sniffles non-stop perhaps you're over worked = 2+2.
Now if the only way you can enjoy yourself or more specifically get 'up' is to use viagra then either she's damned ugly, your just greedy, or perhaps you're overdoing it. 2+2.
There is, even among us older fools (I nearly said old but not yet dammit!) a desire to perform - in the gym mind - I'll allow for an act or two of folly. But surely so many acts, all those drugs, even in the younger 'I'll change when I get older I'm just enjoying myself now' crowd be a small sense of 'I may not recover from this abuse'. Is there a small 2+2 to be added??
I'm not telling those with a few spare quid, in the time we're all calling 'the credit crunch', still young and capable to going out and having a grand night with the lads and lasses to stay at home and become young old fogies before their time. But I am suggesting there might be a price to pay. Indeed almost certainly.
But payment aside the main 2+2 here is not thinking. In the case of my Gymnation buds one is a drug free association referee. Now unless he's jacked it in (I don't know) did he think because it's an OTC product it'd be ok to use according to his fed rules? Did he think it being OTC means it isn't like a roid and precautions didn't need to be taken? Did none of them bother looking at reviews and comments of others on-line that he used the product?? It seems that way.
2+2 guys for fucks sake.
