If you were offered 50 million to take a bottle of HCG, what would you do? It is the question professional athletes have to ask themselves everyday. Steroids, they are apart of our games today even while being banned. For fans, there is no downside to steroid usage, it makes the players bigger, better, faster, and stronger,allowing them to perform at their best and play longer. Many people see steroids as a bad thing, without knowing the benefits they can bring to the game. Legalizing steroids would make the fans and players happy, changing the game of sports in a good way, and allow openings for new records to be set.
One of the main reasons steroids should be legal is the fact that it is the athletes body and they should be in control. If …show more content…
Experts have found that at times steroids can help reduce the pain of playing hurt while healing their muscles of tears and strains. Many people do not realize what steroids actually do and how they work. According to David Duncan, “Anabolic steroids stimulate muscle tissue to grow and "bulk up" in response to training by mimicking the effect of naturally produced testosterone on the body”(Duncan). In other words, your muscles are made up of thousands of little protein fibers. When you work out the fibers get little tears in them, that is the feeling of soreness. They then heal and form back together to be stronger, usually within 48-72 hours. Steroids role in this process is speed up the healing process to 12-24 hours, steroids don’t automatically give you big muscles like many believe. Steroids are not some magic pill to make you look as if you were Arnold Schwarzenegger, they require work and weight training. In order to increase the effects, steroids require a healthy lifestyle, a healthy diet, and at least 8 hours of pure sleep with intense training. Lindsey Vonn could have been in the olympics but her ACL was injured during practice. The healing process could have been improved by steroids and sped up but, due to the Olympic rules she could not use them without being disqualified. Why should athletes have to sit and wait
One of the main reasons steroids should be legal is the fact that it is the athletes body and they should be in control. If …show more content…
Experts have found that at times steroids can help reduce the pain of playing hurt while healing their muscles of tears and strains. Many people do not realize what steroids actually do and how they work. According to David Duncan, “Anabolic steroids stimulate muscle tissue to grow and "bulk up" in response to training by mimicking the effect of naturally produced testosterone on the body”(Duncan). In other words, your muscles are made up of thousands of little protein fibers. When you work out the fibers get little tears in them, that is the feeling of soreness. They then heal and form back together to be stronger, usually within 48-72 hours. Steroids role in this process is speed up the healing process to 12-24 hours, steroids don’t automatically give you big muscles like many believe. Steroids are not some magic pill to make you look as if you were Arnold Schwarzenegger, they require work and weight training. In order to increase the effects, steroids require a healthy lifestyle, a healthy diet, and at least 8 hours of pure sleep with intense training. Lindsey Vonn could have been in the olympics but her ACL was injured during practice. The healing process could have been improved by steroids and sped up but, due to the Olympic rules she could not use them without being disqualified. Why should athletes have to sit and wait