Steroid

most well known performance enhancers: anabolic steroids. I am completely against using steroids to improve your ability to play sports. There are people in working hard every single day to become the best in whatever sport they are playing and it is not fair to have someone come in and take short cuts to become the best. Some could…

Steroids Should be Banned from Sports Should steroids be banned from sports? That is the question many people ask themselves and others. I myself believe that steroids should be banned from every sport. Steroids have a plethora of downfalls to them which should make people realize they’re wrong. They have numerous health repercussions and side effects. They provide an unfair athletic advantage. Steroids even affect the integrity and fairness of the history of sports. Throughout this essay I will…

Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), primarily referred to as anabolic steroids, are synthetic variants of the male sex hormone testosterone that are either taken orally or injected into the muscles, or applied to the skin as a cream or gel. Anabolic steroids induce the protein synthesis in cellular tissues. This results in the buildup of cellular generations, especially in muscles, and in return can increase the strength and body weight in athletes (Zomorodian K et al. 3). Many people that are…

heating muscles: the use of steroids in sports A cool summer breeze flows through the air as we are impatiently waiting for the next pitch with excitement. “Crack!” The ball rockets into the air and it looks as if it could touch the stars. Another home run for my favorite Yankee, Alex Rodriguez. As he trots around the bases, the crowd screams and roars with appreciation for the man who has just won the game and continues to lift the city. Little did myself and all Yankee fans know that this…

has major negative effects on families and society. Anabolic steroids use has been associated with increased aggression and violent behaviour. And although the association between anabolic steroid use and criminal behaviour is still unclear, a recent population-based study in Sweden found that people who had used anabolic steroids were more likely to have been convicted for a criminal offence (Sinko 2). The lack of social life for a steroid user can cause them to do many criminal or harassing…

Steroids and Sports Since the implementation of steroids in sports five decades ago, they have been a controversial issue. (WebMD Medical News) Steroids first became available to athletes in the olympic games and other major sporting events around the 1950’s. Walking into a gym nowadays it is easily seen that someone is using steroids or some kind of performance enhancing drug. Anabolic steroids are popularly used in high school sports to professional levels. For the past 50 years, people…

Jim Sensenbrenner once said, “These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.” This is very true. People claim that the steroid era is over, but the fact of the matter is steroid use is still very common in today’s professional sports. In Forbes magazine, Josh Smith states that performance enhancing drugs and treatments have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues(Smith). Each year multiple people are banned from their…

Steroids; should we bring them back into sports? As many as 500,000 teenagers have experimented with steroids and think that it is the only way to become a professional athlete (¨Do Teens Use¨). Steroids scientifically known as anabolic steroids is a man made hormone that helps tissue grow. Unfortunately, they are abused by athletes to make them stronger and faster, and have critical side effects which include stunting teenagers growth (¨Merriam-Webster¨). According to procon.org, those who…

people are in quarrel on whether steroids should be legal or not pertaining to sports. While some say steroids offer a great new excitement into the sports culture, others say it is a way of cheating and allows an unfair advantage to the game. Although steroids may offer a slight boost in performance, they shouldn’t be allowed. The reason being is because it gives an unfair advantage in playing the game and it also encourages a vicious arms race. The use of steroids can cause an excessive amount…

Anabolic steroids were not always illegal drugs. In the 1960s and early 1970s bodybuilders and Olympic weightlifters legally received steroids from a pharmacy. However, in 1975 the International Olympic Committee officially banned the use of anabolic steroids in Olympic competitions (Anabolic). Although Olympians no longer legally took the drugs, black market sales skyrocketed in the following years (Anabolic). In 1988, the first major federal regulation of steroids was put into practice as part…