There is a lengthy video on You Tube someone linked on the forum about Shelby Starnes and his destructive prep coaching, particularly for women. Some of the talk was about possibly having Shelby charged with manslaughter. I’m no lawyer, but I can’t see how that’s even possible. I mean, yes, he’s reckless but would another prep coach be more responsible simply because he’s less reckless. Women who engage competitive drug-aided bodybuilding are reckless to begin with considering they willfully use diuretics and steroids and purposefully overtrain and go on starvation diets to peak for shows.
There is no “responsible” or “health-conscious” guru! None! That goes for those recommending to eat your veggies and exhorting people to get their blood checked. Walking into a doctors office and getting lab values checked doesn’t do a damn thing besides show the obvious: the drugs are destroying a bodybuilder. But doing what’s necessary to get healthy is hard, and also involves the obvious: stop doing the drugs, starvation dieting, and excessive training.
Both women on the show have that virilized, disturbing voice common in CrossFit and bodybuilding. This means they take anabolics by their own volition and they willingly go to coaches who do what’s necessary to win in drug aided female bodybuilding, and fucking oneself up is part of the game.
Recent competitor deaths are tragedies, and although I was somewhat moved by the death of John Meadows, a more hardened part of me cannot help but revert to a common Getbig adage: Ya play, ya pay!
What do you guys think of all this, seriously?
