few bodybuilders from this site keep asking me why are painkillers needed in bodybuilding in particular,,i try to avoid discussing it but ill say couple things about it and it will be clarified
no matter how much drugs you take,,,you still get to a
point that only lifting big will grow you,,even if for couple little mili inches,,,
the ones who choose seo are the ones who try to avoid the big lifting and preach for lowering the weight (aka milos sacrev,,dim,,you get the idea) which is good but you will get to a point where you stop growing and no matter how saturated your muscles/blood is with hormones at the higher levels,, more growth of actual muscle will only take place if you go through heavy lifting,,very heavy lifting,,tom prince is a very good example so is ron colman of heavy lifting,,very heavy lifting,,
not all pros/top amatuers go through this,,some prefer short cuts and you can grow well with moderate lifting,,but there is always this time when you want more and cant get more and that is where heavy lifting or seo come to play ,,or both!
now,,how painkillers come into the picture,,
the same bodybuilders take the painkillers inorder to go through the pain of heavy lifting,,,you knkow when you hold in your arms 2-3 45 plates each side of the bar and make your curls,,it is painfull,,very very painful especially when you carry so much muscle and your tendoins/bones are prone to injury because of the mass,,
when taking painkiller the pain is gone and you dont feel a thing but buzz and high,, with zero pain on the surface,,brain dont feel a thing thus you can go and continue growing couple more mili inches,,
most guys today are lazy and use only seo,,,but arnold and kevin and dorian and many estern europians used and still use to this date painkillers for this specific reason,,,'pain barrier on the way to bigger muscle' ,,infact plenty of american pros use painkillers but to be honest with you i dont know for what because they dont lift no heavy weight,,only one i saw go crazy on the weights was thomas and branch,,many others use it to get high and feel good about all their problems by not feeling a thing
and that is where the problem is
the ones who die are the ones who get addicted and abuse those painkillers because they like the high feeling,,those are the ones who end up dieing and then put bad light on bodybuilding as sport
