I disagree with you. I think it's rationalization when you say all sports are using steroids to justify your use.
Just about every professional MMA fighter I speak to at Renzo's academy says that more than half of the guys are on PEDs. Alexander Rodriguez, Sosa, Mcgwire, Dwain Chambers, Marion Jones and the rest of the guys that have gotten caught have made mention of the fact that they are not alone. Lance Armstrong was caught and retired. During the BALCO Scandal in 2003, it was also revealed that are large contingent of NFL players were using PEDs. Victor Conte revealed that over 60% of Olympic athletes were all doping. So, lets see, we have MMA, Baseball, Football, racing cyclists and even Olympic competitors that have all been involved in the use of PEDs. I don't think that is a rationalization, it is simply the truth.
I'm saying the majority in sport don't and it's cheating when everyone isn't on them.
That's what you are saying, but clearly Belfort, Sonnen, Lance Armstrong, A-Rod, Mcgwire, Canseco, Victor Conte and former NFL coaches (see Jim Haslett as an example) can't be wrong in stating what they have.
You are correct in that it can be considered cheating when everyone isn't on them. This is why I support allowing widespread use of them, assuming they are at the very least medically monitored to insure optimum safety.
Kids look up to athletes. The last thing I want is high school kids and college kids shooting a syringe in their ass to play a game.
It's not the athletes fault that kids look up to them. Athletes should not be role models. They are businessmen performing for money and simply that. Kids shouldn't look up to guys that win the genetic lottery and end up getting a large contract to play a sport that they have a natural, genetic tendency to excel at. The vast majority of kids will never make it to being a professional athlete. Parents are there to hopefully serve as role models. Professional athletes today are drug addicts, criminals, rapists and just about everything under the sun except for role models.
Regarding the last thing you want is for kids to shoot themselves up the ass with a syringe. It's happening and it's happening every single day. This is not only at the college level, but also at the high school level. I'm about 50 years old now and it was happening when I was playing high school and college football.
Right now law suits are flying over heart attacks and strokes regarding hormone replacement with what amounts to ridiculously low doses. What are we encouraging here?
My philosophy is simple. Allow for widespread use of hormone replacement therapy. This approach would allow for athletes to use hormonal enhancements while under the supervision of an endocrinologist that can properly monitor their free/total testosterone, estrogen + CBC, CMP, Lipid Panel, TSH/T4, HA1C, ESR, CRP, & UA. If it makes you feel any happier, said athletes (since they can afford it) can also have a cardiologist run yearly EKGs, Stress tests, Echos and Cardiac CT's to be certain that cardiac abnormalities are not present.
It's a risk to health. It's like the rationalization argument that your uncle Fred smoked for 65 years and he's still kicking. Is smoking a risk to health? It sure is.
If you actively monitor your health, HRT is relatively safe. Millions of Americans are safely being treated by their Endocrinologists nationwide, as well as worldwide.
Where are you training with Renzo? Back in the day he was mainly in NY but he came into the Red Bank, NJ school from time to time to teach with Craig Kukuk.
Renzo is still teaching/training 95% of the time at his academy (224 West 30th Street). He recently had Chris Weidman come by every Monday to do Muay Thai training and Wednesdays to do Danaher's mid-afternoon no-gi class.
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