Doping in sports
How many times have you seen an athlete perform out of their MIND!?!? Seeming so perfect for long periods of time. Doping just seems like the type of thing that you ask yourself for every day you underperform your expectations. It’s the ‘solution’ to improve the most in the least amount of time.
Lance Armstrong.
Jose Conseco.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Marion Jones.
Anderson Silva.
These seem to be a few of the names that have used some type of performance enhancing drugs.
However there seems to be a wide variety of performance enhancing drugs that the athletes themselves may not know are against the rules. They may take advantage of there not being a rule against those drugs too however.
Designer steroids, a type of anabolic steroid, has many possible negative side effects. According to https://www.mayoclinic.org/, some possibilities Severe acne
- Increased risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture
- Liver abnormalities and tumors
- Increased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol)
- Decreased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Heart and blood circulation problems
- Aggressive behaviors, rage or violence
- Psychiatric disorders, such as depression
- Drug dependence
- Infections or diseases such as HIV or hepatitis if you’re injecting the drugs
- Inhibited growth and development, and risk of future health problems in teenagers
This is just one type of steroid, there are many others, most if not all of which hold similar possible consequences.
I’ll start to post more blog type discussions about tennis and sports. Please contact or let me know what you thought and how I can improve and any topics I should cover.
Daniel Generalov
Athletic blog
