McGwire and Andro
I distinctively remember being in high school and hearing that Mark McGwire took Andro as one of his supplements. Andro, or more accurately, Androstenedione is “a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands and the gonads as an intermediate step in the biochemical pathway that produces the androgen testosterone and the estrogens estrone and estradiol.” Whatever that means. It sounds like it’s a steroid but during the McGwire era, it was legal and available over the counter. Of course, as it turns out, that wasn’t the only thing McGwire took. He’s recently admitted he’s been on and off steroids and HGH for 10 years. I remember even thinking about ordering some back then because they were in so many ads in Muscle and Fitness magazine. McGwire was a monster back then. Check out these stupid guns.
When I was in high school, I thought all these big guys I wanted to look like got that big, for the most part, naturally. I assumed any supplement they took wasn’t more than powders from GNC. It turns out none of these big guys are natural at all. Arnold Schwartzenegger was also another hero of mine but it’s widely known that Mr Olympia competitions do not test for steroids and the Governor has even admitted before that he has taken steroids in the past. I thought all those meat heads in weight lifting competitions were just hitting the gym hard. Of course you do have to hit the gym hard to look like that with the steroids but without it they would look very different. Hell, I don’t even think Van Damme’s early 90’s physique is natural.
Bruce Lee’s phyisque was clearly natural but he was a skinny as a rail. He’s probably my only childhood hero that wasn’t juicing.
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January 12, 2010
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