Will Pills Or Shots Replace Hours In The Gym?
Serious bodybuilders in the fifties used to spend many long, tough hours in the gym pumping iron, straining against massive weights, ignoring the pain of unavoidable injuries to shoulders, elbows, knees, toughing it out through tendonitis flare-ups . . . all in the name of body perfection. They ate copious amounts of protein and popped vitamin and supplement pills by the handful. They used to joke that someday, someone would invent a pill that would build their muscles without all the hard work and dieting. Careful what you wish for, Big Man, you might just be faced with a moral dilemma.
Along came Dianabol in the late 1950s, developed by a chemist for use by the US Olympic Weightlifting Team in response to the discovery that Soviet and their Eastern Bloc cohorts had been using anabolic steroids to improve performance, as early as in the late 1940’s. Dianabol was formulated to reduce some of the negative side-effects experienced by the Russian and East German lifters, but still give the testosterone boost needed for increased strength, endurance and muscle density. The “little blue pill” was quickly snapped up by the bodybuilding world and became regularly available in serious bodybuilding gyms, under-the-counter after it became regulated by the FDA. Steroid abuse became commonplace and resulted in many health problems.
Further research into performance enhancement without drugging or putting athletes’ health at risk has come up with a number of natural substances that can be artificially formulated and easily used. Human Growth Hormone (HGH) was found to be the best of these chemicals that are produced naturally by the human body. The production of HGH fades after maturity and ultimately is almost absent in the system of the average person. Medical researchers focused on aging have found that injections of HGH can not only slow and halt the aging process, but in many carefully supervised cases, has actually reversed the aging process, tightening the skin, increasing muscle density and size and restoring many of the age diminished faculties.
A properly applied and medically supervised program of HGH usage by bodybuilders will permit the individuals to develop to their maximum potential. But, it still requires exercise as part of the program. Heavy weight training will tear down the muscles and the high-protein, HGH enhanced diet will rebuild that damaged tissue faster and bigger than without the hormone. So, lifting heavy weights will never be replaced, but that activity may be augmented by a program of HGH bodybuilding to achieve great results, faster.
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