Steroids Are Awesome [video]

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1 pointjiehong3 comments

… right up until you hear the sound a human being makes when their enhanced quads rip the connective tissue off their knees in the middle of a squat, and you see them collapse to the floor as fast as gravity could take them, only surviving because this one time they’d decided to actually engage the bar stop on the rack.

Very useful lesson to a 16 year old with body dysmorphia issues, even if I can still hear those screams.

Joint issues? It’s one of the drawback.

The video is mostly about the risks and why you shouldn’t consider using steroids, though.

Note: your story sounded quite scary

That guy could never walk again without two canes, so I’d call it more than a drawback… turns out once your muscles have actually torn the tendons clean off the joint there’s no repairing anything except in the crudest sense. The video mentions the issue of steroids allowing the muscle to grow well beyond the capacity of the tendons to keep up, which brought that sound back to my ears. Ugh.

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