...The movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster was such an eye opener for me. I have known a few people that have taken steroids in the past, but never really knew much about them. As I was watching this movie I had so many thoughts running through my head. Why do people feel that they need to be this “jacked?” It is so un healthy and not worth it in the long run. The thing that makes me laugh is that most women do not even think that it is attractive when guys are that big, instead they think it is disgusting. Many people chose to abuse steroids because they are worried about their self-image and performance. In some cases the goal is to increase physical size, strength, speed or stamina, in the mind of an abuse, it is worthwhile no matter what the risks may be. Chris Bell is one of three brothers. They have all used steroids, and two still do. Mike (Mad Dog) Bell has some success in pro wrestling, but was never the star. Although wrestling dropped him, he is still in training and taking steroids. The third Bell brother, Mike (Smelly) promised his wife towards the end of the movie that he will stop taking steroids after he achieves his dream of benching 700 pounds. He attains it, but later tells his brother Chris that he will use steroids again. This video relates to the objective, “What are health and impairment effects that occur when individuals use and/or abuse drugs?” Mad Dog continued to use steroids even when he was out of pro wrestling. Because of this him and his wife were unable...
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...I. Executive Summary Bigger Stronger Faster Athletics is a multifaceted health and fitness complex for all ages and abilities. B.S.F.A. emphasis will be to promote health and welfare of today’s youth. A large focus for B.S.F.A. will be to educate and restructure the adult community on the benefits of living a healthier lifestyle. Services B.S.F.A. will provide Atlanta and surrounding areas with a means to establish a firm foundation for building a healthy lifestyle. This would encompass: • Targeting the health in our youth and adults (physical). • Targeting the welfare in our youth and adults (mind). • Youth mentoring program. • Emphasizing nutritional guidelines for each participant. • Teaching leadership and team building...
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...Jim Smiley would use this drug to give his frog an edge over other competitors. The steroids would then help his frog build muscle, not only making him stronger, but increasing his speed and agility as well. Therefore, by making the frog stronger and adding his natural ability of jumping, he would have been able to perform better than his competition. Because this frog is so big and strong it would not matter if he was weighed down with bird shot, he would still perform better than his opponent. Accordingly, Jim Smiley would be a sure winner on every bet he took, which means he would never lose, unless someone hurt the frog physically. He really would have the notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County. Contradicting what was stated before, without knowing the consequences of steroids his frog would begin to lose what he gained and then...
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...football team has been smaller than every opponent they have played the last 10 years. While the team has been struggling for success in the playoffs, steroids are a better chance for them to win a state championship. The team has the skills and also has many great athletes as well as other schools do. The thing that other schools have is strength and faster people on their team. I have come up with the greatest solution that will make Saline football players and fans go crazy. The plan will come into effect starting now. By starting the taking of the steroids now, the players will be ready go by next august in their first game. The summer conditionings for football and all the lifting they do just don’t seem to pay off when season comes. During the summer they lift really hard, run a lot, and players work on their skills. When it comes game time in August, Saline thinks they are a step ahead of the other team on the field, but when the opponent steps on the field Saline becomes scared. The players become scared because they are really small compared to the opponents. Therefore, the other team has an advantage because they are a lot stronger. Steroids are the answer for the Saline football program. The program will do a fundraising event in which the team will earn a lot of money that will pay for all the steroids. Every Saline football player in the high school will start to take these steroids. Every player will go to a workout before school and receive one shot of this powerful drug...
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...are positive ones. Steroids may make you look bigger and feel stronger, but eventually they will become very damaging to your body. There are physical and mental side effects to the use of steroids, and the continued use of steroids will be deadly. Anabolic steroids are taken by eating the pills or by a liquid being injected. Some users like to eat the pills because there are no visual traces, but they are not as effective as the liquid steroids. The liquid steroids enter the bloodstream faster the main reasons that users of steroids abuse the drug is because they want to become better athletes or become bigger humans. The likely users main reason is to increase muscle mass, when somebody lifts weights, the whole purpose is to tear the muscle in the body. Then the muscle repairs its self over time. This makes the muscle bigger and stronger because when it repairs itself, it increases in strength and size. Steroids improve this process by rushing the repair of the muscle. Not only do the muscles grow back bigger and more defined, but stronger. In sports, the use of steroids is prevalent among athletes that have reached a level in their physical progress. Thinking that steroids will make them a more able athlete, they begin taking cycles of juice. A major error of steroids is that they increase aerobic capability, they don't increase the aerobic capacity of the muscles, but only make the muscles grow back bigger and stronger. Roids can however increase the volume of the...
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...Bigger, Stronger, Faster For quite some time now, people have wanted to become a physically stronger person. Most people whether they just want to gain muscle mass or become a stronger athlete, would go to the gym and put in hours on end doing whatever it takes to reach their goals. When people push their body to limits to finally reach their goals, they feel like they can accomplish anything they want, so they figure they can push it even further to surpass their goals. People who think have this mindset will start supplementing to push their bodies even further than before. When they have reached their max, they still have that mindset of exceeding their goals and resort to a drug that has been around the 50s. When steroids first became available in the public market, the drug was unregulated and anyone could buy and use it for whatever they wanted. It took about forty years for it become regulated, regulations put steroids as a schedule 3 under the controlled substance act making its possession illegal without a prescription. Steroids are one of the most controversial substances to ever be made and are still common today. There are mainly two uses of steroids, medicinal and performance enhancing. Medicinally used steroids can be used to treat anything from a rash to asthma. There are about three names for steroids; corticosteroids, used medically, and anabolic steroids or HGH which in the athletic world is used to boost performance or in the medical field to replace sex...
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...the skeletal system a. The long-term effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system are the heart becomes bigger and its walls become thicker and the coronary arteries become better at supplying the heart with blood. It will be able to pump more blood per min which makes the heart more capable of a higher heart rate, stroke volume and minute volume. b. The long-term effects of exercise on the respiratory system are increasing the air sacks in the lungs, clearing out any mucus that may be in any of them, increasing the vital capacity of the lungs and tidal volume of the lungs as well as increasing the strength of the diaphragm muscle. The lungs will become healthier and produce a greater number of alveoli. c. The long-term effects of exercise on the muscular system are the tendons (a connective tissue that connect muscle to bone) become stronger, our aerobic energy system become more efficient, slow twitch fibres increase in size. Also our muscles hypertrophy become bigger and individual muscle fibres become thicker becoming able to cope with lactic acid. Lastly the chemical reaction in our muscle that produces energy increase in quantity and the removal of lactic acid is faster. d. The long-term effects of exercise on the skeletal system are the mineral content of our bones increases and bones get denser, the ligaments become stronger and stretch slightly and the cartilage thickens. 2. Answer the questions below… a) What is the difference...
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...Blake Groesbeck RST 255-B Term Paper 5/4/15 grosbck2 Term Paper: Bigger Stronger Faster In our everyday lives every action has a positive and negative effect, where individuals are constantly using ethical lenses to judge their stance on a certain situation, whether they know it or not. After having the chance to watch the ESPN 30 for 30 Bigger Stronger Faster, it was an extremely eye opening experience. The documentary took an objective stance on the use of anabolic steroids where the National Institute on Drug Abuse defines anabolic-androgenic steroids as, “a synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone and that “anabolic” refers to muscle-building and “androgenic” refers to increased male sexual characteristics.” The use of anabolic steroids for sports/recreation is illegal and is considered by the United States as a controlled substance, however the use of anabolic steroids for medical use is legal. The ethical question I am asking is, “how can the United States “claim” that the use of anabolic steroids for medical reasons be ethical and can “help” someone when they “claim” that the use of anabolic steroids for sports/recreation to be unethical and will “hurt” someone?” In order to take an objective stance I will use three of the five ethical lenses provided in class. The five ethical lenses that were provided in class are: the Utilitarian Approach, the Rights Approach, the Fairness or Justice Approach, the Common Good Approach, and the Virtue Approach. ...
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...girl, this restraint is almost always going on in guys’ minds. Guys shouldn’t have to limit how hard they play at any time, but almost all boys, whether they mean to or not, do not go as hard against a girl as they might a boy. Ever since girls have been playing sports, and even more so since the passing of Title IX, the debate of girls playing on a boys sports team has been a hot one. In my eyes, there isn’t even a real argument to be made. It is frowned upon for boys to play on girls teams, so why let the girls play on boys teams? By the end of high school, boys are, on average, just bigger and stronger than girls. and it pulls many of the great competitors from the girls teams. If you asked people what they thought if they saw a boy playing on an all girls team, almost everyone would say that it would be unfair, since boys, on average, are bigger, faster, and stronger than the girls, and that he is putting all the...
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...people think. Athletes should forfeit their medals if caught using performance enhancing drugs Most common people wouldn't know what the word steroids means. But the true meaning of this commonly used drug is quit simple. By definition, athletes who use performance enhancing drugs are cheating and do not deserve the awards given. The drugs are human growth hormones (HGH) and help the person using them get bigger, faster, and stronger giving them an unfair competitive advantage over athletes playing by the rules. These athletes use steroids “To excel in athletic competition is admirable. Most high school, college, amateur and professional athletes participate in sports for the opportunity to pit their abilities against those of their peers, and to experience the...
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...Sports and Performance Enhancing Drugs John Alvarez Student #0588681 Essay 2 April 1, 2015 PHI – 010 Professor Andrea Yusim Words: 1,519 In a country that is obsessed with winning and competition, athletes, teams and even fans have tried to gain an advantage against their competition. As athletes become bigger, stronger and faster, the margin and window of opportunity to become the best athlete in their respective sports is surely becoming smaller and smaller. Many people will argue that performance enhancing drugs will help in promoting player health and recovery and that sports in general will benefit overall. In this paper, I will argue that the argument in favor of performance enhancement drug use is not valid because performance enhancing drugs are unethical, create unfair competitive advantages and do not promote the very essence of the value of sports which is hard work and team work. Team and individual sports in the United States is a very important part of culture. Athletes are revered for their prowess and mastery of their respective sports and are at times treated as demi-gods. Individual teams and entire leagues depend on these very athletes to compete at the highest level and with the utmost sense of integrity in order to show that their leagues are played ethically. So not only are athletes expected to be at their very best, they are also expected to do so without compromising the integrity of the sport such as cheating by using PEDs. In the article...
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...muscle size, while some women want to tone the muscles in their bodies. Many men and women will benefit daily from having their muscles. Muscles can help to build a person’s confidence. Muscles can also benefit a person while at their job if they need to carry or pick up a rather heavy object. How do you develop muscle from exercise though? The most specific way to describe the way muscle is earned is through exercise is; the body breaks down and damaged the muscle as you exercise. Once the body has broken down and damaged the muscle, it will need to be repaired. The body then repairs the damaged part of the muscle, but to keep the muscle from being damaged again in the future, it will make the muscle much stronger and better this time. This will cause the muscle to get stronger and also give it a better look. Another way that muscle is...
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...benefits of switching are endless, ranging from new features to performance improvements, even the basic appearance. First, the new features that Windows 7 has introduced have pretty innovative ideas including Device stage; which works like a homepage for your portable devices, better wireless; stronger more stable connections, and easy sharing from a simple feature called HomeGroup that allows you to share music, pictures, and documents across your network with little hassle. The new features help simplify Windows 7 so that even the basic user can comprehend and navigate around the computer. Secondly, the performance improvements in Windows 7 take up less memory and run background services only when you need them, making it “built for speed”. It’s designed to run your programs faster and to sleep and resume quicker. Adding to the great performance improvements, USB drives can be detected faster and will be ready to use in seconds. These features are sure to guarantee more efficient performances throughout the operating system. Finally, with the new appearance including a better desktop, Windows 7 will be able to get you around your computer faster than ever. The taskbar has bigger buttons and full-sized previews. There’s also a new feature that allows you to pin programs to your taskbar for easy access, which has proven to be very useful for me. Also Snap, Peek, and Shake are new and easy ways to juggle your windows. Snap has become one of my favorite features of Windows...
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...About 30% of college and professional athletes use anabolic steroids, as do 10 to 20% of high school athletes. For instance, athletes are getting stripped of their titles and money. Therefore, the use of performance enhancing drugs is cowardly in sports. PEDs can threaten athletes health in many ways. First off, PEDs can harm athletes ability to have children in the future it also stunts growth along with hair loss. Eventually, it can cause bad acne but more importantly it can cause heart disease, liver tumors, and enlargement of the heart muscle. Finally, it can cause aggressive mood swings and deepening of the voice. PEDs would eventually cause unusually greasy skin and bad stretch marks. In the end, using performance enhancing drugs is...
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...them wrong by going to the top of Pisa Tower in Italy to prove is relevant studies. One of the three reasons that Galileo Galilei is an important figure is because inventing the world's first telescope dwelling in on scientific reason dropping balls at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, Leading the modern day people today to believe that heavier objects fall faster than the lighter ones. This theory was called the Copernicus theory that once was made up a man named Nicolaus Copernicus, who posed the theory that the hat the Sun is at rest near the center of...
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