You wouldn’t think so if you open the sports page on a daily basis. Seems as if the lead story at least once a week involves some star athlete either caught or revealing that he or she has used muscle enhancing steroids or other types of muscle building supplements. It can lead one to a rather jaded opinion not only of the elite athletes doing this type of activity, but also leave you with a feeling that there may be no way to get anywhere near where they are if you don’t engage in this type of activity.
The truth is, guys were building muscle long before any of this was available, and while it’s true that the humans involved in sports these days are quite a bit larger than they were even a decade ago, this can be attributed to several factors, not only muscle building supplements.
Firstly, training facilities are much more sophisticated and the ability to use weights and other training aids that have been developed over the last few decades make elite training methods more available to almost anyone. When guys from my dad’s generation trained for football, for instance, a medicine ball was sometimes the sole method of “weight training” available to them. It’s difficult to even find a medicine ball any longer!
Also, nutritional research and the general health of the economy has given us the ability to have better and quite a bit more good food available to us. Generations before us were not as fortunate.
While it may seem that reaching the highest levels you can may only be attainable by using these kinds of supplements, I believe that you can make the choice to train, using the latest technology available to you, and still achieve great results, as have men throughout the ages! The amount of training aids alone can take you to a level you might not have thought possible. By focusing on tried and true methods of muscle building that have endured over the years versus trusting in pharmaceuticals, you can develop your body to the highest and best level it can be.
The long-term effects of these types of drugs have yet to be determined. Even more troubling to me is the heretofore unseen grotesquely developed muscles and the rate at which some of the practitioners of this dark art have been keeling over lately. What should have been men in the prime of their lives, instead they are leaving behind loved ones for no apparent reason. Of course, no one will come right out and say that supplements caused these tragedies, but where there’s smoke…
I am a proponent of a sane, balanced approach to building muscle that not only adds strength to your overall frame, but lends a hand in developing a classic male physique, one sporting a set of broad shoulders tapering down to a trim waist. This type of frame is not only most attractive to women; it can help you achieve what I like to call social dominance among your peers. To understand how to achieve this and abandon reliance on supplements, check out “The Adonis Index” workout. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
Men, want to learn more about how to get that classic V shape that women find so attractive? The Adonis Effect by John Barban can get you there.
