The Enhanced Games is organizing an alternative to the corrupt Olympic Games. The first sports event without drug testing.

https://nitter.1d4.us/enhanced_games/status/1670862210132738073

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    The thing with PEDs is that it completely changes the way you train. You can do lower rep, higher weight exercises and see even better results, but it also become even more important to do proper stretching and rollouts, pressure and aftercare recovery techniques. Endurance exercises can go for much longer as well.

    The reason for this is because what PEDs normally do is drastically improve your recovery ability, and what that means in practice is that it is very easy to recover badly, excaterbate bad positional habits and just downright make your muscles look weird.

    • notceps [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Nah we know pretty well that for a top athlete taking PEDs, at least in strength sport, means a rough 10% increase in performance. People that talk about what PEDs do haven't looked at just how 'naturally roided' top athletes already are. A lot of the very vocal US athletes that say that they don't use drugs unlike the 'shifty chinese' and 'cheating russians' wouldn't be able to compete even with PEDs.

      Like the whole "Oh the chinese and russians are only outcompeting us because of steroids" is a massive cope that it warps peoples view on what PEDs do.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I'm not even talking about performance, that is a muscle density problem, which PEDs only do so much for. Generally speaking I am talking about body-building, where basically everybody is on PED's but their muscle to strength ratio is usually crap. As Zazz used to say, it's about the aesthetic, not the lift.