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The Free Man

#429 - Steroids in Gyms with Team GB Callum Skinner & UKAD

The Free Man

Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Steroid use in gyms has grown, and with a new UKAD report outlining the prevalence of this, why people are taking them, and the side effects, it's a conversation that needs to be revisited. I'm joined by ex Team GB cyclist and medallist Callum Skinner to discuss steroids in sport, in gyms, the side effects, UKAD's role in awareness, campaigning for clean sport, body dysmorphia and more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Benkim Radio, how an earth are you doing today is a different, it's a segue,

0:07.0

yes it is a segue and it's something that we haven't actually talked about for a while.

0:11.0

In the early days of the show, we ranted a lot about it for a while. In the early days of the show we ranted a lot about it. People talk

0:15.0

about it a lot on the DL in gym culture and the last person to talk about it on the show is

0:21.7

David Crossland, a big proponent of kind of

0:25.9

understanding and being aware of safe steroid use and if we're honest we all

0:31.5

know people that are potentially doing it in the gym.

0:34.0

It's something that's been popularized in the media because there is a huge amount of people.

0:41.0

And I would probably say that maybe this should be the perspective of

0:43.8

100% of people but a lot of people want clean sport they believe that clean

0:47.9

sport should be a thing and that's exactly what we're going to talk about today so I should probably introduce

0:55.0

my guest. So my guest today, Callum Skinner former team gee cyclist hello.

1:07.0

Hello.

1:08.0

Hello, how are you doing?

1:09.0

Nate, I am awesome.

1:10.0

And with your kind of association with the UK Anti-Doping Association, your kind of title is you are part of the

1:19.2

Athlete Commission, which is an elected commission to kind of give advice into what is happening

1:24.7

kind of in the world of sport what they're planning to do in terms of policy and

1:29.0

I suppose the information that then going to put out to the general public?

1:34.0

Yeah for sure we're an appointed commission which is actually really good for getting a

1:39.7

broad spectrum of people on board So we've got a younger student who's doing a lot of research

1:46.7

in time to coping. We've got an ex, a former, I retired now about former drugs cheat on the panel as well, a mixture of Paralympic and Olympic

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