The Real Purpose of Steroids

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Health, Fitness & Nutrition, Fitness, Barbell, Training, Strength

4.5 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mark Rippetoe reads "The Real Purpose of Steroids." This article was first published on T-Nation 3/04/15. --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rjk00DkWoJg WEBSITE: http://startingstrength.com FORUM: http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: http://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This article first appeared in Teenation on March the 4th, 2015.
0:12.0	The real purpose of steroids.
0:16.0	Athletes take steroids to get stronger. That's the only reason they take steroids.
0:24.6	Bodybuilders take steroids to build muscle mass and preserve it while they drop body fat.
0:30.6	But athletes take steroids to get strong.
0:33.6	They work by aiding and recovery so that harder training can be done, speeding the healing of injuries, and making muscles bigger.
0:43.4	There are no technique steroids.
0:46.8	There are no speed steroids.
0:49.9	No quickness, agility, endurance, or field sense steroids.
0:55.2	Steroids don't make athletes more athletic.
0:59.2	They make athletes stronger, which makes them more athletic,
1:04.7	which makes them better athletes.
1:07.6	And that's why so many athletes take steroids.
1:11.6	Taking steroids in the 21st century presents a profound risk to an athlete's career if he's caught.
1:19.6	The United States Senate, the fucking upper chamber of the Congress of the United States of America, for God's sakes,
1:31.6	has actually involved itself in the matter.
1:35.1	So why is it worth the risk?
1:37.5	And why do athletes continue to provoke the righteous indignation of pompous, self-serving pathetic morons like Senator John McCain
1:49.0	by taking steroids, because strength is important to sports. And in some cases, and in some sports,
1:58.0	it may even be more important than athleticism.
2:02.6	And in the absence of accurate professional guidance about how to get stronger without them,
2:08.6	athletes take steroids to get stronger because they work very well for that purpose.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Rippetoe, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Rippetoe and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.