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Well you just demonstrated why we all, as athletes or aspiring athletes, should be allowed to take them. We could focus more on the sport itself and get better at it and not waste time doing stupid repetitions with a barbell. That should be limited to people in that sport - powerlifting, Olympic lifting and so on.

The barbell should be the actual display of sport prowess (with the aid of roids) and not the means to get to that display.

Simply because it's much more inefficient.

If we want to be so "moral" (although I have no idea how that word applies here) we should throw our computers out the window since they are efficient and start working with stone and wood. Do all mathematical calculations on paper. Forget robots, do all work manually. Don't grow food by any means, walk around the planet in search of the proper foods etc etc etc. Endless examples.

It's just a matter of efficiency. Steroids are superior to pretty much anything => the logical way is to use them.

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Gary, I'm not going to say that your argument is wrong, but I think the premises for your argument is wrong. I don't feel its justifiable to compare lifting weights to attain unnatural strength to taking steroids to attain the same end. Athletes have to dedicate much of their time and focus to weightlifting to get that strength whereas with steroids they simply inject and play their sport and see their performance improve. I just don't see how its fair to make that argument on this premise. You can't substitute weightlifting with taking steroids just because the strength achieved is unnatural in both cases. It just doesn't make sense.

With that said, I'm not saying that your conclusion is wrong at all. To some degree I do think that the policy is unfair and the result of mass hysteria. But I just don't agree with the argument you're using to get there.

You basically said nothing.

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If you were standing next to me, I swear I would kiss you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Just because random person A and random person B came in to say "roids are illegal, I worked my butt out to be the best bodybuilder/athlete/powerlifter etc etc etc with barbells, that's the alpha way" and shit like this doesn't make that person GOD that decides what rules there should be applied to YOU. He's just a man like you are, shitting through the same shit hole (thought that would get a better picture of how similar we are).

So why not use roids vs other methods of increasing strength/lowering bodyfat? I see not reason why except health related which, done correctly, shouldn't be that bad. And like you said, same pretty much applies to barbell squats and any other high tension thing done on your body.

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Program Review / Re: "Flight Right" by Brandon Todd
« on: June 28, 2011, 09:33:52 am »
Um... isn't that a tiny binny winny too much volume?

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You can also do standing ab wheel rollouts on an inclined surface if you can find any. That will be easier. And once you get good at them it will be easier to do them on a normal surface.

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Is a barbell rollout harder than an ab wheel rollout? I only tried the ab wheel rollout.

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Can you do hanging straight leg raises without your back supported? Or does your butt go back when you do them?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 28, 2011, 05:58:05 am »
Have you ever tried RL plants so far?

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Well it is, but there's no upperbody work. Remember, volume is going to be extremely low with the squats and deadlifts, just two sets stopping way before failure.

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Well yeah that shifts things a bit more towards the muscle side of jumping and away from the tendon side of jumping BUT STILL - to be able to stabilize, jump, land, stabilize, jump etc is amazing.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: 40 Inch vertical off two feet
« on: June 28, 2011, 05:50:06 am »
I swear I thought you were going to jump after the first step you took... it really looked like a drop into a jump your first left leg step you did haha.

What's going on with your SI? What did you feel?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: new PR!
« on: June 28, 2011, 05:47:13 am »
Wow, looks a bit higher than 10 feet as well! :highfive:

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 28, 2011, 05:42:55 am »
Yeah that's Myree.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 27, 2011, 05:04:20 pm »
Sucks but in a way, might be a blessing in disguise. If your a bit overtrained or fatigued, taking a little break from all this you might rebound with a :personal-record: really soon.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 27, 2011, 05:00:54 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BxOOBqSTk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BxOOBqSTk</a>

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