Steroids+Are+Nothing+But+Trouble

__ Steroids are Nothing but Trouble __ If you want to be a cheater, destroy your body, or want to gain a bad reputation, steroids is the way to go! Steroids is the most common performance-enhancing drug used in sports. It’s used from hockey, baseball, even in ping-pong! It’s a true fact! Even in ping-pong steroids was used! Steroids is most commonly used to gain muscle quick. But there are 3 main reasons why steroids is bad. Number 1, steroids in professional sports is cheating, number 2, steroids does more harm than good, and finally, if you are caught using steroids in a professional sport, you instantly gain a bad reputation.

The first issue is that the use of steroids in sports is cheating. As an athlete, on of the most key components is your fitness. Athletes train for hours and hours each day just so they can keep up with the pace of the sport they are playing. For people who are too lazy to train as hard as the other athletes often use performance-enhancing drugs because when you use steroids, you gain muscle mass quick. This is not fair to the athletes that train every day. One of the most prominent abuses of steroids was Barry Bonds, former MLB player. Barry Bonds began his career in 1986 and was one of the skinniest players on his team. As his career progressed on, he had put on a tremendous amount of muscle mass. Bonds went from 185 pounds in 1986 to 228 pounds in 2001. In 2007, Barry Bonds broke the world record of most home runs hit. He accomplished what no man could ever do. When you take steroids you can accomplish what no other clean person can. Another example of a steroid abuse was when Josh Hamilton, MLB player used steroids. Josh Hamilton was caught using steroids, and was suspended for 1-year. He came back the next year, and he hit the most homeruns in the MLB last season. To summarize, when you take steroids you can accomplish what most clean people can’t, which is unfair to all of the athletes who work hard every day.

The second issue is that steroids do more harm than good to your body. The negative effects of steroids can come into play in the cardiovascular system. When you take steroids it enlarges your heart, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, heart palpitations (it’s an unusual, rapid or violent beating of the heart), and increasing cholesterol levels. In men, steroids can cause gynecomastia (the growth of breats), an increased risk of prostate enlargement and cancer. There is one more effect, decreased testicular size. Those are just a few of the negative effects that steroids has on men. In women, steroids can cause an increased risk of cervical and endometrial cancer, an increased risk of osteoporosis (when the bones become brittle, and subject to fracture), women’s voices become deeper and more hoarse, women get an increase of facial hair, decreased breast size, and several more. Other effects of steroids to men and women are, an increased risk of mood swings, an increased risk of psychosis, more aggression, an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, an increased risk of liver and kidney disease and cancer, acne, bad breath, baldness, water retention (it means that you retain yourself from water), muscle cramps, aching joints, insomnia (inability to obtain sufficient sleep), an increased risk of muscle tears, and several others. The list goes on and on with the negative effects. To sum up my argument, there are so many more negative effects than good effects when you take steroids.

The final issue is that when you take steroids, and if you get caught in sports, you immediately develop a bad reputation. If you are caught using steroids, you are known as a cheater, and you basically become public enemy #1. A great example of this is Alex Rodriguez, MLB player. Alex Rodriguez was on pace for breaking the all-time home run record set by Barry Bonds. Just recently Alex Rodriguez was caught for using steroids. Alex Rodriguez has lost all of his respect from his fans, and from his teammates. He is known as a cheater! Every ballpark that Alex Rodriguez goes to play in, he gets booed from pretty much everyone! There are posters that fans make and bring to the game, stating that he is a cheater and that he shouldn’t be aloud to play anymore. Alex Rodriguez has become public enemy #1 in baseball! Another example of this is Ben Johnson, former Canadian track star. In 1988 in the Summer Olympics, Ben Johnson ran the 100m race. He won the gold medal, but it was shortly stripped from him and given to runner up Carl Lewis. Ben Johnson was stripped of his medal because he used steroids. Ben Johnson had not only been disqualified from the race, he was later banned for life from ever competing in track again! People in Canada were extremely disappointed, and ashamed that Ben Johnson had used steroids. Throughout Canada, he was a cheater as well as public enemy #1. To outline this argument, if you get caught using steroids you will immediately develop a bad reputation.

To recap, the three reasons stated; number 1, when you take steroids you can achieve a great level of fitness, but it is extremely unfair to all of the other athletes to train. Number 2, steroids does too much harm to equal the amount of good that steroids does. Number 3, if you get caught using steroids, in the blink of an eye, you will gain a bad reputation. Those are the three main reasons why steroids are nothing but trouble. In conclusion, steroids will only lead you to a path of trouble. You will go down as a cheater, with a completely messed up body with a bad reputation. The only good that comes out of using steroids, is later on in life, you’ll be lucky to still be living.