Reasons of Steroid Usage in Sports

Year after year, sports issues have arose. The topic of steroid use has been brought up and made front headlines more frequently. We often hear about professional athletes and Olympic athletes being stripped of their awards, records and medals because they test positive for performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are often called out for using steroids. The athletes think that taking steroids will highly benefit their body and careers and boost them to a new level of performance. What are the punishments for the people playing the sports and the sport itself? How does it affect the fans? People watching the sport see steroid usage as fraud, corruption and cheating, as well as the other players. During the last 10 years, many sports analysts debate if the player’s statistics should even matter anymore if players are cheating? Sometimes there may be a valid reason for steroid usage.

One example shows the drug helping the pain and to overcome a serious injury more efficiently. Steroids help speed up the repair process by quickly restoring joint tissues so they can return to playing as well as practicing. Steroid use increases the older the athlete gets because their skill level decreases as well as there bodies functionality. By using steroids the players keep a strong physical appearance, and keep up with the sports endurance as the speeds up and continues, which will lengthen their professional career in term they will make more money and have more fans. Taking steroids will decrease the time on the sidelines through injury. The most common reason for using steroids is to try to break records made by their successors. P.E.D’s (performance Enhancing Drugs) will always linger sports, as long as the players receive big paychecks and popularity from their great achievements.

Most players think it would be a great idea and that there are no side effect at the time, but the fans hate it and it destroys all the achievements you’ve completed because they think you’re a cheater Pro sports most times have a terrible effect on the body as they are pushing themselves most parts of the day everyday and have high chances of running into problems and injuries during the high intensity seasons. When the pros run into injuries, it can have detrimental effects on their career, which also has a big impact on the team’s performance. As a player continues to use steroids for a prolonged time, their body begins to have negative side effects from to the unnatural change. Scientists report that the use of P.E.D’s raises the risk of suffering from muscle, joint and tissue injuries later on in their career.

What often happens is that trainer will give steroids to the player and influence them to take the drugs. They say there are little negative effects and it will speed up the recovery process, to return to playing. In one survey that promised confidentiality, it answered questions about steroid use through the football seasons of around 2,500 retired football stars, the information showed that a lots of the of the athletes used some sort of P.E.D. and many of those later on had injuries. Steroids make you gain muscle rapidly in term makes you heavier,. As the athlete strength quickly increases up they train harder and push their bodies well past their limits, which often causes injury and joints to wear down and grind.

As a professional’s career is coming to the end, they go to steroids usage to push their bodies to please the fans, teammates and coaches and continue their career for a few more seasons. Also, the new players joining the sport join in and use steroids to lengthen their future careers and continue to play the sport that they make money from and love, as well as to take their skill to the next level. In MLB lots of superstars like Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez used steroids in the late stages in their career so they could keep with the young stars, and be on top of the stats chart. In the NFL the football players take steroids to keep up with the other teams. This affects the older players on the teams because they are at a disadvantage because there bodies have experienced more wear.

Usage of anabolic steroids is forbidden across all sporting competitions and committees including the Olympics. More and more athletes are using steroids and are getting banned every year partly because they are very easy to obtain, in some countries you can obtain them over the counter. With all these risks why would an athlete choose steroids? It mostly is because the regulations aren’t enforced well and many places bend the rules of steroid use in professional sport. A sports event is supposed to show natural skill not synthetic skill obtained by doping. In conclusion sports will always have players who decide to take P.E.D’s. there are many different reasons to take the drugs but its breaking the rules regardless. Sadly it always will give them a bad reputation and are seen as outcasts and cheaters. In my opinion steroids should taken serious and I think they should abolish the making of steroids for usage in sports and if someone is caught they should have serious consequences going their way. Its too bad that the abuse of steroids still happens in sports seeing the history of the player that got caught is never good, and all these athletes are seen as role models and kids to strive to one day be as good as them.