Drug testing WSM rumour

DL1987 said:
Same could be said about any sport though. Boxing and Marton runners push themselves to eextreme limits and use peds yet you don't hear half the s**t talk that strength athletes get

JamesH said:
I'm presuming that the enlargement he saw wasn't all necessarily healthy. I'm also making the fairly safe assumption that, as a coroner, he might have some idea what he's talking about. I'm less certain that you do. Might I ask about your medical credentials?

pandion said:How many guys at WSM are full-time professional athletes?

billynomates said:
You're missing the point. Do you think a 200kg man would/should have the same size heart as an 80 kg man?

JamesH said:
Not really.
Boxing and athletics are regulated. Using drugs is against the rules and testing is carried out to catch those who do.
Of course, there are those who do cheat. Some get away with it I'm sure. But they are not doing anything like they would be doing if the rules didn't exist.
In strongman, there are of course no such rules. You can do whatever you like and it's not cheating.
This is fine. Until of course, it becomes an arms race...who can push things the furthest.

DL1987 said:
Yes really. There are many athletes especially from track and field athletics background who take vast amounts of peds and don't get caught. An example would be lance Armstrong who won many tour de France titles using peds but never tested positive for years. When money is involved there are means to beat the tests. There was a team USA sprinter can't remember his name who admired to using steroids through his career even in the Olympics but never tested positive once and said everyone was taking them.

pandion said:How many guys at WSM are full-time professional athletes?

JamesH said:
Lance Armstrong did not do the things some strength athletes are doing in order to be as big and strong as possible. In cycling, more dies not equal more. For strength it does.
Are you happy with a sport where who wins is the person who is most prepared to put their life at risk?

DL1987 said:
riding thousands of miles every year is as much a strain on the heart as any drug or any amount of weight lifted.

slimsim said:
So riding a bike and allowing your body to undergo a completely natural compensatory response to get fitter is as strenuous on the body as taking a load of exogenous hormones all of which cause various other hormonal changes in the body due to it working on a feedback loop.
Yeah, of course it is.