If you look at some of the guys who have won Olympias in the last 25ish years, they look like they're on death's door once they get into their 40's and 50's. The renting a physique analogy is apt. A lot of them are spending the rest of their lives in and out of the hospital with various forms of organ complications and failure. That quality of life or lack thereof for maybe a decade of prize money and notoriety is a horrible Faustian bargain to make.
He wasn’t winning a 50/50 with Younes Kaboul no matter how much he tried
I have a friend who is 33 and has been cruising and blasting for about 5 years. He's had gyno surgery, been in and out of hospital several times, and can't get his ding dong up without taking copious amounts of Viagra. I've toyed with the idea for as long as I can remember, but unless you're competing or earning money from it, the benefits you might gain either socially or romantically, in addition to the physical gains, come at a very high cost. That's without mentioning the longer term cardiovascular and fertility side effects.
That's funny with the way it is a bit contrarian in same sentence.
Yeah it's insane. I just can't see any way that the risks are worth it. Even if you clean up financially for the few years you MIGHT be able to be on top in the body building world, all that money you're making is going to longer term medical fees a few years later, if your heart doesn't crap out before then.
Well to be fair I think he only started playing football seriously when he was like 12 or 13 so for him to have been good enough to play for Arsenal as a teenager is a miracle. He also was a considerably better finisher than Jesus so there's that.
Theo is a little rat for that but 100 goals for Arsenal traded for what Özil 15/16 season?
True. There's a culture to it like anything else I guess. Have you ever seen the powerlifters who give themselves gushing nosebleeds deadlifting? Like why would you ever do that? It's weird because I can totally understand an obsession with self-actualization but in the case of these pro body builders you're cheating and using chemical help and ensuring that if you do grow old that you'll be sick and miserable. As you say, these days any hack with a decent physique can monetize their social media without ruining their organs but I guess when you have that particular obsession and it ties into your self worth, the cost doesnt seem as high as it does to the rest of us.
The Sol signing trumps this for me.
Well yes, but I said deadline day, Sol was signed and confirmed in July iirc.
That is a fair comment, I took it more as a signing in general.
