August 2015

Aggression

Submitted by RonnyT on Thu, 2015-08-20 17:01

Sexhormones influence our behavior. Everybody knows that. They influence our sexual drive, our emotions, our risk behavior and aggression (just think of your puberty). But that’s due to our increasing level of endogenous testosterone and DHT. What about exogenous (injected or oral) testosterone and analogues?

I want to discuss the mental and emotional side effects of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS) in humans and animals. Why animals? They are mostly used for scientifically studies but more important animals are increasingly doped for ergogenic means like horse and greyhound racing (and don’t forget the betting’s involved) and for animal fighting roosters and dogs, mostly pit-bulls. I just recently posted a blog-post about that.

Short Muscle Bellies Part II

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2015-08-17 11:26

Bodybuilding means that you try to develop an symmetrical, aesthetical pleasing physique with all muscle groups in proportion to each other.

In an ideal world you would be blessed with the right basics and genetic predisposition to easy gain muscle in the right proportion.

But as we’ve seen in our previous blogpost, most people have weak points, an uneven or unbalanced body, short muscle bellies and some are unlucky and have hard time to gain muscle.

Some muscles grow better that others, by example that the trapezius is a muscle that grows relatively fast for most people. It’s a tough muscle, full of androgenic receptors and with very favorable insertions for heavy and frequent training. Beside that anabolic steroids will make the traps explode right away.

Short vs Long Muscle Bellies

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2015-08-10 11:20

On the drawing above you see a short muscle belly from the biceps and triceps compared with long ones.

A short muscle belly means that the muscle attaches high on the tendon, meaning the tendons are somewhat long and the muscle is somewhat short. Take an easy example : your bicep. Say your muscle bellies are attached high on the tendon, which means far from the elbow. That tends to create a gap between your bicep muscle and your forearm as you can see in the graphic.

Vet Steroids II

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2015-08-03 08:49

Anabolic steroids were first developed in groups with small deviations, if scientist found the best analogue, they researched it and when their company believed it could become profitable they would market it. All anabolic steroids were just pharmaceutical drugs. There were roids for human and veterinary steroids. Also veterinary compounds for increasing muscle mass (meat) cattle.

They were used for a long time and some of them are still in use. So what’s wrong with? The answer could be short, nothing. Fact is that the global operating pharmaceutical industry is very powerful and earns very little on these compounds often with expired patents.

Prescription drug, biotechnology and medical device companies spent more than $700 million lobbying Congress and the Obama administration. They have spent millions in campaign contributions. Donations went to both Republicans and Democrats.