gh the vast majority of the athletic community accepts that anabolic steroids enhance exercise capacity and performance, the extent to which this occurs and the factors influencing such effects remain incompletely understood and documented. The physical aspect to the advantage of steroid use is that it is known to increases in muscle bulk, strength, and endurance (TCADA, 1997). Steroids have been called the "HE-MAN DRUG" (NIDA 1997), and also states athletes who use these drugs are cheating. They gain an unfair advantage over opponents and violate the ban on steroids imposed by most major sports organizations.Athletes today look for anyway to get that competitive edge and they are willing to achieve this at any cost, even if it means using anabolic steroids. This drug is very wide spread through out the sporting arena and today an average of 35% use anabolic steroids in the athletic arena, 43% of which come from the high school students (Greenway 1997). Not only dose it make your muscles bigger it also makes the user more aggressive than usual and this can be rather unfair in such sports as football, rugby, and soccer. This added aggressiveness is nachievable by the regular athlete, which in turn gives the user one more unfair advantage. So in short anabolicsteroids in some cases do improve your athletic prowess and dose give the user a greater competitive edge over the rest of the competition, but at what cost and is it really worth it. In conclusion, each and everyone of us cares about our appearance and the way we feel about ourselves. From the way we wear our hair, the cloths we wear, right down to the cars we drive and the homes we live in, we want to be noticed. All of these things make us feel better about ourselves. We follow the latest fashions, styles and trends because we want to fit in and we want acceptance from our peers and society. We spend endless hours and countless numbers of dollars on all sorts of mircle products p...
