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Who are some of the names that will most likely be effected by this?Maybe Hillis, and tons of defensive players?I personally think HGH should be mandatory in the NFL as in all sports...
If you ain't cheating you ain't trying.I personally think HGH should be mandatory in the NFL as in all sports...
Because all the other sports do, why not the NFL?
doesn't the NFL trainers do all sorts of injections to get back in the game?
These injections are pain-killers, not steroids.
Why not? The NFLPA agreed to it in the latest CBA. Done deal.As a Bills fan, it makes me a little
that Merriman suddenly is having a "problem with his achilles" again...
It's against NFL policy for trainers to take performance enhancers to work out a player's cramp and examine an injury? I say let them if they can get themselves back into the game to get player back into the game faster.
The line is quite bluury. Cortisone, which is a very popular pain killing injection is a steroid.
I believe this is gonna be a back door for many players to escape any issues.
Let's start with 95% of offensive & defensive linemen.Who are some of the names that will most likely be effected by this?I personally think HGH should be mandatory in the NFL as in all sports...
Maybe Hillis, and tons of defensive players?
I doubt it. Looking at him he looks pretty proportionally correct. Plus I doubt the guys that were using were still doing so with the high likeliness that they were going to test day one, so his stats would already be suffering like Clay Matthews.
It helps older players more. Its main benefit is in speeding the time of healing injuries.
Is that all?I thought it allowed players to add a bunch more muscle faster.
No, it has minimal, if any, advantage for muscle gaining purposes. As others have said, it helps promote some faster healing and it does help with fatloss.
I understand the relationship between drug use in professional sports and the perceptions of the youth. However, the cost of HGH is high and hard to come by. Also, the use of steroids has been prevalent in the NFL since the 1960s. While this was not publicly known until more recently, it still changes the perceptions that many have had of sports in general. Therefore, history supports the notion that kids in college and the pros will take drugs to get ahead, with or without the influence they experienced in youth sports. This is not a justification for drug use, but does show the inevitability of drug use since testing always seems to be chasing the users rather than being ahead of them.'two_dollars said:
Good post. It has shown to be largely ineffective, although it is still good that they are implementing it.I read an article on Wikipedia and it told me that nobody really knows for sure what if any advantages an HGH regimine would bestow on a professional athlete.
According to this NYT article, only 8 professional athletes have ever tested positive for HGH. So either the usage isn't pervasive, or it's easy to avoid testing positive. Either way that leads me to assume this won't make big waves in the NFL.
Not blurry at all...one kind of steroid enhances performance, the others don't...Anabolic steroids = not permittedOther steroids = permittedIf you look at the NFL banned substance list, it specifies which anabolic steroids are banned. HGH is already on that list actually, as of 2009...I guess they're now actually going to test for it.
so because one type of steroid is banned and the other isnt the one that isnt banned doesnt help performance? If your in pain and you take a shot to relieve the pain so you can play better , that isnt doing the same thing that anabolic steroids are doing ? Guess what...your wrong...the only reason steroids are banned is because it supposably gives one guy an advantage over another guy...playing pain free while the other guy is in pain is an advantage
Come on, you have to realize that they're two completely different substances, with completely different effects. Anabolic steroids can make you bigger, stronger, and more aggressive than you normally would be, while pain injections simply allow you to function normally, or closer to it. You say the injections can make you "play better"...they won't make you better than you normally would be. The key word in performance enhancing drugs is "enhancing", pain injections don't "enhance" your performance, they allow you to play through painBTW, supposably isn't a word'BustedKnuckles said:
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