It’s no particular secret that a lot of fitness freaks will use drugs to “help” their training regimen.
Alarming however, are the latest finding from the Royal Society of Medicine which suggests that the phenomenon of gym goers turning to drugs in order to satiate their desire for the perfect body is actually on the increase.
Packing on defined muscle is not an easy task, and in some area of the US up to 30% of gym goers have admitted to using steroids as a way to help them achieve their body building goals.
“Sufferers of negative or heightened body image issues will go to extremes to meet their desired goals and doctors need to be more aware of the efforts ‘bigorexics’ will go to achieve their goals,” said Professor Bruce Davies.
The report can be found here in PDF format.
What is scary about this is that the problem of illicit steroid use in the gym world has been known for so long, yet despite educational efforts warning of the dangers, the problem is actually getting worse.
Obviously the current strategy to combat this danger is not working and so we have a problem.