Do you no longer act in this way? I’ll admit that I am much better at coming to full stops, signaling, and that I never text and call while drive, but I still listen to the radio, talk with my passenger and occasionally exceed the speed limit.
You can also go to the doctor, take bloods, eat healthy, do research when taking steroids. Behind the wheel you can do everything right and still die just because someone else doesn’t do the right thing behind the wheel.
Driving steel missles at 70 miles per hour near tons of other steel missles with potentially bad tires, texting, drunk, eating etc is really damn dangerous to say the least. And yet you wouldn’t see a judgemental why does John Meadows take the interstate post
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What the hell is this speed limit you speak of?
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I am no longer that way.
But, all those guys look like crap now.
Is he the picture of health perhaps not but, John Meadows has looked that way for quite sometime. He is just not the best looking guy. Look up pictures of him pre-2000 he looks the same (body shape and face).
You are a better man than me. That said, I imagine your passengers are bored with no radio and conversation, haha.
They look ordinary now but people still trust them because they get the job done.
I meant I’m not lazy and irresponsible anymore. 
That’s exactly right. All I said is that his look is similar to some guys who passed on or who had or have health problems. I’m not predicting an early demise, nor do I want that for him.
Ah, but still got the radio going and talking with the passengers and some speeding here and there? Yeah; I am the same. It is a risk I take, and I know it is wrong when I do it.
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I do a good bit of driving for work and chugging red bulls at 2 am trying to make that last leg home to see my family in the morning probably isn’t always the smartest thing. Although in my defense, with the leverage I now have I’ve largely put an end to any work schedules that require stuff like that anymore.
too many confounding variables to actually assess what these deaths mean, statistically. The fact is, non steroid users die at young ages too, from the same things these bodybuilders are dying from. Heart failure, liver, kidney, etc. But we are generally more likely to hear about it when it’s a bodybuilder. So without a statistical analysis to go by, I can’t properly understand these deaths in a meaningful way. ‘IFBB pro bodybuilder dies of heart attack at age 42’ makes a headline. ‘Average Joe does of heart attack at age 42’ makes the obituaries and that’s it.
EDIT: also meant to mention recreational drugs/pain killers/etc as confounding variables as well, along with very high bodyweight, diet, etc. I’ve always been of the opinion that the overall mass, period, of some of the high level lifters/bodybuilders, walking around at a bodyweight of 280+, is potentially worse for one’s health than the drugs themselves. I obviously don’t have strong evidence to support this, but I also don’t think it’s an irrational opinion to have, considering we definitely know that a high bodyweight IS a negative health marker.
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because athletes are supposed to be healthy. they exercise, they eat well. noone gets surprised if a coach potato in his 40s dies of a heart attack.
if a sports professional dies of a heart attack in his mid 30s of course it will be an interesting story and the PEDs will be accused.
Once you start paying them, this is very rarely the case.
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Since you’re aware of this fact, why did you jump to the conclusion that John will be dead soon?
(I’m not going to write anything about PEDs here since I’m wary that if I defend some aspects of their use, there will always be one idiot who reads it and goes, “Yeah bitch! Roids are completely safe! Imma YOLO this shit! 10gs of tren! All day!”)
Since so many conclusions have been jumped to regarding John’s case, how about I jump to some less reasonable ones myself?
Are some people actually hoping deep inside that he will suffer severe consequences a result of his choices so that you can tell yourselves, "“Thank God I didn’t jump on the roids even though I really want to! So what if he’s worth a million bucks? He’s dead!”
*Not being an ass here or calling people out. I believe this is part of human nature and is mostly passive and benign, hence I have no problem with it. If this is the case, you are entitled to your own thoughts. The question is, are we being completely honest here?
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lol what? according to who? I get what you’re saying as it pertains to amateur athletes or non-competitive, fit athletic people. But that’s absolutely NOT an assumption I make about professional athletes. Maybe it’s different around the world, and that could be why your perspective is different from mine. In the US, it is almost expected that athletes who play contact sports will finish their career with a dozen or more surgeries, body parts that don’t work or feel right, mangled hands, problems with painkillers, have suffered concussions, the list goes on. A retired professional athlete is by no means ‘supposed’ to be healthy, as I see it. Professional athletes are men who sacrifice their physical well being to play a sport, for the love of the sport, the love of money, or both.
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