That was fucking hilarious
“While the average human has 0.00000000003 grams of radium, my body contains nearly 2,000 times that amount. This is a result of several years of experimenting and tweaking my diet, mostly by replacing protein shakes with white wine.”
Class.
Awesomeness. Lol @
"I had no unfair advantages during my fights.
I am, quite simply, a better human being."
I have a question as I am unfamiliar with the banned performance enhancing drugs. Please correct where my assumptions are wrong.
Do they help in MMA? They don’t give you better reflexes. They don’t give you faster twitch. They don’t give you better technique. You can grow muscle, but that’s a detriment in MMA - more muscle means less endurance - wears you out quicker.
Overeem is not looking to wrestle anyone in the UFC anyway, which is the only way I can see that helping. Even then it’s not a big advantage: Brock had a ton more muscle than Velazquez. What good did it do? I can see using them to move up a weight class, but it’s not going to make you better than your opponents once there.
So what’s the problem with letting Overeem, or anyone else for that matter, use them?
[quote]qsar wrote:
I have a question as I am unfamiliar with the banned performance enhancing drugs. Please correct where my assumptions are wrong.
Do they help in MMA? They don’t give you better reflexes. They don’t give you faster twitch. They don’t give you better technique. You can grow muscle, but that’s a detriment in MMA - more muscle means less endurance - wears you out quicker.
Overeem is not looking to wrestle anyone in the UFC anyway, which is the only way I can see that helping. Even then it’s not a big advantage: Brock had a ton more muscle than Velazquez. What good did it do? I can see using them to move up a weight class, but it’s not going to make you better than your opponents once there.
So what’s the problem with letting Overeem, or anyone else for that matter, use them?
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Your ability to recover improves quite a bit the more T you have in your body. Faster recovery means you can train more, and being able to train more often times means that your skill level will be much higher than some average guy who couldn’t reach no where near the daily ammount of training those guys put themselves through. I also recall reading something about them lowering the risk of injuries/allowing those injuries to heal faster, but not 100% if thats a fact so don’t take my word on it. There are also PEDs out there that increase your cardio, not all PEDs are about growing massive beach muscles.
[quote]qsar wrote:
I have a question as I am unfamiliar with the banned performance enhancing drugs. Please correct where my assumptions are wrong.
Do they help in MMA? They don’t give you better reflexes. They don’t give you faster twitch. They don’t give you better technique. You can grow muscle, but that’s a detriment in MMA - more muscle means less endurance - wears you out quicker.
Overeem is not looking to wrestle anyone in the UFC anyway, which is the only way I can see that helping. Even then it’s not a big advantage: Brock had a ton more muscle than Velazquez. What good did it do? I can see using them to move up a weight class, but it’s not going to make you better than your opponents once there.
So what’s the problem with letting Overeem, or anyone else for that matter, use them?
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The truth that no one wants to accept is that they do ALL of those things.
More testosterone potentially increases reflexes, by how much, no one can be sure (obviously with most things, genetic predispositions are still going to govern you. Nobody become roy jones by shooting some test in their ass and popping a few dbols) they increase the amount of fast twitch fibers, they enhance recovery and help prevent injury via a number of pathways (increased red blood cells, etc) and they increase strength dramatically. Also increased levels of IGF-1 means an athlete on steroids potentially learns or enhances skills faster.
It literally is bigger, stronger, faster. This is why sprinters are yet another class of athlete who make heavy use of anabolic steroids.
[quote]qsar wrote:
I have a question as I am unfamiliar with the banned performance enhancing drugs. Please correct where my assumptions are wrong.
Do they help in MMA? They don’t give you better reflexes. They don’t give you faster twitch. They don’t give you better technique. You can grow muscle, but that’s a detriment in MMA - more muscle means less endurance - wears you out quicker.
Overeem is not looking to wrestle anyone in the UFC anyway, which is the only way I can see that helping. Even then it’s not a big advantage: Brock had a ton more muscle than Velazquez. What good did it do? I can see using them to move up a weight class, but it’s not going to make you better than your opponents once there.
So what’s the problem with letting Overeem, or anyone else for that matter, use them?
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You don’t think being 265 in the heavyweight division with all the added strength, and what seems to be very good conditioning as well, is an advantage?
No, this isn’t fucking happening… They pull Reem few days BEFORE the hearing and now if he can get that license he will fight Cain instead. What the fuck is going on and why, oh why do you have to take it away from us twice? Ruined my day, part 2.
[quote]humble wrote:
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I thought the 6:1 Test:Epitestosterone ratio was the actual limit set in the book.
Not that Sonnen has ever felt constrained by the notion of shared reality.
Regards,
Robert A
Not sure what to make of this…
I’d really just like him to get off the juice and fight.
I feel like I should care more than I do, but I really wanted to see this fight.
He was prescribed Steroidal Anti-Inflammatories? Well, it’s not the worst defense.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Not sure what to make of this…
I’d really just like him to get off the juice and fight.
I feel like I should care more than I do, but I really wanted to see this fight.[/quote]
So he is saying his doctor used a corticosteroid and an anabolic steroid together? Like a test plus cortisone injection? “Mixed” seems to imply an injection. So, test right into the costotransverse joint, or cortisone into a mass of soft tissue. That is…unconventional.
Tried to find a protocol, didn’t.
Got:
http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/27/1/2.short
Regards,
Robert A
[quote]Robert A wrote:
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
Not sure what to make of this…
I’d really just like him to get off the juice and fight.
I feel like I should care more than I do, but I really wanted to see this fight.[/quote]
So he is saying his doctor used a corticosteroid and an anabolic steroid together? Like a test plus cortisone injection? “Mixed” seems to imply an injection. So, test right into the costotransverse joint, or cortisone into a mass of soft tissue. That is…unconventional.
Tried to find a protocol, didn’t.
Got:
http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/27/1/2.short
Regards,
Robert A[/quote]
Hahaha. Well, true. Although you don’t need to prove a protocol so much as throw enough “expert testimony” from friendly doctors to cloud things up. Not sure what the “mixed” means.
Also with humble on ruined my day part 2…
Well, he’s been suspended for 9 months.
Guess they didn’t buy it.
Wonder whats up for the Reem now. Just wondering, how would it work out if the UFC decided to hold another event in Japan, do those fighters need to be cleared to fight by NSAC? Would really suck to have him just stay out of the action for 9 months, since he probably won’t use that time to beef up anyways considering his already massive frame.
[quote]Fistiecuffs wrote:
Wonder whats up for the Reem now. Just wondering, how would it work out if the UFC decided to hold another event in Japan, do those fighters need to be cleared to fight by NSAC? Would really suck to have him just stay out of the action for 9 months, since he probably won’t use that time to beef up anyways considering his already massive frame.[/quote]
You don’t think he was beefed up before?
It still requires maintenance.
[quote]Thuggish wrote:
[quote]Fistiecuffs wrote:
Wonder whats up for the Reem now. Just wondering, how would it work out if the UFC decided to hold another event in Japan, do those fighters need to be cleared to fight by NSAC? Would really suck to have him just stay out of the action for 9 months, since he probably won’t use that time to beef up anyways considering his already massive frame.[/quote]
You don’t think he was beefed up before?
It still requires maintenance.[/quote]
I don’t know if I chose my words somewhat stupid, but by beefing up I meant that he probably won’t use that time to pack on another 20lbs of muscle since he probably has all he needs already. Sure is going to keep on juicing for mainteance though.