Matt Chaney examines how anabolic steroid use became an established practice in American football with many users including Sidney Blanks, Ron Mix, Jack Stroud, Stan Jones, and others.
Anabolic Steroid Articles
Our steroid articles provided detailed, practical information on how anabolic steroids are used to build muscle size, strength and otherwise improve physical performance. They cover topics such as the history of steroids, steroids in baseball, the medical uses of steroids including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), the side effects of steroids and how to manage steroid side effects.
If I Hadn’t Self-Medicated I Would Be Dead: Self-medicated testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and why it is practised
Anabolic steroids are also used for self-medicated testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) by bodybuilders who cannot access medical TRT. This practice helps alleviate symptoms like depression and low energy, despite the risks and challenges associated with obtaining and managing these drugs without medical supervision.
The Beginning: Anabolic Steroids Invade American Football (First in a Series)
Matt Chaney’s review of newly recovered newspaper evidence reveals a widespread national awareness of anabolic substances in American football as early as the late 1950s.
Project Monster
This article examines bodybuilding’s association with monstrosity, highlighting how being termed a ‘monster’ is considered the ultimate accolade, representing not just immense size but the extensive effort required to achieve such physical stature.
Fitness Culture and IPEDs: Crisis, revolution, and the digital push, 1990-2020
The history of doping is also a history of modernity and the plastic and changeable body. Through ideas about performing bodies, various sports have been successfully modernized since the mid-1800s (Dimeo, 2007). Within this modernization process we also find the use of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs). In the 1930s, different types of drugs […]
Gym Culture and IPEDs: The pre-history of IPEDs and the golden era of bodybuilding, 1900-1980s
Transforming from a subcultural enterprise that began in greasy, masculine, exclusive basement environments, gym and fitness culture has broadened and developed into a multibillion-dollar global industry. It now welcomes both men and women, young and old, and individuals with a range of goals.
Anabolicus Maximus? Bodybuilder Disagreements About Insulin
One of the most misunderstood and debated drugs in bodybuilding is insulin. This is because we have no science to act as a foundation for the ways that bodybuilders use insulin. This makes all bodybuilder knowledge about insulin use broscience. By using this term ‘broscience’ I am not meaning to discredit this knowledge. Experiential knowledge is very important
Excessive Hair Growth in Female Anabolic Steroid Users
Anabolic steroids, especially testosterone, causes hirsutism in women. Treatments include shaving, waxing, electrolysis, oral contraceptives, and antiandrogens. Hirsutism is typically reversible after reducing androgen exposure.
He-man: ‘I have the power!’ World: ‘We’re not sure you should anymore’
He-man’s evolution from the 1980s to 2020s reflects societal changes in views on power and gender. The original He-man inspired bodybuilders with his muscular physique, while today’s He-man is even more exaggerated. However, society now prefers less visibly powerful men, indicating discomfort with masculine power.
Measuring Testosterone in Blood Immunoassays
An often requested blood parameter by anabolic steroid users is, not surprisingly, testosterone. However, there appear to be quite some misconceptions about how to interpret these values. People often interpret these values as being very precise. But they aren’t. The results of blood measurements can vary considerably, without the mean steady state values of testosterone […]