Ironman Magazine’s Lonnie Teper, the popular bodybuilding writer, promoter and contest emcee, has denounced the use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding competition on same day that Regis Philbin announced his support of steroids for bodybuilding. Teper’s comments were made in a recent interview with the Pasadena Weekly about the 2008 NPC Junior California Bodybuilding and Figure Championships in Pasadena, California on Saturday, June 21, 2008; Teper is the promoter of the Junior Cal show (“Show of Strength: Spartan-like bodybuilders do what it takes to attain the perfect body,” June 19).
Teper denounces the use of steroids, while acknowledging that they are a fact of life in the sport ” one made famous by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has admitted to using steroids during his bodybuilding career.
Am I against the use of steroids? Yes. Would I like to see it be all natural? Yes. But is it realistic? No, said Teper said.
Teper goes on to defend the sport of bodybuilding citing disciplined training and nutrition as being primarily responsible for achieving muscular bodybuilding physiques.
Rather than a product of steroids, Teper says that bodybuilders’ almost surreal physiques are more a testament to their Spartan lifestyles ” that steroid use alone could not be enough to build the ideal bodybuilder’s shape.
Bodybuilders are on house arrest for the four months that they’re training for competitions. They have to time what they eat, when they eat it, when they train ” they have no lives for months, he said.
It was a very interesting day with Lonnie Teper speaking out against steroids for bodybuilding shortly after Regis Philbin spoke out in support steroids for muscle building!
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Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.
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