Just finished watching a clip of Dave Tate from eliteFTS which, for those you who don't know, has been a powerlifter since his early teens and trained with the likes of Louie Simmons at Westside Barbell. Suffice to say he knows a thing or two not only about strength but also the effects of steriods on lifters, although I do not believe he himself has ever used (not that he looks down on it, he's neither for or against).
I'm paraphrasing here but an interesting observation he made about anabolic steriod use is that users have a hard time just walking around without being out of breath quickly. Why? Because anabolic steriods users fire their muscles more all the time - even under the most minimal load. Their muscles over compensate everything. Which is PERFECT if you have to do a short duration (less than 10 seconds), heavy load, explosive lift.
Anabolic users also train for much shorter periods of time with heavier loads compared to natural lifters because that's the only way they'll get any benefit. There's no benefit in submaximal loading and thus large amounts of time training. Their bodies are not capable of anything else because they've sacrificed any meaningful endurance for pure phosphogenic (and maybe a bit of anaerobic) strength.
So, if the above observations are an accurate representation of the effects and usefulness of anabolic steroid use, I've got 2 questions :
1) How are anabolic steroids useful to a boxer?
2) Given Paquiao's tremendous speed strength and endurance based work load, how can anyone point at him and say "steroid use"?
If anyone has any counter information on this, if this info is off base in anyway - post it here. I certainly do not claim to be an authority on the subject of anabolic steroids however this was an interesting and informed opinion I came across recently and thought it might be worth sharing.
The video in question can be found here
h**p://journal.crossfit.com/2009/06/dave-tate-sticking-points-technique-part-2.tpl
however it does require paid registration to grab.
I'm paraphrasing here but an interesting observation he made about anabolic steriod use is that users have a hard time just walking around without being out of breath quickly. Why? Because anabolic steriods users fire their muscles more all the time - even under the most minimal load. Their muscles over compensate everything. Which is PERFECT if you have to do a short duration (less than 10 seconds), heavy load, explosive lift.
Anabolic users also train for much shorter periods of time with heavier loads compared to natural lifters because that's the only way they'll get any benefit. There's no benefit in submaximal loading and thus large amounts of time training. Their bodies are not capable of anything else because they've sacrificed any meaningful endurance for pure phosphogenic (and maybe a bit of anaerobic) strength.
So, if the above observations are an accurate representation of the effects and usefulness of anabolic steroid use, I've got 2 questions :
1) How are anabolic steroids useful to a boxer?
2) Given Paquiao's tremendous speed strength and endurance based work load, how can anyone point at him and say "steroid use"?
If anyone has any counter information on this, if this info is off base in anyway - post it here. I certainly do not claim to be an authority on the subject of anabolic steroids however this was an interesting and informed opinion I came across recently and thought it might be worth sharing.
The video in question can be found here
h**p://journal.crossfit.com/2009/06/dave-tate-sticking-points-technique-part-2.tpl
however it does require paid registration to grab.
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