Drugs On Soccer

Use of drug/hormone program

 Steroid Program for soccer athletes

Using steroid is a way that can improve an athlete performance by the usage of drugs. There are lots of types of steroid usage that can be done by athletes to improve their performance on the field. This can be done by drinking a steroid, using it in a tablet, injection, suction it into your body and also you could inhale the steroid. Steroids used in sports are usually anabolic in nature. Ideally, as are drugs that closely resemble androgenic hormones and are synthetically derived from the male hormones called the testosterone. The widespread use of anabolic steroids among athletes is precisely to achieve strength, weight gain, speed, endurance against pain and fatigue, and aggressiveness.. Despite their prolific usage by the sports fraternity, the research literature still reveals debate on whether anabolic steroids can really enhance one’s performance or not. However, almost all athletes who have administered these substances have affirmed to the benefits caused by these. In fact many athletes have also asserted that they would not have been as successful without consuming them.

Benefits of using steroids in soccer:

-       Muscles such as voluntary muscles will be strengthened. Contraction is used to move the body, and can be finely controlled, like movements of the eye, or gross movements like the quadriceps muscle of the thigh. There are two broad types of voluntary muscle fibres, slow twitch and fast twitch. Slow twitch fibers contract for long periods of time but with little force while fast twitch fibers contract quickly and powerfully but fatigue very rapidly. If our voluntary muscles are strong, such as biceps triceps and leg muscles, the soccer players can shoot more harder and their body won’t be weak.

-       Soccer athletes will have the ability to have the habit of wanting to work out. This made athletes can improve their respiratory system more because exercising produce oxygen and we can link this to circulatory system, when more clean blood goes to all parts from the heart from the arteries and it will spread to the body it can make atp for muscles and it can make and athletes muscles not easily sore when doing a workout.

Limitations of using steroid in soccer

1. When playing soccer, steroid can make soccer players aggressive and when they are aggressive, their brains could be broken and the circulation of oxygen to the brain could be damaged. When playing on the field this makes soccer players tired easily and if they used to much steroid, they can passed out.

2. This increases the risk of heart disease. Again, dose and duration as well as choice of steroid play a huge role in the occurrence and severity of this problem. The increased weight and blood pressure caused by steroids can also increase the individual’s risk for heart disease. When the weight increases, soccer players will be unable to be more agile when playing in the fields meaning to say is that they will not be able to pass through defenders more quickly and getting the ball from your friends quickly. And also increases of blood pressure damages the wall of a soccer players arteries so oxygen from veins also could be denied at this could also cause death. The arteries became not smooth anymore. They get rough spots on them where fat and calcium start to build up. This buildup is called plaque.

Plaque is part of atherosclerosis, sometimes called "hardening of the arteries." Over time, the plaque narrows the artery and blocks blood flow through it. Atherosclerosis makes your arteries narrower. It also makes them stiffer. Blood can't flow through them as easily. This lack of good blood flow starts to damage some of the organs in your body.

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By: Mourezky 8E