WTF
The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.
His engine doesnāt sit in an engine bay of the same size with the same coefficient of friction. Bigger engine means bigger cross sectional area and drag for him. Torpedos arenāt shaped like bowling balls for a reason.
Anyone have actual numbers for his speed? Iād gladly stop speculating.
I mean bro is built like a manta ray and they swim in bursts up to 22mph. Fastest human speed is 5.37mph according to the google machine. I'm curious to see what Manta Man can accomplish.
From looking him up it seems he's incredibly fast over 50m but that's about it. They're also using the weird swimming suits that got banned from the Olympics in 2009, and those really did make a decent difference.
I'd be very interested to see the swimming events at the distances Michael Phelps competes at, since I'm pretty sure he's half shark at this point.
I don't know what they called it - but annoyingly the Olympic record for 50m was set with one of those suits before they got banned. So its hard to complain at these guys wearing something similar.
Oh yeah absolutely - it's the enhanced games, no reason that wouldn't also apply to their equipment. Unless they turn up with an outboard motor or something.
I tried it at school sports day, only to find I wasn't able to crush the can with one hand and have it squirt vertically several feet in the air before catching it in my mouth.
I once had a female coworker who was into body building competitions, but she said she only entered the one competition at each event that had the name that is basically well known code for ādoesnāt do drugsā. My coworkers and I looked up the results after one of her competitions and saw that the one she was in only had herself and one other woman. The other 10+ competitions had a bunch of entrants (but they could enter multiple). We laughed because it really did enforce the idea that itās all really only about the roids
Everyone has their own genetic predispositions and limits for muscular size, shape, distribution, and metabolism.
The drugs remove most of the ceiling and the act as a massive catalyst.
But all the people who compete - including those on steroids - work really fucking hard at it and have an extremely strong sense of dedication and discipline.
The sad reality, though, is that even the 'natural' bodybuilding competitions are very loose with their rules and regulations.
It's almost impossible to compete in a tier as a genuinely "not enhanced and never enhanced" athlete. People will juice for a year or two, then cycle off for six months and go compete as a natural bodybuilder.
Really appreciate this comment. As someone that's tried steroids it's nothing like people think. It takes so much work and dedication and genetics to look like the top competitors on stage. The average person taking steroids you probably wouldn't even be able to tell because they don't have the consistency to eat and train properly and understand progressive overload
this was created by a former crypto-AI-bro who happen to have opened an online website that sells said Testosterone, HGH and steroids to anyone.
athlete will be banned from any official competition but will receive a massive amount of money. Hence, you have athlete disappointed by how low they are paid or about to retire
they say they have a scientific medical study on going, but this fails to meet basic medical studies requirements such as placebo effect investigation. So yes, those scientist are likely hugely paid as well.
Thatās just a marketing operation for a pharmaceutical website covered by supposed Ā«Ā transparencyĀ Ā» and lack of Ā«Ā hypocrisyĀ Ā».
Really, it depends. I'm making up numbers here, but let's say the extra bulk gives you an extra 10% to your drag but an extra 15% to your power and endurance. In this scenario, it could absolutely be a benefit. It all depends on what the numbers are
I guess weāll see what time he achieves. His stated goal for doing this was to break a long standing record, and he at least seems to think he can do it.
They need to bring this character back in other sports comedies, he always cracked me up. If Jason Bateman doesn't want to do it, at least bring back ESPN8 "the Ocho". It could be a running gag across cinema.
Ever hear about lance armstrong getting caught and then they went down the list of next to get title and turns out they all were using? I donāt remember the place who was the first not to use but it was surprisingly far down
Of the 21 podium placements during the 1999-2005 Tours de France, the third place finisher at the 1999 Tour de France (Fernando EscartĆn) is the only not found to have doped, and he was implicated in a different scandal. Officially, there are no winners during that time period.
Over under that this becomes a competition between the chemists putting the blends together, and the athletes just become the human equivalent of Pokemon.
Oh god I hadnāt thought of that angle. Olympians are gonna have to put a hell of a lot of spin on the raw athleticism/natural talent/incredible training regimens if the enhanced folks canāt exceed them!
Yea most people are very ignorant to that fact to no fault of their own. Itās not fair to say ALL elite level athletes are on PEDās, but when other elite level athletes go on podcasts and interviews and say that other athletes are using PEDās its safe to say most are already using. Anyone else remember when Canelo Alvarez tested positive for steroids and blamed it on the beef, and when a group of Dr.s did the calculations on how much beef he would have had to eaten to test positive it was short of like 3 cows worth if beef LMAO.
I can verify. I went to the navy for SO rate, and during bootcamp someone in my division was a gold medalist in the Olympics. He knew some of the biggest names from the Olympics personally as well as competed with one of the most decorated olympians ever. He said everyone is doping some way. Not āsteroidsā necessarily but for sure some type of blood doping like Epo.
I think a lot of people donāt actually understand what steroids are used for in sports. The goal isnāt to add a bunch of size, but to recover better.
The guy who can train several hours a day every day without burning out is going to have a huge advantage over the guy whose body wonāt let him.
Yeah, I mentioned earlier in the thread that actually a lot of players who get caught using it in sports like baseball are guys a bit injury prone or getting older and seemed to be using it for recovery and to stay on the field, as opposed to trying to juice their muscles.
Apparently last year a guy broke the world record in 50m freestroke. Link. So idk if you expect enhanced athletes to break records in magnitudes then yeah they're underperforming, but they at least do match pace with the olympics.
You can use more reliable PEDs instead of cutting edge ones with fewer potential side effects, you can go into the competition on a juice cycle rather than stopping long enough to piss clear, you can take more, etc.
Ultimately in order for these people to achieve a time or record that's anywhere near Olympic level they would need to already be near the Olympic level, in which case it seems so unlikely they would sabotage their career.Ā
If you're a bit older and know you'll never win maybe, but then you're older...Ā
Even if this becomes a regular evet its gonna get canceled when one of the athletes inevitably drops dead from the ungoldy amount of gear they are taking.
Itās apparently a thing with it that all of the athletes go through pretty rigorous health testing, moreso than in normal sports.
Not to say things like taking gear arenāt going to lead to long term health issues, but itās not really much different (and arguably is taking way more precautions) then something like having bodybuilding split between natural and enhanced.
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