Ok, Warning – I get pretty philosophical with this post.
Number one question I get about fasting?
What about losing muscle mass?
The truth is (as I point out in Eat Stop Eat) you don’t lose muscle while following Eat Stop Eat because you are resistance training AND fasting.
Of course, this naturally leads to questions about how much protein a person should be eating.
In fact, there were enough questions about protein that I ended up having to write my book “How Much Protein?” to properly answer the questions.
These questions led me to some questions of my own…
Mainly…
Why Protein?
If people are so concerned about their muscle mass, why is it protein that they asked about? Why not anabolic steroids?
After all even the most DIE HARD protein pusher will admit that the effectiveness of protein is very limited.
Protein just isn’t going to make you massive.
Anabolic steroids on the other hand…They have a very good track record for building muscle. Lot’s of it.
In fact…all legal and ethical issues aside, fasting, resistance training and steroids would make for a very, very powerful effect.
Now, I’m not about to recommend steroids. Frankly, I just don’t know enough about them.
Even though it seems like every week another one of our sports idols has been caught doping.
And rumors spread that just about every pro sport has an almost incurable need for steroids in their sport.
In order for the masses to be entertained, the actors (in this case the athletes) need to be almost-super human.
That and, I’m no dummy. I’ve been around the steroid game long enough to spot a user.
I’ve never used, but I know you can walk into any gym in Southern Ontario and easily pick out a handful of high school kids who are ‘on’.
Bottom line – if you are in the weight training game, then you are surrounded by users.
So Here’s my question for you:
If I were able to provide indisputable proof that the ONLY way for you to get more muscle than you have right now is to use anabolic steroids, and that the health ramifications were minor (remember this is just for discussion purposes, I’m not saying this is the case)..what would be your reasons for taking/or not taking them?
Please be sure to qualify all of the assumptions in your arguments.
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