I am no scientist nor doctor, so I have no idea how accurate this film is. I would sure love to hear from a real and impartial expert what they think of this provocative film. When the film begins, the filmmaker talks about his childhood and that of his two brothers. The three went from doughy kids to macho via football, pro wrestling as well as weightlifting. Two of the brothers did this with the help of steroids, the filmmaker didn't...and is the smallest of the three. The movie purports to be anti-steroids initially. It talks about the various negative consequences of the drugs as well as their ubiquity in sports. However, through the course of the film, the dialog changes and the film ends for there becoming legal because, at least according to the filmmaker, there are no long-term studies and there seem to be benefits only for its use. Is this true? I dunno but the film is provocative and well constructed.

Yes in fact this is about a culture in America that is a win at all costs, of hero worship and acceptance/excuses made for those willing to go the "extra mile" into substance abuse just to exceed their own limitations.And it is about the fact that some folks literally hate the idea of being less than the best for any reason at all. Hate being average in any way. Of all things it is a picture of America that cannot be reconciled with the rhetoric spouted by politicians and those outside the arena making dire claims about the results of using those substances.It is a culture where only winners are true Americans, and we ignore how they got there as long as they look and play the part. About how the fear of being a loser will drive Americans to do things they ordinarily wouldn't do. Because nobody loves a loser in America, no one.It is a waste of effort to call those who use steroids cheaters, when the culture all around us in America is this way. Until we begin to learn that good people come in second place, and learn to love those who finish in last place too, then maybe there wont be the pressure to be a winner at all costs and we wont need steroids.

I started training at 13 in my basement has many of you i am sure, then moved on to the real thing at 16 in a real gym, where i was exposed to steroid use and abuse for many years.I was very impressed by the steroid bodies that i saw, and it was always a chock to me when i saw one of theses guys go off them, and become all normal again. I was also very afraid when i learned that the only way to administrate steroid with the least side effect was with a needle into the buttock. I was scared of needles.I was able to build my body naturally from a very skinny 138 pounds to 210 pounds without the use of steroids.When i turned 28 years old i had some saved money and decided that it might be time to try steroids once sense for all. I started a basic mass cycle deca durabolin, testosterone . The cycle lasted 8 weeks, i had cut down to 174 pounds at that time doing lots of boxing etc.I was quite amazed that at the end on my cycle i had ballooned up to 212 pounds, and i look a lot like i used to before, chubby not cut up like the pros, i had gained a lot of fat too, maybe i should have used an AI.This was my only steroid cycle i did. I was introduce to steroids once more at 39 years of age, but this time it was not to gain muscles nor loose weight, but to fix an injury and chronic pains that have lasted for more then 10 years.I started a treatment called prolotherapy where we used a water based testosterone suspension, some growth hormones, dextrose and Novocaine vitamin B and b12 injected into the laxer ligament and that worked wonders to fix me.Last night i got to see bigger stronger faster for the first time and enjoyed it a lot giving it a 10 rating because everything that is in there is the truth but this phenom is not only in America but in Canada too.I was glad that they showed not everyone using steroids will get ripped, some will retain fat has well. Also lots of death are not associated with steroid usage but with narcotics, depression pills and more, its the whole combination of them.I am now 40 years old back in training, i train for fun, i did pro wrestling when i was younger but its not longer one of my dreams, i knew when i got into this it was only for fun and never had any ambition to reach the WWE.I have been using growth hormone 1IU per day for 6 weeks now since this hormone start to decline at 25, and very low dose of testosterone i have a prescription for both and am check by a medical doctor. I feel that there should be more HRT out there hormonal therapy for us older men, because i feel a lot better, i sleep better, my body recuperates faster and i feel like i was 18 again.The movie said it best, Arnold, Hogan and Stallone did what they had to do to make it big, most of the people are uneducated about steroids, and they will speak false information about them and the lie goes on.WWE has the no drug policy apparently Randy Orton has been cough using steroids wish is a oral version of testosterone, i was very surprised that they actually did something about it but there is a lot more ground to cover because in pro wrestling everyone is using steroids, same has in MMA' but only the smart ones never get cough.

This is one of the most entertaining and interesting movies that I've ever seen.The maker's spend a large portion of the movie trying to convince the viewer that anabolic steroids are relatively safer than other commonly used drugs including alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs and even vitamin C. But if they are so safe and even Vitamin C can kill you, why are they illegal? The movie makes the claim that it is 100% politics, specifically Ben Johnson beating Carl Lewis in the 1988 olympics. The movie attempts to explain away the dangers of AAS in ways such as implying that Taylor Hooton's suicide was more likely caused by the anti-depressant drug Lexapro and that roid rage is a after-school- special created myth. The movie slam dunks with implications that politicians who support the ban on steroids are unpatriotic traitors to the nation, needlessly weakening America and how the unregulated supplement industry takes advantage of this by selling products advertised like steroids by people who are taking steroids when in reality they are unhealthy toxic ripoffs that generate billions of dollars a year for shady supplement makers. As well as showing viewers how to obtain AAS and HGH, the maker's also draw a confession from Christian Boeving (who lost his job with muscle tech after this was released) and make congressman Henry Waxman look like an idiot who doesn't know what the legal age for buying alcohol is.Highly recommended for anybody that is already quite sure that the media cant be trusted and is wondering themselves exactly what steroids are, what they do, what their REAL dangers are and why they are really illegal.One important thing that people need to remember is that steroids are *NOT* drugs. Yes, there are drugs that produce steroids, but drugs are not what steroids are. Steroids are hormones produced naturally by the human body. Believe it or not, *YOU* have steroids in your body *RIGHT NOW!*, you just don't have any control over how much. Does supplementing your bodies natural production of steroids have side effects? Yes, but so does just about everything we encounter in our modern lives. So as the movie suggests, why cant 21+ year old adults weigh the benefits and the risks themselves and make an informed decision to *LEGALLY* use anabolic steroids? Fact: Because the government hates muscle. Let's not forget that when they "revised" the steroid laws in 2005 that they also tried banning creatine and one politician responded to a question by saying "If it works, we'll ban it (whatever it is)."As Rick Collins puts it both throughout his career and in this movie, it's what steroids do that's beneficial that gets them banned, not any potential harm that they can cause. When the government banned steroids for the very first time in 1990 - after they had been legal for 50 years - they did so by REJECTING the advice given to them by their own experts, including the FDA, the DEA and the surgeon general. There's some food for thought for ya.What's even worse is that it's not the government on behalf of itself that is on a crusade to ban muscle, it's the government on behalf of the people. For decades most "normal" people have been baffled by the people who would put so much time and pain and effort into building more muscle than they needed in their daily lives that it became a OFFICIAL MENTAL ILLNESS called bigorexia, or Muscle Dysphmoric disorder, and parents can have their early adult childhood INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED for it if by any twisting of logic they can argue that it's putting their health or life at risk, especially if they're caught using steroids. After all, why would anybody invest so much time, money and effort into building muscle that they don't even need anyway? To intimidate people, or perhaps for the same reason why anorexics starve themselves to death; because they're ill? Now add to it the jealously suffered by pencil neck men and it's easy to understand why only the muscle heads themselves aren't bothered by it, and unfortunately are heavily outnumbered and therefore irrelevant in this legal political battle for the basic American freedom to rights and ownership over ones body.