What I really appreciate with this documentary is the honesty. Of course, honesty is pretty important in a documentary, but still.A lot of people think that steroids is this far away thing, that only some really scary, big, bad guys are using. The truth is that steroids are extremely widely used. Everything from athletes, to movie stars, to normal Jane and John Does.And where is it most widespread? The bodybuilding industry. All natural bodybuilders look like twigs compared to those who use steroids. And exactly this is one of the main subjects in this movie. (not the twig part, but the juice part) After this came out, there are a couple of bodybuilders, Lee Priest, and Rich Piana, who are totally honest about what they, and others in the business, use. But this documentary was the first place I saw it.'Bigger Stronger Faster' is quite entertaining and interesting. It follows two brothers, one of them is making this movie, the other one has a dream of becoming a wrestler. A good bit of nostalgia here, and interviews with several rather interesting people.Everyone who is the least bit interested in fitness or bodybuilding, should definitely check this out.

A solid documentary that plays out in a fun but informative way. I like the editing in the documentary as it it gets to the meat and potatoes of what's going in a subtle but exciting way. I believe this documentary would have been nominated for an academy award if Chris Bell summarized the ending up correctly. Bell states that it's American to cheat but he's wrong in the sense that cheating is very subjective. A more objective fact is lying. Lying isn't American though, everyone in the whole world lies. Also, Bell knows as well as I do that it's only known as cheating because the filthy rich haven't found a way to make a big profit from it. Trust me, if the filthy rich could profit in a big way from Steroids, they would legalize it and then it would become 'okay' to the general public through media and social media. So again, cheating is very subjective. Furthermore, I give props to his brother Mike. Not many can keep going after their dreams in the face of adversity. Most don't try, full bore, to realize their dreams because other things come along in their life. I really give props though to Mike for sticking with it and for never giving up. It's that 50 Cent thing 'Get Rich or Die Trying'(at what you love). So Kudos to Mike. A very good documentary overall. It raises a lot of questions which is always a good thing. Worth watching.

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.