Tråd: Michael Francois

Opprinnelig skrevet av Freshh

Er han død?

Han lever i "beste" velgående... Jeg tror han fikk nyreproblemer som et høyt inntak av steroider kan forårsake ved å øke vekt, øke blodvolum, øke blodtrykk og når skaden er skjedd så er vel ikke et høyt proteininntak det smarteste..

Bodybuilders are by no means the only people on this planet who are liable to die an early death or succumb to critical illness. But our sport cannot escape the fact that since the early '90s, there has been a succession of tragedies and near-tragedies that cannot be dismissed as mere statistical coincidences.

Just going from memory, the list of bodybuilders who have died prematurely since 1992, in addition to Durr and Youngblood, includes Momo Benaziza, Andreas Munzer, Curtis Leffler, Hans Hopstaken, Sonny Schmidt and Derrick Whitsett. Bodybuilders whose competitive careers were cut short by illness include Dennis Newman, Mike Francois, Don Long, Flex Wheeler, Tom Prince and Mike Matarazzo. The list of athletes that we know have experienced harum-scarum hospital visits with conditions in which their lives have been in danger includes Mike Matarazzo, Edgar Fletcher, Paul Dillett (twice), Milos Sarcev, Nasser El Sonbaty, Bob Cicherillo and Mustafa Mohammad (twice).

Our sport has reached a dangerous crossroad, where it seems that too many athletes (pro and amateur) have become walking time bombs, with the prospect of a future lived in poor health (or worse) being the only trophy they can look forward to. Consider the following lifestyle: use liberal amounts of steroids, growth hormone and insulin; kick in an array of exotic substances for God knows what; add huge quantities of food every two hours that severely overtax the human digestive system; throw in a heavy dose of painkillers (some narcotic in nature); adopt an MO that requires dropping 40 or 50 pounds twice a year in a 12-week period; peak on contest day by means of diuretics so as to be bone dry and severely dehydrated. We don't have to fund a Harvard research project to figure out that such a regimen is a recipe for physical disaster.

To save certain athletes from themselves and to save the sport, an overhaul of how physiques are to be judged has already been implemented (see "Gut Reaction," beginning on page 108) and a discussion on drug-testing controls has already begun (more on that in the months to come). Rest assured, the combined powers that be are committed to returning competitive bodybuilding to the position where it is a celebration of life, not a shortening of it.

Fra 2005!

Opprinnelig skrevet av panzhar

Nei, faktisk ikke. Han fikk en tarmsykdom og måtte fjerne noen meter tarm. Hadde etter sigende ingenting med BB å gjøre...

Du har rett!

But he was gravely sick with a colon problem in the mid-90s.

Opprinnelig skrevet av adda

hehe, noen er litt kjappe når store gutter blir syke og skrike ut at bolet tok knekken på dem hehe og nei hit jeg sikta ikke sps på deg nå men generelt når temaet har vært opp her og diskusjoner andre steder big boys er ikke superhumans gitt, selvom det ser slik ut

"Bolere" dør som regel av hjerteinfarkt (noen kjente og ukjente byggere), eller at de får nyreproblemer og må til dialyse ala Don Long og Tom Prince! Flex Wheeler har vel heller ikke de mest velfungerende nyrene. Man skal være glad at leveren er en av de organene vi har som tåler mest juling!