The lifestyle of a professional weightlifter is a challenging type of lifestyle to try to live. It requires dedication, as well as a deep understanding, on some level, of science and basic body chemistry. As the science of the chemistry of the human body has grown, many men and women have used this newly cultivated knowledge as a route to stealing at an edge on their competitors and have decided to ingest or inject substances such as anabolic steroids or “gear”. In a number of countries anabolic steroids are now outlawed.

Anabolic steroids weren’t always universally against the law. Prior to the legislation making anabolic steroids illegal many weightlifters saw with their own eyes what their competition was achieving through utilizing them, and quickly jumped on the bandwagon. Anabolic steroids back then were more regularly found to be legal, and thus was easier to find. The trouble with this was that health risks weren’t well known, and in fact they still are not.

Anabolic steroids will likely forever be a problem in professional athletics. As soon as new tests emerged to establish evidence of drug usage, then as a consequence new cheating methods come out for the same professional weightlifters to get an edge over the competition. This process is a kind of mutual arms race that pro level athletes looking to make their millions are involved in with the sports regulating bodies. I am, of course, not discussing just the sport of professional weightlifting.

It is worth mentioning, however, there does in fact exist a variety of biological hacks that are also becoming better understood that can enable athletes to have an edge without the use of drugs. Some of them come in the form of changes in diet, or specialized routines engineered to complement the bodies natural endocrine rhythms. One hack worthy of at least mention is utilizing the sauna right after a lifting session in your fitness club.

Growth hormone is a chemical of abuse in a variety of competitive sports, and this may come as a surprise, it can be amplified naturally from exposure to heat provided by sauna use. Undoubtedly naturally increasing production of growth hormone should always be preferred over taking it exogenously. When a person takes hormones created outside of the body this will naturally suppress the production of the same compounds within their body, and this sometimes results in things like hypogonadism. Indeed, sauna use has been known to assist in better control of insulin as well, and insulin is known to be a drug that is abused within the bodybuilding community as well.

Thanks for takin’ a peek! Believe me, you’ve got some more reading to do. Try these on for size: finnish saunas, and Microalgae oil is a good vegetarian source of omega-3.

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