The Use of Steroids creates big, bulky muscles to a person's body, but does nothing in terms of increasing an athletes endurance. I don't understand why Landis would use steroids in the first place, because extra muscle mass would make add to more weight, which would make him slower in the mountains. That's why I think he's innocent of taking some kind of testosterone boasting product. Now EPO is a different story, but he is being suspected of having taken that.
2006-07-29 06:14:26 · 3 answers · asked by conservativeguyfromnc 2 in Sports ➔ Cycling
Steroids can actually harm your performance by enlarging your heart muscles so that they might fail under intense excercise. Most cyclists would rather use stimulants like ephedrine, or red blood cell boosters like rohypnol to increase their number of red blood cells.
But testosterone, would be too easy to detect, and if he would be caught like that, he must be an incompetent doper, or he's being framed by the French media. He is American after all.
2006-07-29 08:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by Whitman Lam 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hmmm by enlarging muscles??? making you heavier? slower? less endurance ? sounds like a really bad idea for a pro cyclist to take testosterone doesn't it.? I hate the french, if it weren't for the US, they would be speaking German now, which maybe wouldn't be such a bad thing, we wouldn't have to listen to the whiny french press.
2006-07-29 20:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by doc_jhholliday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes your legs stronger so you don't have to use as much energy in your legs. :)
2006-07-29 13:17:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋