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How do you define "professional"? A lot of the elite level Crossfitters make a living at Crossfit, don't they? They do the Crossfit "circuit." And some have sponsors. In my book that them "professional."
Don't get me wrong--I think there's something a little weird and culty about a lot of Crossfit folks, but if the elite level Crossfitters are making a living at it....
To me, it wouldn't be a big deal if Crossfit didn't try to hold themselves up as examples of healthy living. No one really cares when a professional athlete (and Crossfitters are not professional athletes) gets popped for PEDs because they are literally selling their souls for the sport.
if they are making money in the sport, then they are doing what they need to do to make a living. i dont see what the whle "holding themselves up as examples" means. they are just people trying to earn a living.
using performance enhancing drugs isnt necessarily unhealthy. theres really nothing wrong with it. in any case, if you want to believe your favorite athletes arent using then you will likely be very disappointed to know the truth. their ability to earn money playing a sport is too important to not use PEDs. they are using them.
one problem that i see is that you think that your opinion has any impact on facts. you simply have no idea what you are talking about. protein powder is just food. its not a PED. there is no room for your opinion here, its a simple fact.
What are you talking about? You breath oxygen don't you? PED
If they make money Crossfitting, then they are Professional Athletes. I've met Professional racket ball players.
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In her explanation of what happened, Abbott seems to be implying that someone else fed the PEDs to her. This is something that has happened to many other athletes, especially younger ones, who are dosed with such things, without their knowledge, by unscrupulous coaches. But her guilt or innocence would probably be impossible to determine, unless someone confessed to having given it to her, without her consent.
Athletics were a lot simpler in the days before such drugs were invented. Now, there's an an implied guilt of using banned substances, if someone gets too strong or too good at a sport. If the governing bodies of sports put an athlete in their crosshairs, they usually find some way to make them seem guilty. And there's other athletes that they know are guilty, but they are more favored and allowed to slip by.
The line that gets recycled and gets athletes cleared is that "my (xyz supplement) was cross contaminated during manufacture." I know of at least one Crossfitter that skated on that after a positive test for ostarine.
I've trained my body not to need oxygen as much as the normal person. Why does it make you so angry that my oxygen requirements are as much as 50% less than yours?
I've trained my body not to need oxygen as much as the normal person. Why does it make you so angry that my oxygen requirements are as much as 50% less than yours?
Don't you understand science?
Are you powered by cosmic energy like the Silver Surfer?
I've trained my body not to need oxygen as much as the normal person. Why does it make you so angry that my oxygen requirements are as much as 50% less than yours?
Dude, you're the one who sounds a little angry.... You might try a little more O2. I've just never heard of somebody training themselves to require 50% less O2 than normal people. And how does requiring less O2 benefit you?
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Don't you understand science?
Well, I thought I understood science, but now maybe not as much as I thought I did..... Can you explain to the rest us mere mortals how you did this?
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I've just never heard of somebody training themselves to require 50% less O2 than normal people. And how does requiring less O2 benefit you?
Can you explain to the rest us mere mortals how you did this?
