10-16-2007, 01:55 PM
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In the Starting Line-up
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Re: Harrison & HGH
The main difference between HGH and things like Decca or Winnie is that it mainly affects tendon regeneration. Anabolic steroids increase testosterone production, which leads to faster muscular recovery, not greater hypertrophy like you see in creatine or NO2 type products. However, when you train hard, you also place your tendons under tremendous strain and often a side effect of steroid use is ruptured tendons. When on steroids, your muscles recover in 12-36 hours as opposed to the natural two to five days. This enables athletes or bodybuilders to train twice a day, everyday, and often do a full body workout instead of muscle group specific excersizes of a normal training routine. The thing is, your tendons are also wearing down and not recovering nearly as fast as the skeletal muscle. This leads to weakened tendons and increases one's risk of doing some serious damage. Steroids are actually detrimental to athletes because they compromise true athletic strength.
HGH on the other hand enables the tendons to recover much faster (clearly Rodney's case). This is why you often see body builders or baseball players who wear #25 stacking HGH with Decca during their bulking phases. This would enable Rodney to make it back for a playoff push. It has almost no effect on skeletal muscle hypertrophy and is used almost exclusively to accelerate the recovery of tendon injuries.
Again, these are not things that you take an injection or capsule of and suddenly become superman, they simply enable you to train harder and more frequently.
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