To be successful in life, one also has to look at other’s mistakes and avoid making those same mistakes. When one wants to have massive muscles, take to heart the lessons of those body builders and athletes who used steroids. Rarely was there a happy ending for these men and women. Through their mistakes, one should learn that you cannot take short cuts in life especially when it concerns your health.  Learn that bodybuilding is a lifestyle. This means that you have to live it in your everyday life.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens (NIDA) conducted a study and results show that there is a certain percentage in the youth who have tried out steroids. Some of them are as young as 8th graders. Steroids are bad for grown men and women, how much more for growing adolescents?

Tom Prince is a well known body builder. He recently came clean about using steroids. He wrote it all in his article called “When the Posing Stops.” This article explained how he wanted to be the best body builder around and how he wanted to quickly climb to the top.

So, he used steroids so that he could live out his dreams and ambitions. He had to pay the price for it, he had a kidney failure and his shoulder socket crumbled. He may look very healthy and fit on the outside, but inside his body was falling apart at the age of 34. He believes that he will die younger than most people because of his health condition which was caused by steroids.

You should know that the climb to the top is a slow climb. When you do it the proper way, it will feel like it too eternity especially when you are young. You want things done and completed in a second. Body builders and athletes who took steroids should be made as an example about how things could go horribly wrong. Do not do everything just to get your goal. There is the right way and the wrong way.

Tom Venuto urged teens and young men to emulate natural body builders and not those who used steroids. You should not readily believe the latest breakthrough techniques and exercise shortcuts. Natural body builders should be your inspiration because they are doing things the right way. If you do bodybuilding without the help of steroids, you’ll be healthier when you get old.

Natural body building will not be easy but it is a life style that many enjoy. It will be painful and challenging. It needs time, effort and energy. You will be pushed to your limits. But in the end, you’ll come out stronger, wiser and healthier.