Steroids Persuasive Speech
Imagine that you were worked your entire life to make the olympic team or was drafted by a team of the MLB. Your getting on the blocks. You get set, you're ready. Bang, you push yourself forward. You're giving everything you have to run your fastest and to pass the finish line before your opponents. You pass the finish line with exhaustion, you finish the race in second place and you're happy but you really wanted that gold medal. Later on you find out that the winner of that race that you got second in was taking steroids and was taking other illegal drugs to make him better. How would you feel if your whole life is training and working for that sport or race and you give it your all but in the end you can't win because you are up against
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All these are banned substances but one of these are one of the most common. Steroids are used to increase muscle growth, strength, and recovery. You can find a lot of people using steroids in the sport called bodybuilding, and when you ask people to look at a picture of a famous bodybuilder people already assume steroids. Steroids have destroyed the sport in everyone just thinks it's just a bunch of muscle heads taking steroids, and that's because of the people in this sport decided to take these drugs to get the upperhand on their opponents but really it's just destroyed the sport and it's just about who can take the most steroids and who can get the biggest and not about who has the best body. The world has kinda revolved around cheating as Tirado said “Which among you is not looking for an advantage to do better in this game called life right now? We have become a society of cheaters, and as much as we want to pretend that we're all goody two-shoes and living a perfect life, we are all guilty of looking for shortcuts at one point or another. We actually glorify it in business, politics and education, but god forbid we see it in sports." (Stephen Nolan) If you get caught taking these drugs you don't just hurt your reputation you hurt the sport's reputation and how people look upon the
All these are banned substances but one of these are one of the most common. Steroids are used to increase muscle growth, strength, and recovery. You can find a lot of people using steroids in the sport called bodybuilding, and when you ask people to look at a picture of a famous bodybuilder people already assume steroids. Steroids have destroyed the sport in everyone just thinks it's just a bunch of muscle heads taking steroids, and that's because of the people in this sport decided to take these drugs to get the upperhand on their opponents but really it's just destroyed the sport and it's just about who can take the most steroids and who can get the biggest and not about who has the best body. The world has kinda revolved around cheating as Tirado said “Which among you is not looking for an advantage to do better in this game called life right now? We have become a society of cheaters, and as much as we want to pretend that we're all goody two-shoes and living a perfect life, we are all guilty of looking for shortcuts at one point or another. We actually glorify it in business, politics and education, but god forbid we see it in sports." (Stephen Nolan) If you get caught taking these drugs you don't just hurt your reputation you hurt the sport's reputation and how people look upon the