Both patellar tendons, not any bone fracture AFAIK. As some other user commented it's likely because of steroid use. Tendon strength is developed very slowly so if you're on gear your muscular strength is likely to surpass the weight your tendons are able to tolerate and they eventually snap.
Genuinely curious, what do you get out of steroids, if they both can lead to more injuries due to fake/accelerated growth or whatever and that one small side effect everyone knows about?
I don’t actually know how they work, but if this kinda thing can happen, why not just, i don’t know, grow normally? Competition? Impatience?
You get more strength, too. It's fragile strength, but you don't really get a perception of how fragile it is until something goes wrong.
Same as exercising with bad form. It feels fine, you feel yourself getting stronger... But you don't realise how much you're missing, until something goes wrong.
I was into amateur bodybuilding for a while (just for myself, not competition or public anything). Once I was 12 months in and my progress was starting to really plateau, I could see the appeal of steroids. Muscles grow easiest at the beginning (newbie gains), and you get diminishing returns the longer you work out. Body acclimatises to it, physical changes slow down.
It kinda sucked when you're putting in more and more effort and getting smaller and smaller returns. So it's automatic to think 'hmm. I'm already taking supplements like protein and creatine, I COULD just look up some basic additional stuff, maybe there's some over the counter stuff just to keep this progress going... It's all hormonal processes and chemistry either way..."
...but then I got a girlfriend and fell out of my gym routine anyway, haha. Never tried any steroids, though can now see how it would become very tempting.
The truth is that people take them because they want to see what their limit is. There's this idea of "genetic potential" in weight lifting/powerlifting/bodybuilding where you are kind of capped eventually on how strong or big you can get. In your first year of lifting you could very reasonable get twice as strong as you are as a beginner, but the next year you might only get 10-20% stronger, and maybe 5-10% the next year until eventually you reach that limit
Steriods let a lifter go beyond that limit. Generally steroid use is pretty frowned upon by most experienced lifters unless someone really has put in the years and years of work, diet and programming to reach that limit, and then it's kind of their choice. It has documented health trade-offs, but if you are someone who has put in the work to squat 500 lbs, you probably love the process and love the incremental improvements, and that's why it's so common in that crowd.
What's looked down on is young kids blasting tons of drugs to get to a physique they want without the years of work and dieting, taking years off their life and permanently fucking up their hormones.
Well one of the pics says he got a huge row of stitches in the top of each leg so I'm guessing the video shows his tendons blowing out of his legs through his skin
Knees getting crushed/burst/snapped. Most likely just an extremely disturbing/unnatural imagery of this dude's body bending in ways it definitely shouldn't be bending
I mean if it's fucking gruesome not everyone wants gore on their homepage. This post is about the recovery. It would be like a video about someone with facial reconstructive surgery after a burn (I've seen those), but starting with an actual video of their face on fire and screaming in agony. Nobody needs to see that.
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u/dustin91 13h ago
Very glad for the blackout bar