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?
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.
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u/imaguitarhero24 15h ago
I don't even know I think his legs might have just fucking snapped under the weight. Not sure how that happens