Three years of resolute weightlifting had not gone as planned for this scrawny 18-year-old. But it was 1980 and a legal prescription for the magic elixir, anabolic steroids, was just $20. Now he would transform himself while away at college and return home with trophy-winning strength and a body like a Greek god–a Charles Atlas magazine ad come to life. That didn’t go quite as planned either. This revealing memoir recounts an athlete’s experiences with performance enhancing drugs at a time when the public and law enforcement knew little about them. Venturing into the "steroid underground, " the author used and sold them, was featured in muscle magazines, went under a surgeon’s knife and faced interrogation by a federal marshal.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 196 ● ISBN 9781476626475 ● Publisher McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5899318 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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