Rich Piana Talks Death & Steroids | Iron Cinema

[Music] [Music] is steroids cheating you know it the question is what is cheating if you go in a natural show that you're not supposed to think stories and you're taking stories then you're definitely cheating but if you go on a show that it's okay to take steroids and you take steroids that's not cheating right I mean you're not doing anything you're not supposed to do you know but are you cheating morally you know because bodybuilding is about lifting weights that's what it's about it's about pumping iron it's not about injecting but over the years it

actually became more about injecting than lifting weights you know so that's the question I think everyone has their own opinion on whether it's cheating or not cheating and I didn't have a lot of money in beginning and therefore I wasn't able to take a lot of steroids my thing is is that you know whatever it takes you know if you can do that and you can get away with it and nobody knows and you end up winning the show then [ __ ] that's great the thing is is I can't really say I'm for steroids

but I'm not really against steroids you know it's a personal choice I'm really against young kids taking steroids you know teenagers even in your early 20s it's I'm really against that and once you start taking steroids your testosterone levels your testes shut down and they no longer work so your body is not producing to suffer anymore and you know if you shut down your production at an early age it's never gonna come back to what it was you know when you have loads of sauce on you're tired you're lazy you're you don't feel like doing

anything you know you have no sex drive there's a lot of negatives so it's very important for you to have a normal testosterone level and the problem nowadays is it's almost like young kids join a gym and when they join the gym they buy the steroids it's like in the old days it was like we join a gym and we go buy protein powder you know that's what we do yeah I just joined a gym so I need protein powder now it's like I just joined a gym I need steroids you know and it's like

the day they start the gym is the day they start with steroids and it's almost like they go hand in hand and it really is out of control you know testosterone and some of our body were born with the Susteren it's something that we need you know so we're putting more of something we already have in our body you know so just knowing that information makes it a little more you know make a little bit more sense that it's not as bad as you know people wanted to want to believe you know there are a

lot more common now and doctors are prescribing them now a lot of older you know adults are taking steroids just to you know to bring up their natural hormones you know so if you take you know if you're taking steroids and you continue to take them becomes a point where they no longer work and you're just taking them and all you're doing is destroying your body and causing damage and you're not getting any benefits so it's mandatory that people take a break you know everything ends up equal you know so if you take service for

20 years and you know you got all this muscle and you have this great sex drive and you know you had all these girlfriends because of this and that well guess what you know the negative is gonna come back at you eventually and it all equals out you know so all the good you're getting you're gonna get the bad know what is simple exactly because I keep hearing that sin toll keeps coming up all the time and bodybuilding today do you talk about it at all yeah something that you've used my I have used synthol

I use it you know probably 12 years ago and I didn't like it you know it it blurred my muscles it made my muscle look weird and it was incredibly painful and it's very hard to train you you're almost guaranteed gonna have to take some painkillers while you train cuz it's so painful so the whole theory is synthol is you inject it in it stretches the foster tissue out and therefore allows the muscle to grow at a faster rate so that's the excuse of you know I'm not cheating I'm not using cosmetic enhancements I'm doing

this because it's gonna make my muscles grow faster but that's all false you know it doesn't do that and a lot of people that didn't understand is that when you're injecting oil in your muscle that oil is blocking the blood flow and the oxygen flow to the muscles so your muscles are fed and they need to breathe you know they need nutrients brought to them and you're blocking those cells from getting what they need so those muscle cells will eventually die off and your muscles will get smaller but as you're injecting the oil every day

you don't realize that because you just put enough oil to make your arm look a certain way so you keep doing it and you don't realize the true muscle under there is dying and you're losing that muscle and it'll never come back you know once those muscle cells die it's over if you're putting a bunch of needles in your bicep and then you're putting oil in your bicep you know that bicep is weak and you go to train back and you're doing three play rows that bicep can tear you know so you know in my

opinion it's a bad thing the bodybuilding would be a better world if synthol never existed it would be a million times better there there's a drug called knowledge Hill and this is the new drug that people are using and this is instead of filling the muscle with oil it causes the muscle to inflame and swell so it's your real muscle swelling up and becoming bigger and this is something that people are using right now this is something that's on the pro stage right now and me put it out there is probably not the best scenario

because there are people out there that they don't have a lot of knowledge that want to act like they're the first people to you know to educate people on something they come out and they make it look bad you know they make bodybuilding look bad so but you know that's the new drug is knowledge Hill it seems like every week somebody gets caught for steroids in professional sports MMA football whatever right do you think at this point it should legalize them or would not care about it at all what do you think should happen in

the sport um as you know in bodybuilding you know they don't test for it and it doesn't seem to be a problem you know that might be you know the right way to go about it is not test for it not make a big deal about it not having in the news every [ __ ] day you know for kids to hear and kids that know and kids know that you know this basketball players got copper sara is this you have C fighter got copper well guess what now we're just putting that in these kids

head steroids series all these champions are taking steroids you know and the kid is gonna be more aware of stories he's gonna know the people who looks up to take stories so you tell me what are the chances that kids taking steroids it's probably a lot greater being aware of all this well if steroids you know were allowed we wouldn't be talking about it they wouldn't be kids wouldn't you know they wouldn't be on the news they wouldn't so I think yeah I think that probably would be a better definitely a better scenario you know

that's the thing is that you know when when people want to be the best or wonder whatever it takes you know they might do whatever it takes you know to achieve that so they might be doing stuff that they shouldn't be doing to get that money you know and that's why you know there's a lot of you know bodybuilding could be a very ugly world that people aren't aware of you know [ __ ] that goes on I have a friend that was going to compete in the Masters Olympia back when they had masters Olympia

and he was feeling sick he went to the DA this is a true [ __ ] story he went to the doctor the doctor said you are going to die you are going to die he says you have got to get off the drugs you're taking he was taking steroids and he was taking coke and he was doing a fettering he goes this is my dream my life dream is to be on the Olympia stage he competed at the Olympia he got last place and he died about two weeks later so he he chose to

die to stand on that stage and knowing he wasn't gonna win a trophy I mean he he he fully aware he was not at the level of the other guys but just to be on that [ __ ] stage that's my dream and I'm willing to die and he did he died you know he left a wife and kids you know and that's just an example of you know how powerful it is and you know there's a huge difference in me when I'm on a cycle or off a cycle and you know any girlfriend I've

ever been with you know will attest that and say there's a huge difference you know and I'm a lot less patient you know and I I slap you know and I could I can become angry really quick over nothing the thing is as well everyone out there knows that anyone that takes drugs is gonna deny the side effects you know if someone's an alcoholic they're they're gonna deny it I'm not alcohol like I still go to work and you know and they're always gonna deny it and so you know I came out and just told

everyone the truth you know exactly the hundred-percent truth and the truth is it definitely makes you more aggressive generation iron to May 12th you