You often hear or read people taking about arnolds, gym candies, pumpers, roids, stackers, weight trainers, juices etc. Do you know what these terms are?
These are actually the common street terms or slang terms that are often used for steroids. Steroids are one of the most talked about things of the modern times. Steroids are hormone drugs that are derived from testosterone that is potent androgenic hormone produced chiefly by the testes and responsible for the development of male secondary sex characteristics.
Steroids are the drugs having a number of androgenic and anabolic qualities. That is why these drugs are more popularly known as anabolic steroids. Steroids are medically meant to be taken as part of a regimen to help restoring vitality in aging men and women, but steroids are widely used, rather abused by jocks and athletes.
Steroids are often used as performance enhancing drugs for building muscle mass. The androgenic and anabolic qualities of anabolic steroids help boosting up appetite, bone growth, and protein synthesis that help in the rapid development of muscle tissue. These drugs are widely used professional athletes and jocks to amplify...