Arnold Schwarzenegger Candidly Addresses Past Steroid Use and Issues a Warning for Influencers
etonline.comArnold Schwarzenegger has a warning for fit-fluencers and young body builders: When it comes to steroids, «Don't go there.» The 75-year-old action icon covers the July/August 2023 issue of, opening up about his past steroid use and his ongoing commitment to training.
In the interview, Schwarzenegger reckons with his legacy and admits that, while he was always publicly candid about his steroid use as a bodybuilder, he finds social media content surrounding performance-enhancing drug use and testosterone replacement therapy concerning. «Bodybuilding always, always was considered a safe sport.
But now it's not,» he says. «Now people are dying — they're dying because of overdoses of drugs and they don't know what the f**k they're doing.
They're listening to charlatans. If I want to get medical advice from a doctor, I got to UCLA or I go to the Cleveland Clinic.» Schwarzenegger tells the mag that he used to take testosterone and the steroid Dianabol during his bodybuilding days, always under the supervision of a doctor. «One hundred milligrams a week,» he says of his testosterone use, «and then three Dianabol a day, so that was 15 milligrams a day.» Notably, the writer explains, steroids were not illegal until Congress passed the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
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