Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:02 pm
I got big into training after getting clean, and I too felt heart / chest pain at times. In hindsight, I believe that anxiety was the cause. There are some massive links between opiate use, recovery from opiate use and anxiety.
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| …by the way, Belgian cyclists had their "one day race mix" back in the 60s/70s: heroin, cocaine and cortisone. I don’t know how many of those guys keeled over |
I guarantee you that these guys damaged their health, and reduced their life spans, as a result of pushing their bodies to the point of damage on performance enhancing drugs. Steroids, amphetamines, opiates.. anything artificial that pushes the body beyond its natural limits does the body damage. There’s a reason that our bodies start creating pain while exercising – it’s telling us that damage is starting to occur.
Nothing good comes from using drugs to push the mind / body beyond its natural boundaries. Ravers who dance for 48 hours straight on speed and ecstacy, trainers dosed up on growth hormones, truckies who take speed to make a run… It’s all the same.
I guess it just comes down to a balance – between achievement in your exercise regime, and being kind to yourself.
