This thread got me to thinking (a dangerous proposition I know
)
so I’m going to ramble on here a bit, I hope you don’t mind. Hope-
fully, maybe, it will make some sense to somebody else other than
myself . . .
The list of accidents, tragedies, disasters, embarrassments, and outright
failures is long and varied, and it likely will continue to grow even as PM
is being written to and read. The list is but the latest installment in an ongoing
accumulation of posts having to do with bodybuilding and ‘performance
enhancing drugs’ (PEDs) in all their shapes and permutations. But the list
did not begin in the last decade . . . nor will it likely end during the new
millennium.
Near and outright failures have always been part PEDs and its collective
‘achievements’ as seen in, for instance, bodybuilding. And because we are
human and by nature fallible, we can count on bad things continuing to occur,
often when we least expect them. The best we might hope for is to maximize
our ability to prevent them and thereby minimize their future occurrence.
These goals can be achieved by understanding not only how and why failures
and mishaps occurs in the past and continue to happen today but also, and
perhaps more fundamentally, the nature of failure itself.