Persuasive Essay On Performance Enhancing Drugs

Every athlete has the motivation to always strive for success, the drive to win and be the best weather its in high school, college, or the pros. Every athlete will try to get just a little bit bigger, stronger, faster, try to increase the amount of weights they lift by just a few pounds. They will try to become the best of the best, try to be better than any athlete before them. As athletes are getting stronger, faster, and ultimately genetically kore advanced it gets hard for anyone in specific to really stand out and compete. To achieve these goals many athletes will take extreme measures and turn to performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. The use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more and more popular among athletes, many of them don't
If the athlete is patient and works hard he or she can achieve the same strength that they would obtain using supplements. Athletes are trying to cheat using unnatural shortcuts to gain their muscle instead of spending the long hours in the weight room. As an athlete who has been training since the age of three I am at the brink of making the Canadian Olympic team and achieving gold but under one condition, I would need to take performance enhancing drugs to make the team due to the fact if I don’t I will be cut. So I have to make the decision and I have decided to go against taking the drugs due to the fact I would not want to put the substance in my body, I would want to achieve my goals with hard work and training, not to mention the negative effects it could have on my health and body, and I would not fully be satisfied or proud of my self knowing I cheated to achieve my goals as it is against the rules and morally wrong while also adding the fact that it will be degrading to the sport and if I were to get caught my reputation would be