Steroid Usage in Professional Sports

 Use of Steroids
Like most anabolic steroid users, female professional athletes use steroids after undertaking thorough secrete investigations on the relevance and appropriateness of the drugs (Kraemer, 2006).

According to Hamburger (2010), insecure and less competitive female athletes who believe that having bigger muscles can enhance their performance in sports highly use steroids. In such instances, the steroids are used as stimulants.

In some instances, professional sports women use steroids as a means of suppressing the social and emotional pressure that emanates from the need to enhance their competitiveness.

Among the women athletes, the use of steroids is provoked by their unwavering desire to emerge victors in sports at whatever cost. Commonly used steroids include androstenedione, Primobolan, clenbuterol, and tetrahydrogestrinone (Gruber & Pope, 1999).

Hamburger (2010) argues that body female “body builders” and ladies who participate in competitive athletics are the abuse of steroids. Their main focus is to ensure that they have adequate energy to sustain them throughout the competition.


The dangers for women’s use of steroids include problems such as fluid retention, jaundice, and uncontrollable baldness, infertility, liver tumors, abnormal enlargement of breasts, incidences of gynecomastia, and aggressive approach to people and life in general.

Such women also experience an abnormal deepening of the voice and accelerated puberty (Hamburger, 2010).

Performance augmenting steroids are prohibited in the U.S and in other parts of the world. Like Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, the use of steroids by professional women athletes is very harmful.

Besides experiencing sudden sexual excitement and high demand for popularity that is never warranted, steroids highly contribute to the demise of careers. The demise of careers due to the use of steroids is much popular among women than men (Kraemer, 2006).

Anabolic steroids that are popularly used in sports have a medical significance (Hamburger, 2010). However, it is worthwhile to acknowledge that anabolic steroids pose a lot of challenge to professional sports personalities.

Major dangers and side effects of steroids include fluid retention, jaundice, uncontrollable baldness, infertility, sudden abnormal enlargement of breasts, liver tumors and related complications, gynecomastia, and aggressive approach to people and life in general (Gruber & Pope, 1999).

The worst and most regrettable effects of steroids are the malfunctioning of the human brain and abnormal change in women’s secondary sexual features that include the enlargement of the clitoris.

While testosterone have been known to only grow among male sex organs, they equally have a lot of negative effects on women.

Among professional women athletes, tester ones stimulates female sex organs and in turn, causes itching and a lot of negative biological reactions by generating a lot of unnecessary energy in women’s bodies.