Built & Broken: Washington Post focuses on bodybuilders health.
The Washington Post has turned their focus on the health of bodybuilders, exposing the dark side of the sport.
In the last few months, the Washington Post has been investigating the sport of bodybuilding. Built & Broken, is a series of investigative articles focusing on the dark side of bodybuilding and fitness.
In their first articles, the Washington Post investigated sexual exploitation within the NPC and IFBB Pro league.
Immediately after these articles surfaced, the President of the NPC and IFBb Pro League, Jim Manion, denied the alleged accusations. The NPC and IFBB Pro League reacted by creating a Pro League Competition Committee.
Creating a Pro League Competition Committee was not going to make the accusations by various female athletes disappear. In fact, Lisa Bloom, the powerful attorney, is leading proceedings against the NPC and IFBB Pro League.
NPC/Pro League President and Vice-President, Jim and Tyler Manion refused to publicly respond to the allegations of sexual exploitation within the NPC and Pro League.
While Jim and Tyler Manion preferred to refrain from responding to the article publicly, at the same time they sent a letter to all their promoters, trying to diffuse the situation.
Washington Post turns their focus to bodybuilders health
After approximately a month of silence, the Washington Post published two articles, this time focusing on the dark side of bodybuilding.
The first of the two articles was titled “Dying to compete.” The Post focused their investigation on the deaths of a number of professional and amateur athletes in the bodybuilding industry.
The journalists did a thorough investigation into the cause of death of the mentioned athletes and the coaches that worked with them, revealing text messages with alleged PED protocols.
In the second article, which was published the next day, the focus remained on the health of the bodybuilders.
The article titled “What bodybuilders do to their bodies and brains“, focused on the mindset of athletes and the extreme steroid protocols they put their bodies through.
The article gives a detailed explanation of the effects of PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs), on male and female bodies.
Sources close to Evolutionofbodybuilding.net have confirmed that a number of other articles will be published by the Washington Post, in the near future. Sources alleged that the focus will turn to the management of finances within certain bodybuilding federations.
