NPC/Pro League need to enforce pro athlete health checks.
The recent deaths in the bodybuilding industry has sparked a number of heated debates regarding the health of bodybuilders.
The sport of bodybuilding has become very complex and sometimes dangerous.
From the amateur to the pro athlete, performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) are used on a regular basis, some use an extreme amount.
Steroids help athletes to grow and recuperate faster, but at the same time, if used excessively, PEDs can cause serious harm.
Whoever follows the sport of bodybuilding, knows it will be literally impossible to remove the use of steroids from the sport.
With a number of athletes in the bodybuilding industry passing away at such a high rate, it’s about time that the NPC/Pro League enforce health checks by the pro athletes.
The NPC/Pro League need to make a system for health checks
The NPC/Pro League allegedly brings in a lot of money every year from sanction fees, athlete registration and membership fees.
The NPC/Pro League have the finances to put together a system to help athletes stay healthy and arrive at every pro show healthy. A team of doctors could be hired to keep track of all the athletes and guide them accordingly.
At least two or three times a year, the NPC/Pro League must enforce every pro athlete to show a clean bill of health before they compete at a competition.
The NPC/Pro League should force every promoter to ask for a clean bill of health from every pro athlete before registering for an event.
Echocardiogram (ECG) and blood work must be done by every pro athlete. The problem is that many athletes only get their blood work checked, but this will not identify a heart problem, such as clogged veins.
The pro athletes compete for cash prizes, but at the same time, the show promoters and the NPC/Pro League make a lot of money from these athletes. It’s in the best interest for the athletes and the sport for for everybody to be in their best health.
In these steps are not taken in the near future, bodybuilding as a sport as we know it, might end forever.
The NPC/Pro League should force every promoter to ask for a clean bill of health from every pro athlete before registering for an event
The sport might lose the freak factor, but the athletes will be healthier. This might be a good thing for the sport, as the bodybuilders will have better aesthetic, balanced and conditioned physiques.
Evolutionofbodybuilding.net is 100% sure that the NPC/Pro League will find the best solution to protect their athletes. We are sure NPC/Pro League President Jim Manion will make the sport safer for the good of the athletes.
