Why would a high paid athlete take supplements?

[magicmarker]

I understand average joe at the gym taking them because the vascular guy at GNC told him how great they worked...

I understand an up and coming athlete taking them because he can't always afford to eat properly...

What I don't understand is why any established high paid athlete would take supplements when they have the money to afford a perfectly tailored diet, and supplements have been proven to contain anything and everything but rarely exactly what's advertised to be in them.

It seems like a way to open Pandora's box to me, opening yourself up to looking like a cheater whether you are or not.

For the record, I am in no way saying that Jones took anything inadvertently. It just seems to me that if you have the money, why not rely on a proper diet alone, namely foods.

 

[machidafan99]

I don't think it's possible to train 2 or 3 times a day like they do without supps

 

[lockjaw211]

It would be tough to get everything you would need even in a proper diet. Supplements are exactly what they say they are. Supplements.

 

[CernRed]

Some supplements likely help in a way that proper nutrition can't.

Creatine, protein powders, BCAA's are used by all athletes. This isn't going to stop.

 

[ElCasca]

Cause they are sponsored by them
What makes them great are the roids

 

[BoosieBoo]

They work out hard you goofball. They need all the recovery help they can get.

 

[MCMXCIX]

To get the upper hand.
Anything they can do to stay the best they'll do.

 

[yookfarb]

so they have a scapegoat when they get busted for PEDs

besides a perfectly tailored diet is very expensive and not practical

 

[Karelinator]

You can tell USADA that something had been in them when you get caught.

 

[giancaakos54]

I understand average joe at the gym taking them because the vascular guy at GNC told him how great they worked...

I understand an up and coming athlete taking them because he can't always afford to eat properly...

What I don't understand is why any established high paid athlete would take supplements when they have the money to afford a perfectly tailored diet, and supplements have been proven to contain anything and everything but rarely exactly what's advertised to be in them.

It seems like a way to open Pandora's box to me, opening yourself up to looking like a cheater whether you are or not.

For the record, I am in no way saying that Jones took anything inadvertently. It just seems to me that if you have the money, why not rely on a proper diet alone, namely foods.

It's very possible you have literally no idea about athletic training, nutrition, and supplementation.

 

[ufcoddsmaker]

sponsor money can get huge and being only a second behind someone can be the difference in tens of miliions of dollars

 

[LATEXXX COMMANDO]

 

[gladiator40]

$$$$$$$$$$$. That's why

 

[faustian]

You deliberately take tainted supplements while you're juicing. That way if you get popped you can just cry tainted supplements. Investigation of supplements follows, they're determined to be tainted, juicing fighter is "vindicated"

 

[Elysianwing]

Because that is how you become a high paid athlete, I'm guessing.

 

[Fahcough]

Because I can get across the country in 3 days sitting in a car, or I can take a plane and be there in 6 hours.

 

[registered]

To arrive or to stay at the top $$$






BTW

 

[KarateYeah]

Because is goody!!!!!

 

[magicmarker]

Because that is how you become a high paid athlete, I'm guessing.

I'm asking about the people who are high paid enough already to afford a perfect diet.
Would they rather eat junk and take supplements as opposed to eat healthy?

 

[Bobby Boulders]

There is a tremendous amount of pressure in the world of athletics. Especially for a guy like Jones, who has been hearing since he got to the UFC that he could be this special fighter, one of the best ever.

It is disappointing that some of these guys, especially a guy like Jones, feel that they need to use PEDs while they have so much natural ability.

But I get it. The pressure builds, and it is a lot to live up to.