Steroids in Strength Sports. Bodybuilding and strength sports stars reveal their secrets: shocking reports about unimaginable dosages and combinations of growth hormone, IGF-1, and steroids. This book shows how bodybuilding professionals really use steroids. International champions share in their own words how they apply hormones and other substances for mass building and competition preparation. Learn firsthand which steroids and combinations have worked best for them and which medications are no longer used. You will also gain insight into the side effects that some of these champions have accepted! Despite doping tests, anabolic steroids are still the "breakfast of champions." The fact is: steroids and bodybuilding have long been inseparable. This connection began with candid confessions in the 1950s and 1960s.