Some Gold’s Gym franchises are distancing themselves from bodybuilders and weightlifters due to the association of anabolic steroid use among these groups. Tom Martini, the owner of Gold’s Gym in Stoughton, believes that there are fewer steroids users at his gym because it is designed to attract more individuals interested in aerobics and fitness programs (”Stoughton gym owner addresses steroid incident,” October 2).
Martini said his gym does its best to discourage steroid use, but it’s impossible to keep people from talking about them when they come to the gym. He says young men, in particular, are mesmerized by the big-muscle look glamorized in health and fitness magazines.
“The young guys want the look, and it’s easy,” Martini said. Martini says he thinks his gym, which has a variety of aerobic and fitness programs, has fewer steroid users than gyms that are mostly geared to body builders and weightlifters.
The movie is a masterfully crafted examination of steroids in society and sports. It exposes the anti-intellectual grounds of the steroid demonization movement in the United States and re-examines the real dangers of steroids. But it does so without advocating a particular point of view - either pro-steroid or anti-steroid. Instead, it is a pro-truth steroid movie.
The potential of “Bigger Stronger Faster” to become a mainstream hit could have significant positive consequences for the public perception of anabolic steroids in society. Consequently, I’m obviously rooting for film to do well!
So, how did “Bigger Stronger Faster” do in its opening two weekends at the box office in a limited nationwide release?
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