Could Doping Become Part of Mainstream Fitness?

Could Doping Become Part of Mainstream Fitness?
Tony Cenicola/New York Times

This is a story about social change. But the first thing to admit is that you're not in the Olympics. You're not riding the Tour de France. You're not, even as a hobby, being asked to pee into a bottle at random moments. You're not going to be, you know, actually cheating at anything. The second thing is, well, you're getting old. And you've been looking around on the internet, and found there are things you can buy that might help. Performance enhancing drugs. Steroids. Not legal, per se, or even advisable. But they're there, you can order them, there's rather a lot of advice around as to how to use them, and no one is going to offer you, a non-professional athlete unconnected 
with international sporting events, anything other than compliments if you do.

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