When I look at today's baseball players, I just can't believe how big they are. They are larger and stronger than the best players of the 1930s to 1970s. Babe Ruth, arguably the greatest hitter who ever lived, was a fat elephant with relatively small muscles and a huge belly compared to the average player today. The best baseball players in the world 30 years ago probably would not even make the major league teams because they were to small and too weak.

You may say that the reason they are bigger is because they lift weights, because athletes didn't lift weights thirty years ago. You are right, but I lift weights and I don't look like the smallest baseball players today. Very few people who lift weights develop muscles that stretch their skins to the limit. An article in Sports Illustrated quotes baseball player Ken Caminiti, saying that "at least half the players are using steroids". That has to be true. When you lift a heavy weight, your muscles tear, so you feel sore the next day. Then you take the next two to ten days easy to allow the soreness to go away and your muscles to heal, because you know that when the soreness goes away, your muscles will be stronger than they were before you lifted and damaged them. Soon you find out that you can lift very heavy weights only once every week or two, and that lifting heavy more often than that will make your muscles sore all the time so you can