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Why Pakistan's Bodybuilders Are Dying








Last year, national bodybuilding champion and winner of Mr Pakistan 2011, Shehzad Khan Afridi, suddenly died of a heart attack just a few days after winning a gold medal at the National Championship in Karachi. It is widely understood within the community that the real cause of death was the use of deadly and illegal steroids – and this wasn’t an isolated incident.

For many lower class kids in Pakistan today, bodybuilding has become an obsession and a route out of the abject poverty in which they were born. But time spent at the gym brings them into contact with unscrupulous actors feeding off their dreams, and supplying them with steroids.

VICE World News is in Pakistan to explore firsthand the obsessive culture of bodybuilding among frustrated lower working-class men and how, after investing more than they can afford in this competitive and unforgiving sport, they end up gambling with their lives for a shot at wealth and fame.

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29 Comentários

  1. Poor women who have to live in that society. Men are already violent, bodybuilding makes them even more violent

  2. Being a Pakistani I would say these mens arent even bodybuilders they just do kifting for some year participate in One or two competition and then Leave became natty again there are many in each Gym…Zero knowledge no professional couches so they use Steroids for short cuts…Talking about competitions there are Zero bodybuildeling competition at big level most of competitions are just a sort of advertisement for new gyms or companies with Cash prize of 30$ to 70$

  3. No one is innocent in bodybuilding. They all use something. It’s like those Hindu bodybuilder who say mine is from pure strict vegi diet. Like they don’t know wats in whey protein

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