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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Ye log bodybuilders hai!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow 🍇 Wanna be a Baailot
Fake
CAN'T HEAR SQUAT OVER THE MUSIC
Steriods can cause cancer 🙏
🤣🤣🤣 pakistan
Everyone knows everyone in bodybuilding uses steroids. Come on!
Jst stay a natty gym rat
This PPL are dam full ..but what about USA ..THE BIGGEST STORIED RICKET IS IN USA .🇺🇲 Remember that first
Prize on the national level of 100 dollars 😂😂😂😂
How are they on steroids if they're so small
Body dysmorphia. Please see a therapist
Everyone is on gear these days get over it media bitches
Poor women who have to live in that society. Men are already violent, bodybuilding makes them even more violent
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$
This guy has clubbed fingers he should get it checked
I never knew this sport would be even allowed because of the religious beliefs 🤔
no one talks about his fingers 7:34
Pig steroids
Pakistan is #1 in gay porn web traffic.
His nails suggesting liver damage ..
Dude at the end is a total fake natty
Pkmk b
Shrunken balls is less of their concern 😂
Pakistan have bodybuilder also😂😂today I got to know about this😂
Pakistan is better at producing terrorist then bodybuilders.. 😮😊
I love how proud the non-steroid user's parents are of him
Where do I get them in the usa
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