In High School Football, a coach is similar to a mentor who guides athletes to become better in their fields. The coaches of a local high school apparently go beyond what is expected of them. In fact, they go to such extent as to erase the thin border between what is right and what is wrong.

The athletes of Nevada’s local high school went to a local nutritionist to ask about supplements promoted by their coaches. Apparently, these legal supplements are alternatives to anabolic  steroids and serve as bulking agents.

While coaches encourage the use of these supplements, they send a hidden message to students that it’s okay to take the quick, easier way. These future athletes might have this notion that it’s alright to take performance enhancing drugs someday since it has been implanted in their minds that what’s important it the state championship.

From Las Vegas Now:

One parent learned about the dangerous locker room chats through his son, who asked him to buy some supplements similar to steroids, “There is a need for student athletes to get bigger, from their coaches and from their school, to compete at the levels that they are at. I was shocked.”

They both visited Optivita Nutrition and talked to Nutritionist Michael Konowalski. He says coaches are encouraging the wrong message, “I see them walk in with their school bags and I know they have no idea what they are doing. They say, ‘My coach says this is a great thing,’ but they don’t want people to know they are actually pushing them in this route.”

A student athlete claims that the pressure doesn’t only come from the coaches but from fellow teammates as well. Everyone in the team knows what is going on. The problem is no one is willing to do anything about it. It might be a team secret but the use of supplements, whether they contain steroids or not, promotes bad habits and may even cause health problems.

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