Chemical Muscle Enhancement Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto - Fat Burning Secrets of the World's Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models Chemical Wizardry by George Spellwin - Definitive Anabolic Steroid Database The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald - A Complete Guide for Dieter and Practictioner The Layman's Guide to Steroids - Mick Hart's Best-Selling Anabolic Steroid Guides Legal Muscle by Rick Collins: Anabolics in America Muscle Building Nutrition by Will Brink - Serious Lean Muscle Gains without the Body Fat Anabolics 2002 Introduction The association between steroids in pro sports muscles anabolic/androgenic steroid (AAS) use and aggression ("'roid rage") has been widely accepted in the culture in general, the mainstream media, and the resistance training subculture. This view has been bolstered by the use of AAS "induced" rage as a legal defense (Pope & Katz, 1990). And, although AAS use is not limited to those who perform resistance exercise, the evidence suggests that lifters using AAS are likely to use much higher doses than are those engaging in other athletic endeavors. Therefore, muscles muscles aggression has been both expected and reported to be more prevalent among weight trainers and this phenomenon has become part of the culture of bodybuilding, as well. More recently, naturally occurring androgen precursors have also entered the discussion (Ueki & Okano, 1999; Yesalis, 1999). This series will examine the support for and potential strength of the causal link between AAS use and aggression and discuss putative processes associated with it. In this installment, representative research on the AAS use and aggression relationship steroids effects muscles in humans is briefly reviewed, including limited coverage of research on endogenous testosterone levels and aggressive behavior, in order to highlight prevalent themes in the literature. For a more in-depth analysis, recent reviews by Bahrke, Yesalis, & Wright (1996) and Sharp and Collins (1998) are suggested. Further installments will evaluate the evidence for a direct causal relationship between AAS use and aggressive behavior in humans, and a model in which aggression in AAS users is moderated by distal antecedent factors, and somaŽ muscle relaxers muscles partially mediated though