Known mainly for his performance on social networks, the influencer “fitness”, chemist, physical educator and businessman Renato Cariani has been immersed in bodybuilding for almost three decades. In an exclusive interview with the Blog Muscle, the professional athlete assumes the use of anabolic steroids (EAS), popularly known as the “bomb”, but rejects their glamorization: “I am against the apology to the use of hormones, I know their presence and I recognize that, as an athlete, I made use during my preparations. But I never allowed it to be my anthem within that career.”
Cariani also shows how this trivialization can be evil for the growth of bodybuilding. “Being a professional athlete, I am, on many occasions, criticized by my position not to recommend the use of EAS. There is a group of athletes who apologize to hormones and then cannot understand why this sport is less salable than football. How will you popularize a sport that advertises the use of EAS, how will a sport that are proud to be users of these dimensions?” questions.
“Many other sports have ‘doping’, but this side is hidden. The athletes of these modalities understand that they will help people hitting the key of regularity, the discipline, the focus. It is not beautiful to be glamorized all the time, it is destructive. It is terrible,” adds the bodybuilder.
He also warns about the adversities that use of this type of medicine without prescription can cause: “Is it not interesting to use them if you are not a bodybuilder. Want to lose weight? Want to have a beautiful physique? You don’t have to! But life is yours, so let’s assume you didn’t hear me anyway. Look for a doctor. Even more without the help of a healthcare professional, you can have such severe side effects that you’ll stop and stop. Even training. “
Possible return
Cariani has not taken on stage since September 2022, when he faced names such as Julio Balestrin and Felipe Franco at Olympia Brazil. Despite his passion for bodybuilding, he confesses not to be certain of a possible return to competitive sport.
“I haven’t talked about it yet. Now, I’m seriously concerned about the man I want to be at 60, at age 70. I am 49 and I worry about the future. Bodybuilding is a very high performance sport that generates very large muscle and mental wear,” he says.
According to the expert, the sport he has chosen for his life is different from everyone else regarding “performance on competition day”. Still according to the digital influencer, while other athletes are “at the height of their performance” when they will compete, this dynamic is reversed in bodybuilding: “On the day of the championship, the athlete is dehydrated, with a percentage of dangerous fat of such low. He is exhausted, within the limit of physical and mental exhaustion.”
“I don’t know if, for my health, I must continue to compete at the age I am. Maybe my idea is to start migrating to an athlete who aims at the most longevity,” he says.
Longevity
On this topic, the professional bodybuilder reveals that the “secret” is in the moderation and wisdom of when the restrictions can be loosened. “I love to eat. But together with celebration, with appreciation of taste, you need to understand that food is fuel for your body. When I am going to eat something, I need to understand what food will give me. The brain of a person who eats best also works better. A person who eats better is more willing, tends to make smarter choices for life,” he points out.
He also points out that, on weekdays, he is disciplined with the diet just as at work. Already on the weekend, a period that protects to “rest body and mind”, lives as an ordinary person: “I take a wine or caipirinha, but this is an event, not a rule.”
Curially, Cariani is a defendant in a lawsuit in which he is accused of drug trafficking, association for trafficking and capital washing. The case runs in the court of São Paulo. The digital influencer, in turn, has always defended himself from imputations and declares himself innocent whenever questioned.
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