Featured, MLB NEWS
A Small Fact That Is Being Ignored in the Steroid Saga
Published by Josh Sanchez on May 8, 2009
Article Source: Bleacher Report - MLB
A fact that has failed to be touched on during this steroid fiasco in baseball is this: Steroids don’t actually help you hit home runs. To hit a home run you need proper hand eye coordination and reaction time along with pitch recognition. Steroids do not affect any of these senses.
"Hitting a home run requires accelerating a bat from a stand still to over 70 to 110 feet per second in a few milliseconds. Such a feat requires rapid force generation that can only be supplied by fast twitch muscle fibers," according to Arthur De Vany from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at California Irvine.
What steroids provide is bul...
Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - MLB
Article is property of BleacherReport.com
Install the ratings plugin
Install the postviews plugin
None
You must be logged in to post a comment.