Gym Candy

   Mick Johnson wanted to be the starting running back on his football team from the moment he started playing football at only four. Mick was raised thinking that his father was an amazing  football player who played for the NFL, but later realizes he did not get the full story. He vows never to make the same mistakes his father made.In junior high Mick starts to really gain speed and agility, but finds he is not as strong as he would like. He starts to lift weights and soon starts to take steroids. At that point in the book the side effects start to really effect his life. For example he wants to go swimming in a pond with these girls hes with but when he takes his shirt of he is starting to grow man boobs and getting a lot of acne on his back.

   This to me was a very good example of kids being put in a situation where they rely on steroids. He wanted to be the best and he thinks the only way for that to happen is for him to start taking steroids. This is not good that in order for people to succeess in a sport that they think they have to take steroids. This is a ridiculous thought and is not true at all.

Overall I think the fact that in sports today people think in order to succeed you need to take drugs to make yourself stronger is pretty ridiculous. And it shows what kind of society we are in today that people would look up to people that do that.