Steroids slowly killing the gym-obsessed youth
OLI Cooney was 20 years old and obsessed with working out.
The young man from West Yorkshire, UK, was similar to so many Australian gym junkies, devoting hours to his physique.
Oli Cooney suffered strokes and heart attacks but couldn’t stop working out. Source: Snapper Media
OLI Cooney was 20 years old and obsessed with working out.
The young man from West Yorkshire, UK, was similar to so many Australian gym junkies, devoting hours to his physique.
He worked out until his death four years later. Source: Snapper Media
A young Oli, at 16, who was never happy with his body. Source: Snapper Media
Unfortunately, this led him to begin injecting anabolic steroids to reach his ideal body weight.
Mr Cooney, who started training at the age of 16, suffered two heart attacks and three strokes but ignored repeated warnings to stop his hardcore exercise regime.
After being diagnosed with chronic heart damage he continued to train while telling his family he was “invincible and limitless”. By this stage he was in severe denial, had weakness down one side of his body and his speech had been affected.
On September 22, 2013, Mr Cooney collapsed at a friend’s house after a night out and died in hospital.
His death has been officially attributed to substance abuse this week at an inquest in Bradford, West Yorkshire.



