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> My understanding is it occurs due to focusing on anaerobic exercise, which weight lifting is, and not also or not executing enough aerobic exercise, like swimming, running and calisthenics. As the heart gets larger, the heart chambers get smaller, pumping less blood and less oxygen, in the right circumstance leading to heart failure and death.

Zyzz is believed to have had a pee-existing heart condition, and used some fairly aggressive steroid cycles that would contribute to heart failure at an early age. Weight training on it's own usually isn't enough to cause this issues, and in general resistance training extends your lifespan and cardiovascular health, in addition to supporting better body composition. One can even reduce the risk involved in using PEDs if you take care to closely monitor a variety of health metrics and biomarkers to judge the risks involved.

Here's a list of all the stuff you should look into if you're thinking of doing something like this:

https://vigoroussteve.com/medical-screening-required-before-...