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If you have questions about performance enhancing drugs in sports, this is where you’ll find answers. Is creatine safe? How about ribose, salbutamol and ephedrine? Doping in sports is a hot topic, so read on to find out… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.
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Sports supplements: a guide to sports drinks, health products and muscle builders
How many of these fancily packaged and extravagantly advertised products actually work?
Sports nutrition: eating breakfast is vital in aiding recovery
Nutritional advice for breakfast
Antioxidants: supplements and pills may not be the answer to energising and recovery
Antioxidant nutrition is one of changing consensus among scientists and confusion among athletes and coaches.
Drug abuse in sport: how to build a drug free team
Alicia Filley explains the social-psychological profile of athletes at risk of doping and provides some expert tips on building a ‘clean’ team.
Asthma in sport: athletes should take heed of WADA guidelines
Athletes with asthma should check their drugs do not infringe WADA guidelines
GABA: creatine for strength athletes
The naturally occurring amino acid known as GABA has long been know to function as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, and as such, is popular as an ‘anti-anxiety’ supplement. However, exciting new research suggests that it may also stimulate the natural release of growth hormone, which could yield benefits such as enhanced muscle recovery, strength gains and fat loss. Andrew Hamilton explains
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Medicine Use Harms Sports performance
Athletes at risk from prescribed medicines
Prescribed drug can cause damage after eccentric exercise
Antidepressants may cause muscle damage…
Testosterone prohormone supplements: The Risks
Andro supplements don’t help and can be harmful
Pseudoephedrine's Ergogenic Effect
Drug removed from banned list is ergogenic
Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Drugs in sport: why testing is not enough
Caffeine in team sports
How caffeine boosts team play
What's good, what's bad and what's plain ugly? Ergonenic aids: Positives and Negatives
What's good, what's bad and what's plain ugly?
nandrolone
Nandrolone testing
creatine
Creatine: is it really safe for long-term use?
Sports Science Glossary Part 4
Sports Science Glossary Part 4
sodium bicarbonate & sodium citrate
Sodium Bicarbonate & Sodium Citrate
antioxidant diets
Antioxidant Diets: Low antioxidant diets may hamper fuel delivery
disordered eating
Disordered eating is rare in Chinese athletes
body composition exercise
Body Composition & Exercise: Exercise intensity and body composition
banned substances
Banned Substances: Athletes still at risk of accidental doping
prohormones
Prohormones : Warning! - contaminated dietary supplements can seriously damage your career
world anti doping agency
World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) : New WADA guidelines for 2006 - how do they affect athletes?
blood doping
Blood Doping: New warning on blood doping
creatine use
Creatine Use: Long-term creatine use is safe
performance enhancing drugs
Performance Enhancing Drugs
gacik
Gacik: is it even better than creatine?
drugs in sport
Drugs in sport: From EPO to gene doping: Ron Maughan on the ceaseless quest for the undetectable magic bullet and the sterling efforts of the 'good guys' to stay ahead of the game
modafinil
Modafinil: Banned drug works as ergogenic aid
nsaids
NSAIDS: Contraction-induced muscle injury - why NSAIDS don't help
adenosine
Adenosine: ATP is no creatine
salbutamol
Salbutamol: Ergogenic effects of salbutamol
creatine supplements
Creatine supplements: Selective effects of creatine
serum ferritin levels | iron overload
Serum ferritin levels: Iron overload in cyclists
drugs in sport
Drugs in sport: “Far from being unfair, drugs that enhance performance actually promote equality”
drugs sport
Drugs in sport: Let athletes take drugs, but I don't want them in my club - or at my Olympics'
ribose
Ribose - Why ribose does not make the grade as the 'new creatine' for sports performers
hodiola rosea | cordyceps sinensis
Hodiola rosea & cordyceps sinensis - Chinese supplements don't work for cyclists
exercise induced asthma
Exercise induced asthma: Take a deep breath - and learn to manage your asthma without falling foul of doping regulations
creatine vegetarians
Creatine for vegetarians
ADHD drugs in sport
ADHD drugs in sport
anabolic steroid abuse
Anabolic steroid abuse - Another risk of anabolic steroid abuse
Human Growth Hormone | hGH
Human growth hormone hGH - Don't waste money - and risk your reputation on human growth hormone; make your own instead!
contraceptive pill and performance
The Pill may be the most effective contraceptive and the best way to manipulate your cycle for important events, but are you aware of its physiological effects and their impact on performance?
Steroids in sports: The effects on blood pressure
Steroids - How steroids raise blood pressure
performance enhancing drugs | supplement contamination
Performance enhancing drugs: How to protect yourself - and your reputation - from drug contamination
ephedrine
Ephedrine effects
oral contraceptives | athletic performance
Oral contraceptives and athletic performance
Dietary Supplements: the use of legal and illegal drugs in sport
When the price for sports drugs is just too high.
Nasal Strips: do breathing techniques improve performance?
Nasal strips: improving your breathing rate
Creatine reduces mental fatigue and boosts performance!
How Creatine Can Prevent Mental Fatigue
Creatine: how it effects sports performance
The effects of creatine supplementation on performance
Creatine supplements can boost your endurance training without encouraging weight gain
The correct dose of creatine will improve endurance athletes performance without making them gain weight!
Creatine and carbohydrates in the body
Factors modifying creatine accumulation in human skeletal muscle
HMB supplements- do they work for athletes?
HMB supplement benefits may not be so significant for trained athletes
Will taking echinacea supplements help beat a viral infection?
Echinacea - Ward off infection with 'the prairie doctor'
Creatine: the side effects of this performance enhancing supplement
Creatine side effects: Supplementation with creatine is safe - but it works best for men
Testosterone: the andro supplement may not be as effective as you think
Androstenedione effects - do andro supplements really work?
Recovery time: the effectiveness of creatine is influenced by the recovery intervals you take!
Creatine and recovery intervals
How crocodile blood can improve sports performance!
Anyone for Crocodile Haemoglobin?
fat burning zone
Fat burning zone - Why athletes, fitness enthusiasts and slimmers should steer clear of the fat burning zone
Fighting depression: aerobic exercise is proven to be more effective than antidepressants
Aerobic exercise is more effective than drugs in fighting depression
Does aspirin, codeine and paracetamol reduce muscle soreness?
The effect of painkillers on muscle soreness
Carbohydrate metabolite supplements: pyruvate does not enhance weight loss or boost endurance performance
The effect of the Pyruvate supplement on performance
Creatine significantly boosts sprinting and acceleration
Creatine shown to boost performance in trained sprinters
Creatine: school children under the age of 18 should not take bodybuilding supplements
School children risk causing long term damage by taking bodybuilding supplements
Caffeine can speed up the performances of runners, cyclists and swimmers!
How caffeine may shave seconds off your time
Are athletes turning to genetic modification and is drug abuse in sport getting worse?
Genetic engineering and drug abuse
Salbutamol: how this asthma drug provides athletes with mixed benefits
Salbutamol as a supplement
Sports nutrition: a high carbohydrate diet can lead to a zinc deficiency
Zinc deficiency can lead to weightloss, decreased endurance and fatigue
Ageing in sport: can creatine prevent muscle reduction?
Research suggests creatine can improve an ageing athlete's performance
Steroids increase the risk of injury when strength training
Steroids carry injury risks
Steroids increase the risk of injury when strength training
Steroids carry injury risks
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