With the apparent increase in use of supplements as human growth hormone, testosterone, HGH, EPO and IGF-1 in sports (particularly cycling) during the last decade, I wonder if their use has managed to leak over to masters events...... including swimming. Seems silly to me that anyone would use hardcore muscle building agents as these in a setting such as masters so late in life. Is it worth implementing drug testing, or does it really matter in the end....... after all its just masters.
John Smith
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I hear ya, George. I'm glad my wife doesn't swim:D
My goals have nothing to do with the other people in the heat with me so I don't care if they use performance enhancers or not. It is a bit late in life to base your success by comparing yourself to others...
Originally posted by Peter Cruise
Those tents have been debunked 'scientifically' by a former poster to these forums who bought one for himself; when it didn't help declared them hooey in a usa swimming forum.
September 17th update***
While confirming that simulated altitude systems, like natural altitude, CAN improve performance, the World
Anti-Doping Agency has concluded that the hypoxic systems are NOT doping.
Originally posted by stussy96
A college teammate from Germany told me that their National Women's Team used to do such a thing. They would get pregnant (by their coaches, of course!) and then abort back in the..80's?. :eek:
Terrible, but needless to say, the coaches were taken care of.
supposedly, they haven't found this to be true yet. The East Germans rtecorded everything so I wonder why they wouldn't have recorded this?
Hot off the press-
155,000 Americans are diagnosed with Age Related Macular Degeneration, a potentially blinding condition, every year. In a subgroup analysis from the WHI clinical trial of hormone therapy that is looking at the long term effects of Estrogen and Progestin replacement therapy in 4,262 women 65 and older.
They found that in women, the combo of Estrogen plus Progestin was associated with a reduced risk of both dry and wet Age related macular degeneration.
Originally posted by Racer X
Hot off the press-
155,000 Americans are diagnosed with Age Related Macular Degeneration, a potentially blinding condition, every year. In a subgroup analysis from the WHI clinical trial of hormone therapy that is looking at the long term effects of Estrogen and Progestin replacement therapy in 4,262 women 65 and older.
They found that in women, the combo of Estrogen plus Progestin was associated with a reduced risk of both dry and wet Age related macular degeneration.
This is very interesting. MD is one of the leading causes of late-life blindness. Most people aren't even aware of it. It is very important, especially for people with diabeties, colitis, Crohn's disease, and high blood pressure, for people to get screen by an Opthomologist(sp?).
George; No way! Being pregnant sucks. For women who have always done masters swimming (not me), I'm told there are BK (before kids) times and AK (after kids) times. Whatever short term hormonal benefit there might be is completely outweighed by the surefire lack of sleep and stress and reduction in training time. Leslie
What about MSM? I know a lot of triathletes that take that supplement to help muscle recovery. Is it real or just another one of those untested for true efficacy supplements?
Interesting article on drugs in sports in Sports Illustrated ......
Is This Dr. Evil?
"A legend in the sports netherworld, chemist Patrick Arnold -- inventor of THG -- breaks his silence on his role in the BALCO scandal and hints of a future filled with scary science. He has been labeled the evil chemist behind sports' steroid era. Federal investigators call him one of the " profiteers who endanger our citizens." A U.S. Anti-Doping Agency official hailed his guilty plea on distribution charges in April as a step toward "breaking the hold that steroids have on sport." Since he was outed as the creator of THG, the designer steroid reportedly used by Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and other stars, 40-year-old Patrick Arnold has been portrayed as the linchpin in the BALCO scandal, his Champaign, Ill., lab a modern Frankenstein's castle"
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/.../index.html
A U.S. Anti-Doping Agency official hailed his guilty plea on distribution charges in April as a step toward "breaking the hold that steroids have on sport."
If anyone believe that, they probably believe that we are winning the other war on drugs, too. If the supply dwindles, the drugs become more valuable and the incentive to provide them increases with that value. There are thousands of out-of-work Ph.D. chemists in the former Soviet Bloc who do things like sweep floors to make ends meet. One guess as to how long it will take them and the Russian mob to fill that gap.
-LBJ
