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Run, swim, throw, cheat : the science behind drugs in sport / Chris Cooper.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2012.]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191633751
  • 0191633755
  • 1280595485
  • 9781280595486
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC1230
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Contents:
Prologue: A tale of two races -- Introduction -- The limits of human performance -- Stoking the engine : food -- Stoking the engine : oxygen -- Muscling up -- Steroids and beyond ... -- Stimulants -- Gene doping -- What is cheating? -- Catching the cheats -- Concluding remarks.
Summary: Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems of human biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, he looks at what stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher. Using these evidence-basedarguments he shows what the body can, and cannot, do. There is much curiosity about why certain substances are used, how t.
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Prologue: A tale of two races -- Introduction -- The limits of human performance -- Stoking the engine : food -- Stoking the engine : oxygen -- Muscling up -- Steroids and beyond ... -- Stimulants -- Gene doping -- What is cheating? -- Catching the cheats -- Concluding remarks.

Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems of human biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, he looks at what stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher. Using these evidence-basedarguments he shows what the body can, and cannot, do. There is much curiosity about why certain substances are used, how t.

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