Run, swim, throw, cheat the science behind drugs in sport /

• Main Author: Cooper, Chris
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Subjects: Doping in sports.; Doping in Sports.; Drug Utilization > ethics.; Performance-Enhancing Substances > adverse effects.; Steroids.; Anabolic Agents.; Sports Medicine.; PSYCHOLOGY > Addiction. > Psychopathology; SELF-HELP > General. > Substance Abuse & Addictions; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 305 pages) : illustrations
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 297) and index.
• ISBN: 9780191633751 (electronic bk.); 0191633755 (electronic bk.); 1280595485; 9781280595486

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.