Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
The science behind drugs in sport
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2012
316 pages
978-0-19-163375-1 (ISBN)
Description
Sportsmen and women achieve extraordinary feats through hard work and natural talent. But some do use drugs to push the body further. How do the drugs work? Do they work? Is it possible to test for them? Chris Cooper explains the biochemistry, revealing how people cheat now, and how they might in future.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: a tale of two races
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The limits of human performance
- 3 Stoking the engine: food
- 4 Stoking the engine: oxygen
- 5 Muscling up
- 6 Steroids and beyond . . .
- 7 Stimulants
- 8 Gene doping
- 9 What is cheating?
- 10 Catching the cheats
- Concluding remarks
- Notes and References
- Further Reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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