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9780393321296

Pumped Straight Facts for Athletes about Drugs, Supplements, and Training

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393321296

  • ISBN10:

    0393321290

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

What's safe? What works? What's a waste of money? " Pumped " offers research-based information. It explains the body basics that every athlete must know for optimum performance. It also offers the reader straight information about drugs and supplements for weight control, muscle building, and endurance training. What an athlete uses in the off-training time is important too, and this text covers recreational drugs - from alcohol to speed - how they can seem to help performance, how they hurt, and for how long.

Author Biography

Bill Wilson is a professor of pharmacology at the Duke University Medical Center.

Table of Contents

Introduction 13(2)
Optimizing Performance
15(15)
How to Read the Ads
30(9)
Warming Up: Drug Basics
39(11)
Bulking Up/Slimming Down
50(16)
Building Muscle Mass and Strength
66(36)
Getting Pumped
102(27)
Chilling Out: Alcohol and Marijuana
129(21)
Smoking and Chewing: Tobacco
150(10)
Cooling Down
160(11)
Bibliography 171(10)
Index 181

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