Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• 9/20/06
• Floyd Landis becomes
the first Tour de
France winner to have
his title revoked for
doping
Doping at a glance
• Discuss some of the common doping agents abused
by athletes
• Anabolic steroids
• Other anabolics
• Stimulants
• Blood doping
• Discuss strategies for obtaining desired effects
without doping
Testosterone
• 2007 Christian Moreni arrested at Tour de
France
• Acne
• Testicular
suppression
• Coronary Artery
Disease
Bay Area Lab
Cooperative
• Victor Conte
• Bassist, Nutritional Consultant, Convict
• Produced designer androgens
• custom-developed for elite professional
athletes to evade doping detection
Detecting Testosterone
• Cutoff is 4:1
• RadioImmunoAssay
Increasing Testosterone
• Testosterone increases in response to:
• Intervals
• Strength training
• Testosterone decreases in response to
• Low Intensity Endurance training (L.I.E.)
Insulin
• Adiposity
• Bodybuilders find it easy to obtain insulin
to help them in training
• Anabolic hormone
• Secreted in pulses, the largest pulse happens
in the first 1 hour of sleep
GH Effects
• Increases recovery (acute)
• Increased amino acid uptake into muscle
• Increased glycogen through glucose uptake
• Increases Energy (chronic)
• Stimulates fatty acid release from adipose
tissue
• Arginine as “secretogogue”
Glucocorticoids
• Catabolic hormone
• Release glucose and fat
• Stress steroids
What it does
• Spanish soccer
• Tennis
• Cycling
• Extra blood increases aerobic/endurance
potential
• 1984 Ed Burke, PhD and US Cycling
Federation coaches admit to providing
homologous and autologous blood
transfusions to US Olympic Cycling Team
• rEPO v Aranesp
• CERA
• EPO changed everything...All of a sudden
whole teams were ragingly fast; all of a
sudden i was struggling to make the time
limits...I’d be on climbs, working as hard as I’d
ever worked, and right alongside me would
be these big-assed guys, and they’d be
chatting like we were on the flats!
• Altitude training
• Altitude tents
• Hypoxic training
• Beware the athletes
• Know what is being used
• Know what training/dietary alternatives to
offer