One of the more popular supplements being used by competitive athletes to improve athletic performance today is β-alanine (Blancquaert et al. 2015; Maughan et al. 2011).
Enhancing the recovery from intense training and/or competition has been a major goal of competitive athletes and their coaches.
For instance, resting arterial blood pressure and HOMA is not significantly reduced in most competitive athletes [ 35] and hypertension is not uncommon in athletic populations [ 36].
This article serves three purposes for athletic therapists who are involved with the rehabilitation of competitive athletes.
Boys will be boys, girls will be girls and competitive athletes will be competitive athletes.
They are young, strong, competitive athletes, in top physical condition.
The numbers, especially for competitive athletes, are sobering.
Some of the women were competitive athletes, others hobbyists.
These findings are important for serious competitive athletes who are designing serious, complicated training regimens.
Nevertheless, the Northern Territory Institute of Sport is dedicated to the training of internationally competitive athletes.
The right question to ask is whether steroid use among competitive athletes is fair.
