Nathan Jendrick

Dunks, Doubles, Doping: How Steroids Are Killing American Athletics

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Produktbeschreibung

Dunks, Doubles, Doping is not a pro-steroid book.Nor is it an anti-steroid book. Instead, it's anti-hypocrisy and anti-subterfuge. Dunks, Doubles, Doping sets the record straight on the real risks of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, and it makes public facts that have, for the most part, been misrepresented in the media.When the next century rolls around, where will steroids stand in a list of substances that are most harmful to humans? According to author Nathan Jendrick, steroids will fall far below Tylenol, Fen-Phen, Vioxx--and even Viagra. Reports of death and internal destruction abound when the topic of steroid use surfaces, but the vast majority of the general public would be shocked if they had the opportunity to see the truth. Here is that opportunity.Dunks, Doubles, Doping cuts through the fog and invites readers to learn the truth about the reported dangers of steroids. Perhaps more important, readers will also find an examination of the real steroid problem: How they are killing American athletics. And it isn¿t necessarily the drugs that are doing the most damage. It¿s the hype, the misleading information, the lies, and the inconsistencies in policy.Dunks, Doubles, Doping includes interviews with some of the best Olympic athletes in the world-including Gary Hall Jr. and Megan Quann-top steroid legal analyst and lawyer Rick Collins, bodybuilding personality Gregg Valentino, and top physicians and psychologists such as Dr. Roberto Olivardia, PhD, Dr. Theodore Friedmann, PhD, Dr. Gary Nolan, PhD, Dr. Roland Carlstedt, and many more. As much as the world may like to believe it, steroids are not the final frontier. Dunks, Doubles, Doping confronts and explains a new method of cheating called "gene doping," so that every reader knows what's coming next.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781592289028
• ISBN-10: 1592289029
• Artikelnr.: 21585490

Autorenporträt

Nathan Jendrick is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Swimming World and American Health and Fitness. He is also an amateur bodybuilder, competitive swimmer, and personal trainer, whose clients have included Megan Quann, the 2000 double-Olympic gold medal winner and world record holder, to whom he is married.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Other Gear in the Locker Room 1. Real life statistics and truths
about steroids 2. Benefits athletes expect from using steroids 3. Side
effects, both mental and physical associated with steroid use, from the
viewpoint of a professional bodybuilder 4. Methods athletes use from
transporting steroids to hiding them 5. Most famous, and most revered
substances used in sports and why II. Ousted Athletes and Public Opinion 6.
Athletes who have been caught using steroids and the effect on their
careers 7. Correlation between steroid-fueled performances and number of
fans in the seats 8. How the Olympic flame fuels the steroid fire III. How
Sports Federations Essentially Allow Doping 9. Failures of random drug
testing 10. The bright side of testing 11. Physician opinions on the
prevalence of drug testing IV. It's Not Just Our Fault 12. How steroids are
brought into this country and distributed 13. East German Doping Scandal
14. Case Study: China V. Because Science Can't Win 15. Science is always a
step behind the drug-fighting game 16. The BALCO Scandal VI. Morals Cashed
In 17. Graph of paychecks increasing with rise in steroid use 18. How
National Governing Bodies fail VII. The Future in Dire Jeopardy l 19.
Rising GDP of sports and how it drives people to perform 20. Gene Doping -
changing human DNA for bigger muscles