6). Overall, sports are fun to play and entertaining to watch. It is important that sporting events are kept fun and entertaining, and in order to do that all sports must be kept fair. If one athlete was on a performance enhancing drug that would ruin the fairness of the sport for the other competitors. In the past when athletes have been caught on illegal performance enhancing drugs they are forced to give their medals and titles back (“Stripped” par.
It is tragic to think that there are individuals who truly believe the misconceptions of bodybuilders being naive. According to Psychology today, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Justin Rhodes, reveals “BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) helps support and strengthen synapses in the brain. We find exercise greatly activates the hippocampus and grows more neurons there”. This reveals how exercising not only benefits healthy brain growth but improves memory, emotions and the nervous system. By keeping a consistent workout schedule individuals can become more organized and have an escape from reality to work on themselves to improve their figure and state of mind.
Introduction Cryotherapy, Jennifer Anniston uses it, Demi Moore swear by it, Cristiano Ronaldo had one built inside his home, Daniel Craig used it to prepare for his last James Bond movie Skyfall while supermodel Jessica Stam ditched her beauty creams and treatments for it. But what is it? Cryotherapy is the act of exposing the body or a body part to extremely low temperatures of up to -190C for a variety of health and beauty purposes to relieve pain and promote overall health and wellness. History The word might sound a little textbook but it originates from the Ancient Greeks who created the word "Cryo” meaning “cold” and “therapia” meaning “cure” and hence the birth of the word "Cryotherapy". Cryotherapy is a form of ice therapy using liquid nitrogen, and though the method of using nitrogen is modern, the practice of applying low temperate treatments even dates back to Ancient Egypt in 2500 BC, the Roman Empire and even Greek Physician Hippocrates who were all aware of the
Even though using performance enhancement drugs can give athletes benefits, but it can also cause harm and severe danger as well, therefore using drugs in sports should still be illegal. Competitors would prepare harder and try to meet their goals while some will attempt to cheat their way by utilizing enhanced medications to expand their capacities even beyond. The want to win is very affected in the idea of games, and a few competitors will do whatever it takes to ascend to the top. Over the most recent few years, numerous competitors in various games have been caught using performance enhancement drugs. At the point when a competitor tests positive to participate in sports, the competitor is either disqualified or suspended for the entire game.
Performance enhancing drugs are substances or drugs that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. These performance enhancing drugs have the ability or potential to tremendously alter the human body. The use of those performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports is known as doping. This includes the fact that it can also improve an athlete's performance in certain areas. This is the reason why many athletes and bodybuilders are associated with the use of PEDs (Reardon and Creado, 2014).
Although performance enhancing drugs can help an athlete do better, performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed to be used because they are a form of cheating and are unhealthy. Some critics argue that athletes should use performance enhancing drugs believe that they would cause the athlete to do better. They postulate that , “...the rewards for winning are too great, the penalties for cheating too light, and the chances of being caught too vanishingly small. Put in their position, most sane people would do the same, for the simple reason that doping pays the bills and feeds the family” (Reilly). Taking PED’s would then cause them to play better which then would lead to them winning and then making a lot of money.
AS91101 - 2.4 Writing Portfolio Piece Two - Cooper Title: Drugs in sports Drugs have become an integral part of any modern day sporting event. Drugs give an unfair advantage to the user and the competitors that are using enhancements are not using their own full abilities to win the Olympic medal or championship. This makes it unfair to other competitors that are not using a drug or other enhancements to compete. Athletes like Lance Armstrong and Nadzeya Ostapchuk not only give sportsmen and women a bad reputation but influence the way the public think about sports and run the risk of addiction and long-term health issues. Such as liver failure and development of breasts.
Therefore My is that drug abuse should be banned from sports permanently due to the harmful effects it has on the athlete’s and the spirit of sports. People might argue otherwise but taking drugs to better your performance is sports can relate to a student cheating on a test without even studying for it, while other students put in the effort to study hard so they can try to earn a good grade. The use of cheating to benefit is unfair to those who put in the time and effort. However, Performance enhancing drugs have been around where it was used by the greeks in ancient times, sadly the effects of ped hasn 't changed, and athletes to this day still use it too better their performance. For example, Barry Bonds was one of baseballs best hitters ever, putting up video game stats and holding records.
It became many athletes daily routine to dope up before a game. It use to be that steroids never had positive effects on the body now today we find that times have changed. Many believed steroids are only bad for the body but in my research it could go both ways. According to Lemouse a writer for the Health Guidance “Among other things the positive effects of steroids include increased muscle mass, tissue repair, endurance and fat loss”. There’s a lot in sports when your in competition it’s all about who’s the strongest or has the most endurance in most sports.
Introduction Ever since human beings started being engaged in competitive sports, they have worked hard to gain an advantage over their adversaries. After all, it is the desire of any person in a competition to emerge the winner in any sport. Through these activities, it is not surprising that athletics agencies all over the world have periodically recorded cases of athletes who make use of enhancing drugs as a way of gaining an advantage over their competitors. While the histories of using enhancement drugs in sports have gained a lot of attraction all over the world, doping is the most controversial and most prominent issue in modern sports (Voss et al, 2013). However, sports agencies and organizations have come up with counter- activities