Supplements....!!!!

[alophysio]

Hi.

I am not sure about supplements but I wanted add something about athletes of equal sporting and physical ability...

I was under the impression that there is no such thing otherwise people would post identical times all the time.

For me, the difference between one athelete of similar ability to another is their mind. How hard can they train, how hard can they maintain their focus, how hard can they push their bodies to the limit.Why else would some athletes be so superstitous - eg Tiger Woods and his red 4th day shirt, pre-competition routines, lucky underwear, lucky boots, etc etc.

This to me is where the difference lies. I have seen many people with natural ability go nowhere simply because they lack the mental discipline to succeed.

As for supplements, where do you draw the line? What is performance enhancing illegally and what is performance enhancing legally?

[ROMinclinometer]

The last post refers to Tiger Woods.
I think for sports that are heavily weighted toward skilled motions, strokes, swings, are less likely to be helped by general sports supplements. Unless perhaps those supplements can aid concentration or focus. Strength is a positive for golf but, that is largely achieved through training. Some supplements could aid in recovery from exercise, and that can be important.

It is more likely you could find quantifiable gains from supplements, in sports that involve testing the limits of physiological and biological endurance performance.

And then there are drugs, like EPO and CERA, which are illegal in sport and definitely enhance cardiovascular performance in trained endurance athletes.