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The Use of Sport Supplements - Coggle Diagram
The Use of Sport Supplements
Magic Pill
What would happen if you took it?
Improvement in performance, could be caught doping because you didn't know what was in it.
What would happen if you didn't take it?
Potentially inhibiting yourself from having improved performance and opponents might have an advantage over you.
Sport Supplements:
food, food component, nutrient or non-food compound that is purposefully ingested in addition to the habitually consumed diet with the aim of achieving a specific health and/or performance benefit
(Maughan et al., 2018)
How many athletes use supplements?
A systematic review of 159 students reported that around
60%
of athletes were using supplements
(Knapick et al., 2019)
It is difficult to assess how many athletes use supplements.
Risk of Using sport Supplements
A supplement may list what is in it but not always the case.
Maugan (2013)
found that
~33%
of supplements failed quality assurance tests.
Failures occur because of unregulated business, manufacturing and company goals.
Do sport supplements improve performance?
The effectiveness of sports supplements can come from
expectations
.
A
placebo effect
.
The mindset can influence how well, or not so well, the supplement works
(Hurst et al., 2017)
Summary
Sport supplement use is highly prevalent.
Athletes using sport supplements may unintentionally use prohibited substances.
It is the athlete's responsibility to check the contents of the supplements.
Athletes can use the
informed sport website
to check whether a sport supplement has been batch tested.