Anabolic Steroids and Other Performance-Enhancing Substances in the Adolescent Athlete

2006 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
John M. Tokish
Keyword(s):  
Anabolic Steroids ◽  
Adolescent Athlete ◽  
Performance Enhancing Substances ◽  
Performance Enhancing

scholarly journals Er dopingerfaringer forbeholdt lavtuddannede? Doping som en social praktik

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Kryger Pedersen ◽  
Lars Benjaminsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Anabolic Steroids ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Sports And Exercise ◽  
Performance Enhancing Substances ◽  
Performance Enhancing

Inge Kryger Pedersen and Lars Benjaminsen: Bulked-up bodies and education: Doping as a social practice During the last decades sociological analyses have interpreted doping and use of performance-enhancing substances as a social phenomenon mainly in the field of sports. In this article, logistic regression analyses of a questionnaire survey conducted among a random sample of the Danish population between the ages of 15-50 (2003 respondents) and persons engaged in different types of sports and exercise activities in Denmark (5036 respondents) show that pharmacological methods (medicines, drugs) have been adopted by trained, physically fit individuals outside sports. Studies indicate that experiences with performance-enhancing substances outside – and not within – competi¬ti¬ve sports are socially stratified. Use of anabolic steroids in gyms is prevalent among men with little or no education. This article looks at these observable variations in social position by drawing upon Bourdieu’s analysis of the logic of practice, his concepts of practical sense and the search for social distinction in the construction of life-styles. Despite certain limitations regarding issues of agency, it is argued that drug use outside the sphere of competitive sport can be viewed as a bodily practice related to social parameters such as the level of education. Use of doping substances outside the sphere of sport is re¬-lated to aesthetic modification, whereas doping in organised competitive sports primarily intends to enhance various physiological parameters. These para¬meters are related both to the specific skills required for the sport and to the logic of competition. This might explain why doping experiences in competitive sports do not seem to be stratified by education.

scholarly journals The Perspectives of Amateur Soccer Players and their Coaches on the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Thanujj Kisten ◽  
Rowena Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Nutritional Supplements ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Performance Enhancing Substances ◽  
Performance Enhancing

Adolescent and youth sports seem to have progressively developed in South Africa to the point where young athletes are considering doping and the use of performance-enhancing substances (PES). This study determined the perspectives of U-19 soccer players and their coaches in the eThekwini region, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on the use of supplements and drugs. Male participants (n = 449) playing first team soccer from development clubs in the eThekwini region, and their respective coaches (n = 30), volunteered to participate in this study. A questionnaire was administered to players and coaches were interviewed. Soccer players and their coaches believed that consuming prohibited substances in sport was unethical. The majority of the players (73.9% either agreed or strongly agreed) and coaches believed that doping in soccer is on the increase. About a quarter of the players consumed nutritional supplements and smoked cannabis. Anti-doping educational programmes and behaviour change interventions are vital in order to educate and transform athletes’ and coaches’ perspectives on doping and PES, and their resultant behaviour.

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