Pumped Paperback by Cynthia Kuhn; Scott Swartzwelder; Wilkie Wilson

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2000-10-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393321296
• Item Weight: 231.34 grams
• Dimensions: 21.08 x 14.1 x 1.27 cm

Steroids, stimulants, supplements: today's athlete is offered an array of drugs and dietary enhancements to solve every problem from weight to speed.

What's safe? What works? What's a waste of money? "Pumped" offers research-based information. It explains the body basics that every athlete must know for optimum performance. It also offers the reader straight information about drugs and supplements for weight control, muscle building, and endurance training. What an athlete uses in the off-training time is important too, and this text covers recreational drugs - from alcohol to speed - how they can seem to help performance, how they hurt, and for how long.

About the Author

Cynthia Kuhn, PhD, is professor of pharmacology at Duke University School of Medicine and Scott Swartzwelder, PhD, is associate vice president for Neuropsychology and Child and Adolescent Services at Avance Health System and Centers of Excellence in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and holds professorships in psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University. They both reside in Durham, North Carolina.

Wilkie Wilson was professor of prevention science at Duke University.