A Brief Note On The Aids And Its Effects On The Body

Ergogenic aids are any foreign products taken by athletes to enhance their physical performance or endurance during physical exercise. Ergogenic aids are formulated to positively alter the physiological process in the body thus offering an advantage edge to the user. These aids may include drugs that enhance performance or even supplements formulated for sporting athletes and are divided into three categories including mental, physiological and mechanical factors (Liddle, 2013). Mechanical factors are intended bring about lighter weight thus reduce friction while improving aerodynamics, physiological factors on the other hand are the nutritional or the pharmacological components of the aids while the mental factors involve psychological†¦show more content†¦This unconventional use of androgenic steroids is what is commonly referred to as doping or the Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED). The effects of the steroids on an athlete’s body is a topic that draws controversies and debate as many people always want to further understand their advantages as opposed to their disadvantages. In the very basic terms, steroids can have the ability or rather a potential to drastically change the human body and its various biological functions, which include their ability to remarkably improve the athletic performance in specific instances. Anabolic steroids just like the testosterone treatment is known to offer benefits such as increased muscle strength, the users body size and their healing rate (Liddle, 2013). As it is known, using both scientific documentation and anecdotally, the use of steroids will increase muscle strength. Recent studies have illustrated the muscle building strengths from the effects of performance-enhancing drugs. Testosterone Enanthate, which happens to be the most commonly, used or abused form of testosterone was able to increase the bench press s trength and also the cycling performance in a test involving healthy subjects compared to the placebo (Roelands, 2013). The previous research documentations had shown that these