The Biological Passport: Legal, scientific and performance views
Saturday, March 19th, 2011The Biological passport gets a boost, and the science of progress It’s been just over a week since the Court of Arbitration for Sport released the summary of its decision to issue bans to two Italian cyclists, Franco Pellizotti and Pietro Caucchioli. The significance of the decision is that the decision was based on suspicious [...]
The limit of human performance: How much faster?
Saturday, November 27th, 2010Swifter, higher, stronger…up to a point? Or beyond? The limit of human performance Today we revisit a topic that seems to run like carousel, popping up once every few months on the site – how much faster can human beings run? How close to a “ceiling” in performance are we? The latest discussion is inspired [...]
Altitude performance implications
Sunday, June 20th, 2010Altitude: From great to good, and the impact on the game Yesterday I did a post on altitude and the potential impact it might have on performance at the 2010 Football World Cup. What I didn’t do in that altitude post is discuss how the altitude might affect performance – the application of the physiology. [...]
Does human growth hormone improve performance?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Breaking down the findings on hGH When our resident maven Jim Ferstle sent us the story about the how human growth hormone (hGH) can produce a 0.4 second improvement in 100 m sprinting, our ears pricked up and we were listening. It got us searching for the article immediately, only to find that the current [...]