ukpaul said:
If doping is anything that increases your ability, then should we ban energy drinks, Vitamin suppliments etc?
Hey, I just to put out that suppliments (multi vitamins, etc) dont really have any performance enhancing properties at all unless you are already depleted or malnourished to begin with (in a poor starving country or live off of chicken nuggets, fries, etc.) Now, I take a multi vitamin and I would recommend others to do so to if you dont like eating all your vegetables, etc.
"Energy drinks" are just basically sugar/ caffeine. Now, caffeine can help your body save glycogen and it is a mild stimulant depending on how often you consume it. But an FTP/ V02 max increase is going to be almost un-noticeable...
This whole "energy drink" industry is realy just fancy pop for people to buy at convenient stores.
Now, "doping" for me starts at synthetic testosterone, then HGH, Insulin, IGF-1 or an mechanized growth factors >> the heaviest doping for cycling being blood transfusions (packed red cells or whole blood) and EPO/ epo stimulating peptide hormones. There are also 02 carriers and synthetic hemoglobins that are very powerful indeed.
Its the blood doping >> 02 carrying increases that really "do it in in" for non drug user Pros. They cant follow a 25% power increase, but maybe they could follow the 5% FTP increase that comes with just test or HGH for example.
Why not ban sleep? The more sleep you get while hard-training, the faster you recover.