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here's another thoughtful, even-handed piece on doping in sport and why people seem so gleeful about lance armstrong's fall from grace, from a psych professor in england.

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2012/10/sponsors-overboard-guest-post-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FcJKs+%28The+Science+of+Sport%29&utm_content=FaceBook

excerpt:

As with fairness, it may be rather simplistic to insist that doping-free sport eliminates risks. Elite sport in particular can reward all sorts of risk-taking, but opening the door to more drug use again seems to potentially worsen the problem. For this author at least it’s this issue of safety that finally leads to a parting of ways with Savulescu and Foddy. I’m not sure I can get comfortable with a sport where a legitimate route to winning is for young athletes to push the limits of pharmaceutical assistance. Should I be comfortable with sport that encourage pushing the limits in other ways? Perhaps not. But that doesn’t mean I want to open another avenue of risk. There is the possibility of improving safety with medical supervision, but a glance at the motley collection of doping medics who populate recent sport memoirs leaves me a little low on confidence that this would help.

The involvement of those dubious doctors, though, highlights a counter-argument and brings us back to the issue of illegality itself compromising safety. As with recreational drugs, if a substance is permitted there may be a greater incentive to improve its safety (rather than at present where the emphasis is on undetectability), and for people of greater integrity to become involved in its supervision. In the end the issue pivots on whether you can argue convincingly enough that, as in the case of something like heroin, prohibition actively contributes to the risks via dodgy suppliers, unsafe drugs or badly controlled administration. If someone could make this case might it change things?

and another excerpt:

Another way to look at it though is to consider the possibility that Armstrong is not quite as reprehensible as all that. It could be that we are seeing (as Tyler Hamilton and others have suggested) someone trapped inside a lie that’s too big for easy escape and driven by fear. Fear of failing, of discovery, of loss of the esteem which some still have. How would most people deal with that? How would you? Armstrong’s public stance of studied (or pretend) indifference is quite agonising to watch. It may be that that he is simply an ordinary person, albeit in extraordinary circumstances, with weaknesses and flaws like the rest of us. And this is the heart of his problem: if you’re Lance Armstrong, the journey to just being an ordinary guy is a long, long way down.

VICTORY.

 

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basic flavors are free at trueprotein.com. just sayin'.

ok if I should take about 2g per kg of bodyweight I defently need some protein powder. Cant do that with normal nutrition I get about 25g at breakfast 30-40g at lunch and 30-40g for dinner in between that meals I´m drinking about 0.75l of milk per day and take some other snacks
But whey is to expensive for me as a student. On which things I should take a look when I´m buying proteinpowder ?

yes you can. but whey is as cheap or cheaper per gram of protein than almost any other protein source. gold standard and elite whatever that mr. big mentioned i'm sure are fine, and he's right on about making sure there are as few additives as possible. kingfish has a good hookup for WPC, can't remember what it is. i buy mine in bulk from truenutrition.com. comes to about $8/pound, shipped. i get vanilla with no sweeteners or any other additives. it's high-quality and mixes deliciously in smoothies and chocolate milk. i even put it in oatmeal from time to time.

last night:

i was standing in a small apartment full of people, mostly black. everyone was there to watch the howard-morehead state football game. all the pregame festivities were going on on the tv. i didn't know anyone except my friend jesse, who i'd come with. but i can get into pretty much any sporting event so i was standing up near the front with a couple of dudes, including this one guy who was visibly nervous/excited. he was wearing a big horse-skull mask that covered his whole head. i asked who everyone was rooting for but in the middle of the question i realized that we were in DC, and a bunch of people had "H" on their clothes, so obviously everyone was for howard.

jesse was wearing pants with paint intentionally splattered on them and someone made a comment about it. he got kind of bashful about them after that. then he left the apartment and went out into the hall and up the stairs, and after a minute i followed him. to climb to the next level i had to go up the stairs part way, then jump to the railing on the next landing and swing myself over.

that's it.

SORENESS: edit: tib anterior but very light
ACHES/INJURIES: left anterior hip, squatting elbow on left side is BACK but not as bad as last year
FATIGUE: high

- warm up

- DLRVJ x 5,5
horrendous, the worst in a long time.

- ME MR half tuck 5 x 5
barefoot, slow

- ME pogo 3 x 5

- C1: MSEM squat 8 x 290
- C1: 2 x 3 x 90
- C1 info: 2 rounds, squats were excellent.

- S1: dip x 15,15,10,10
- S1: inverted row x 15,15,10,10
- S1 info: add reps to first set next time

- S2: calf raise x 20
- S2: GHR sit up x 10
- S2: glute bridge x 15
- S2 info: 3 rounds, minimal rest

- foam roll ITB and hip flexors

- stretch

hip flexors were very tight, had trouble getting glutes activated during warm up or on bridges. the 15 hours i spent at my desk yesterday didn't help, i'm sure. i've been starting to move around more during the day but completely fell off yesterday. it was a really stressful day and i didn't sleep enough afterward. that probably affected my jumps.

what do you have against egg yolks?

Quote from: LBSS on October 15, 2012, 01:09:42 pm

holy smokes: http://deadspin.com/5951571/heres-the-insane-suplex-an-alabama-defensive-lineman-laid-on-a-missouri-running-back

nuts, he get in trouble?

no way, that's a clean tackle.