{"id":6749,"date":"2008-10-25T02:22:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/anabolic-steroids-and-drug-testing-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T02:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T07:22:35","slug":"anabolic-steroids-and-drug-testing-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=6749","title":{"rendered":"Anabolic Steroids And Drug Testing (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Mick Hart<\/div>\n

Virtually all competitive sports involve drug testing in many of their events. In most cases, although some may argue this point, it is a fact that the vast majority of the competitors have been using, or are still using at the point of the competition, performance enhancing drugs. It is simply human nature in a highly competitive athlete to find an ‘edge’ over his or her competition, and this often comes in pharmaceutical form, coupled with a plan of action to ‘beat the test’.<\/p>\n

Many competitions in powerlifting and bodybuilding are now drug tested at events. The idea is, of course, that everybody competes on a ‘level field’, aside from personal talent for sport. However, what frequently happens is that the guy who is on ‘juice’ and has found a way to get round the drug test comes out the winner. It isn’t fair by any means, but that’s life.<\/p>\n

There are many sporting authorities that only know how it give negative press towards the use of performance enhancing drugs, but the matter of the fact is that it is the individual who has to make that decision. Everyone knows what will happen if you get caught taking them, but once again we are back to gaining the competitive edge. We often hear of athletes who haven’t turned up for a drug tests, which can help an athlete avoid being sanctioned, but we are going to take a closer look at how the test can be beaten.<\/p>\n

Types of Testing Procedure: When it comes to the tests carried out at sporting events, it is generally the urine which is put to the test for the presence of drugs. This type of testing is what we will be looking into although blood testing isn’t that much different, when testing for illegal substances.<\/p>\n

Different laboratory testing processes are employed in the testing for performance enhancers so we are going to focus on just how they work in order to be able to beat them. Step 1 will be well prior to your event, that you find out which type of sample analysis is to be employed so that an effective planning to beat the test can begin as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Gas Chromatography(GC): This methodology uses a separation technique to separate a urine sample into its basic component chemical parts. The substances are passed through chromatographic columns by a gas. chromatography is how we separate mixtures of compounds from each other, and this will lead to identification in the most cases. The chemical compounds found present in the urine sample can be identified by their ‘retention time’ on the chromatographic column – this retention time is unique for each individual drug, allowing them to be identified.<\/p>\n

Gas Chromatography\/Mass Spectrometry(GC\/MS): This test uses a mix of gas chromatography, proceeded by mass spectrometry on the chemicals separated from the urine on the chromatographic column. The mass spectrometry permits the exact identification of any drugs found present in the urine by actually forming an exact ‘molecular fingerprint’ of the chemicals found present. That means in effect the chemical structure of the drugs that are present (the atoms present within the drug, and in the order they are actually bonded together) results by using this method. The problem is that this test is extremely expensive to use and only the richer sporting bodies would use it. The cost of the test is round about one hundred pounds per sample (around $200 US).<\/p>\n

It is quite fair to say that these two test are reasonably accurate, although there is always room for human error. One example would be due to poor cleaning after the previous test and if that sample should have contained illegal drugs…This would obviously cause contamination and could lead to an incorrect positive test. So in the case that you are found to be positive, make sure you do protest, especially if you were clean or should have been.<\/p>\n

High Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC): This technique is extremely interesting as it tends to be used on test samples that are suspected of having anabolic steroids present. It’s quite similar to GC, apart from that a liquid is used as a carrier for the sample through a chromatographic column, and not a gas. HPLC is both sensitive and a lot easier to carry out than GC. This test is often carried out on results that have already come from less sensitive ones.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Author Top UK Bodybuilding And Steroid Expert<\/a> Mick Hart. Learn how to Build Lean Muscle<\/a> At Micks new Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtually all competitive sports involve drug testing in many of their events. In most cases, although some may argue this point, it is a fact that the vast majority of the competitors have been using, or are still using at the point of the competition, performance enhancing drugs. It is simply human nature in a highly competitive athlete to find an ‘edge’ over his or her competition, and this often comes in pharmaceutical form, coupled with a plan of action to ‘beat the test’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}