Performance enhancement of cardiorespiratory system

Question 1

What is legal performance enhancing?

Answer 1

-enhances performance and does not violate the WADA code
-does not threaten the health or safety of the individual

Question 2

What is illegal performance enhancing

Answer 2

-violates the WADA code
-threatens the health or safety of the individual

Question 3

Altitude training (less oxygen) pros + cons

Answer 3

PRO: Improves amount of oxygen your body can take in and thereby increasing the ability of blood to transport oxygen to working muscles and tissues. + increases ventilation, heart rate, decreased stroke and plasma volume

CON: Unaffordable or inaccessible (distance) for some athletes

Question 4

Hypoxic training

Answer 4

• Variation to altitude training, and both are low oxygen environments
• Hypoxic training at sea level uses hypoxic chambers, houses or tents
• Not as effective as ‘natural’ high altitude training

PROS: fair and accessible to everyone and more practical
CONS: holding breath activities can be potentially dangerous

Question 5

Blood doping

Answer 5

• infusing extra human blood (red blood cells) into the body prior to performance
• Boosts the number of red blood cells in the body, delivering more oxygen to muscles

PRO: improves VO2 max, endurance capacity, larger amounts of ATP produced

CONS: risk of heart attack and stroke, blood viruses