Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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Six weeks of testosterone-enanthate: more weight on the bench, faster sprint, often not detectable
Study
Results
The researchers were particularly interested in the effect of testosterone courses in main stream sports. So they got the subjects to sprint for ten seconds on an ergometer. The testosterone increased the peak capacity, and above all the total amount of work the men were able to achieve during the sprint. That meant they were faster.
When the researchers made an overview summarising how much progression the men showed during the first three weeks, and the amount of progression during the entire six weeks, it became clear that most of the progress took place in the first three weeks of use.
Both hormones are produced in approximately equal quantities by the testes. The difference between testosterone and epitestosterone is in the hydroxyl group on C17. In epitestosterone this is in a strange position, which means that epitestosterone has no androgenic or anabolic effect. If you have more than four times as much testosterone than epitestosterone, doping hunters assume that you have introduced exogenous testosterone into your system.
Well – the test sounded the alarm bell in five of the nine users. But four users passed the test without a squeal.
But...
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