Title: Ergogenic Aid week 5

Go to the following website: http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010301/913.html. Read the article. If you have trouble access this website, the article is available under the Resources tab. If you cannot access this from the web, a PDF version is available under "Resources, Week 5". It is titled, "Ergogenic Aid - Counseling the Athlete".

From the list below, select one ergogenic aid. The list below was developed from Table 3 in the article above. Not every ergogenic aid in Table 3 is listed below. You must pick one of the ergogenic aids list below. Do not pick an ergogenic aid that another student has selected and posted.

Now go to the APUS online library and find one published research article in a journal on that particular ergogenic aid. Do not use Muscle Magazine or a similar magazine. These are for the lay public and are not peer-reviewed. The journal article you select should be a research study that shows how your selected ergogenic aid affects athletic performance, positively or negatively. A research article is not a review article. A research article reports the results from a research study. You can tell the difference between a research article and a review article, because a review article summarizes several research studies.

If you cannot find a research article in the APUS online library, go to the following website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez. In the search bar at the top, enter the ergogenic aid you selected.

Your Forum post must be more than 500 words long. In your Forum post:

1) list your selected ergogenic aid,

2) provide the reference for your selected article using the format shown below,

3) describe how your particular ergogenic aid enhances performance,

4) describe the study and the results, and

5) evaluate the article. For example, does the study make appropriate conclusions from its data? Was the study designed correctly to address the hypothesis?