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Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids

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There is scarcely any sport in which muscular strength does not play a role. This strength may be expressed statically, as in supporting a weight, dynamically, as in hitting a baseball, or in terms of endurance, as in pedaling a bicycle for 50 miles or more. Strength may be defined as the ability to produce tension in a muscle. It arises as the result of repeated muscular activity, from the process of learning the repeated action (skill), and from adaptation of the nervous system to the demands imposed on it.

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  1. Experimental Endocrinology, The University of Alabama in Birmingham, Medical Center, 1919 Seventh Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA

    Charles D. Kochakian Ph.D. (Director and Professor) (Director and Professor)

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Ryan, A.J. (1976). Athletics. In: Kochakian, C.D. (eds) Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids. Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie / Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66353-6_17

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