Aists Sports Medicine Podcasts

Weight cutting is a very common practice in contact sports. It is the practice of rapidly losing weight to fit in a certain weight category before a fight. What does science have to say about this? Is there a safe way to do it? What does the research show? Dimitrios Balomenos and Arthur Vignier from the 2018 Class have an interesting argument about this in this months' AISTS podcast. Listen and join the conversation in the comments.

Doping scandals threaten the Olympic Movement, and the public, even some athletes and sports organisations, have lost faith in the anti-doping system. How can the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) help with this? How can it be further improved? What does the future look like for anti-doping? This month's AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast with Thomas Roos and Andrei Krasilnikau attempts to answer these questions.

This month’s AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast talks about beer as a recovery drink. It is very common to go out for a beer after a team or group sports practice or game. But, does having a beer after a workout affect recovery? Is beer different to other kinds of alcohol? Listen to Melissa Drake and Santiago Peña, Class of 2018 to find out if there is a good way to have a beer after sports. Cheers!

This month’s AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be talking about nutrition, specifically whether it is possible for vegans to achieve the same performance level in sport as omnivores. Which kind of protein? Supplements? What else to do? Listen to know which are the main things to consider before going vegan as an athlete.