Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use - Paperback

by Ask Vest Christiansen (Author)

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. It explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects.

Author Biography

Ask Vest Christiansen is Associate Professor of Sport Science in the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also Co-Director of the International Network of Doping Research (INDR). Dr Christiansen's research has followed two main branches: doping in elite sport and recreational athletes' use of drugs in gyms, fitness and strength training environments.