Science in my life

My whole life from age 8 to last semester has been about sports. All throughout my life I have played as many sports as possible. In elementary school it was football baseball basketball, in junior high it was football basketball and track, in High school it was football and track. Then in college I continued the pattern and play D2 football at Concordia St Paul. I finally realized that I didn’t want sports to be my entire life so I transferred to the U and now this is my first semester here. In High School it always fascinated me how some people who work so hard can still stay so un-athletic and vice versa. I had an open assignment in tenth grade and I decided to research how supplements can greatly affect a person’s physical capabilities and why it does so. Through my research I found that there are so many different views and opinions and that it was almost impossible to uncover the truth. There were the people who I believe would be a lot like pinker, saying that creatine, glutamine, testosterone boosters, and the various amino acids have very little impact on the human body. Everything is genetic and either your amount of working out really shapes your athleticism or it doesn’t but the extra supplements don’t help. There were also the people who said it makes a great deal of difference. And those who said they definitely help but it’s the placebo effect and not actually the supplements.

I decided I needed to do more research and test the supplements myself to realize where I stand. I did a huge amount of research on all the different types of supplements, figuring out which ones were safe and which ones weren’t, which ones to stack together and which combinations to stay away from. I came out with the perfect combination for me. I came up with a 3 month workout and measured my gains. Then I went on the supplements (nothing illegal) and measured my gains doing the exact same workout. Whether it was the placebo, or not, I found that the supplements definitely had a huge impact on my gains and overall athleticism. I believe Lewontin and I would have had the same beliefs about this in the fact that most people would say my athleticism hadn’t gone up at all but really it was only my strength that had. I believe that knowing my strength had gone up gave me better confidence which therefore along with everything else greatly increased my athleticism. Whether it actually changed something inside my muscles or just change the makeup of my brain , I believed seeing the gains on paper somehow made me more athletic. Now a days i'm not qite sure who i agree with but i have a hard time agreeing with Pinker. It just seems like there has to be something more affecting our lives.

Since then I have used science to increase the outcome of all my workouts and for making sure I’m doing everything as efficient as possible. Besides that and the few science classes I have had I really haven’t had much other experience with science. Because of that this class seems like it will be very interesting and actually quite challenging; however I look forward to the challenge.