performance enhancement
Improving competitive output
Performance enhancement is the use of substances, techniques, or technologies to improve physical or mental capabilities beyond normal levels.
The term appears most often in athletics, where performance-enhancing drugs like steroids and stimulants are banned: He was stripped of his medal after testing positive for performance enhancement.
The concept extends to cognitive enhancers, gene therapies, and other interventions that raise questions about fairness and authenticity.
- dopingProhibited athletic drug use
- blood dopingArtificially increasing red cells
- strength trainingBuilding muscle through resistance
- training regimenPlanned exercise routine
- supplementationAdding to something insufficient
agility drills · wearable devices · endurance building · smart sensors · anabolic · nootropics · focus · biomechanics · banned substances · drug testing · goal setting · testosterone · mental resilience · mindfulness practices · androgenic · mental edge · push · bioavailability
- motivationmotivation, drive, motivate, inspire, encouragement
- Fitness Credentialspersonal trainer cert, CPT, ACE, functional training, group fitness
- sports medicinesports medicine, injury prevention, athletic tape, sports injuries, rehabilitation
- Hypnosishypnotist, hypnotherapist, trance state, trance states, autohypnosis
performance enhancementdebilitation
Loss of strength or vitality
cognitive impairment · detraining · fatigue · burnout · atrophy
performance enhancementnatural ability
Innate capacity for something