CHIPPEWA VALLEY SCHOOLSLIFE OF AN ATHLETE

DANGERS OF DRUGS & ALCOHOL

• American Athletic Institute has studied the impact of alcohol on condition in elite athletes. Impact has shown significant

projections in lost physiological condition that correlates to as much as 14 days of lost training effect…for each time drunk…

AMERICAN ATHLETIC INSTITUTE 2005

Not under influence Under influence

Most drugs decrease activity

ALCOHOL

MARIJUANA

Alcohol and Training Effect

• Alcohol disturbs the recovery phase resulting in diminished training effect

BRAIN ACTIVITY DURING THROWING

FRONTAL

CEREBELLUM

The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11.9 years for

boys and 13.1 years for girls. The average age at which Americans begin drinking regularly is 15.9 years old.

12-23

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22-23 24-25 26-29 30-34 35-39 50-64 65>

ALCOHOL USE INCREASES DRAMATICALLY DURING ADOLESCENCE

AGEPercent of Americans Who Have Ever Drunk Alcohol (A Whole Drink)

MALEFEMALE

SAMHSA

•40% of children who start drinking before the age of 15 will become alcoholics at some point in their lives.

What kind of performance will you have?

Your brain runs your body

Alcohol ruins your chancesScans by Amen Clinics

HEALTHY NORMAL BRAIN

HEAVY TEEN ALCOHOL USER

What kind of performance will you accept?

Susan Tapert/University of California, San Diego

The images above show the brain activity of a 15-year-old nondrinker, top, and a drinker, bottom.

Alcohol alters the brain chemically and over time, structurally

ATROPHY

REGULARITY

Non –Alcohol User Heavy Alcohol User

Injury Rates >

Injury rates for drinkers 54.8% Injury rates for non-drinkers 23.8%

DRINK

GET SICK

Alcohol decreases immune

capability

Some males who drink heavily & train heavily had testosterone levels similar to female levels.

10:1 or 1:10

FEMALES TAKE A BIGGER HITFROM HEAVY DRINKING

Alcohol stays in the female body longerFemales have less of the enzymes to breakdown alcohol

1:10

Healthy 16 Heavy Lifelong

KEEP SMOKIN POT…

NON USER

SIMPLE HAND SKILL

MARIJUANA USER

SIMPLE HAND SKILL

Note: Subject not under influence during scan.

POT OR NOT? YOUR CHOICE YOUR GAME

SkillRecallArea

There is more of a chance you will drink or smoke weed because you are

hanging out with people who are drinking and

smoking weed than if you are physically offered a

beer or a joint…

“A child who reaches age 21 without

smoking, abusing alcohol or using drugs

is virtually certain never to do so”

“A society whose adults do not abuse tobacco,

alcohol or drugs, is virtually certain not to raise children who do

so.”

" Set the example for your children”The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,

Remember when you are not training…

That somewhere, someone is training…

And when you meet them…

They will beat you.

Remember when you are partying…That somewhere, someone is not

partying…And when you meet them…

They will beat you.

Alexander Karelin USSR 3XOlympic Champion 9X World Champion

Matveev USSR

Underwood USA

LIVE THE LIFE OF AN ATHLETE