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Table 3 Relative percentage of congruent answers by 'maintaining strength' and 'enhancing endurance' as rationales for supplement use and supplement used by all athletes who reported the use of nutritional supplements (n = 520)

From: Performance enhancement with supplements: incongruence between rationale and practice

  

Maintain strength

Enhance endurance

  

Yes

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

 

Creatine

Yes

124

62.6%

64

19.9%

    
 

No

74

37.4%

258

80.1%

    
  

198

100.0%

322

100.0%

    

Iron

Yes

    

33

31.7%

122

29.3%

 

No

    

71

68.3%

294

70.7%

      

104

100.0%

416

100.0%

Ginseng

Yes

        
 

No

        

Whey protein

Yes

111

56.1%

48

14.9%

    
 

No

87

43.9%

274

85.1%

    
  

198

100.0%

322

100.0%

    

Caffeine

Yes

    

49

47.1%

75

18.0%

 

No

    

55

52.9%

341

82.0%

      

104

100.0%

416

100.0%

Vitamin C

Yes

        
 

No