The majority of respondents were not using beta alanine in accordance with recommendations
Only 35 per cent of Australian professional footballers were able to identify the benefits of a supplement they were taking, and 48 per cent admitted to never reading the labels. University of Queensland School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences researcher Vince Kelly surveyed 570 athletes for his study about legal supplement beta alanine. "The athletes surveyed consisted of 303 from the Australian Football League , 180 from the National Rugby League and 87 from Super Rugby ," Mr Kelly said. "It's practically unheard of to gain participation by that many professional footballers in Australia. "What we found was that only 11 per cent completed their own research on beta alanine and 48 per cent said they never read the labels prior to ingestion. "The majority of respondents were not using beta alanine in accordance with recommendations," Mr Kelly said. The study, conducted in 2010 and 2011 pre-dated sports doping allegations levelled at specific AFL and NRL clubs.
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