Velvet is well known for improving athletic performance especially endurance, strength and recovery.
Team Powered by velvet.org.nz consists of group of athletes from an array of disciplines that are sponsored with velvet supplements by Deer Industry New Zealand. The team includes athletes from adventure racing, triathlon, surf sports and swimming.
All team members have been very successful this year and are looking forward to being highly competitive in 2008!
For more information on our members and details of their success and upcoming challenges click below:
Adventure Race Team
Swimming
Triathlon
Surf Sports
Science
Clinical trials have shown that velvet can help improve athletic performance.
In 2004, 10 experts from 5 US universities and 2 research institutes investigated the physiological performance enhancing effects of New Zealand deer antler.*
The study concluded that the athletes who took velvet showed significant improvements in strength (10.1%, compared to only 5% in the control group) and aerobic capacity (by 9.8%).
For a copy of this and other scientific papers relating to athletic performance click here