Has anyone ever heard of taking baking soda before a short TT? I have come across a couple of articles that suggest you can go extremely hard for short efforts. Just wondering. Thanks
Yeah, that idea has been around for decades…seen people swear by it and others say it did nothing for them.
Fair warning - there is a damn good chance you’ll get a case of the “squirts” if you try it!!
I usually take about a full cup and wash it down with some vinegar to balance out the Ph.
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This is called sodium bicarbonate buffering. The baking soda generally needs to be taken shortly before the effort. Most of the investigations that look into bicarbonate buffering note the significant GI distress experienced by a high percentage of their participants due to the large dose needed to realize the benefits.
I usually take about a full cup and wash it down with some vinegar to balance out the Ph.
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Twenty or so years ago sprinters were using using that idea. If it was a prolog length distance five min or less you may get some benefit. The idea is to alter the blood pH to absorbe some of the lactic acid. I did see some folks waiting a long long time at drug control as your urine has to be within a specific pH. you have to pee a lot to clear it from your system. I tried it a couple of times and still sucked as bad as I did without it.
I sort of compare it to a cup of coffee, some swear by it and others could care less. Either way it is not a new concept at all.
There is a current thread on the Google Wattage Forum that is going into bicarbonate bufferring as only the wattage forum can.
Sorry I don’t have a link handy, but you can go to Google Forums and search it out.
DB
This used to be big in the swimming world, probably still is. I’ve been out of the loop for a few years now, but it seems like it would be. It either used to work like it was billed for short sprints, or the placebo effect made us think it worked. Either way, shit was nasty. Put it in gatorade and it still sucked.
Two shitty taste usually does not equal a good taste ;0)
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Hammer Nutrition has a product that I would recommend - “Race Day Boost”. You can only take it two times per year though. I have tried both the powder and pill form. I highly recommend the pill form because the taste of the powder is God-awful even mixed with fruit juice.
I am not affiliated with Hammer but I do use their products. http://www.hammernutrition.com/products/race-day-boost.rdb.html
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Two shitty taste usually does not equal a good taste ;0)
touché
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It works as a cheap colon cleanse!
Here’s a decent article on baking soda.
I mix a bit in with my coffee before almost every high-intensity SBR workout. Could just be placebo effect, but I feel like it works. Also, it does take a good bit of acclimation to get rid of that ‘achy gut’ feeling, as I like to call it. Starting out with only a pinch and working your way up to the recommended dosage in the article has worked out well enough.
Hammer Nutrition has a product that I would recommend - “Race Day Boost”. You can only take it two times per year though.
Not quite sure about that one though… why can you only take it twice a year? First, if that’s true, I’m not sure I want to be putting my body through that kind of extra stress (if it takes 6mo to ‘recover’ from). Second, if you’re only taking it twice a year, how are you supposed to work out a nutrition plan that involves that? Sounds like a bigger risk than it’s worth… you don’t want to end up with GI issues because you downed some ‘performance brew’ that the guys at Hammer cooked up. (Nothing against Hammer, I love their stuff… probably the best on the market right now imo.)
I have not heard about the ‘twice a year’ thing…the bottle says to wait 3-4 weeks between ‘cycles’.
Colon cancer…