Post-Workout Bicarbonate (NaHCO3) Buffers Performance Decline on 2nd Bout of Exhaustive Exercise by 62%!
AM/PM cyclists rejoice: Bicarbonate is going to get you back into the saddle. It sounds only logical that the provision of 0.3g/kg of sodium bicarbonate after a bout of cycling to full exhaustion would increase the blood pH of nine healthy, active males significantly. That it would also boost their performance on a second incremental exercise test, though, was not necessarily to be expected - irrespective of the evidence that pre-exercise ingestion of the same amount of NaHCO3 was consistently found to increase athletic performance during high-intensity exercise of short duration (1-10 min | Carr 2011). Exactly that, however, is what scientists from the "Department of Sport and Physical Activity" at the Edge Hill University and the "Department of Life Sciences" at the University of Derby (Gough 2017). You can learn more about bicarbonate and pH-buffers at the SuppVersity Caffeine + Bicarb Make Champions Alkaline Diet = Ergogenic HIIT it Hard W/ ...
