Bi-Carb Soda For Cycling Performance?

Elite Sports Dietitian Steph Cronin explains how Bi-Carb Soda affects your cycling performance. Will you be using this supplement for your next key event?

[joshualindenthaler]

It's not buffering lactate.. Lactate is an energy source.
It is buffering the hydrogen ions which are acidic and reduces the body's ability to efficiently produce atp

[patrick_]

I remember people saying they were fizzing after using bicarb 😂

[stefanbehrendsen]

So additionaly beta alanine supplementation has been shown to increase carnosine levels in muscles... which also act as a ph buffer.
Beta-alanine takes weeks of supplementing to build up levels of carnosine, however, while bicarbonate is pretty immediate.

[nyreppin]

I'm so grateful for this information. I found a baking soda lemonade recipe I'm going to try on my next ride!

[Robert-mngc]

Here's a couple more thrown 4 good measure.
1) Celery Juice .
2) Black Currant Dried Powder .

As a former World Canoe Team C1 Slalom Canoe & White Water C1 Paddler l used a meal called
" Banana Dynamite " 🍌
Gave me untold energy with another trick 2 give me untold energy.

As 4 this lovely Gal . Have come across her b4 .
Very professional and easy on the optic nerve . 😅😅

[topaz_climber]

Does it play well with Beta Alanine? Or would taking both be redundant?

[orx]

G Said after the 2023 giro time trial that he felt like he was missing some power after using the bicarbs for it. Does it just not work for everyone or was that TT already too long to be useful

[muhammadaliaslam]

Used PR AMP lotion but it always give bad cramps the day after the event it was used for. Takes a full week to recover.

[Tonipepper]

Bi-carb works miracles for all kinds of things.