Does taking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) before a workout really help you work out better?
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A preview issue of Men's Health said that Baking Soda can counteract the Lactic Acid that your muscle builds up during a workout. Lactic Acid can cause fatigue and soreness, so if it can be neutralized, you can work out harder and longer. But of course the dang preview issue won't tell you how much!
N8Magic
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Sounds kind of like an urban legend to me.
Baking soda would work to neutralize the acid, BUT the problem with that theory is getting the baking soda to your muscles.
If my knowledge of biology doesn't fail me, I believe there would be problems getting the baking soda across the cell membrane, to the point where it can do some good in the muscle.
Baking soda would work to neutralize the acid, BUT the problem with that theory is getting the baking soda to your muscles.
If my knowledge of biology doesn't fail me, I believe there would be problems getting the baking soda across the cell membrane, to the point where it can do some good in the muscle.
what cell and what biology
B soda wont help you 0%
and if it dose u got to drink it every day for it to take effect
B soda wont help you 0%
and if it dose u got to drink it every day for it to take effect
Very True.
Potassium Citrate is even better.
Don't listen to any of these desktop athletes. It works and is well known among the bodybuilding/endurance community.
Potassium Citrate is even better.
Don't listen to any of these desktop athletes. It works and is well known among the bodybuilding/endurance community.
am not a desktop athlet
am a real one and i dont believe in this crap what realy helps u work out is to workout more .......
am a real one and i dont believe in this crap what realy helps u work out is to workout more .......
Soduim Bicarb will help some with the "burn", but will also give you wicked upset intestines. You'll be running for the can after you work out.
If you have a one-day event in mind (such as a 10k, mountain bike race, etc.), then sodium phosphate loading is the way to go. I do a lot of amateur bike racing, and I can vouch for its effects.
Creatine is good if you're doing non-aerobic stuffs like weightlifting. Just start small with it so you don't run into the cramping problems that some have with it.
Fausto
If you have a one-day event in mind (such as a 10k, mountain bike race, etc.), then sodium phosphate loading is the way to go. I do a lot of amateur bike racing, and I can vouch for its effects.
Creatine is good if you're doing non-aerobic stuffs like weightlifting. Just start small with it so you don't run into the cramping problems that some have with it.
Fausto
Is it too difficult to just work out? When I go to the gym, I eat a lot (tuna, bread, milk, water, whatever) and drink a lot before I leave (not right before, but like an hour or so). When I get back I eat and drink a lot, again. Of course I haven't been working out every day or 3 times a week, but just working out NOW AND THEN I have noticed an increase in muscle mass and strength. At the local amusement park they had a thing where you punch this punching bag and it tells you the pounds (lbs). I started off with a bad punch (technique) and got 150. I had no idea what was "good" or not, so I just shrugged. Then my friend got 250. Soo... of course I had to try again. We ended up scoring 350 and 370. yay.
I know it's probably rigged or messed somehow, but it still counts for something. I saw other people try, and they sucked at it. There was also this arm wrestling maching thingy.. it was just an arcade with an arm instead of other controls. None of the settings could win, it was ridiculous. At least make it HARDER! On the last setting I was just holding the guy there (the image is a huge robot dude.. lmao), wasn't moving backwards or forwards. After 10 seconds of this, my friend just pushed it down to get it over with. After that, there was a strength test. A lot of poeple used the arcade before.. I don't know how many scores there are, but I came in 9th place with 122 (or coulda been 120, 125, not sure now) lbs. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I was never especially great at arm wrestling. My friend and the guy who went before us both scored 99.4lbs (I remember this cause they both got the same thing!). So I guess I'm better in that respect! haha... both of us are skinny though (I'm 145 and he's 160).
If I'm doing a regular bench press, 120 is difficult.. if I'm using one of the machines, the same difficulty applies to about 175lbs. I guess I need to work on the muscles used to balance the bar, or something. As for legs... Well I can lift the whole stack at the gym (leg press), so I don't usually work those out. I guess my legs are sufficiently strong from biking and walking. I laugh when people have equal difficulty in lifting half the weight (it's 400lbs for the whole stack).
Another cool machine is the one where you do chinups or whatever... You can add/subtract weight, making it easier or harder. I think it'd be better just to have a bar, and do REAL chinups, though. But it's fun anyway. I don't know why, but working out has always seemed fun, so when I have my occasional visit to the gym, I have fun.
Well i've babbled on long enough... I should probably mention one other thing, I've been training (boxing) a little lately, and practice my punches now and then for a few minutes, before bed or whatever. The only thing I've noticed from a little punching (just punching air, practicing technique) is that my triceps show a little bit, whereas they were just about non-existant prior to that.
Heh.. I guess I just gain easily. It was never hard to "get stronger" by going to a gym or doing stuff for me. I don't know why. Let's say I work out for a few days.. I can lift more at the end than when I started.
I don't take any kind of pills or anything to help me "work out better", when I do. I don't eat especially well.. Occasionally I have the horrid fast-food. Usually I just eat normal stuff though, paying no special interest to my diet. The other day I ate 5 cans of tuna one after the other. I had to take a crap 5 minutes later. That was a one-time thing for the hell of it though.
I know it's probably rigged or messed somehow, but it still counts for something. I saw other people try, and they sucked at it. There was also this arm wrestling maching thingy.. it was just an arcade with an arm instead of other controls. None of the settings could win, it was ridiculous. At least make it HARDER! On the last setting I was just holding the guy there (the image is a huge robot dude.. lmao), wasn't moving backwards or forwards. After 10 seconds of this, my friend just pushed it down to get it over with. After that, there was a strength test. A lot of poeple used the arcade before.. I don't know how many scores there are, but I came in 9th place with 122 (or coulda been 120, 125, not sure now) lbs. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I was never especially great at arm wrestling. My friend and the guy who went before us both scored 99.4lbs (I remember this cause they both got the same thing!). So I guess I'm better in that respect! haha... both of us are skinny though (I'm 145 and he's 160).
If I'm doing a regular bench press, 120 is difficult.. if I'm using one of the machines, the same difficulty applies to about 175lbs. I guess I need to work on the muscles used to balance the bar, or something. As for legs... Well I can lift the whole stack at the gym (leg press), so I don't usually work those out.
I guess my legs are sufficiently strong from biking and walking. I laugh when people have equal difficulty in lifting half the weight (it's 400lbs for the whole stack). Another cool machine is the one where you do chinups or whatever... You can add/subtract weight, making it easier or harder. I think it'd be better just to have a bar, and do REAL chinups, though. But it's fun anyway. I don't know why, but working out has always seemed fun, so when I have my occasional visit to the gym, I have fun.
Well i've babbled on long enough... I should probably mention one other thing, I've been training (boxing) a little lately, and practice my punches now and then for a few minutes, before bed or whatever. The only thing I've noticed from a little punching (just punching air, practicing technique) is that my triceps show a little bit, whereas they were just about non-existant prior to that.
Heh.. I guess I just gain easily. It was never hard to "get stronger" by going to a gym or doing stuff for me. I don't know why. Let's say I work out for a few days.. I can lift more at the end than when I started.
I don't take any kind of pills or anything to help me "work out better", when I do. I don't eat especially well.. Occasionally I have the horrid fast-food. Usually I just eat normal stuff though, paying no special interest to my diet. The other day I ate 5 cans of tuna one after the other. I had to take a crap 5 minutes later.
That was a one-time thing for the hell of it though. trippy, how tall are you?
some of you guys say it's just a myth? i guess Men's Health, a very well respected magazine, is just spilling bullcrap eh?
some of you guys say it's just a myth? i guess Men's Health, a very well respected magazine, is just spilling bullcrap eh?
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