The Latest on Sodium Bicarbonate: Serial Loading Almost as Effective as Acute Loading and Free of Gastrointestinal Side Effects. Plus: Can You Use Potassium Bicarbonate Instead?

NaHCO3 loading has been most successful in events lasting from 1 to 7 minutes (Linderman. 1994) - so either track sprints or volume training...

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22g Baking Soda 60min Before a Old-School 4 x 12RM Leg Workout Allow for a 22 Rep Volume Increase on Hypertrophy Oriented Squat + Leg Press + Leg Extension Quads Routine

Image 1: Squats, 8 x 12, Leg Press 6 x 12, Leg Ext. 6 x 12; that's the Quads routine Serge Nubret trained twice a week in conjunction wi...

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NaHCO3 HIITs Interval Training: +34% Time to Exhaustion, +91% Total Work & Significantly More Lean Mass With 200mg/kg Baking Soda and High Intensity Interval Training!

Image 1: It is unlikey that you would not benefit from sodium bicarbonate supplementation,... well, unless you are a tinman like The Sprint...

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Beta Alanine and Baking Soda (NaHCO3), a Synergistic Duo for 4-min All-Out Sprints Even in Highly Trained Athletes?

Image 1: I guess many of the competitive track cyclists will be taking beta alanine either on its own, or as part of one of the thousands of...

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Baking Soda For Stressed White Blood Cells: 0.3g/kg NaCO3 90min Before an Anaerobic Workout Protect Your Immune Cells From "Stress" and Oxidative Damage

Image 1: Pure baking soda is not (yet?) a staple of the supplemental arsenal of many athletes. The scientific evidence with regard to its im...

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Baking Soda for Tennis Players

Regular visitors of the suppversity might ask themselves "What the hell does the Prof have with his baking soda?" - well, I guess ...

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Creatine + BiCarbonate: A Synergistic Duo for Exercise Performance

While Creatine is what everyone talks about, sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, is an ergogenic secret only regular readers of the SuppVers...

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Rat Study Suggests Increased Selenium Requirements in Athletes

Calcium and magnesium , zinc and maybe chromium those are the top sellers among minerals and trace-minerals. Others, such as selenium are...

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D-Aspartic Acid-"Inventors" Say: It Is Safe For Long Term Use

Although this is no official statement of PharmaGuidia, the producers of DadaVit and the financiers of the study ( Topo. 2009 ) that starte...

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Sodium Bicarbonate: An Ergogenic Supplement From Your Cupboard

Fig. 1: Chemical structure of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) (wikipedia.com) In a recent post I informed you about the cumulative effect ...

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Beta-Alanine: Positive Effects on Exercise Performance Augmented by Sodium Bicarbonate

Every fitness enthusiasts knows that beta-alanine via an increase of muscle carnosine, a major H+ buffer, increases time to exhaustion and ...

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