The Impact of Sodium Bicarbonate on Performance in Response to Exercise Duration in Athletes
- According to recent literature sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) has been proposed as a performance enhancing aid by reducing acidosis during exercise. The aim of the current review is to investigate if the duration of exercise is an essential factor for the effect of NaHCO3. To collect the latest studies from electronic database of PubMed, study publication time was restricted from December 2006 to December 2016. The search was updated in July 2018. The studies were divided into exercise durations of > 4 or ≤ 4 minutes for easier comparability of their effects in different exercises. Only randomized controlled trials were included in this review. Of the 775 studies, 35 met the inclusion criteria. Study design, subjects, effects as well as outcome criteria were inconsistent throughout the studies. Seventeen of these studies reported performance enhancing effects after supplementing NaHCO3. Eleven of twenty studies with exercise duration of ≤ 4 minutes showed positive and four diverse results after supplementing NaHCO3. On the other handAccording to recent literature sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) has been proposed as a performance enhancing aid by reducing acidosis during exercise. The aim of the current review is to investigate if the duration of exercise is an essential factor for the effect of NaHCO3. To collect the latest studies from electronic database of PubMed, study publication time was restricted from December 2006 to December 2016. The search was updated in July 2018. The studies were divided into exercise durations of > 4 or ≤ 4 minutes for easier comparability of their effects in different exercises. Only randomized controlled trials were included in this review. Of the 775 studies, 35 met the inclusion criteria. Study design, subjects, effects as well as outcome criteria were inconsistent throughout the studies. Seventeen of these studies reported performance enhancing effects after supplementing NaHCO3. Eleven of twenty studies with exercise duration of ≤ 4 minutes showed positive and four diverse results after supplementing NaHCO3. On the other hand six of fifteen studies with an exercise duration of >4 minutes showed performance enhancing and two studies showed diverse results. Consequently, the duration of exercise might be influential for inducing a performance enhancing effect when supplementing NaHCO3, but to which extent, remains unclear due to the inconsistencies in the study results.…
Author details: | Miralem HadzicORCiDGND, Max Lennart Eckestein, Monique Schugardt |
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URL: | https://www.jssm.org/hfabst.php?id=jssm-18-271.xml |
ISSN: | 1303-2968 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of sports science & medicine : JSSM |
Subtitle (English): | A Systematic Review |
Publisher: | Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Faculty of Uludag University |
Place of publishing: | Bursa, Turkey |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/06/01 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Release date: | 2019/04/29 |
Tag: | Sodium bicarbonate; acute; chronic; performance outcome; supplementation |
Issue: | 18 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 271 |
Last Page: | 281 |
Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Funding number: | PA 2019_22 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 548 |