– There is a concept with baking powder to make the body more basic before you start. If anything, it might have some effect on creating more energy and being a little more focused. For many, it is part of a protocol to prepare for the start, says Jakob Ingebrigtsen to news. Because the powder you use to raise baking and batter can also raise your performance on the sports field. The simple explanation is that it should help counteract the well-known lactic acid that occurs when the body is depleted of energy. Bicarbonate, one of the ingredients in baking powder, has that effect. SURPRISED? It is not a good idea to eat baking powder straight from the box, but it can have a performance-enhancing effect in certain “acid exercises”. Photo: Fredrik Tombra / news It is one of the legal, performance-enhancing drugs in sport. But hardly what is at the front of the kitchen cupboard. – I drink a lot of coffee. Loves coffee and, but caffeine makes you a little sharper and gets your heart pumping. I think the other has a somewhat similar effect for many, says Ingebrigtsen. IN THE ZONE: Jakob Ingebrigtsen went straight through to the Olympic semi-finals in the 1500 metres. Photo: Sarah Meyssonnier / Reuters A lot has been written about the supplement, especially after the manufacturer Maurten made its entrance into the world’s fitness circles. Eating porridge with capsules Triathlon coach Olav Aleksander Bu has been involved in the development of a product together with the Swedish brand. He explains that they have managed to wrap it, so that it is transported to where it needs to go without triggering an avalanche in the intestines. – You could eat a teaspoon of baking powder, but it quickly causes quite a lot of trouble in the stomach when it becomes that much, he explains. Kristian Blummenfelt says that he has used the grant before every single triathlon competition in the past year. He then mixes capsules into a porridge which he eats around 90 minutes before the start. – They have managed to encapsulate it in a special way which means that you can take in quite a lot higher doses than usual without getting stomach problems, he says, and points to his partner. REGULAR USER: Kristian Blummenfelt is known for going to great lengths to achieve great results. Photo: Hanne Skjellum / news And Blummenfelt claims he notices a clear difference. – It is a bit about having greater capacity at the end of the race. So you can “buffer” a little more power at the end and have a little better jerk, he says. Narve Gilje Nordås is also one of those who will use the product during this summer’s Olympics. – I have tried it, as surely the vast majority of others in a 1500 field have done. I’ve had good runs with it, and good runs without it. It’s probably a bit about being able to take it up without getting side effects, says Nordås to news. NO PROBLEMS: Narve Gilje Nordås made it to the semi-finals of the 1500 meters in Paris. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB He is referring to the fact that its use can lead to an upset stomach, which is definitely not performance-enhancing. Now he uses products that prevent it. – Then you sort of get the full effect of it without getting the negative side effects, such as nausea and vomiting, says Nordås. Warning: Train first Olympic silver winner from Tokyo, Kjetil Borch, has rowed double sculls with Martin Helseth in Paris. He points out that even if it is a natural raw material that you can buy at the store, you are starting at the wrong end if someone thinks it is a miracle cure for good performance. – Our policy has been that you should be a top twelve candidate in a WC, World Cup or Olympics, says Kjetil Borch to news. – You don’t start at the top of the pyramid and start taking the details there. One must do the training work first. It usually takes ten years. If there are any young athletes who think they should start with bicarbonate, then just start training. Decent. Don’t start with the small details, he continues. RO-DUO: Kjetil Borch and Martin Helseth rowed to the B final in double sculls during the Olympics in Paris. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB – What kind of advantages does it provide for an experienced practitioner? – There is a placebo effect which is quite nice. And then there is the fact that you might feel a bit halfway through the race. At the same time, there is also a pitfall in going for it. If you feel completely cowboy halfway through the race, and then the bang comes all the harder a little later. When testing it, it is good to know that there are negative effects, says Helseth. – Maybe you don’t just take baking powder from the box? – No, that is what we do, we use a recognized Dutch brand. Where you take a gel like this, some tiny pellets with a few grams of baking powder. And then we really just swallow it away with gel or yoghurt, says Borch. Rowing two to three seconds faster Truls Raastad is a professor at the Institute for Physical Performance at the Norwegian University of Sport. – Bicarbonate is one of the so-called buffer systems in the blood. Buffer means that it is able to resist changes in, among other things, pH, which is affected by lactic acid production. What you achieve is that you are able to produce more lactic acid before you get the negative effect of it. You can increase the anaerobic capacity, Raastad explains to news. NIH PROFESSOR: Truls Raastad. Photo: NIH He says that the effect is greatest in sports that last between two and six minutes, where the production of lactic acid is high. – It is one of the three or four supplements you can take that can have an extra small effect. But as Borch points out, it is at the top level that you can get a couple of extra percent. If you have trained well and done what you can in training, you can typically get a 1 to 2 percent better performance. Raastad says that they examined the effect more closely with the rowers a few years ago. Then everyone got an improvement. – On average, they rowed two to three seconds faster with bicarbonate. It’s not a big difference, but everyone got a small improvement. In finals, it can be the difference between gold and fourth place. – How do you use bicarbonate? – You take it in the last two or three hours before the competition. Because it leaves the blood after 4–5 hours and loses its effect, says Raastad – and continues: – You should not take too large a dose shortly before the start either. What some people did was to take the full dose, and then you quickly get a lot of gas production and a stomach ache. Some were not allowed to compete because they had such severe stomach problems. But if you spread the dose over 5–6 intakes over 1.5 hours, it works well. Published 03.08.2024, at 19.01
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