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Enduring Questions: How Lactate Makes A Run Better
By Amby Burfoot on 07/10/2005 09:38:03
It makes your legs burn and can ruin a run, but lactic acid is just misunderstood

published in 2004 with the title "Biochemistry of Exercise-Induced Metabolic Acidosis," Professor Robert Robergs from the University of New Mexico makes a strong case that lactic acid has been hopelessly misunderstood. "If muscle did not produce lactate

Enduring Questions - Are Free Radicals Harmful?
By Amby Burfoot on 05/12/2006 11:18:36
Should you be afraid of free radicals? Running produces them, illness is caused by them, antioxidants combat them. Or maybe not

in the August 2006 issue of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, experienced cyclists performed 3.1 per cent better in a 30K time trial after six weeks of FRS supplementation than after a placebo drink. That's not the only

Enduring Questions: Mile Markers
By Amby Burfoot on 07/08/2006 08:45:42
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30?

:40, and we have research to explain why. The heart's pumping ability has simply gone beyond the diffusing capacity of the lungs."Snell allows that anaerobic metabolism plays a role, as does running economy, but he believes that oxygen delivery is the key

Too Much Water Can Kill You!
By Amby Burfoot on 08/07/2003 17:00:54
Water: the risks, the research and the truth about overhydration

9.176Example A 132lb women needs to drink 1211ml of water a day – 132 x 9.176 = 1211. She’ll get the rest of her daily water supply from food and metabolic processes. Runners need to drink extra to cover daily sweat losses.

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