Forums >General Running>Using Baking Soda to train through Lactic Acid burn?
I had a massage therapist who said that his track buddies would take a shot of apple cider vinegar before races/speed days and this was the secret to good racing.
Menace to Sobriety
This thread is evidence that runners will try the craziest crap in the pursuit of getting faster. My heart is warmed.
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Why is it sideways?
Still, this seems much more tame than giving up one testicle.
Good Bad & The Monkey
With your body's desire to stay in a relative PH balance, would taking apple cider vinegar somehow inhibit your body from generating lactic acid? (again, there is probably another obvious answer to this)
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
No. You will just pee out the excess acetic acid (from the vinegar) fairly quickly.
What if youre dehydrated?
Excellent point as well.
Why, thank you. I try to be both logical and lateral while maintaining a stiff upper lip.
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius
I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
But where does one find these canned worms??
I hate to open up this can of worms, but lactic acid doesn't cause the burn. That's a myth.
I've always wondered about that expression. I can open a can of sardines, no problem. But where does one find these canned worms??
IThe actual physiology is complicated, and I don't quite understand it very well myself.