ArticleSports medicine - open2023
Sodium Bicarbonate and Time-to-Exhaustion Cycling Performance: A Retrospective Analysis Exploring the Mediating Role of Expectation.
Article in Sports medicine - open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gastrointestinal Symptoms Associated With Sodium Bicarbonate Supplementation Protocols: A Systematic Review.European journal of sport science · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of sodium bicarbonate mini-tablets in a carbohydrate hydrogel on prolonged high-intensity cycling performance and metabolism in acute normobaric hypoxia.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
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- Common questions and misconceptions of sodium bicarbonate as an ergogenic aid: what does the science really show?Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Review
- Enhancing exercise performance and recovery through sodium bicarbonate supplementation: introducing the ingestion recovery framework.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Review
- Pre-Exercise Caffeine and Sodium Bicarbonate: Their Effects on Isometric Mid-Thigh Pull Performance in a Crossover, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundResearch has shown that ingesting 0.3 g·kg
objectiveThis study retrospectively examined whether changes in TTE cycling performance are mediated by positive expectations of receiving NaHCO
methodsIn a randomised, crossover, counterbalanced, double-blind, placebo-controlled design, 12 recreationally trained cyclists (maximal oxygen consumption, 54.4 ± 5.7 mL·kg·min
resultsAdministering NaHCO
conclusionsParticipants' higher expectations when NaHCO KEY POINTS: Ingesting 0.3 g·kg
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