One-Week High-Dose β-Alanine Loading Improves World Tour Cyclists' Time-Trial Performance.

ABSTRACT: Supplementation with β-alanine is becoming a common practice in high-performance athletes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a one-week high-dose β-alanine loading phase employing a sustained-release powder on preserving the time-trial performance capacity of world tour cyclists during overreaching training. Per day, 20 g of sustained-release β-alanine was administered during one week (7 days) of intensive team training camp in a randomised balanced placebo-controlled parallel trial design, with six participants in each β-alanine (BA) or placebo (PLA) group. A 10-min time trial (10' TT) was carried out to analyse performance and biochemical variables. Anthropometry, paresthesia, and adverse event data were also collected. Power-based relative training load

SUBMITTER: Avila-Gandia V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8401416 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature