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Nitrate and exercise with Dr Andrew Coggan

Inside Exercise

CHAPTER

The Effects of Nitric Oxide on Muscle Speed

An acute dose of dietary nitrate, you know, 10 times what you might get in a single day, normally, will increase maximal muscle speed and hence power by about 5%. Not everyone shows a beneficial response or seems to show a beneficial response, but about three quarters of everybody does. And interestingly, women seem to be more likely to respond than men.

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