Some of the world’s top professional cyclists are taking sodium bicarbonate to improve their performance in high-intensity efforts.
To find out why, Jack Evans, BikeRadar’s digital writer and one of the team's strongest athletes, recently took part in the first independent trial of the Maurten Bicarb System used by Team Jumbo-Visma.
In this episode, Jack explains how sodium bicarbonate can potentially improve cycling performance and reveals what happened when he took 20 bicarb capsules.
Joined by senior technical editor Ashley Quinlan and senior technical writer Simon von Bromley, Jack discusses what else he discovered about the legal, performance-enhancing supplement while researching an in-depth feature.
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