Discussion
alkalosis
TTP, ALKALOSIS
The present study is the first to investigate the effects of SB ingestion on exercise performance in trained female CrossFit athletes. Furthermore, this study also used the contemporary approach of determining the individualised time to peak alkalosis to optimise the pre-exercise ingestion time whilst also delivering the SB dose using a GI symptom-limiting technique. The key finding was that every participant performed their fastest 2 km rowing TT representing a mean improvement of 2.24% compared to the PLA. The enhanced performance observed following SB ingestion is likely attributable to increases in extracellular buffering capacity, since pre-exercise blood [HCOExisting literature on the effects of SB on high-intensity exercise protocols have yielded equivocal results with some reporting a positive effect amongst female athletes (Delextrat et al. Furthermore, using a delivery method such as enteric-coated SB to limit the potential GI symptom severity (Hilton et al. In the present study the individual the TTP ranged from 75 to 150 min, which is consistent with enteric-coated SB delivery (Hilton et al. Given that the level of alkalosis appears to be dose-dependent, the magnitude of alkalosis, or more specifically, the concentration of [HCOFew studies have utilised a female only participant population when investigating SB ingestion and high-intensity exercise performance. This may be due to evidence suggesting that anaerobic exercise performance may be impacted by menstrual cycle phase; with poorer performances being documented typically in the early follicular phase (Materson 