Anaerobic Running Capacity
Research analysis lead by Kamal Patel
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Things To Know & Note
Also Known As
Anaerobic exercise
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The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect anaerobic running capacity
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Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials |
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Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled |
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Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies |
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Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence
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The amount of high quality evidence. The more
evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect
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The direction and size of the supplement's impact on
each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results
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Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or
VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notes |
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Creatine |
Minor
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High See all 19 studies |
Appears to increase anaerobic cardiovascular capacity, not to a remarkable degree however.
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Sodium Bicarbonate |
Minor
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Moderate See all 34 studies |
Cardiovascular exercise where failure is associated with metabolic acidosis (ie. 'the burn') appear to get benefit with bicarbonate supplementation to a small degree but reliably. For other exercises (rowing, sprinting, swimming) not characterized by the burn, the benefits are much less reliable
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Caffeine |
Notable
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Moderate See all 7 studies |
Appears to benefit anaerobic cardiovascular exercise, perhaps due to combination antifatigue effects and increasing power output
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Beta-Alanine | |||
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Colostrum | |||
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Trimethylglycine | |||
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Nitrate | |||
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Phosphatidylserine | |||
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Arginine | |||
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Ashwagandha | |||
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Eleutherococcus senticosus | |||
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L-Carnitine | |||
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Resveratrol | |||
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Terminalia arjuna | |||
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Alanylglutamine | |||
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Arachidonic acid | |||
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Branched Chain Amino Acids | |||
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Choline | |||
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Chromium | |||
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Coenzyme Q10 | |||
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HMB | |||
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Leucic Acid | |||
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Maca | |||
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N-Acetylcysteine | |||
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Ornithine | |||
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Panax ginseng | |||
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Quercetin | |||
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Taurine | |||
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Velvet Antler | |||
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Cocoa Extract | |||