Results of test using caffine and sodium biocarbonate

The mind can make the body do amazing things.

Thats why Caffiene is banned by the Olympic Committee. If used properly you can do great stuff. An exercise physiologist used me as a guinea pig for 4 weeks on the effects of caffiene. First I took a week off did nothing than for one week i did specific tests of endurance, strength and speed with no aided caffiene. Took another week of following the same exact routine as the previous "dead week", same diet, same sleep pattern etc. Did the same exact "active week" with aided amounts of caffiened according to my body mass and water mass content or some crap like that and my performance in all same exact tests were 7.6% improved than the week without aided caffiene.

point proven wrote:

The mind can make the body do amazing things.

Placebo effect?

Improved fitness?

For this to even be close to valid, the subject would have to be blinded, not knowing whether he got the caffeine/bicarb or a tall drink of cloudy water and a sugar pill.

point proven wrote:

For this to even be close to valid, the subject would have to be blinded, not knowing whether he got the caffeine/bicarb or a tall drink of cloudy water and a sugar pill.

Thank you Captain Obvious.

I know when I used the good ole sodium bicarb I made it approximately 2 miles in 4 sessions. My stomach didn't handle it too well.

Caffeine on the other hand, I was able to manage 20 sec faster per mile. I realized this one day when I didn't take it and I looked at why I felt so bad, did everything else the same, had to be the caffeine.

Also, if you are going to be at all scientific about this, next time doing it a specific heart rate or perhaps just "all out"

You didn't do this at "I" pace (as your post says) because your "I" pace is a single pace. It's either up near 4:1x, down near 4:0x, or somewhere else. Feeling better one day almost 3 weeks after another is a pretty common occurrence.

I am not a science guy. I am a runner and have been doing the same "I" workout for years during different training cycles. I have NEVER run the workout this fast and felt so good. When I stick to the prescribed "I" pace based on my VDOT it is a tough workout and I barely can hold the "I" pace. I thought it was interesting to blow the workout away, and feel like I was holding back on every rep. Hell, I even did an extra rep....usually I am relieved when the workout is over, never have I had it in me do an extra rep. Also, I figured it to be a 9% improvement in 17 days PLUS a big difference in perceived effort PLUS one extra rep.

I am going to try a tempo run using this because I used a HR monitor and have exact splits on the track from a previous run.

Signed,

"The Human Experiment"

Good premise but this experiment was designed poorly and that is why there are so many hater posts.

Why not do baseline and aided TTs with two all out TT 5ks separated by a week. Bring a running friend (or more) to do the TT 5ks (some with/some without any PEDs) to see relative performance improvements on the group.

Post the data and we can breakdown the statistical significance (if any).