date:Feb 28, 2019
muscle contraction. The effect of this mostly seems positive for athletes who make a short-term, explosive effort, such as footballers. When taking in 800 milligrams of nitrate per day for six days, their sprint ability improved by 3.4 per cent. That effect doesnt occur, or hardly occurs, for professional endurance athletes, probably because the supply of oxygen to the muscles has been optimised. It is, after all, thought that nitrate improves the athletic performance when the muscle is not gett