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Athletes and Acid
Athletes and Acid: What elite, high performance, and aging athletes need to understand and avoid excess acid build up in their muscles, a condition called Sport Induced Acidosis. by Robert Burns, PhD Elite and high performance sport athletes continually push at the boundaries of physics, trying to compress time into ever-smaller increments or beat gravity at its own game. In the process, they often redefine what is “humanly possible,” not only for themselves but, in some cases, for all of us. As every athlete knows, in the sports world a millisecond or the slightest internal or external...