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Stephen Seiler, Institute for Sport, Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway |
Sportscience News this month is dominated by conference reports. We present separate reports from the XII FINA World Swimming Conference, the 10th International Conference on the Biochemistry of Muscle, and the Training and Competing in the Mystery Zone meeting, a USOC-ACSM one-day summit held earlier this summer. Among our column features, Louise Burke's Compeat sports nutrition column this month explains why the simple-complex classification system for carbohydrates should be replaced with the glycemic index for the athlete planning nutritional strategies. In History Makers, Frank Katch describes a groundbreaking experiment in nutrition that had far-reaching implications. Thousands of lives were saved and the controlled clinical trial was born.
On the Research Resource page, Will Hopkins has come up with a new way to analyze crossovers that takes into account (and estimates) any learning effect. It's much better than using a paired t test.
Does it help to take baking soda before a high-intensity event? Lars Mc Naughton and colleagues present the evidence on neutralizing acid to enhance peformance, on the Training & Technology pages.
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