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Anonymous
whats up /fit/

a year ago my fitness and condition/ weight training teacher was telling the class about a study done by Gatorade(i think) that showed that drinking soda and carbonate water caused subjects muscles to fatigue faster while working out than if they had not consumed carbonated drinks. this is caused because of the bodies absorption of the CO2 which is a waste product of your muscles, which in turn causes your circulatory system to be less effective at removing the CO2 from your body.

what i was wondering was, do you think that drinking carbonated water (like soda, without the sugar and calories) could put greater 'stress' on your cardio system during workouts and cause your body to adapt to function properly with excess CO2 already in the blood, effectively increasing your ability to remove CO2 from your body while not consuming CO2

similar to how its more effective to do 50 weighted push ups instead of 100 body weight push ups

tl;dr do you think artificially putting greater CO2 stress on you cardio system could cause an overall increase in cardio ability?
>> Guil
>>33083
it could also just stop trying to get rid of co2 and say fuck it, who knows!
>> Anonymous
I don't know whether carbonation is absorbed into the blood stream. Why would we burp so much if it was? XD
>> Anonymous
I drink pure water or fruit juices, like a man was meant to.

Soda is an evil recipe created by man. Do not want
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
>>33107

Carbonation ceases to be carbonated once you drink it, the CO2 is expressed back out since the stomach isn't under pressure.

So no, you're still drinking a chemical bath of HFCS and preservative, go back to drinking water.
>> Anonymous
I like your theory, but I doubt there has been any studies done on it. Asking for mis/fit/ speculation on things like this has badnews written all over it.