NCT05470231

Effect of Beet Juice on Elite Swimmers.

Effects of Beetroot Juice Intake on Repeated Performance of Elite Swimmers. A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: To investigate whether an acute intake of Beetroot Juice (BJ) improved performance factors in a repeated swimming effort at maximum speed in elite swimmers. Methods: A total of 13 elite swimmers (6 girls and 7 boys) participated in this randomised, double-blind study. In 2 different trials, the swimmers ingested an injection of Beet-It (70 ml placebo (PL) or an injection of Beet-It 70 ml beetroot juice (BJ)) 3 hours before undergoing a 6x100m crawl intermittent maximal speed performance test.

Conditions

• ergogéniques

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Beetroot Juice	The swimmers drank 3 hours before the test, mL70 of BJ (containing mmol6.4 of NO-3) (Beet-It-Pro Elite Shot, James White Drinks Ltd., Ipswich, UK) or PLA (0.04 mmol of NO-3)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-07
• Primary completion: 2020-01-25
• Completion: 2020-01-25
• First posted: 2022-07-22
• Last updated: 2022-07-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain