NCT05657093

Effect of the Beetroot Juice in Portuguese Swimmers

"Effects of Beetroot Juice os Sport Performane in Elite Swimmers. A Randomized Clinical Trial"

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (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 beet juice (BJ) improved the factors of total and split times (performance), stroke frequency and CMJ (biomechanics), lactate and HR (physiology) and RPE-TQR (psychophysiological) in a repeated (performance), stroke frequency and CMJ (biomechanics), lactate and HR (physiology) and RPE-TQR (psychophysiological) in a repeated maximal speed swimming effort in elite swimmers. Methods: A total of 18 elite swimmers participated in this randomized, double-blind study. In 2 different trials, swimmers ingested a Beet-It injection (70 ml placebo (PL) or a Beet-It injection of 70 ml beet juice (BJ)) 3 hours before undergoing a 2x6x100 m intermittent maximal speed crawl performance test.

Conditions

• Ergogenics

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)
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	Placebo	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: 2022-04-30
• Primary completion: 2022-05-07
• Completion: 2022-05-07
• First posted: 2022-12-20
• Last updated: 2022-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain