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It is often said that “speed kills”—speed having long been recognized as a major component of superior performance in many sports. ” It’s for this reason that a speed improvement program must involve speed application and address all of the elements that affect performance in a particular sport, such as initial acceleration, transition acceleration, and maximum speed. Written by eight of the NSCA’s top experts and edited by Jeffreys, Developing Speed is the definitive resource for developing...
This section discusses beta-alanine as a sport supplement, beginning with its parent compound carnosine. Elsewhere, Hoffman and associates (2008b) investigated the effect of 30 days of beta-alanine supplementation (4.8 g/day) on resistance exercise performance and endocrine changes in resistance-trained men. Several studies have investigated the effects of supplementing creatine and beta-alanine together (Stout et al.
