Re: Milkshake Issue (571 Views)
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BitPlayer (IP Logged)
Date: August 02, 2007 02:12PM
Mike -
I wouldn't be so sure bioscience has a conclusive answer to your question. The problems with trying to answer any question like the one you are asking include the difficulty of doing an experiment in which you change only one variable and the difficulty of measuring performance. It would be interesting for someone to be allowed access to both TG's figures and the results of California's TCO2 tests and see if there is a correlation between the two.
What I've read agrees with your rogue vet, suggesting that there are at least some positive effects of lactic acid build-up in muscles. I think I've also read that milkshaking may have other effects (calming the horse, for example) unrelated to muscle performance.