Episode #79: Berlin 2019 Q/A
Barbell Medicine Podcast
Barbell Medicine
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hey Berlin. Thank you for coming so much. It's really been awesome to have all of you here. |
| 0:21.0 | We understand if you have to leave we will still |
| 0:23.3 | answer your question if it made it pass our selection process, which Austin did. |
| 0:29.1 | So it's not my fault, don't blame me, blame Austin. Yeah, that's fine. This will be on YouTube at some point, so we understand if you have to leave. |
| 0:35.2 | If your question was not answered and you really think it's a good one, or you want to answer |
| 0:39.7 | nonetheless, just ask it on our forum and we might answer it or not. |
| 0:45.0 | Just a month. |
| 0:47.0 | So let's get into some of these questions. |
| 0:48.8 | First question, blood plasma donation. |
| 0:51.7 | What would your recommendations be for a competitive powerlifter who tries to |
| 0:54.6 | maximize his performance or her performance at meets and also considers |
| 0:58.9 | donating plasma once per week? Will he be fine? |
| 1:02.1 | Or she? Under the premise that he or she adapts to the stressor |
| 1:05.9 | or should additional measures be taken? There's actually data on this that I reviewed in a training blog video. I don't remember which one and then |
| 1:16.0 | it'd be kind of arduous to go back through and make somebody look at, yeah just |
| 1:18.7 | watch them all, you'd be fine. So sorry about that. If I figured out I'll |
| 1:22.3 | link the, I'll put it in the link below if I don't figure it out it won't be there. |
| 1:26.4 | The data right now suggests that performance is reduced in aerobic challenges up to 24 hours post plasma and 48 hours after giving blood. |
| 1:37.0 | I don't the data on anaerobic stuff is more mixed. |
| 1:44.0 | And it looked like that people, some of them, |
| 1:46.7 | people did just fine within one day. |
| 1:48.8 | And other people had a decrease within 24 hours, |
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