Beet Juice May Help Lengthen Your Workout

New findings published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, found that beet juice may help to lengthen a workout.

For the study, researchers asked study participants to drink beet juice for over two weeks to see if the beverage improved their exercise performance.

Fifteen days later, they found that the subjects who drank beet juice had lower blood pressure and more dilated vessels at rest and during exercise. Furthermore, the study results also showed that the heart consumed less oxygen during exercise with beet juice consumption.

The researchers noted how the study results can suggest that beet juice may help aid as a dietary nutraceutical supplement to enhance oxygent delivery to the muscles as well as reduce the work the heart does during exercise.

While on the other hand, exercise can be "performed at a given workload for a longer period of time before the onset of fatigue," the researchers added.

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