What it did do and that's what we actually take bicarbonate for is to "provided a small

meaningful improvement in total work (J; ES = 0.24) compared with creatine" (Griffin.
2015) - or, in other words, anyone who does not just one, but several all-out sprints (and
that's almost every athlete) will see a small but meaningful performance increase, one that
may make the difference between victory and defeat