Baking soda breaks down the acid that builds up in our muscles therefore, not only can we train longer and harder without the buildup. It helps to push the blood into the muscles. Therefore you get skin splitting pumps. When I first started doing this, I tried back as my first Exercise. I could not believe how my back felt. It had never felt that pumped at all the years that I’ve been in the gym, you can also research that baking soda was one of the first substances that was outlawed by the Olympic committee due to performance enhancing.