Ask US Cycling Hall of Fame member, Olympian, and highly successful cycling coach John Howard why he uses Acid Zapper to maintain pH health, and he gives a very straightforward answer: “Performance is everything. My personal response to Acid Zapper was immediate and extremely positive. Acid Zapper has become a regular daily supplement of my diet for good reason - it works.”

Anyone can endorse a product. But John Howard isn’t just anyone. Most cyclists can only dream of having a career like his. Even the short list of Howard’s athletic accomplishments is astonishing: Three-time cycling Olympian. Ten-year member of the US National Team. Eighteen-time USCF and NORBA Elite and Masters National Champion. National title holder in Road, Time Trial Cyclo-Cross and MTB. Two-time UCI World Championship Medalist. Ironman Triathlon World Champion. That’s just for starters.

Howard’s also held some phenomenal world records in his time, including the Cycling 24-Hour World Record (539 miles) and Cycling World Absolute Speed Record Holder, a title he captured in 1985 on the Bonneville Salt Flats at an adrenaline-guzzling speed of 152.2 mph. (No, that’s not a typo.)

An extraordinary 35-year track record and still going strong
In short, John Howard has been there, done that, got the T-shirt, and already sweated through it. Now in his late fifties, he still competes, is a respected cycling journalist and author, and a world-renowned coach who heads up the School of Champions at John Howard Performance Sports. In the past 20 years he and his team have coached cyclists who have, collectively, won numerous Olympic medals, 120 National Championships, and 20 World Titles.

So, when John Howard talks, cyclists tend to listen. Not only because of his impeccable credentials as a coach and athlete, but also because of his passionate, longstanding commitment to safe and legal methods of improving athletic performance. “I think it’s important to look at every possibility for safe performance enhancement,” says Howard. “So, as an athlete and a cycling coach, I don’t have any qualms at all about telling people to try Acid Zapper. I continually recommend it and give athletes samples to try. So far, the response has been 100 percent positive. In my experience, Acid Zapper will make a difference, and you’ll notice it right away.”

Making a noticeable difference quickly, safely and healthfully
Developed by Seattle-based TAMER Laboratories, Inc. especially to help endurance and team athletes achieve peak performance and quicker recovery times, Acid Zapper is a health supplement that combats pH imbalance and excess hydrogen ion buildup in muscle cells. By naturally controlling the acids wastes that are generated when carbohydrates, proteins, and fats metabolize during intense athletic exertion, Acid Zapper helps improve athletic performance, reduces muscle burn, and extends time to fatigue. It also aids athletes’ physical recovery by significantly reducing muscle and joint soreness. And Acid Zapper is safe and legal, with no steroids, stimulants, caffeine or sugars. (All Acid Zapper ingredients are allowed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency and are Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) by the FDA.)

Acid Zapper zaps the problem
Howard was introduced to Acid Zapper by fellow coach and cyclist Tim Becker. Like Howard, Becker has had a long and distinguished career as an athlete. And, like a lot of master’s athletes, he was aware that acidosis (i.e. acid waste buildup) becomes more pronounced with age. Becker, who was named Age Group Master Male Duathlete of 2005 by USA Triathlon, participated in a five-week Acid Zapper pilot study conducted at Seattle Performance Medicine in January 2006 and experienced dramatic results. (“I doubled my pedaling time at 300 watts,” he says. “I went from 17 minutes with lots of discomfort [during the baseline test without Acid Zapper] to 34.5 minutes with no discomfort. I was still riding at 300 watts after 34.5 minutes, which I had never done in my life.” Two weeks later, during his final pilot study test, “I went for just over an hour pedaling at 300 watts and never felt any discomfort,” he says. Becker now uses Acid Zapper every day with, in his words, “no side effects or discomfort at all.”)

So when Tim Becker met up with his friend and colleague John Howard at a March 2006 cycling camp, he was keen to share his discovery. “Tim introduced me to Acid Zapper and told me about his experiences,” says Howard. “Immediately I just clicked on: That’s the problem I’ve been having! I started taking it right away and noticed a difference from the very beginning. Possibly because my body was so acidic, I noticed an immediate change.”

Howard wrestled for years with metabolic acid problems. Like many cyclists, he relied on commercial sports drinks when competing and doing intense workouts. Unfortunately, most sports drinks are extremely acidic. “If you’re doing a high-level workout, you’re already producing acids in your system,” says Howard. “So you don’t need a drink that’s highly acidic.” Howard says he continually watered down his sports drinks to mitigate the negative side effects. But there was a catch-22: “I was diluting them to the point where the calorie content was very low, to the point where they were basically just water.” As a result, Howard recalls, there were several times in national championship competitions when he needed more substance from his sports drinks didn’t want to risk the acidic side effects. “Well, that isn’t a problem any more,” he says. “That’s a thing of the past and Acid Zapper is the reason.” (Note: Acid Zapper is available in tablets or in the shakable granules Howard uses to neutralize his sports drinks.)

Real results, real performance
“With most supplements you don’t notice anything,” says Howard. “Well, with Acid Zapper you do notice a difference. You feel it and you respond to it almost immediately—at least I do. Now, when I go out and tax myself to my limits, I’m keenly aware that something is different, and that something is a positive.”

Howard is quick to point out, “I’m not a scientist. I’m just speaking as an athlete who wants to push himself to his limits.” However, he says, “I can only conclude that the reduced acid, or the conversion of that acid to alkaline, makes the difference.” Asked if he’s ever documented that difference quantitatively, Howard replies, “Yes. After I started using Acid Zapper my half-mile flat power test on the C.T. went up from 497 watts to 528 and my time dropped from 1:03 to 1:01.”

As he says, performance is everything.  John Howard Performance Sports’ School of Champions