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Studies: Caffeine can help athletes in both endurance and sprinting events
Posted March 29th, 2007 at 4:00 PM by Martha Jones
Section: Nutrition, Supplements
It has been established for more than 50 years that caffeine helps you exercise longer in events that require endurance.
Recently researchers at Christ Church University in Canterbury, UK, showed that caffeine also helps you in much shorter events. Trained cyclists raced one kilometer (0.6 mile) on three times, in random order, after taking 5 mg of caffeine, taking a placebo, or taking nothing.
Their speed, mean power and peak power were more than three percent higher after taking caffeine (Journal of Sports Sciences, November 2006).
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