Caffeine and Athletic Performance
Ryan Nuccio, MS, RD, CSSD
- Course Description
- This presentation will explore the current body of evidence for caffeine as it relates to athletic performance with a particular emphasis on research findings in exercise, efficacious dosing, mechanisms of action, current consensus statements from recent review papers, and important questions that have yet to be answered.
- What you will learn:
- Describe the top proposed mechanisms of action for how caffeine may improve exercise
performance - Describe the different performance-related measures that are most positively impacted upon by
caffeine ingestion - Explain three different reasons why some studies found a benefit with caffeine ingestion while
others may not have
- Describe the top proposed mechanisms of action for how caffeine may improve exercise
- 1 Credit Hour as Approved by Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
- 1 Credit Hour as Approved by the Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers (BOC)
