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
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)
