Dr. Barry Dworkin

Consuming coffee/caffeine before a workout to improve performance is over-caffeinated hyped advice by “experts”

Health Headlines Commentary for December 20, 2017

Source:

Drinking coffee before a workout could boost performance: experts

Reference:  There is not any because it is based on expert opinion of dubious quality. Expert opinion is near the bottom on the accepted quality of evidence scale. Existing studies cited in the article are based on mice and a small cohort of high performance athletes.

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