Ep. 290 - Is Caffeine an Overrated Supplement for Lifters?

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Caffeine is incredibly popular among lifters and non-lifters alike. In a variety of cultures all across the globe (including the iron culture), caffeine is a daily staple. While most people use caffeine for a morning boost of energy, lifters have long used caffeine as a performance-enhancing supplement. There is a tremendous amount of evidence reporting acute ergogenic effects from a single dose of caffeine, but there is a surprising lack of research addressing critical questions about caffeine's utility as an "everyday" pre-workout supplement. In today's episode, Eric Trexler reviews a new study suggesting that caffeine improves performance when consumed in the morning, but not in the evening. This is followed by an in-depth discussion about when caffeine may (or may not) be effectively used as a performance-enhancing supplement, and how to balance potential tradeoffs between acute performance enhancement and sleep disruption.

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0:00.0	Eric, Omar. We are back.
0:04.1	Oh, in many ways, yes.
0:06.1	We totally didn't just try to record this episode and have some internet issues, so we're recording it again because the powers that be, which will not be named, are trying to prevent us from dropping this very episode, folks.
0:19.6	They don't want it out, but here's the good news, Omar.
0:22.6	Originally your internet crapped out and then mine did. And so that way we are both
0:28.5	blameful and blameless. So it's good for us, I think, that no one's pointing the finger,
0:34.4	everyone's screwed, and we're going to do our best. Yeah, it's one of those,
0:38.1	I don't even know if this is the actual saying. When you point your finger, you got three
0:41.6	pointing back at you so that, does that mean you're three times as responsible? I'm not sure.
0:45.9	Don't even know if that's a real saying, but you want to know what I know to be real, Treks.
0:50.6	We've been known for the hour of power, the Hour of Power episode, and we're going to
0:55.4	introduce something new today, which is probably going to be the 50-minute episode. So it's 10
1:00.5	minutes shorter, but it's 10 times. I'm saying it's 10 times as good as the hour of power.
1:06.0	It's all about episode density, and you will find no more density than this. Yeah. Yeah. And that's once again,
1:12.9	definitely not because we try to record this episode and there were internet issues. It's just
1:16.7	because we know we could keep this episode succinct and convey everything you need to know.
1:21.2	But before we do that, we want to keep the intro also relatively brief. I want to read
1:26.9	Trex, however, a review that you definitely haven't heard,
1:30.0	did not just hear 15 minutes ago. That is a five-star review. Well, there you go. That's a good start.
1:35.9	Yep. It's Nikki lifts. It's five stars. Thank you, Nikki, for leaving the review. And it says,
1:41.0	came for the info, stayed for the banter. As a new convert to the Iron Game, I have been enjoying the podcast immensely.
1:47.3	The back catalog is full of evergreen topics, engaging banter, and interesting guests.
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