You Cannot Sleep Before an Important Event? Take High Dose Creatine or Low Dose Caffeine to Battle Fatigue Induced Decrement in Skill Performance and Increase Testosterone.
Image 1: LG's Anadraulic State is only one example for some of the 2nd generation pre-workout products with deliberately lowered amounts of caffeine and increased amounts of creatine & other ergogenics in it. You know it, you love it: Creatine Monohydrate - the godfather of dietary supplements ; but did you know that Creatine supplementation at 50 or 100mg/kg body weight is as effective as low (1mg/kg) or high dose (5mg/kg) caffeine in preventing the decrease in athletic skill performance after sleep deprivation? On ten separate occasions, Cook et al. ( Cook. 2011 ) had ten elite rugby players complete 10 trials on a simple rugby passing skill test (20 repeats per trial). On five of these occasions the players had slept their usual 7-9h on the other five occasions, however, they only slept 3-5h before reporting to the laboratory. While the 2-6h of sleep they were lacking "resulted in a significant fall in skill performance accuracy on both the dominant and non-d...
