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Let's be honest: The authors exaggerate when they call the subjects 'bodybuilders' Yes, there are dozens, no, I guess hundreds of studies investigating the effects of caffeine in (a) various groups of people (from the obese sedentary slob to the Olympian gold medallist) and (b) a vast range of contexts from the sit-to-stand test in the elderly to the effects of repeated caffeine consumption on high intensity performance (the results are interesting, by the way | learn more ). What is surprisingly hard to find, however, are studies that deal with bodybuilding and caffeine which are not case reports of how some bro poisoned himself with an overdose of straight caffeine or caffeine-containing fat burners. You can learn more about coffee and caffeine at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? Caffeine Helps When Taken Intra-Workout, too Coffee can Help You Get into Ketosis Caffeine's Effect on Testosterone, Estrogen & SHBG ...

Weight training on separate days!? In "bottom lines" of SuppVersity  articles you've repeatedly read that "in spite of the promising results of the study at hand, I would still suggest that you do your cardio and resistance training on separate days if that's possible". That's a conclusion nobody ever questioned - and that in spite of the fact that the effects of splitting strength (S) and endurance (E) training onto different days on body composition in the long term have not even been investigated, yet. The aim of a recent study by Eklund, et al. (2016) was thus the first to investigate possible differences in body fat and lean mass, blood lipid levels and physical fitness profile following 24 weeks of volume-equated different-day and same-session combined strength and endurance training in previously untrained healthy men and women. You can learn more about the optimal exercise order at the SuppVersity What's the Right Training 4 Y...