Coffee Never Disappoints: Myth that Habitual Consumption Reduces Caffeine's Acute Ergogenic Effects... Dispelled!?
I must remind you, though, that performance benefits in one domain don't always transfer to another one. In other words: While the study seems to dispell the myth for classic endurance training, effects on activities where CNS activity is more important, like lifting, for example, may still be impaired w/ habitual intake. I guess even I have to confess that I may have propagated the myth that habitual caffeine consumers would not benefit to the same extent from pre-workout caffeine supplementation as caffeine naive individuals. What I know for a fact, though, is that I also mentioned in previous caffeine/coffee articles that the "jitters" caffeine-naive individuals may experience could ruin all the benefits of the often-heard of extra effect on the central nervous system (CNS). As de Souza Gonçalves et al. (2017) point out in their recent study, previous experimental efforts to determine "the relationship between habitual intake of caffeine and the effect of ca...