Trying to make sense of the research on the performance effects of caffeine, beets, and their interaction. From what I can gather, both caffeine and beets at the right doses can have positive effects, but that, in interaction, caffeine basically eliminates any positive effect of the beets. So, three questions:
1) Am I understanding this correctly? Anybody seen anything different?
2) If it is correct, then it would seem to make sense only to take caffeine *or* beets. is there anyway to know which is likely to have the more beneficial effect?
3) Or is there some hybrid that makes sense--beets before the race; caffeine at some point during the race as a stimulant.
1) Am I understanding this correctly? Anybody seen anything different?
2) If it is correct, then it would seem to make sense only to take caffeine *or* beets. is there anyway to know which is likely to have the more beneficial effect?
3) Or is there some hybrid that makes sense--beets before the race; caffeine at some point during the race as a stimulant.