Acute Effect of Caffeine-Based Multi-Ingredient Supplement on Reactive Agility and Jump Height in Recreational Handball Players

• Published in: Nutrients Vol. 14; no. 8; p. 1569
• Main Authors: Kaczka, Piotr, Maciejczyk, Marcin, Batra, Amit, Tabęcka-Łonczyńska, Anna, Strzała, Marek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 09-04-2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Adult; agility test; Athletic Performance; Biological activity; Biological effects; Body Height; Body mass; Caffeine; Caffeine - pharmacology; countermovement jump; Cross-Over Studies; Dietary supplements; Exercise; Exercise Test; Handball; Heart rate; Humans; Ingestion; Ingredients; Male; Males; Motor ability; multi-ingredient supplement; Physical fitness; Physiology; Placebos; Players; Statistical analysis; Synergistic effect; Variance analysis; Warm up (exercise); Young Adult; Poland; caffeine; countermovement jump; multi-ingredient supplement; agility test
• ISSN: 2072-6643; 2072-6643
• DOI: 10.3390/nu14081569

Pre-exercise caffeine and guarana-based multi-ingredient supplement (MS) consumption may be more effective for physical performance improvement than caffeine and guarana alone due to the synergistic effect of biologically active ingredients in multi-ingredient supplements. This study aimed to examine the acute effect of MS on the reactive agility and jump performance in recreational handball male players. A randomized, double-blind, crossover study involved twenty-four male handball players (body mass 74.6 ± 8.8 kg; body height 179 ± 7 cm; age 23.8 ± 1.4 years). Participants were tested under three conditions: placebo, caffeine + guarana (CAF + GUA), or MS ingestion 45 min before exercise tests. Participants performed a reactive agility test (Y-shaped test) and countermovement jump (CMJ). None of the supplements improved countermovement jump height (
= 0.06). The time needed to complete the agility test was significantly (
= 0.02) shorter in the MS condition than in the placebo. The differences in agility between PL vs. CAF + GUA and MS vs. CAF + GUA conditions were not statistically significant (
= 0.88 and
= 0.07, respectively). The results of this study indicate that the caffeine-based multi-ingredient performance was effective in improvement in reactive agility but not in jump height in recreational handball male players. A similar effect was not observed with CAF + GUA ingestion alone.