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A wide, editorial-style still life shot from a slightly elevated angle on a pale oak gym bench, bathed in soft morning window light. In the center sits a matte ceramic cup of black coffee with delicate steam curling upward, flanked by a small white scoop of coffee beans and two identical glass vials, one filled with a few grains of fine powder and one empty, hinting at dose comparison. Next to the cup rests a pair of worn white boxing hand wraps, loosely coiled, and a slim black stopwatch with its face softly visible. In the foreground, a minimalist notebook lies open with blurred handwritten numbers and a simple pen sketch of a bar graph with bars of equal height, subtle and unreadable, suggesting a null result without any legible text. A small brass kitchen scale sits to the side with a few coffee beans on its tray.

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science research

Café con baja dosis de cafeína no mejora el sprint en luchadores de élite

BY DR. GYMBRO ·

¿Crees que tu café pre‑entrenamiento está potenciando tus sprints? Un ensayo aleatorizado, doble ciego y cruzado con 15 atletas de combate de nivel nacional no encontró mejora alguna con dosis de cafeína de 1,5 y 3 mg/kg, equivalentes a unos 100 y 200 mg para un deportista de 68 kg. La potencia máxima, la potencia media, el índice de fatiga e incluso las estimaciones de la contribución de los sistemas energéticos no fueron diferentes al café descafeinado. Sin embargo, se trata de un resultado nulo de un estudio pequeño, no de una prueba definitiva de que la cafeína no funcione, y la mayoría de los estudios positivos usan cápsulas de 3–6 mg/kg.

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