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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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Low-Dose Caffeine Coffee Gave Elite Fighters Zero Sprint Boost

BY DR. GYMBRO · Oct 23, 2026

Think your pre-workout coffee is supercharging your sprints? A new randomized, double-blind crossover trial in 15 national-level combat athletes found no performance benefit from caffeine doses of 1.5 and 3 mg/kg, about 100 and 200 mg for a 68 kg athlete. Peak power, mean power, fatigue index and even estimated energy system contributions did not differ from decaf. But this is a small null result, not proof that caffeine fails, and most positive studies use capsules at 3–6 mg/kg. Here is the dose math, the caveats and what to actually do before your next hard session.