Sports Performance

Pre-workout supplement improves upper body resistance and exercise performance: Study

13-Mar-2024 By Olivia DeSmit

A multi-ingredient pre-workout supplement reduced perceived exertion and increased total repetitions performed in a group of resistance-trained college-aged students, according to a recent study.

Q&A: ZOA talks growth and evolution ahead of pre-workout powder launch

18-Sep-2023 By Asia Sherman

ZOA, the company founded in 2021 by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and business partners Dany Garcia, Dave Rienzi and John Shulman, is adding ZOA+ Powder to its portfolio of energy and pre-workout drinks to help ZOA Warriors like themselves supercharge their...

Mixed review for Rhodiola rosea and sports performance

13-Sep-2023 By Asia Sherman

Does Rhodiola rosea reduce fatigue and increase endurance during times of emotional and physical stress? The Cold War Russians thought so, administering extracts from the hardy Siberia-grown perennial to its high-performing astronauts, soldiers and Olympic...

Study explores CBD (non)effects on health-related fitness

21-Jun-2023 By Asia Sherman

Sports nutritionists at the University of Northern Colorado are investigating the influence of CBD consumption in physically active adults to resolve incongruities in the data surrounding its effects.

Chlorella supplementation may boost cycling performance: RCT

21-Apr-2023

Three weeks of supplementation with chlorella may improve relative power during repeated cycling sprints, and lower average lactate and heart rate during endurance tests, says a new study from England.

Study finds no fat burning effect of p-synephrine in healthy active women

07-Nov-2022 By Asia Sherman

Bitter orange extract p-synephrine had no effect on fat oxidation rate during aerobic exercise in healthy active women, according to a recent study from university researchers in Spain.

Beetroot juice improves running time during concurrent training: Study

04-Oct-2022 By Asia Sherman

Acute beetroot juice consumption decreased running time independently of intra-session exercise sequences during concurrent training sessions, a recent study shows.

Beet It Sport continues expansion into US market

14-Sep-2022 By Asia Sherman

Seven years after entering the US market, Beet It Sport continues to register healthy year-on-year growth, with its nitrate-rich beet juice recognized as best in sports nutrition.

Albuquerque supplements retailer sentenced for performance enhancing drugs

08-Sep-2022 By Asia Sherman

The Department of Justice has sentenced the owner of Albuquerque-based Allstar Nutrition to three years’ probation for selling misbranded performance enhancing drugs.

PLT says healthy population data boosts new respiratory health combo

13-Jul-2022 By Hank Schultz

PLT says new data on its AlvioLife respiratory health ingredient is significant because it shows significant effects in a healthy population.

Commentary

Why you should attend the Sports & Active Nutrition Summit

17-Jan-2022 By Hank Schultz

Making connections between academics and business leaders has been one of the hallmarks of NutraIngredients-USA, and it will be on display at our upcoming don’t-miss event.

Red wine polyphenols plus zinc and vitamin E may aid muscle performance and recovery: Pilot data

16-Jun-2020 By Stephen Daniells

A combination of red wine polyphenols, zinc and vitamin E for 12 days may reduce markers of muscle damage, and maintain muscular power capacity in healthy men, suggests a new pilot study by Seppic.

WADA eyes AI, big data analytics to fight illegal doping

01-Jun-2020 By Danielle Masterson

The pandemic has shut down in-person anti-doping testing in many countries, placing a renewed focus on artificial intelligence.

Meta-analysis supports sports performance benefits of NZ blackcurrants

01-Jun-2020 By Stephen Daniells

New Zealand blackcurrants may offer a “small, but significant” improvement for sports performance, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis.

No difference found in caffeine's effects on exercise power among 'fast' or 'slow' metabolizers

04-May-2020 By Hank Schultz

A recent study looking at the effects of caffeine on brief, high intensity exercise found the substance improved performance, regardless of genetic variations in how subjects metabolized caffeine.

‘Significant improvements in endurance performance’, says 1st meta-analysis of tart cherry benefits

02-Mar-2020 By Stephen Daniells

Tart cherry concentrate may boost endurance exercise performance, according to a new meta-analysis from Canada that pooled data from 10 separate studies.

High dose caffeine boosts power in both elite, recreational athletes but shows differing effects on mood

10-Jan-2020 By Hank Schultz

A study using elite and high level recreational athletes has found that a high dose of caffeine boosted anaerobic performance in both groups and boosted mood states, but in the elite group only.