NCT06059911

Pre-workout Supplementation and Basketball

Status unknown NA Last updated 3 October 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Multi-ingredient dietary supplement (caffeine, creatine monohydrate, β-alanine, citrulline malate, BCAA) in Sport Performance in 36 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

15 June 2022

Primary endpoint
15 December 2023

15 June 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Athanasios Z. Jamurtas
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	quadruple
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	36
Start date	15 June 2022
Primary completion	15 December 2023
Estimated completion	15 June 2024
Sites	1 location across Greece

Drugs / interventions tested

• Multi-ingredient dietary supplement (caffeine, creatine monohydrate, β-alanine, citrulline malate, BCAA)
• Placebo dietary supplement (97% maltodextrin)

Conditions studied

• Sport Performance — all drugs for Sport Performance →

Sponsor

Athanasios Z. Jamurtas

Who can join

Adults 18 to 41, male only, with Sport Performance. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Pre-workout supplements (PWS) consumption in recreationally or physically trained males lead to many performance-enhancing benefits, including improvements in mean power output during single and repeated sprints, agility, reaction times, lower body muscular endurance and reduced fatigue. PWS ingestion also improves anaerobic performance and prolongs time to exhaustion during high-intensity intermittent exercise. However, PWSs' effectiveness is not constant, as they do not alter anaerobic power, jumping performance or blood lactate concentrations after a training session, at least in recreationally trained males and strength-power athletes. Moreover, the effects of long-term PWS supplementation, where some nutritional agents were combined (e.g., β-alanine, creatine, citrulline malate, etc.) to assess endurance-trained runners or elite cyclists' performance, are mixed and less clear. Even though the popularity of PWS use has increased among trained/professional athletes, most of the data in this area are derived from recreationally and not from well-trained athletes of a competitive level (especially in team sports). Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the acute and chronic effects of a PWS, containing 200 mg caffeine, 3.3 g creatine monohydrate, 3.2 g βalanine, 6 g citrulline malate and 5 g BCAA per dose, on shooting, jumping, sprinting, agility, aerobic and anaerobic performance in well-trained basketball players.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of Four Weeks of In-Season Pre-Workout Supplementation on Performance, Body Composition, Muscle Damage, and Health-Related Markers in Basketball Players: A Randomized Controlled Study.
   Douligeris A, Methenitis S, Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou A, Panayiotou G, et al · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 38804451 · DOI 10.3390/jfmk9020085