Beetroot Juice Ingestion and Vertical Jump Performance (BEET_JUMP)

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Supplements

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Beetroot juice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05209022

Universidad_Francisco_Vitoria

Details and patient eligibility

About

Beetroot juice is a dietary supplement with good evidence for improving sports performance in different sport contexts, however, the evidence about the effects of beetroot juice in jump capacity is unclear. Thus, the aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive examination of beetroot juice effects on vertical jump performance

Full description

Beetroot juice is a dietary supplement with good evidence for improving sports performance in different sport contexts, however, the evidence about the effects of beetroot juice in jump capacity is unclear. Therefore a deeper knowledge about the effects of beetroot juice on several components of vertical jump performance remain largely unexplored between we can mention phase duration peak power, average power, peak velocity, initial force, and peak force. Thus, the aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive examination of beetroot juice effects on several countermovement jump components.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Experience in resistance training (at least 18 months of three weekly sessions).

A one-repetition maximum weight (1 RM) higher than bodyweight in the bench press and of 1.5 of body weight in squat exercise No sports supplement was taken in the previous three months No smoking. No cardiovascular, pulmonary or neurological disease. To not be considered an elite athlete.

Exclusion criteria

Age <18 year or > 35 years.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Beetroot supplementation

Experimental group

Description:

One serving 140 mL of beetroot juice (12.8 mmol of NO3-; Beet-It-Pro Elite Shot, James White Drinks Ltd., Ipswich, UK) after an overnight fast and 3 h before initiating the testing session.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Beetroot juice

Placebo supplementation

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

One serving of beetroot juice depleted in NO3- (0.08 mmol of NO3-) as placebo (Beet It; James White Drinks Ltd, Ipswich, UK) after an overnight fast and 3 h before initiating the testing session.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Beetroot juice