That's what I thought at first glance, but it seems more like Coke is just referencing the study. The study itself seemed to be independent of any suspect funding.

Go look up what Dr. Colgan has to say about caffeine and performance. in essence he notes that all tests on caffeine and athletics are done with couch potatoes, not true athletes which greatly skews the findings.
He suggests that the diuretic effect of caffeine in normal doses will have no effect on a properly hydrated athlete. He also notes that you will receive no performance benefits from normal doses of caffeine, especially if you intake caffeine regularly.

You'd be surprised how good for you couch potatoes are. With the skin is supposedly better.

High fructose corn syrup is burned especially fast . . .

. . . and will spike things like insulin faster than table or "real" sugar.

How is a Snickers balanced? What's keeping it off the "pure sugar" side?

Go look up what Dr. Colgan has to say about caffeine and performance. in essence he notes that all tests on caffeine and athletics are done with couch potatoes, not true athletes which greatly skews the findings.

I don't know who Dr. Colgan is, but if he said that then he doesn't know what he is talking about. There have been dozens of studies of the effect of caffeine on well-trained to elite athletes.

That said, where do most climbers fall on the couch-potato–true-athlete continuum, anyway.

Jay

I promise you Jay, that he knows what he is talking about. But i refuse to argue it with you, for obvious reasons

I don't know (or care) what Jay thinks about this guy or your opinion of him, but one look at his website makes me 100% skeptical of anything he might have to say convinces me that is only trying to sell me something....

Edit for clarification

I suspect there is *plonk* about to be heard...

I promise you Jay, that he knows what he is talking about. But i refuse to argue it with you, for obvious reasons

I promise you Jay, that he knows what he is talking about. But i refuse to argue it with you, for obvious reasons

Not to be pedantic, but the claim you've made, that there are no studies on the effects of caffeine in true athletes is dead wrong. I reference such a study halfway down the first page of this thread.

yes, i should have qualified that this comes from older literature. you have pointed out that there has been more recent research done on the subject, i have not ever looked for it. the point is that points he makes are still valid, and i would imagine that they are in line with recent studies on the effects of caffeine and performance.

and jay, you can just f*ck off, for obvious reasons.

yes, i should have qualified that this comes from older literature. you have pointed out that there has been more recent research done on the subject, i have not ever looked for it. the point is that points he makes are still valid, and i would imagine that they are in line with recent studies on the effects of caffeine and performance.

and jay, you can just f*ck off, for obvious reasons.

I'm only going to address the water vs coke issue. Caffeine is a diuretic. Your coke isn't hydrating you.

when i am climbing though i essentially just try to consume water, carbs, and a bit of other stuff during the day. i find that i eat more if i want to eat what i bring, so instead of pure water fresh sprung from a virgin mountain, i drink coke. instead of an organic rye sandwich with wild ham and free range mustard, i eat a packet of corn chips and a chunk of salami.

is this actually so bad?

So when I spent three weeks traveling abroad and drank nothing but coke out of a can, I actually died of dehydration and I have been in hell ever since (chained to a keyboard/internet).

and jay, you can just f*ck off, for obvious reasons.

That was completely uncalled for.

Jay