Post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) and taurine combination improves anaerobic performance in highly trained wrestlers: a dubbelblind, randomized, crossover study.

Denna dubbelblinda överkorsningsstudie testade taurin tillsammans med prestationsförbättring efter aktivering hos 20 manliga elitbrottare. Varje idrottare genomförde tre pass: kontroll utan vare sig tillskott eller konditionsprotokoll, protokollet med sackarosplacebo och protokollet med taurin. In the two protocol sessions, athletes performed three sets of eight squat and hip-thrust repetitions at 85% of one-repetition maximum. Taurine or placebo was given 60 minutes beforehand.

Five minutes after the protocol, participants completed a Wingate anaerobic test. Countermovement-jump tests were performed before the protocol, immediately after Wingate and 5 minutes later. The taurine-plus-protocol condition produced 16.76% higher peak power, p = 0.048, and 22.24% higher power relative to body mass, p = 0.028, compared with the placebo-plus-protocol and control conditions. The abstract also reports lower post-test blood lactate with taurine, but its p-value is incomplete in the supplied text.

This is an acute sports-performance experiment in highly trained men. It did not test daily supplementation, long-term training adaptation, health outcomes or longevity. Because there was no taurine-alone session, the study cannot separate a taurine effect from the combined taurine and conditioning protocol.

Combining taurine with post-activation performance enhancement improved anaerobic performance and supported recovery after high-intensity exercise.