Beta-Alanine and Improved Yo-Yo Test Performance

• Effects of beta-alanine supplementation on Yo-Yo test performance: A meta-analysis.

  • 2021-06
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Clinical nutrition ESPEN 43
  • • Jozo Grgic

  • PubMed: 34024507
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2021.03.027

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Yo-Yo Test Performance

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  When considering only the studies that used the level 2 variants of the Yo-Yo test, there was a significant ergogenic effect of beta-alanine (SMD: 1.41; 95% CI: 0.35, 2.48).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes