Casein Protein and Improved Jump Height Recovery

• Presleep Casein Protein Ingestion: Acceleration of Functional Recovery in Professional Soccer Players.

  • 2019-03
  • RCT
  • International journal of sports physiology and performance 14(3)
  • • William Abbott
    • Adam Brett
    • Emma Cockburn
    • Tom Clifford

  • PubMed: 30204517
  • DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2018-0385

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Jump Height Recovery

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  Casein protein had a most likely and likely beneficial effect on countermovement-jump recovery at 12 and 36 h postmatch (CP -1.6; ±1.2% vs CON -6.6; ±1.7%; -4.1; ±2.3% vs -0.4; ±1.1%, respectively).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  40 g