tart cherry and Reduced Reactive Strength Index

• Tart Cherry Juice: No Effect on Muscle Function Loss or Muscle Soreness in Professional Soccer Players After a Match.

  • 2020-02-01
  • RCT
  • International journal of sports physiology and performance 15(2)
  • • Will Abbott
    • Callum Brashill
    • Adam Brett
    • Tom Clifford

  • PubMed: 31188696
  • DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2019-0221

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Reactive Strength Index

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  Decrements in reactive strength index were also greatest at 12-hour postmatch (TCJ -9.4% [8.4%] vs CON -13.9% [4.8%], of baseline values), but no group differences were observed at any time point (P = .097; ηp2=.205).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  2 × 30-mL servings