The game-day caffeine routine that powers the NBA's most frequent flyers

Post by Johnny555 » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 7:07 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #32

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The timing can also play into it (not sure if by 'plan' you mean down to the hour as well). https://i.imgur.com/1IyKjSg.jpg As I get older, my tolerance has lowered. I used to be able to handle a Starbucks 'tall' cup, but now I can only drink two espressos at most, if spaced out by two hours or so. If I go over my limit, it's 7-9 hours of lying still in a dark room with a migraine-like headache. For more on cortisol…

Starbucks drip coffee contains a lot more caffeine per serving than espresso... I have seen figures that a venti size medium roast can be 280mg total, while single espresso shots might be as little as 70mg. https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-es...

Post by masonic » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 10:28 AM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #33

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Baseball teams tend to play multiple games in a row against the same team--I'm guessing this is why they travel fewer miles.

And when they do have to travel in a way that would impact their performance, it's major news (in the baseball world) for days. I remember when the Detroit Tigers had 4 games within 48 hours in different timezones [1] and the MLB got some serious criticism for it. The Tigers had to pull some of their best (and highest paid) players due to lack of sleep. [1] https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/05/26/det…

Post by thatoneuser » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

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> Office workers, sleepy truckers, hospital nurses on 10-hour shifts, cabbies, students, cops? They're not the only ones who benefit from a cup, or a few, Harkless pointed out. Don't get me wrong, I love coffee. However, it may be more accurate to say that all of these people (including the athletes) are using caffeine to medicate their chronic sleep deprivation, which may be at least partly caused in the first place…

I don't think this is the case. I played on a B/C-tier Overwatch team as the main DPS (mostly Tracer) for several months and I can tell you there is a stark difference in snap-reflex between non-caffeinated and caffeinated states, regardless of sleep amount. There were many other things I did to improve my reflexes and rote mechanical skill in general, but none made as much an obvious difference as caffeine.

Post by rue » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

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Not sure what you mean by optimize, but MLB teams often play several games against each other in a row. But that’s slightly different because it could be seen to change the dynamic form performance over a season to fewer best out of N events.

Baseball is a bit different because they play 2x as many games per season,so they need to bundle up.

Post by bitdeveloper » Sun, Jan 06, 2019, 10:48 PM UTC

dlgeek wrote: post #38

rdiddly wrote: post #36

Portland travels further than any other team because "Portland is the only team in the Pacific Northwest." (Geez I'm not a sports fan but who moved the Sonics to Oklahoma without telling me?) Anyway yeah look at this map and you can see it: Portland is both near the geographic extent (like Boston, Miami & LA), and relatively far away from its adjacent cities (unlike those 3). https://sportemind.files.wordpress.com/20…

Clay Bennett. Over a decade ago.