Creatine electrolyte supplement improves anaerobic power and strength: a randomized double-blind control study.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Copper (Supplement) in this randomized controlled trial publication.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a creatine and electrolyte formulated multi-ingredient performance supplement (MIPS) on strength and power performance compared to a placebo.

Eighty percent of the subject's pre-test 1RM was used for a maximal repetition test to assess performance variables.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were young adults, both men and women.

Twenty-two subjects (6 females, 21 ± 2 yrs., 72.46 ± 11.18 kg, 1.72 ± 0.09 m) performed a one-repetition maximum (1RM) for back squat and bench press.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study.

Because people in this Copper (Supplement) study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

Neither the participants nor the staff measuring them knew who was on Copper (Supplement), so expectations could not easily colour the readings.

The comparison arm used a placebo, so changes seen with Copper (Supplement) could be set against what happens without it.

A two-way mixed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied with an alpha level of 0.05.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Athletic Performance, Creatine, Dietary Supplements, Electrolytes, Muscle Strength and Sports Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Creatine supplementation, Multi-ingredient performance supplement and Strength performance.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of Copper (Supplement).

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 5 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2019 (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Copper (Supplement) compound page, all human trials.