The Claim
In healthy, habitual caffeine consumers, ingestion of a 140 mg caffeine energy drink increases maximal heart rate during low-intensity exercise, graded exercise to exhaustion, and short-term recovery, while having no effect on resting heart rate or autonomic recovery dynamics.
What the research says
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In people who regularly drink caffeine, consuming a drink with 140 mg of caffeine raises the highest heart rate reached during exercise and recovery, but does not change heart rate at rest or how the heart rate returns to normal after exercise.
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In healthy, habitual caffeine consumers, a 140 mg caffeine energy drink increases maximal heart rate during low-intensity exercise, graded exercise to exhaustion, and short-term recovery, without altering resting heart rate or autonomic recovery dynamics.
Caffeine blocks signals that normally slow the heart, so during exercise the heart beats faster at its maximum, but at rest it stays the same because other controls keep it steady. The breathing rate goes up after exercise, which can make heart rate variability look different, but the actual nerve control of the heart doesn't change during recovery.
What the research says
1 studyThe study looked at how the heart’s nervous system responds after drinking an energy drink with 140 mg caffeine, but it didn’t measure the actual highest heart rate during exercise — so we can’t say if the drink makes the heart beat faster at its peak.
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