The first opposing article does not provide significant evidence that preworkout supplementation is safe, and can therefore be interpreted as inconclusive. The authors did not provide a specific hypothesis. In this study, researchers conducted two separate trials to determine the safety and effectiveness of a PWS on healthy men and women. The first part of the trial was meant to specifically research the safety of using PWS. The second trial took a closer look at the actual impact preworkout supplements have on performance and mass. All trials were randomized, ran a total of six weeks, and all participants were tested before and after supplementation by a health care professional (Kedia, Hofheins, Habowski, Ferrando, Gothard, & Lopez, 2014).
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Without 24/7 monitoring, subjects could skip a workout, neglect their meal plan, or even forget to take the preworkout supplement thirty minutes prior to working out. In an attempt to monitor the participants, reminders were sent out with all of the guidelines. A longer, larger study might also help provide better results. Six weeks and an average of about forty people per trial can only tell the researchers so much. The study would benefit from a larger sample size and a longer trial period to make the results more generalizable to a larger …show more content…
This means that a method was used to ensure that the participants were randomly selected to be in a group while the researchers were also unaware of who was being placed in each group. These two characteristics provide more reliable and less biased data. These two methods are used frequently in studies of this nature. On top of these two strengths, the compliance of this study was also one hundred percent. Participant’s compliance during the study provides the most precise data possible.
Like most of the experiments used, the sample size could be larger. A larger sample size that also includes women would make the study more generalizable to the public. Having such a small sample size and a short trial period prevents the researchers from finding further and different conclusions. The study would benefit from a larger sample size that includes women and runs longer than a six-week period. Previously “resistance-trained men” provide different data than women or other individuals not previously
Without 24/7 monitoring, subjects could skip a workout, neglect their meal plan, or even forget to take the preworkout supplement thirty minutes prior to working out. In an attempt to monitor the participants, reminders were sent out with all of the guidelines. A longer, larger study might also help provide better results. Six weeks and an average of about forty people per trial can only tell the researchers so much. The study would benefit from a larger sample size and a longer trial period to make the results more generalizable to a larger …show more content…
This means that a method was used to ensure that the participants were randomly selected to be in a group while the researchers were also unaware of who was being placed in each group. These two characteristics provide more reliable and less biased data. These two methods are used frequently in studies of this nature. On top of these two strengths, the compliance of this study was also one hundred percent. Participant’s compliance during the study provides the most precise data possible.
Like most of the experiments used, the sample size could be larger. A larger sample size that also includes women would make the study more generalizable to the public. Having such a small sample size and a short trial period prevents the researchers from finding further and different conclusions. The study would benefit from a larger sample size that includes women and runs longer than a six-week period. Previously “resistance-trained men” provide different data than women or other individuals not previously