New paper published on @IJESPORTS . Titled: 🔴 Time to ‘Power-Up’ Esports Performance Nutrition: A Systematic Scoping Review🔴. ✅Open Access ✅. 📊 Original Review Article 📊. 🔵Authors: Kate Lawson and James Fleming . Link:

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🔵Caffeine may be an effective ergogenic aid in some circumstances but evidence on the benefits of other nutritional supplements is limited. 🔵More research is needed to understand the optimum diet and use of supplements to aid performance – & whether this varies by game type.

🔴Highlights . 🔵Early evidence suggests that esport players may have sub-optimal dietary habits that are detrimental to their health, despite believing that diet is important for performance.

Whilst energy drinks are widely used, nutritional supplements have shown equivocal results on performance to date. 🔴 Keywords: Esports, Diet, Supplements, Performance.

Conclusion: Current research suggests that esport athletes believe a healthy diet is important for performance. However, emerging evidence suggests they have sub-optimal dietary habits that may negatively influence their health and performance.

The remaining 7 studies were nutritional supplement interventions with 5/7 using caffeine alone or in combination with other ingredients. On analysis two main themes were identified: 1) Sub-optimal dietary habits; and 2) Impact of supplements on cognitive and gaming performance.

Results: 14 records were identified, and key findings charted. Seven studies aimed to record habitual dietary intake and links to health and performance in esport athletes.

Articles were required to classify participants as esport athletes and consider nutritional intake, including the use of dietary supplements, in the context of training and competition.

Methods: The JBI Guidance for Scoping Reviews was followed to conduct a systematic search of MEDLINE and EBSCOHost for peer-reviewed original research articles.

🔴 Abstract . Objective: The aim of this scoping review was to explore existing evidence on the nutritional intake and performance of esport athletes.

St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, United Kingdom . *Correspondence to: Correspondence to James Fleming, St Mary's University, Twickenham, London GB, GB . Email: james.fleming@stmarys.ac.uk.

RT @DrSethJenny: New citation of our #esports research:. "Eight-Weeks of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Improves Esport Performanc….

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🔵 When compared to our previous work, the combined effect of acute and chronic HIIT on esport performance is greater than the effect of acute HIIT alone.

🔵 There was no significant effect of chronic HIIT alone. However, there was a significant effect of a combination of acute and chronic HIIT on esport performance in SSBU Competitors.

🔴 Highlights. 🔵 Results serve as evidence of a positive effect of HIIT on esport performance in SSBU Competitors.

These findings serve as preliminary evidence of a positive effect of endurance exercise on esport performance. 🔴 Keywords:  SSBU, esports, exercise, performance.

There was no significant effect of chronic endurance training (p=0.13) However, chronic training combined with an acute bout of HIIT points to a combined effect of acute and chronic endurance training on esport performance (p<0.001).