PROBLEM STATEMENT

Endurance is the most important component for athletes that involve in long duration
activities which will differentiate athletes that fatigue faster with athletes that can last longer and
take more times before they fatigue (Muro & Parada, 2016). Therefore, caffeine has become one
of ergogenic aids that says to improve and enhance athlete endurance performance. Caffeine has
the ability to send a neural signal between the brain and neuromuscular junction and said to
increase the calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum, which result in muscle contraction
(Polito, Souza, Casonatto, & Farinatti, 2016).

Past study where Mexican professional soccer player ingesting caffeine to measure the
effect on the endurance performance, the test that being perform was yo-yo test and the result
indicate that caffeine did not give a positive effect on the distance travel, acceleration and sprints
counts (Muro & Parada, 2016). Other study says that ingesting caffeine to improve endurance
give a positive effect on a swimmer performance for trained and untrained swimmers, because it
can help the athletes to reduce fatigue because the caffeine has a stimulant effect on the central
nervous system (CNS), misinterpret of exhaustion, and increase mental concentration (Sciences,
2006).

Therefore, the effect of caffeine ingestion on endurance performance is yet to be explain

whether it can improve or does not give any effect. Because of that, the purpose of this study is to
investigate and obtain a clear answer of the effect of caffeine on endurance performance.

In studies of exercise in the military context, caffeine has been shown to combat the
effects of sleep deprivation on the performance of mentally and physically challenging tasks.
More sophisticated studies are needed to measure the carryover effect of caffeine related
impairment of sleep on subsequent performance. caffeine supplementation can affect sports
performance is through its impact on hydration status during exercise or in the recovery between
exercise bouts. Acute intake of caffeine is known to have a diuretic effect that is, to increase urine
excretion. Indeed, common education messages regarding caffeine include advice to limit
caffeine intake in situations in which hydration is challenged (e.g., air travel) or to consume extra
fluid in combination with the intake of caffeine.(Burke, 2014). Finally, caffeine is known to have
a range of apparently contradictory effects on carbohydrate metabolism, including short-term
impairment of insulin-mediated glucose disposal in response to an acute dose at rest, along with
an ap- parently protective effect (at least for coffee consumption) on the development of type II
diabetes (for review, see van Dam and Hu 2005)