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Original SubmissionJune 14, 2019 |
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PONE-D-19-16976 Effect of caffeine on neuromuscular function following eccentric-based exercise PLOS ONE Dear Dr. Lima-Silva, Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process. PLoS ONE policies do not address originality or novelty of a manuscript for being considered for publication. However, it is mandatory that the work was performed with appropriate methodology and without major flaws. Therefore, I would like to ask you have special care when adjusting the manuscript following both reviewers' concerns. We would appreciate receiving your revised manuscript by Sep 29 2019 11:59PM. When you are ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file. If you would like to make changes to your financial disclosure, please include your updated statement in your cover letter. To enhance the reproducibility of your results, we recommend that if applicable you deposit your laboratory protocols in protocols.io, where a protocol can be assigned its own identifier (DOI) such that it can be cited independently in the future. For instructions see: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelines#loc-laboratory-protocols Please include the following items when submitting your revised manuscript:
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(Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: Manuscript Number: PONE-D-19-16976 Effect of Caffeine on neuromuscular function following eccentric-based exercise General Comments Authors carried out an interesting research regarding to the effect of caffeine on recovery of neuromuscular function, power and sprint performance following an eccentric-based exercises using a "Tirante Muscular� " in half squat exercise. Authors did a great job controlling many variables providing a broad vision when studying central and peripheral fatigue, DOMS, perceived recovery, muscle damage, CMJ and Sprint. However, the manuscript is well written and very good organized. Should be highlight why the Tirante Muscular� has been used, since it is not clear the reason that you chose this tool and not a Smith Machine or free weight. On the other hand, in the paragraph of experimental design, authors describe the sprint pre-test as “one sprint of 30 m, one of 50 m and one of 100m”. In the post- test, has not been carried out the same procedure, conversely have been performed: “1) 3 sets of 30m sprints, with a 5min rest between sets; 2) 3 sets of 50 m sprints, with a 7 min rest between sets and; 3) 3 sets of 100 m sprints, with a 10 min rest between sets”. These two protocols are different and the results cannot be compared due to the volume and the fatigue in each test. It is a limitation of this study that should be shown in the manuscript. It is possible to think that the performance in the sprint has not improved due to the fatigue that the post-test supposes. Perhaps a single series of 30m would have been enough to compare the performance in the sprint effectively. By this is important that authors explain it. Finally, only some changes I can propose to improve this manuscript. Thus, I considered that the paper could be accepted if the authors could correct mistakes pointed out. My specific comments are presented below. Specific Comments Page 2, line 42: Before “and”, “,” should not be used. On the other hand, between “72” and “h” the “-” it is not necessary and the authors due write in the same form along the manuscript because in some case don’t use hyphen. Page 2, line 45: The use of concept baseline is not appropriated to refer to Sprint performance. This concept is well used to muscle damage, DOMS or RT, but sprint need a warm up and activation process to do the best performance. By this, change “Baseline” by “Pre-test” could be more appropriated. Page 2, line 48,52: Remove the hyphen (24 h) (48 h) (72 h). Page 3, line 73: It would be good to write a brief description of how DOMS is measured in the literature. Page 3, line 73,77,78: Remove the hyphen (24 h) (48 h) (72 h). Page 4, line 101: It is necessary write the name of Creatine Kinase before (CK) since is the first time that appear this concept during de manuscript. Page 5, line 111-112: After “years old” should be used colon not comma and it is necessary write “height:” before 180.7…. Also, it is interesting to report the Mean and SD of 1RM load or the load used corresponding with 70%1RM. Page 5, line 123: The sentence starts very similar like the sentence before. Change “study” by “research” could be a good strategy of avoid be repetitive. Page 5, line 126: Explain if the 1RM test was carried out with Tirante Muscular� . Page 6, line 133-134: Unify the way to refer days (with numbers “2” or letters “two”). Page 6, line 134: Change “baseline” by “Pre”. Also, before “and”, “,” should not be used, remove it. Page 6, line 134-135: How much time was used to recover between the sprints? Page 6, line 134-137: Was carried out some warm up before Sprints and CMJ? Could you explain it? Page 6, line 139: Explain if the half-squat exercise was performed with Tirante Muscular�. Page 6, line 157: Remove the hyphen (48 h). Page7, line 173,175: Remove the hyphen (2 min). Page 8, line 182,183: Remove the hyphens (2 min) (3 s). Page 8, line 193: Remove the hyphen (0.5 min). Page 8, line 202: Remove the hyphen (30 s). Page 9, line 209,211,212,216: Remove the hyphens. Page 10, line 240: Could you explain the stretching exercises that was carried out? It is known that passive stretching can impair the performance. Page 11, line 251: Explain if a nurse or another qualified professional took the serum extractions. Page 11, line 252: You have used “Creatine Kinase” before, the abbreviation is enough in this case. Page 11, line 258, 260: Unify the way to refer the numbers of the scale (with numbers “0” or letters “zero” and “six”). Change words by numbers. Page 12, line 284,285: Before “and”, “,” should not be used, remove it. Page 12, line 289: If you have used “a half-squat exercise” during all manuscript in this case is more appropriate than “a half-squat resistance training”. Change it. Page 13, line 299: Before “and”, “,” should not be used, remove it. Page 13, line 312: Add “exercise” after a half squat. Page 14, line 333: You can use “CMJ” instead of “countermovement jump” Page 14, line 334: If you have used “a half-squat exercise” during all manuscript in this case is more appropriate than “a half-squat resistance training”. Change it. Page 15, line 346: If you have used “a half-squat exercise” during all manuscript in this case is more appropriate than “a half-squat resistance training”. Change it. Page 16, line 368: Add “s” after “athletes’ ” Page 16, line 378: Remove the hyphens (48 h) and (72 h) Page 17, line 392: It would be interesting to complete the paragraph with a section of limitations, perhaps report about the pre and post sprints test or regarding to only use one caffeine intake protocol. Figures 3 and 4: Unify the levels of values in the Y axis of all figures. MVC has nine levels, Qtwpost has seven levels or Qtw100 has eight levels. Reviewer #2: Review to: PONE-D-19-16976; Effect of caffeine on neuromuscular function following eccentric-based exercise. Major comments. This experiment was designed to assess the neuromuscular effects of caffeine intake during the recovery phase of an eccentric-based exercise protocol that induces muscle damage. Overall, the experiment seems well designed, it contains several measurements to fulfill the objectives of the investigation and it is conveniently described in a well-written manuscript. However, the experiment has a serious flaw: it is designed to assess caffeine’s effects in the recovery phase of a muscle-damaging exercise when most, if not all, performance variables returned to basal -non-fatigued- values within 24 hours after the end of exercise. This fact is likely due to the use of a “light” eccentric exercise protocol that produced very low levels of muscle damage – a pilot study would have been helpful to detect the inefficacy of this protocol to produce moderate muscle damage”. Thus, although I found merit in the experiment and I congratulate authors for the hard work developed for this investigation, I would suggest that authors reconsider the use of “recovery” through the manuscript because this is not what they were investigating -the recovery lasted < 24 h and they did not perform any measurement in this time. For example, the conclusion of the abstract should indicate that: “Caffeine improves muscle power 48 and 72 hours after an eccentric-based exercise…”. A limitation paragraph including this aspect is highly recommended. Other comments. Introduce information about the use of caffeine in athletics. Is this common? Indicate why you selected this protocol of eccentric exercise. And discuss the lack of a relevant increase in CK (for instance, you could compare these values with the ones found after a marathon). Indicate the habituation to caffeine of these individuals. The CK concentrations before exercise seems quite high (especially one participant with > 500 U/L). Please, discuss this in the light of previous investigations. Did they have previous muscle damage due to training? Why there is no data on jump height? Please, indicate the calculation of the sample size or at least, the statistical power with this sample of 11 individuals. A paragraph of practical applications for jumpers and sprinter might be suitable. How they should use caffeine during their training. Before all sessions? 48 h after a high-intensity session? Line 397. “sprinters” is twice ********** 6. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. Reviewer #1: Yes: González-Hernández Jorge Miguel Reviewer #2: No [NOTE: If reviewer comments were submitted as an attachment file, they will be attached to this email and accessible via the submission site. Please log into your account, locate the manuscript record, and check for the action link "View Attachments". 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Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 4. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available? The PLOS Data policy requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception (please refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript PDF file). The data should be provided as part of the manuscript or its supporting information, or deposited to a public repository. For example, in addition to summary statistics, the data points behind means, medians and variance measures should be available. If there are restrictions on publicly sharing data—e.g. participant privacy or use of data from a third party—those must be specified. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: No ********** 5. Is the manuscript presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English? PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous. Any typographical or grammatical errors should be corrected at revision, so please note any specific errors here. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 6. Review Comments to the Author Please use the space provided to explain your answers to the questions above. You may also include additional comments for the author, including concerns about dual publication, research ethics, or publication ethics. (Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: The authors have done a good job of completing the manuscript with the proposed comments. Well done! Reviewer #2: The authors have done a commendable work in improving the manuscript. In this new version, they have changed the focus of their investigation as suggested (from “muscle damage” to muscle performance after eccentric-based exercise), have discussed variables not included in the previous versions (i.e., jumps, CK concentrations) and have included limitations according to the weakness of their experimental design. I believe that the manuscript is ready for publication. ********** 7. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. Reviewer #1: Yes: González-Hernández Jorge Miguel Reviewer #2: No |
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