Does Caffeine Boost Exercise and Calorie Burning?
There have seemed to be a few schools of thought on whether caffeine can help you burn calories or may actually foil your calorie burning capabilities, particularly if you exercise after a caffeine burst. Well, which does it actually seem to be? I know I myself prefer to workout without caffeine in my system, although there may be some residual caffeine in my system if I happen to be drinking a little cup of coffee or a caffeinated energy drink like FRS, the one that combines antioxidants with caffeine and vitamins for energy boosts.
The big thing about caffeine before working out, and the reason it was treated as something you should not do before you work out, is because it was thought to rush the dehydration process. Not to mention the fact that exercising with caffeine in your system could affect your electrolytes balance, and make you feel fatigued before you normally would have without the caffeine during your workout, making your workout less intense as well as shorter, which we all know isn’t what you’re going for when trying to slim down and tone up with your exercise asipirations.
The recent findings on whether caffeine truly is a detriment to your workout does not confirm what many suspected, that caffeine should be avoided before a workout, and actually proves the opposite. It proved that caffeine actually boosts one’s performance many times during their workout, and enables people to actually workout longer than they normally could without caffeine in their system.
The people who headed up the study found that there is really no validity to avoiding caffeine prior to a workout and that the concerns of exercise experts that the person may experience increased dehydration and less ability to perform at peak levels during their workouts since most people in the study did not exhibit these characteristics after they had imbibed some sort of caffeinated drink. Hmm….interesting!
