Can Coffee Improve Your Workout?

We’ve all heard positive and negative things about coffee. Well I am here to tell you that coffee is a great catalyst to improve your performance while exercising. Just a few cups of coffee after a tough workout can help improve your muscles recover more quickly. A recent Australian study showed that for both recreational and advanced runners, those that took an eight ounce cup of coffee improved their 5K by an average of 10 to 12 seconds. The caffeine in the coffee causes an increase spike in blood glucose which results in an incredible spike in insulin that the drives the post-workout nutrients such as carbs, protein, and fats into those muscle cells.

To improve your performance in the gym, the best idea is to consume about a cup of coffee an hour before an endurance exercise or workout. The main thing that the caffeine in coffee will do to you is improve your time to exhaustion, increase heart rate, and boost oxygen consumption during exercise. So basically, in a nutshell, if you feel like you have a lack of energy or you are really tired, the best thing is to drink a cup of coffee before you hit the gym. You will definitely notice a spike in your energy which should allow you to alleviate the tiredness temporarily through your workout.

For everybody that believes that coffee may cause some type of heart related disease: In 2007, scientists at Brooklyn College found that men who drank 4 cups of coffee daily had a 53 percent lower risk of heart disease than those who never had a sip.