Sport Tea and coffee

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benelson101

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Good morning.

I'll freely admit i have too much, but what do people think of tea and coffee?

i drink a lot of water, but around 2 tea + 1 coffee in the morning and a coffee at 4 (pre workout wake-up!) and another after tea.

i have a couple of peppermint teas after lunch and when i get bored at work, which are really good for digestion.

Is it that bad for you? i do get the cravings all the time but it may be more because im bored at my desk than anything else.

Thanks, take care.
Ben
 
You british?

That much caffine isn't good for you. And are you putting cream and sugar in your tea and coffee cause that also is bad.
 
lol, love the way you can guess where im from by my tea consumption.

yeah im in England. so im going to have to cut right down, its just v v hard. i never have sugar and low fat milk in tea.
 
as long as your using semi-skimmed with little or no sugar its not too bad.

Coffiee is bad full stop but tea is good. The pros say no more than 5cups a day and you must drink twice as much water as tea,

so 2 coffiees, 3teas should be the max
as long as your drinking 10 cups of water as well.


if you think that you will Wee a lot then yes you will. but you'll be training your bladder and over time you'll be ok.
 
i drink around 2-3 litres of water without the caffeine drinks, and i definitely visit the loo a lot more than most people!

my main concern was the withdrawal symptoms - just the problem with a boring desk job i suppose. Peppermint tea is a good substitute, but i waiting for my pre-leaving work coffee already.

thanks.
ben
 
If you can drink chinese green tea then its great. you can drink as much as you like. peppermint tea is ok but if you drink too much it can make your bottom work faster than It would normally.

do you drink freash tea? or tea from a machine? its its from a machine then I'd avoid it like the plague!!!!
 
its all tea bag, cant stand machine made anything to be honest. English people only drink machine tea when they really cant access a tea bag - like in a hospital. even then we moan.


how sad when a nation is defined by a drink.
 
I don't drink coffee when I am training. Ever. True story below, some people may think chiropractors are like witch doctors, but here goes:

Years ago I messed up my back helping my brother move to his new house. I was in really good shape then, worked out 5 days a week and was a Nautilus and free weight trainer.

So I went to a chiropractor, he interviewed me.
Do you smoke...No
Do you drink alcohol...occasionally
Drink coffee...No(at the timeI hadn't had coffee in months)
Heart Condition..No
Ever in a car accident...No
Etc Etc Etc

So I saw him twice a week for a while and everytime I went in I would lie face down on the table and he would do the 'adjustment', and he would also have me hold my arms straight out to my side and he would apply downward pressure and I would push back upward.

One day I went in there and as usual he tried the old 'strength test'. He says Ok push up. I do. He says "Hmmmmm, Try again". I do. He says "wow, that's strange". Then he tries my left arm. Same scenario. I ask him "what's up"? He asks me "Did you have coffee today?, I thought you didn't drink it" I said yes I did, and honest to God it was the first cup I had since I had started going for treatment.

"Ah", he says. "I knew something was up". I asked what he means. He says "You are much weaker today, and coffee can do that to some people, I know you lift weights, so you should really skip the coffee if you want a good workout"

I know it seems freaky, but ever since then, I never drink coffee if I am training.
 
Chiropractors can be flakes sometimes. There are good ones out there, but there are also a lot of quacks. Personally, I'd look it up on web md or something a bit more credible first. JMO. Maybe the caffine (that your body was unaccustomed to ) made you crash slightly, and that's why you lacked energy. Not so much a caffine effect on the muscles, just a typically caffine energy reaction. Or, it could be suggestive...


1-4 cups of coffee per day can actually be beneficial to your heart. Much better than soda anyway. Personally, bein from Texas, ice tea is a staple of our diet. Recently, we've switched to caffine free (ginseng) green tea without sugar. I don't get the caffine shakes or the crash, just a nice energetic feeling...
 
too much coffee is bad for the nerves, brain, heart.. but a single black coffee a day is great for burning fat, dont do it before working out though do it when your sitting at home doing nothing to keep your metabolism up
 
I drink TONS of Green Tea a day, its loaded with antioxidants and is good for keeping the metabolism running. Plus it tastes amazing.

I probably have anywhere between 50 - 100oz of green tea a day, and I drink around 100 - 300oz water a day, depending on if I have track that day.
 
oh wow... interesting. I drink a LOT of tea (earl gray)... I would say 5-10 cups a day. Though not a strong brew. I've read a few articles about studies that delt with the affects of caffeine on athletes, in general it improves endurance, when taken before a workout.

resource


I read a better article, but I can't find it. But in it they explained how it worked; it was something along the lines of caffeine helping the breakdown for carbs.... Or maybe breaking down proteins. I'll try to find it again.
 
Basicly you gotta look at it like this.

Caffieine is a drug. Its natural, but its still a drug.
Drugs like caffeine can help you out short term, but you'd be better off without it in the long term.
but what the hell, its only a cup of tea.
 
I read that coffee makes u fat?? Not just from the sugar and milk and cream ppl stick in it but something about your body looks at it as though its alot of sugar so it starts to let out insulin thus storing fat...

Also something about in the morning when u get up your body cleans itself and having coffee imediatley stops this process.
 
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