Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up. My name is

Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy. The ergodgenic effects or performance boosts of caffeine

on muscle endurance, muscle strength, anaerobic power, and aerobic endurance are significant.

But do you have to forego your morning cup of Joe for a while to really feel those effects?

A few years ago, I was preparing to race an Ironman 70.3, which is a half iron man, in Syracuse, New York. And you know what? My training was

going really well, and my confidence was really high, so high that I got it into my head that I may

actually be able to qualify for the world championships. And for somebody like me, qualifying for that

meant that I would really have to go

the extra mile, the metaphorical mile, that is. So I started looking into some of those more

fringe and perhaps less significant advantages that I could incorporate into my training.

Things like drinking beet juice and taking ice baths, and for two

weeks before the race, abstaining from my most beloved of beverage-based drugs, caffeine. I know, right?

Now, the point of this coffee abstinence was to allow my body to regain its sensitivity

to caffeine.

Then, in theory, when I had that big cup of glorious coffee on race morning, well, I would

really feel it.

Now, in the end, I'm not sure that I actually did feel much more of a caffeine rush than I normally do,

but what I did feel was that lack of caffeine in my system for the two weeks leading up to the event.

And let's just say I was not my usual chipper and positive self.

Now, you may be asking yourself, why did I focus on caffeine?

Well, caffeine is well known to enhance and prolong exercise performance. Most specifically,

doses of 3 to 13 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight have been shown to improve exercise performance.

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