How Caffeine Affects Your Workouts & Sleep (Plus 3 Myths You Probably Believe)
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We're talking about the impact of caffeine on performance and health. Listen to learn how to effectively incorporate caffeine into your routine for enhanced focus and energy, while understanding the potential effects on sleep and tolerance.
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The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
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📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. I am Patrick Cummings. I'm here, as always, |
| 0:04.7 | at E.C. Sikowsky. Every week, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness. And we thank you for joining us this week. Hello, and how are you, E.C. Great. How are you doing? I am well. We're going to talk about caffeine today. We haven't done this for a while. Yeah. A little bring back. We're going to talk about caffeine day. |
| 0:22.4 | We've got to, I think it's a, caffeine today. I think it's a listener question that you felt like, this warrants an entire episode. So as I'm going to get to, before we do, a quick thing, you just put up a new page on the website that we want to let people know about. Keynote speaking. What is that? What do you want to talk people about it? |
| 0:38.5 | Yeah, if you have various events, |
| 0:40.9 | if you have conferences, if you have corporate wellness interest |
| 0:44.7 | where- Family reunions, yes. |
| 0:48.0 | That would be amazing. |
| 0:49.0 | That'd be amazing. |
| 0:50.0 | Please do you invite me to family reunions. |
| 0:50.9 | This could be wonderful. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, but events where you want somebody to talk about |
| 0:56.2 | real nutrition, real effective, evidence-based, sustainable nutrition. I'd love to learn more about |
| 1:01.9 | your event and see if it can be a good fit. And there's just some more information at optimize |
| 1:06.3 | me, nutrition.com slash speaking, but also just a really short, you you know input form that we can reach out and |
| 1:11.8 | connect and and figure out what you are looking for amazing all right i look forward to your first |
| 1:16.9 | family reunion booking what's the wedding crashers i feel like it's sort of like that |
| 1:22.2 | like easy just shows up with these events and is like, fruits and vegetables. |
| 1:30.4 | All right, let's do some background here. |
| 1:32.0 | Why are we talking about caffeine? |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, as you mentioned, this is a little bit of a spin-off or I guess an expansion of a listener question. |
| 1:39.0 | So we did talk about caffeine way back in 2022. |
| 1:42.8 | And then Andrew sent in some questions about caffeine that I thought |
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