A member on this forum once said “caffeine = cadence”. And I’ve found that to be true. I’ve used coffee as a stimulant (rather than just a drink I enjoy) ever since.
Here’s some more discussion on the topic:
I usually drink one cup of coffee a day, but for my last 2 OverUnder workouts I’ve drank 2 (a little bit bigger) cups of coffee (roughly 3mg/kg, according to this video by Shane Miller: Caffeine: Endurance Sport Performance Enhancer? - YouTube ) about 1 hour before the workout and it does seem to make the workout easier to complete. My question is: would doing this be beneficial because it helps me complete the hard workouts or detrimental because it doesn’t challenge my mental toughness to the …
After seeing the post this morning “How much caffeine on 100mi gravel” I went down a rabbit hole and have a question that I think merits its own topic.
I saw a paper that suggested that caffeine has an approximate half-life in the body of 5.7hrs. So by my math (degree in physics so I’m pretty sure I got this right) that means there is a k value of 0.1216 for caffeine when using hours and we can do some interesting calculations.
Let’s assume a racer has a cup of coffee (100mg) at 7am before a r…
I have read and I think it was mentioned on TR AACC podcast that caffeine negates the advantages of bett juice. So my question is what provides a greater advantage for the endurance athlete beets or caffeine?
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