Sex, Drugs and... Exercise? Caffeine, Alcohol, Marihuana and Nicotine - Do All Our Favorite Addictions Clash With Being Healthy, Lean and Athletic?
The only truly ergogenic addiction is a SuppVersity addiction ;-) I am not sure if you remember my detailed elaborations on the effects of sexual intercourse on exercise performance from May 30, 2012 [see "Will Sex Before a Competition Hamper Your Performance?" | more] , but if you don't I'd suggest you start out with this SuppVersity Classic before you devote yourself to Rock'n'Roll by reading up on that in my article "Acoustic Gear" [ read more ] and return here for the missing third part of the triumvirate: Drugs! Drug #1: Caffeine - From your coffee mug to the doping list I am actually 100% confident that 99% of you have already trained "on drugs". Most of you probably do it regularly. Either with caffeine, about which Tony Chou reported in a 1992 paper that it is consumed on a daily basis by ~90% of the adult population (Chou. 1992). With average amounts of "only" 200 mg or 2.4 mg/kg/day (about 2 cups of coffee). ...