news you can use If you’re planning on using exercise to get yourself in shape for summer, you might want to drink a couple of cups of coffee first. In a study recently released, researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens found that the amount of caffeine in two cups of coffee cut exercise-induced muscle pain in half.

The group studied nine college-aged women who were given caffeine or placebo at 24 and 48 hours after performing what is called eccentric exercise. The two intensities of exercise tests were actually designed to cause soreness in the subjects’ thigh muscles, or quadriceps. It is interesting that the harder the women exercised, the more effective was the caffeine at relieving their muscle pain. Those who consumed caffeine one hour prior to the more difficult exercise test had 48% less pain than the placebo group, while the women who consumed caffeine prior to the less difficult test had 26% less pain than the placebo group.

The authors wrote: “Eccentric exercise occurs when skeletal muscles produce force while being lengthened. For example, the biceps brachii muscles act eccentrically when a cup of coffee is lowered from the mouth to a tabletop. This experiment found that caffeine (equal to approximately 2 cups of brewed coffee) could produce a large reduction in pain resulting from eccentric exercise-induced, delayed-onset muscle injury. This finding may improve the quality of life of individuals who experience skeletal muscle pain after engaging in unaccustomed, eccentrically biased exercise.”
According to Dr. Victor Meridakis, “If you can use caffeine to reduce the pain, it may make it easier to transition from that first week into a much longer exercise program…. but you have to apply some common sense and not go overboard.”
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Thank you for sharing that with us MissTina. I feel very informed now about this subject.

I got this information off of a coffie science website very interesting reading

I will just stick to beer..I think it goes to my butt though...Yea i got a fat booty

I don't like coffee or beer.

GASP!!!

you... you... un-American!!

Let me guess you like warm tea

awwwwwww...

okayyyyyyy...

I was only kidding

I like most drinks except for coffee or beer.

Don't like coffee???????????????????????????????????

I like baseball and apple pie.

I won't drink it.

I love the smell of it though.

i knew there was SOMETHING wrong with winx...this is just the tip of the iceberg i suspect

brb

It certainly is very interesting MissTina. I am fascinated with this subject now

coffee actually helps me with my blood disease...beer just makes me feel happy lol

I don't like coffee or beer either. I do like HOT tea. I also like single malt scotch.

its good to be aware of something you put in your body and the effects of such http://www.coffeescience.org/

I heard about this coffee thing like 5 years ago...and on top of it, I know people who work out, who also don't like to drink coffee, but do take coffee pills instead.