Boosting faster Coffee and tea improve our sportiness

Sporting activities: Tea or coffee help to get going

Regular exercise is important to stay healthy and fit. But often you are just too tired or too energyless for sports activities. A study has shown that tea or coffee can help get going.

Physical inactivity is a health risk

Researchers from the US recently published a study that concluded that too little exercise and the resulting lack of fitness is more dangerous than smoking, diabetes and heart disease. But how do you manage to overcome the inner bastard and to move regularly? As Australian scientists have now found out, coffee or tea can boost athleticism.

If you feel too tired or too energyless to do sports, you should drink coffee or tea. Because the caffeine consumption helps to get going. (Image: ZoomTeam / fotolia.com)

Get going with coffee or tea

Lack of exercise damages the health. But what to do if you are too tired or too energyless for sports activities?

As the Australian-New Zealand University Network / Institute Ranke-Heinemann reported in a communication, researchers from the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences of the University of Queensland in Brisbane found that tea or coffee can help to get going.

The researchers said in their study that women who drink one or two cups of tea or coffee per day are more likely to do the recommended level of moderate to intense exercise than those who consume less.

The results of the study were published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Caffeine reduces tiredness and energylessness

Like Dr. Tina Skinner of the University of Queensland said caffeine intake through coffee and tea can promote sports activities for middle-aged women by reducing fatigue and loss of energy.

"Sporting activity is important in order to grow up healthy. Fatigue and lack of energy often discourage middle-aged to old women from creating the necessary workload, "Dr. Skinner in a message.

"Consuming the naturally and abundantly found in coffee and tea alkaloid caffeine has been associated with various health benefits, such as reduced exercise exertion and a self-selected increased intensity of exercise," Dr. Skinner.

"Caffeine is also linked to reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers".

One or two cups a day

The study looked at the habits of 7,580 women born between 1946 and 1951 and taking part in an Australian long-term study on women's health.

The participants were asked not only to document their average tea and coffee consumption over the last twelve months, but also to record their movement and sports behavior from the previous week.

"Coffee and tea drinkers feel less tired and have more energy," explained the study author.

"For those who drink one or two cups of coffee a day, they're 17 percent more likely to reach the recommended level of exercise. For those who drink one to two cups of tea a day, the figure was 13 to 26 percent. " Skinner.

"Sporting activity is important in every phase of life. Especially for middle-aged people, it provides physical functionality and independence, helping to minimize the risk of old age, "said the expert. (Ad)