Cycling Tips and Tricks: How Coffee Can Help You Cycle Longer
Cyclists – if you have ever in your life needed a reason to drink more coffee – here is some concrete evidence.
Have you used coffee to assist you in long distance cycling?
Cycling Weekly posted this quite some time back.
It details that ” a combo of caffeine and carbohydrate gel”, given to amateur cyclists – made their cycling “significantly better than others who had smaller doses or none at all. The big hit of caffeine gave them staying power.”
“Riders who’d had just 0.2mg of caffeine per kilo of their body weight didn’t perform any better than if they’d had no caffeine at all. Those who got a whopping 0.7mg per kilo of body weight were the clear winners at the end of the ramp test – riding significantly longer than the rest”
Given this info – have you (or someone you know) experimented with the effects of caffeine on the body during cycling?
We’d love to hear your stories!