Caffeine Does Not Cause Dehydration Or Hurt Your Muscle Building Efforts
Dehydration is something you need to avoid at all costs when trying to gain weight and build muscle. A dehydrated muscle is one that will not grow in size or mass at all. Interestingly enough, one of your biggest friends in the gym, as far as nutrition goes, is also one of the biggest criticized and accused of causing dehydration…..caffeine.
Well, I’m here to tell you that’s not the case. Caffeine stimulates muscles to contract harder and spares the breakdown of glycogen, which is what muscles use for energy during intense weight lifting sessions. It does this by freeing up fatty acids so that they can be burned up during training, resulting in your muscles remaining “fuller” and your body fat being decreased.
Caffeine also can increase strength and endurance…..two biggies that will help you train with more weight, for a longer amount of time, and for more reps. All of these are big factors in stimulating gains in weight and muscle mass. As far as the dehydration claim goes, as some experts have pointed out, if you were to drink 18 ounces of coffee at one sitting, you would have to urinate more than that amount within an hour for it to be considered a diuretic agent. As most of you java lovers know, that simply does not happen in the real world (unless you have some kind of special medical condition). Research has confirmed that caffeine alone doesn’t cause dehydration.
Being that caffeine has so many positive effects on your weight training, such as increased strength and endurance, which assist in gaining weight and building muscle mass naturally, and also on getting rid of body fat fast, and doesn’t cause dehydration, like many claim, I say, “Pour me another cup!”. And I suggest you do the same.
Want to learn what other things you can do to help you gain weight and build muscle naturally and without supplements? Visit Firefighter Jonathan Perez’s blog at:
http://www.muscle-weight-gain.com/fast-or-slow-reps-to-build-muscle-gain-weight/
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