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kirker wrote:

SCIN wrote:Too much caffeine and/or too little nourishment.

Any idea on how long caffine would affect the system. Do you think not drinking any the morning before climbing would help or does caffine stick with you for a couple of days.
I guess I could just try it and see, but that would make since especially since I don't drink much coffee during the summer months and don't remember it to be such a problem.

Thanks

The effects of the caffeine are in your system for 4-5 hours (depending on activity of course, if you're working hard it is less).

Caffeine has actually been proven to AID concentration in SMALL doses, so don't skip the morning Joe, just limit yourself to a cup or two.

Elvis in the building? I've found STRETCHING before climbing has a huge impact. Get those calves nice and loose.

The effects of the caffeine are in your system for 4-5 hours (depending on activity of course, if you're working hard it is less).

Caffeine has actually been proven to AID concentration in SMALL doses, so don't skip the morning Joe, just limit yourself to a cup or two.

Elvis in the building? I've found STRETCHING before climbing has a huge impact. Get those calves nice and loose.

agreed. usually when people drink coffee they are not drinking water, which also adds to the problem (double because you are already dehydrated and then you drink coffee, which acts like a diuretic, further dehydrating you). drinking caffeine days ago might not affect you on a route, but the lack of hydration might catch up with you a day or two later.

How in the hell is coffee a duiretic? It's all water!

The newest expert guidelines say that "other" drinks still give hydration to the body, and it takes 3 or more cups of coffee before there is a duiretic effect on the body. The most important thing is to drink EVERY time you are thirsty, and get mostly water rather than soft drinks or coffee. If you are running for more than an hour, you should have a sports drink to replace your glycogen stores and help you run longer before your muscles fatigue.

from the internet, so it must be true.... http://www.dmt123.com/diet-fitness/918-2-dmt123.html

RRO wrote:The newest expert guidelines say that "other" drinks still give hydration to the body, and it takes 3 or more cups of coffee before there is a duiretic effect on the body. The most important thing is to drink EVERY time you are thirsty, and get mostly water rather than soft drinks or coffee. If you are running for more than an hour, you should have a sports drink to replace your glycogen stores and help you run longer before your muscles fatigue.

from the internet, so it must be true.... http://www.dmt123.com/diet-fitness/918-2-dmt123.html

If you would just make your coffee not taste so good I would be having this problem.

its not the taste that really hooks you, its the crack we drop in.

For what ever its worth thanks for the advise Ray. Never thought coffee would do so much.
Climbed sat. on alot of stuff above my grade and leg shack wasn't what spit me off.

ynot wrote:How in the hell is coffee a duiretic? It's all water!

Both caffeine and water are mild diuretics.

RRO wrote:

its not the taste that really hooks you, its the crack we drop in.

Duh!

I too have read that the whole caffeine dehydrates you argument is incorrect... something, and don't quote me, bc I am too lazy to actually look it up at this point, to do with the absurdly large amount of coffee you'd have to drink / caffeine you'd have to consume for it to have such an effect upon the body. I just remembered where I read this, if you guys want to look it up: It was in a National Geographic that came out a couple years ago.... the whole article was on coffee.

DMW. I don't think the shake was from dehydration, but more of the anxiouse feeling you get when on a caffine fix. Which would intensify leg shake greatly.