Coffee helps us stick to fitness plans
To add to many benefits of coffee in our lives, a new study says it helps us stick to our fitness plans.
Aside from the lack of time, the perception of effort is the leading reason why people drop their fitness goals. This ‘inherent laziness’ makes us choose watching TV (zero effort) over hitting the gym (so much effort), in spite of our fitness goals.
In a paper published this month in the scientific journal Sports Medicine, Professor Samuele Marcora, a University of Kent endurance expert, suggests the caffeine or other psychoactive drugs can reduce the perception of effort.
He also states that whilst there is no strong ethical opposition to the use of psychoactive drugs to help quit smoking (nicotine) or treat obesity (appetite suppressants), the negative perception of doping in sport may prevent the use of stimulants and other psychoactive drugs to treat physical inactivity which is responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity.
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