How to overcome the addiction to coffee and improve performance without consumption?

The kit of the question to disengage from the coffee is simple and it happens to reduce its intake gradually

 

In this article, continuation of "Consequences of stimulant abuse for training" our nutrition expert Miguel Ángel Rabanal Tells us how to do to overcome the addiction to coffee.

In the previous installment we record that there are many triathletes addicted to stimulants like tea, coffee or commercial pre-training. Although we said that it was not harmful to health to drink coffee or tea from time to time, the problem arose when we consumed it daily, when a tolerance occurred that nullified the stimulating effect and made us dependent, in addition to exhausting the adrenal glands, responsible for producing important hormones that influence athletic performance.

At this point, you will ask how to overcome dependence on stimulants in your day to day, since if you are one of those who every morning has the habit or ritual of the 3 coffees, I do not need to tell you that if you stop drinking those coffees, you will notice as if you had run out of energy, and you will not even feel like train, or move, or work, or think, or any activity that involves a physical or mental effort, you will feel decayed and sleepy!

Coffee or tea what it produces in our brain is canceling certain neurotransmitters that warn us of pain, fatigue and fatigue, and this the body interprets it as having not produced enough, and if we consume them daily, tends to generate more of these neurotransmitters compared to the normal values ​​of someone who does not take them daily.

Hence, it is cWe would like to disintegrate ourselves little by little as if it were a drug in order to restore the normal situation in our brain so that the days we need a shot of vitality (either in a demanding training or in a competition) serve us simply with a coffee, something that we previously hardly perceived and had to take the whole coffee pot to notice some stimulating effect.

The kit of the question to unhook coffee is simple and goes through reduce your intake gradually: if we take 3 daily coffees, we will try the first month to take two and a half, the second month two, the third month one and a half, the fourth month only one, the fifth month average coffee and in the sixth month, after almost half a year , do not take any except in those specific cases where we need it. And if coffee is a ritual for you, try to make up for those shots that you have been gradually eliminating for decaffeinated coffee, which nowadays has flavors and aromas very successful.

In addition to this simple process, you will need to supplement with some type of invigorating of the adrenal glands to help you and not feel listless and irritable, and for this nothing better than opting for one of the largest organic adaptogens that exist in nature and that is Ginseng, trying to take the Asian variety (Panax) for the mornings, and the American variety in the evenings.

If you do not really know what amount to take and you want me to advise you based on your degree of addiction to coffee or tea, you can write me to my personal email (intelligentrunning@gmail.com) telling me that you are followers of Triathlon News.

I hope it has helped you to overcome your addiction to caffeine and in the next installment I will tell you how much is the ideal to perform at the maximum in a competition and at what time to consume it.

Miguel A. Rabanal

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