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Drinking strong coffee before exercising increases fat-burning, new study finds

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228 points curmudgeon22 | 2 comments | 28 Mar 21 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.561s | source
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rubyn00bie ◴[28 Mar 21 17:49 UTC] No.26612442[source]▶
This is not surprising to anyone who has ever walked into a GNC, or other health food store... is it even news? They’ve been selling shit like “redline” for many years to do exactly this.

Power fat burner: caffeine + blood thinner. That’s most of what things like redline do. Is it going to work if you don’t exercise? Nope, but it sure as hell does help if you are exercising.

I’d really only recommend it to people focused on losing a lot of weight. If you’re trying to lose 10lbs it’ll never make a difference. If you’re trying to lose 100lbs though, then yeah, 6-12 months worth of slightly increased metabolic rate will probs have a net positive affect.

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1. stefanmichael ◴[28 Mar 21 18:12 UTC] No.26612694[source]▶
If you ever want a very real anxiety attack drink half of a redline without any caffeine tolerance. If you want to die, drink an entire redline.

I tried it once in college and it blew my mind that something like that was available off the shelf.

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2. matwood ◴[28 Mar 21 19:37 UTC] No.26613538[source]▶
I came here to write this same comment, and I have a caffeine tolerance. Redline is the pot candy bar of caffeine. It's a tiny bottle and if you don't read the side that says drink 1/2 or less too start, you can end up in a pretty bad state.

But it's still nothing compared to Ripped Fuel in the 90s. In college I could take a couple of those, lift hard for 2 hours, shower and then party all night like it was no big deal.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/32157-ripped-fuel-work/

> Thermogenic dietary supplements, more commonly known as weight-loss supplements, were classically made up of ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin, known as the ECA stack (ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin).