Andrew Huberman· PhD
An exception is if you exercise right after you get up. In that case drink caffeine on waking.
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An exception is if you exercise right after you get up. In that case drink caffeine on waking.
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If you’re training close to waking and you do so better after caffeine, then don’t delay those days.
If I’m going to right or workout first thing in the morning, I’m taking my caffeine outside first thing in the morning or even drinking caffeine before the sun comes up and getting the training done early.
If I’m exercising in the first hour or two after waking, I’ll go straight to caffeine otherwise I delay.
First off, let me say that, if you are somebody who likes to wake up and do very intense exercise within the first 90 minutes after waking, well, in that case, it would be appropriate to ingest your caffeine just prior to doing that exercise. Not a problem.
However, the exception to that is that if I'm going to train early in the day, I do ingest water to hydrate as well as electrolytes and caffeine prior to training. And sometimes that means I'm drinking caffeine within 30 minutes or 60 minutes of waking.
if you're going to workout first thing in the morning and you like caffeine before a workout drink caffeine for first thing in the morning that's certainly what I do if I'm going to work out that day I like to have my