I don't like bananas.

Also, I think regular running will have more devastating effects on her health than caffeine anyway.

NO WAY!?

Come on Kashim, don't take my one true love from me...

Does your husband read this forum?

Occasionally... >_>

He is still pouting because I didn't go2glom to hang with him. Besides, he knows he falls below running on the ladder... I mean I ran during our honeymoon!

An interesting point, I'd love to discuss... but I'm out of time :(

(must. do. homework. not. play. on. forums.)

Come on Nars don't leave me hanging and unsatisfied....intellectually!

I lol'd.

I like running, but at my height and weight, it's killer on my joints. And I need them for weightlifting, so I am stuck with swimming, which I can't do yet because I live nowhere near a pool.
And yeah, listen to the Doc. I take foodadditions, but just so I see more of a growth in my overall muscle-amount and all, and I actually do notice a difference between with pills and without, sooo yeah. Food additions ftw. (Though you got to know what to look out for and stuff)

I was going to say this too. Training for marathons is good for your body. Actually completing a marathon is bad for you, and puts excessive strain on your body. In fact, the first person who ran a "marathon" dropped dead after delivering his message.

It sounds like Simimi isn't familiar with the wonderful world of the legal drug that is caffeine, and as such, probably doesn't need to be introduced to it. I can say that I don't have a caffeine addiction (might have at one point, I used to get headaches on the weekend from not drinking coffee at the office), but I enjoy coffee and some 0 calorie/carb/sugar Rockstar energy drinks fairly often. My problem is that I'm in mediocre shape, and I don't get nearly enough sleep, so I have to make up for that somehow.

Now, there are days, when depending on what I've eaten and how I feel, the caffeine will hit me like a freaking truck. A truck made of SUPERPOWERED parts. It makes me want to run around the block of a few.

Caffeine will help you perform better... but then again so will steroids. It doesn't mean it's good for you!

I totally agree with Narsrim that short-term caffeine use is indeed a performance booster. I certainly used some ungodly brew of double-high-pressure-brewed coffee plus crushed vitamin C tablets and a splash of Cytomax right before swimming finals ("Guaranteed to make you hit the wall like a Mac Truck", and that's no hyperbole...), but the point I was trying to make was more regarding long term use. I think in my sleepless stupor I misread the question, so now that I'm fully awake and more in control of my faculties... mleh.

Caffeine does bad things to me. Let's leave it at that.

"Alle Dinge sind Gift und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist." - Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541)

Translated:

"All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison." It's like -the- famous Toxicology quote.