Does Tea cause weakness like coffee?

"Thickness has nothing to do with it. Tea is steeps from leaves. Coffee is steeped from ground roasted beans. Coffee happens to have a LOT more caffiene than tea, and this is fact."

Thickness does have something to do with it, that is why people feel dehydrated after drinking it, sweating and other weezy feeling symptoms depending on other factors such as having diabetes.

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"Coffee is NOT , I repeat NOT a narcotic. Morphine is a narcotic. Codiene is a narcotic. HEROIN is a narcotic. Caffiene is, as you stated, a central nervous system stimulant, containing both beta and alpha adrenergic properties. I know what I'm talking about. You do not. This is also fact"

What I really meant is that it is "like" a narcotic because it can be addictive and it is addictive which most narcotics and chemicals found in certain foods are.

One last thing, it is a proven fact that tea can variably have much more caffiene than coffee depending on how the coffee is served and how its measured, for example, dry tea can have significantly more caffeine then your average cup of coffee, which also depends on how long the tea leaves have fermented. But when your talking on average per serving on ounce, you do have coffee on top. Here is one observed fact that stupifies your comments.

Coffee: 5 oz cup----Per Ounce= 16 can have 40-170 mg
Tea: One Tea bag-Per Ounce= 05 can have 25-110 mg

Put two tea bags in and you have twice the amount of caffeine than black coffee.

I can understand why you say otherwise, the heat can get to you and delude your mind.

tookien1

"You don'nt truly know anyone until you realize they watch The Matrix too often"

It depends on the type of coffee you are drinking.
Nescafe, is good if you want to start jumping around like a jack-in-the-box.
The purpose of cafeine when working out (appart from energy) is to change the fat/energy burning ratio towards more fat burn.
Nescafe is bad quality coffee , it has any number of other chemicals in it, thats why if you put a litle water and shake it froths up. Do you think that normal ground beans froth when you shake them??
Get a good coffee machine, get a good cup of coffee, dont drink to much and you will be fine.

I love coffee, Its the life juice

MikeMartial

Yah, I think your right about that thickness issue with the coffee, I always thought of it that way and it was something I read in a health article a while back but perhaps I misunderstood and conflicted resoning. Sorry for being a little harsh with my last post, I don't want to argue or make enemies on any forums, just ignore my overreactivity (if there is such a word) I may make, thanks.

tookien1

Caffene makes me shaky and anxious and feel sick. I had a caffene pop once and I didn't sleep for three days. LOL. I stick to caffene free everything! It dehydrates the body too. Not goooood!

I got a little bit worried a while ago that I could drink over 15 cups a day and it didn't seem to affect me (I was slimmer, I recall). These days I hardly drink it.

Martial point, apparently the first instant coffee was supplied in a cake-form to soldiers in the American civil war. It aided their concentration and aggression.

What a nice question?.... i think that thickness issue with the coffee...Coffee still takes the cake, but we'll let sleeping dogs lie on that one, but Nescafe is bad quality coffee. thank you..
Green Tea
Black Tea
Blossoming Tea

"The caffiene in both acts as a stimulant; if used in the proper amount and timed right, it is highly beneficial to training."

Caffeine dehydrates you. This is not something that you want to do in any amount prior to training. Drink water or gatorade. Caffeine also raises the heart rate and can affect blood pressure. Also not things that you want to do prior to your work out.
Sure, you want a workout that raises your heart rate. But pumping it up unnaturally is not a good idea.
In moderate amounts tea and coffee will not be harmful to a healthy person. But misuse of a stimulant, even a legal one, will cause health problems.

Hmmm, I think that drinking tea prior to a workout is a good idea. Just as long as you are making sure to stay hydrated. This may be all mental, but atleast for me, drinking tea helps to revitalize my mind. It helps to wake me up from my "sleepiness" and live in the present. This is why I will sometimes drink a cup of tea and meditate before I go in for a long training session, exam, or tournament. It helps me to feel more at peace I guess. Though I don't drink just any old cheap tea from the grocery market, I actually bring back my own tea from China whenever I visit my family there. I usually drink Pu-ehr tea. It is very good, but quite expensive relative to other teas.

So basically, I personally would recommend to drink a cup of good quality tea before a long day, just make sure to stay hydrated...maybe drink some gatorade beforehand as well. ^_^

Tea really helps me out. I used to drink coffee all the time, but it caused major headaches. Besides TKD, I'm also a competitive swimmer and the chlorine made it so bad that my coach had to take me out of the pool. Since then, she has forbidden me from coffee while in season. On the other hand, tea doesn't cause that and it helps revitalize me. It's my new coffee.

Didn't you say you were 17? And drinking coffee at that young age? Man times have changed. At that age I never needed caffeine to get moving. Way to go starbucks..

My grandmother got me on it when I was 5. I come from a family of coffee drinkers. Yeah...such a great influence. Back then, coffee only caused me to calm down. I miss my old reaction a bit. I'm sorta glad I got off of it though. I have way more energy for anything that is active.

dang, 5 on coffee? my dad was a coffee drinker and I still didn't touch it. It wasn't until I went into the Army. Man, alot of bad habits came from the army...hhmm,

Hmmm you guys are definitely right that caffeine have different effects on different ppl

I remember in teh last year of highschool, many nights i drank super super strong (i added like 5 tspoons of expresso to the cup lol) coffee to keep me up to study...then half an hour later I felt sleepy and slept with no problem at all

No addiction AT ALL...I swear

But I also remember earlier this year I did the same but with normal dose of coffee, and couldn't sleep until 6am

My personal advice is to avoid it if you dont' like it.
eg. If you extremely hate coffee, but drank it anyway to energize, you wouldn't feel as good as if you didn't drink it at all
I actually hate coffee, but love virtually any type of tea

Just remember that some teas help with healing of sickness and injuries - but you can decide for yourself whether they help with exercise or promote "weakness"