Drink Green Tea For Fat Loss

Did you visit a coffee shop today? I wonder what’s your favorite beverage. I do drink coffee, especially black coffee with extra espresso shot before training – it can do miracles for your performance. But there is another wonder drink with even more potential benefits, and you can drink this one pretty much without any limitations.

The Magic Of Green Tea

I’m talking about green tea. It has been found to stimulate fat burning and the development of muscle. Drinking it regularly can help you get lean and also improve your health. Not only it helps to improve body composition, research shows green tea improves your immune system, regulates blood sugar, improves insulin sensitivity, and it can even minimize the negative effects of alcohol.

A study found that green tea helped a group of overweight women to lose almost 10 kg of body fat in 8 weeks and increased their resting metabolic rate by 561 kcal. WOW!! That’s combined with training; however, even without training they lost 4 kg of body fat. Is that good or what? Here’s some more info on this study about green tea.

Spare Glycogen And Enhance Recovery

It is not that easy to shift the body into a fat burning mode, but taking green tea extract pre-workout is a simple and very effective way to do so. Green tea supplementation could also be used to spare glycogen during long and intense training, to increase time to exhaustion and enhance performance.

Green tea can speed recovery from intense training by enhancing the immune system and neutralizing free radicals produced during exercise. Antioxidants will help clear the acute inflammatory response and they will help in the case of chronic inflammation too. You will feel better post-workout and be able to smash it again sooner. More fat will be burned for fuel while increasing time to exhaustion.

Green Tea And Brain Health

Another amazing fact is that green tea has been proven to protect your brain cells as it’s recommended to those susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, which is the reduction of brain function associated with certain diseases.

How Much Green Tea Should I Have?

All this makes green tea an absolutely essential addition to your diet. A great strategy would be to drink 3-4 cups of green tea daily, that will also help you make sure it adds up to your recommended daily intake of water. Which is not just 2 litres folks ;) Additionally, take 500-600 mg of green tea extract supplement 30 min before workouts to maximize fat burning.