I was just wondering about your opinions on this idea?

Its caffeine and sugar and caffeine does inhance performance so yea if you feel it helps and like the taste sure.

I prefer drinking a couple mugs of coffee and a maltodextrin/whey shake before i go work out. Warms you up in the wintertime also.

Ensure you are getting in adequate amounts of water before, during, and after workout as well.

i also enjoy have a red bull before pumping the irons.

Does it help...makes you lift more? lift longer? if it does considerably, I will buy a can first thing tomorrow.

It's probably best to do those types of drinks post resistance workout rather than before because the taurine in those formulas with everything else that's in there ( also when you're liklely to do your big carb and max out hypertrophy by carb injectioninto the muscle fibre) is goood recovery fuel and glyco top up.

If it was cardio you were asking about though ..now that would be a different story .

cheers

BL.

yea caffeine is ergogenic, it stimilates your CNS and will make you more alert aswell as enhance endurance.
Caffeine tabs is way more efficient tho and costs only a fraction of a red bull can.

They are fine as long as you get a lot of water. I also find that energy drinks in general make you really dehydrated. I used to get headaches while working out because I didnt realize that my body needed water after an energy drink.