5 Starbucks Drinks For Workouts That Can Help Your Exercise Game

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Green Tea

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Starbucks® Refreshers™ - Black Cherry Limeade with Coconut Water

This option from the Starbucks refrigerator section is the Black Cherry Limeade with Coconut Water. This drink, which you can get the benefits of both before and after a workout, includes the benefits of both cherry juice and coconut water.

Tart cherry juice pre-workout can help ease muscle soreness, and coconut water after a workout has potassium to replace lost electrolytes. While this refresher has a bunch of other ingredients and the cherry juice is from concentrate, this can be a nice choice if you're looking for something sweet but not harmful to your workout plan.

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Matcha Green Tea Latte

For all the perks of drinking green tea, matcha seems to multiply them. The health benefits of matcha include calming and cancer-preventing properties. If your workout has revved you up, the Starbucks Matcha Green Tea Latte can help calm you while giving you a slow-releasing boost of caffeine for the rest of your day. Available hot or iced, this tea latte can have even more workout perks if you replace regular milk with coconut milk (which some studies have found to be anti-inflammatory).

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Almond Protein Blended Cold Brew

Starbucks protein blended cold drinks aren't like anything else on the menu. The may look a little bit like Frappuccinos, but they're a way better bet around a workout.

The Almond Protein Blended Cold Brew is available for a limited time, but it sounds amazing to try. This drink takes Starbucks go-to cold brew and blends in plant-based protein (pea protein and brown rice protein), a banana-date sweetener, almond butter, and almond milk, with ice. That's a pretty great post-workout treat.

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A Plain Coffee

If tea isn't your thing, and other drinks sound too busy for you, having a plain coffee before a workout isn't going to harm you, and may actually help. TIME reports that a jolt of caffeine pre-workout can increase your energy levels (of course), and can make you more alert (so you can concentrate better on your form). Just make sure you're properly hydrating too. Try Starbucks' featured dark roast, with whatever mix-ins you typically take with your coffee.

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Luckily, Starbucks lovers don't need to avoid their favorite coffee shop around workouts. Still, being strategic about what you order before or after hitting the gym will help ensure that you see as many benefits of your workout as possible.