Let’s be frank here. I am not a tea person. I love my coffee. Tea? Well, I am okay with a cup or two once in a while when I am not feeling well but I would prefer to hold a coffee mug. I took the plunge (sacrifice coffee for tea) and invested in SkinnyMint TeaTox. It is one of the tea detox thingamajig that took the world by storm overnight from various skinny model endorsement. You know what? That SkinnyMint review of mine remains the top most read post in Street Love to date because IT DOES NOT WORK FOR ME lol! Fast forward to today, I am much more healthier and fitter to go on any detox program especially another teatox. We have all heard about teatox but have you heard about workout tea? No? Me either!

Amaze Tea is a company based in Sydney, Australia. All their teas are blended, infused, and packaged in Australia itself but the company source for the best organic herbs from the best tea makers around the world. What attracts me to Amaze Tea the most is how they market their product and the company. Instead of putting up all the misleading marketing strategies, Amaze Tea focuses on introducing their range of well-being tea offerings. Currently they have four varieties – Get Physical, The Daily Dose, The Detox, and Stress Reliever.

I am very much into fitness these days and I was introduced to Get Physical, which I was more than happy to try. Much to my friend’s surprise despite them following me on all my social media channels, I was often asked “you can run? I didn’t know you can run”. Yes, I can run and I run quite well too. I train every alternate day provided I do not have any meeting or event scheduled early in the morning. Otherwise I am still running 3-4 times a week. Despite training most of the time, one of the unavoidable recurring issue for me are injuries. I suffer shins splints most of the time. Then the injury stopped and went a little higher up the thigh to hamstring pull. Now I am on an injury called runner’s knee. I have tried everything I can to prevent injury from coming back but to no avail. That brings me to Amaze Tea Get Physical.

Get Physical is actually a workout tea. If drinking tea is able to give me more energy, assist muscle repair, reduce workout fatigue, boost muscle strength, increase metabolism, lessen muscle soreness and stiffness after running and increase fat loss during workout? SIGN ME UP IMMEDIATELY. I was told that this tea is the first of its kind (I don’t doubt that!) to successfully blend specific positive health properties of herbal tea and Branch Chain Amino Acids to aide through any workout naturally with no added chemicals. I was skeptical at first. How can something as simple as tea help me through my workout? I was indeed very skeptical. Even coffee can’t help me lol.

This Amaze Tea Get Physical works in two ways – as a pre-workout tea to prep me for my run and as an energy boost during workout. For me this is a three way tea as I also take the tea after my workout. Much to my surprise, this tea actually taste pretty good. There is no nauseating taste that is familiar in any other teatox and I also find that the tea is more of a powdery form than tea leaves itself. I have always been taking coffee before any run as energy boosting but one thing about coffee is that it makes you wanna pee all the time. This does not happen with Get Physical tea .

Morning run

I usually run early in the morning say around 6.30am. I would brew my tea earlier, drank a cup and waited for 15 minutes before I started running. The downside of this is the need to wait before I can run. But it is also good as I do not want to run with a tummy full with water. In the morning with this tea, I find that I can run much longer without the need to stop to catch a breath. I also do not get any pain on my legs by 2km like how I always do and I can last till 5km pain-free. Usually my shins would be pain, muscle would be sore and all. I was really surprised that I only had some muscle soreness after running and it went off quickly. Recovery time was cut shorter.

Evening run

Recently I tried heat training. I am too pampered with running with cold wind (morning run) that I have not been running under hot sun. I know this will be an issue if I am going for another half marathon or even full marathon soon. So I picked up heat training. Maybe it was my first time with heat training that I find it extremely hard to sustain my usual morning run routine. It was the sun and the heat that killed me. I was also coughing pretty bad when I tested this tea for my evening run so I cannot completely say that this tea does not help with energy boosting during the run as I myself cannot breath properly with the cough. It does helped with reducing fatigue and lessen muscle soreness after the run.

Overall I love this tea! Anything that can ease me through my run are very much appreciated. I especially like how less fatigue I was after each run and how much less muscle soreness I had. Any bit of muscle soreness I had went of far more quickly than usual. And this tea does what it said. It is as simple as throwing a tea bag in a mug, pour some hot water in, brew, sip and workout. As you are reading this, I am running at the park with a friend, with a tumbler filled with this Get Physical tea

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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