They found that a wide variety of athletes use coffee to help them progress in their exercises. According to Simon Higgins, a sports medicine expert, "coffee contains chlorogenic acids which can help the body in many ways, causing a person's body to maintain a steady pace after the energy from the consumed coffee wears off." If a person's body is not accustomed to coffee, the caffeine in coffee will cause headaches and other symptoms. Always be careful about how much coffee you drink because it will cause severe body pain such as knee and elbow pain. Consuming coffee before exercise can increase energy, but eventually the effect will wear off and cause a person to urinate