Training and Drinking

[sk*]

Shit sk*! You sound like me!
I too ended up in A&E last year after a heavy one on booze.
Since then I've never been drunk. I have 1-2 drinks every 3-4 weeks.
Results:
1) Marked decrease in body fat.
2) Increased iintensity in the gym.
3) Better complexion.
4) Gains are easier.
5) More money in the wallet!!(££££ or $$$$$ for u guys)!

Make mine a Cranberry juice.....
EG

I had, believe it or not, accidentally drunk half a bottle of bacardi 151 and 2beers. Long story, but I had never intended to drink so much.

Another reason that turns me away from alcohol is my girlfriend. With the exception of last week, she used to drink everyday and many times to the point where she puked and passed out at home, not to mention driving drunk. Oh well, at least she is trying to stop and hasn't had any bit of alcohol for the 8th or 9th day today.

-sk

 

[ariolanine]

I drink on saturday night. Usually have about 6 beers and two shots. Just catch a nice buzz and smoke a few cigarettes. Life is about compromise. There is no one thing in my life that is more important than all other forms of pleasure. Lifting is close but still not everything.

 

[collegiateLifter]

Scary!!!

it's worth noting that alcohol's effects get massively worse after you drink more than 'in moderation'

 

[Devastation]

Drinking sucks. For me anyway. I've been a bouncer at a bar for the last 2 yrs and during most of that time, drinking didn't do shit for me. Just in the last 7 mos did I pretty much all but quit working there and have had the best results in my life as for as PR's are concerned.

I haven't been trashed since last July. I still have a couple beers a week and end up smoking a couple of fucking cigarette's (another problem). Drinking does nothing but create problems, healthwise and homewise. That shit almost ruined my marriage last summer, among other things.
Put family and friends first. And if your friends do nothing but drink, find some new friends cuz the drunk kind can't do shit for ya.

Overall, IMO drinking has no real benefits. just my 2 cts.

 

[gonelifting]

Interesting thread. The guy I lift with (Ruspa on here) has the BEST workouts ever after a weekend of serious drinking. It makes no sense to me at all and he has "tested" it many times. He will be stronger and more intense that Monday more then any other one if it was preceded by a weekend of drunkedness. I really don't understand it, and Im not joking the dude is considerably stronger the next week if he drank a lot as opposed to if he stayed in. Im guessing it must be the extra calories or something. I stay in and eat healthy and get some decent rest, he goes out and gets plastered and comes back and kicks my ass in a lot of the lifts. Not fair!

I`m going to guess that he`s CARBO LOADING with the beer he`s drinking. I know they`re not the best but they`re still carbs. That might replenish him. ???

In another life, I used to drink almost every weekend up to about 20 Heinekens a night. the next morning (or afternoon) when I woke up I would always feel fuller and my muscles would look bigger. I did`nt know why then, but now I know it was from my shitty diet, I was starving myself and when I gorged on the beers I blew up.

anyway, I don`t think I could have worked out like your training partner after that though. lol

 

[IronLion]

IMHO no one that drinks heavily should complain at all about not making gains. It is ridiculous to think you can drink all you want and be stronger for it. No one can period. The guys in special forces are almost always heavy drinkers, but the difference is that their performance is one of endurance which can be overidden by the mind. A strength athlete needs absolute performance and recovery...you just can't do that if you drink more than the occasional beer.

 

[spatts]

Introduction to Alcohol for the Bodybuilder, Part I

Introduction to Alcohol for the Bodybuilder, Part II

Finally, we get to the good part -- or bad, if you like to hit the sauce with regularity. Acute ingestion of ethanol has been fairly consistently shown to significantly suppress testosterone production in both animals and humans, adults and adolescents.

Funny how one will pay for fake testosterone, but not mind pissing away the real thing.

 

[The Red Dragon]

Thanks again spatts, as always your help is appreciated

 

[collegiateLifter]

Introduction to Alcohol for the Bodybuilder, Part II

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Funny how one will pay for fake testosterone, but not mind pissing away the real thing.

copy cat

 

[RusPA81]

Interesting thread. The guy I lift with (Ruspa on here) has the BEST workouts ever after a weekend of serious drinking. It makes no sense to me at all and he has "tested" it many times. He will be stronger and more intense that Monday more then any other one if it was preceded by a weekend of drunkedness. I really don't understand it, and Im not joking the dude is considerably stronger the next week if he drank a lot as opposed to if he stayed in. Im guessing it must be the extra calories or something. I stay in and eat healthy and get some decent rest, he goes out and gets plastered and comes back and kicks my ass in a lot of the lifts. Not fair!

I kick ass. Get used to it. And stop revealing my training secrets.