The infamous alcohol and gains contradiction has been up lately and will always be in flyer, alcohol actually interferes with our in a very systemic way, it can surplus your caloric intake overtime, a binged alcohol consumption over a weekend/ weekdays can cause lack in strength and if you’re still hungover then forget a day in the gym!
If you’re able to strike a balance between both then voila!! You’re an ACE!
There are many bodybuilder who gas down a bunch beer bottles and stay shredded year-round, nothing to say but they train hard enough and probably got great genetics!
I belive you can preform alright with Alchol in your diet and even have a good Physique but hard for a lot to admit you will never reach full potential and goals untill u remove the alcohol. When I’m “bulking” I will drink a couple nights a week 3-5 beers and a heavy drinking Friday night. On a cut like I’m now only have two drinks with my Friday night cheat meal. Getting rid of the Alcohol is easy calorie reduction
Alcohol and fitness have an opposing relationship. Alcohol decreases overall fitness, but working out and eating a healthier diet is one of the most effective ways to combat alcoholism.
Exactly, I believe that consumption of alcohol lowers the strength and causes dizziness and don’t recommend alcohol with workout at all.
This would actually be super dangerous. Alcohol consumption impairs hand eye coordination, fine motor skills etc.
You’d risk seriously injuring yourself if you to work out when drunk/tipsy.
Personally, I don’t think I’ve been drunk since like February. Otherwise I don’t really consume alcohol as it has a net negative impact on metabolic parameters/adaptation incurred through training stimuli.
I’m not a fan of alcohol due to the toxicity associated with it/the hangovers induced, but it’s legal, socially accepted and allows people to reach an altered state of mind in a way that doesn’t attract scrutiny. I think there are better ways to go about achieving disinhibition/a feeling of intoxication, though many would disagree with me. At this acute, current point in my life I care little about and have almost no time for this kind of ‘entertainment’. If I did, I probably still wouldn’t drink.
I’ve drank heavily in the past, typical college kid/high school senior type binge drinking. The negatives become apparent very quickly, particularly if this pattern of consumption is attempted even semi frequently.
This doesn’t mean I’m advocating for someone to get blazed and train either… Also not a smart idea despite many advocating for this. Keep gym time and inebriation strictly separate!
My big things have been reduction, and better choices. I used to have 2-3 every week night, and more on the weekends. Now it is almost all during Friday and Saturday. On the better choices, I’ll stick with those girly seltzers, or mixers with diet soda.
This is weird for me because I’ve achieved my best physiques while having 1-3 drinks a day after work. Not that I’ve ever had a head-turning build, but I was pretty lean with some ab definition at 5’8 and 195. I think the stress reduction helped keep me away from binge eating and helped with hormones as well.
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The only sensible answer is “it depends,” specifically, on how much and under what circumstances. Most of the comments here seem to address the kind of binge drinking that young people do during the bar-hopping days of their early 20s. I think we can all agree that’s probably not good for your training for a number of reasons - it cuts into your sleep, dehydrates you, fills you with junk calories, leaves you hung over the next day, etc.
However, assuming you’ve grown up and learned to enjoy drinking quality beverages in moderation (that is, 1 serving per day for women or 2 for men), the evidence seems to suggest it poses no danger to your training in general. It’s different of course if you are trying to cut for a bodybuilding contest, when every calorie counts; but for those of us just trying to get stronger or more explosive, I know of no reason to think moderate drinking is a problem. In fact, it may improve blood flow, which could conceivably help recovery.
Its just like Joe Walsh said- “The smoker you drink, the player you get.”, right?
I haven’t drank in ages, but I do believe there is a threshold there when unwinding with a couple helps by reducing stress among other things.
Its that full throttle stuntman drinking that gets ya.
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Yes, it affects my training and other people’s training, too. I don’t drink alcohol anymore. Alcohol corrupts your brain once you drink it. It kills the happy chemicals through depressants that make you less happy and it kills the ability to make responsible decisions. The more you drink it, that negatively affects your liver. Which prevents your blood from coagulating efficiently when you’re bleeding. That causes your body to not heal safely and properly. It’s why I stopped drinking alcohol. The countries that have the most alcoholism have the most depression, car accidents, impulsive consumers, liver cancer, weakest livers, and fatal injuries. It’s a frightening thing that made me more convinced to not drink alcohol anymore to protect the well-being of my body and brain. Also, alcohol dehydrates your internal body and external body, which makes it age quicker and have skin damage and higher chance of injuring the throat in regards to singing, causing a permanent raspy voice with a permanently limited vocal range when singing until one has throat surgery because of the damage caused by drinking alcohol. I’m a singer who wants to have a large vocal range when singing, which convinced me to stop drinking alcohol.
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