[quote]Rockscar wrote:
And now we know why you’ve been getting mediocre resulta at best.[/quote]
Damn, that’s a nice avatar.
I actually look a lot better than those pictures you’ve seen of me. I also gotten drunk about 5 times at best since the beginning of 2005. Working out while intoxicated isn’t that big of a thing in my life my friend.
I’ve done it, it’s stupid and the workout sucked, but I was loaded at the time in Mexico. I think I just gave up and ended it.
I have had several workouts after a beer or two though, and the workouts are pretty intense, Maybe because i’m already warm so I start sweating quickly. With plenty of water it seems fine.
But that’s way different from working out shitty.
[quote]oboffill wrote:
I actually look a lot better than those pictures you’ve seen of me.[/quote]
Dont we all…
I suppose I was a little bit surprised to see this thread come up. Honestly, I didn’t expect some casual weight lifter on a random internet thread to stumble upon one of the most powerful and closely guarded secrets in elite olympic and powerlifting circles.
For decades Soviet and Eastern bloc lifters have known about and utilized this enigmatic training technique to add incredible weights to their max lifts; sometimes totaling 10-15% more than their maximum lifts while sober.
Although it seems the cat is out of the bag with oboffill’s discovery, there are a few ways to maximize the positive benefits of getting shit canned before a max attempt:
Use this technique only when performing a max attempt, typically at a competition. If you get plastered during training sessions your body will adapt to alcohol’s unique benefits and the strength gains will become marginal at best.
The more alcohol you ingest the greater your max lift will increase. We have found that each drink of alcohol (beer, shot, or glass of whine) increases your max lift by approximately 2%; however, after a certain point we have found the effects actually become counter productive. This typically occurs after 12 or more drinks, often lifters are unable to stand up or find themselves crawling around on the ground or inappropriately groping nearby females. Typically 8 drinks leads to a 15% increase in your max lift, after 8 drinks the effects appear to diminish.
Some benefit also appears to exist based on how quickly the alcohol is consumed. In a recently performed double-blind between-groups study of the effects of casually sipping wine vs. shot-gunning beers, we found that lifters who chugged the beer lifted greater weights than lifters casually sipping wine. Based on these findings we recommend lifters use a beer bong to consume their alcohol. It also appears to be beneficial for other lifters in the gym to form a circle around the lifter hitting the beer bong and start chanting “Go, go, go, go, go!”
I have heard many of the elite gyms in the U.S. have adopted some of these Soviet techniques, Westside Barbell is rumored to encourage their lifters to do keg stands prior to max attempts, and other gyms are quickly picking up on and taking advantage of these closely guarded training secrets.
at least it isnt LSD
[quote]MattFarlick wrote:
I suppose I was a little bit surprised to see this thread come up. Honestly, I didn’t expect some casual weight lifter on a random internet thread to stumble upon one of the most powerful and closely guarded secrets in elite olympic and powerlifting circles.
For decades Soviet and Eastern bloc lifters have known about and utilized this enigmatic training technique to add incredible weights to their max lifts; sometimes totaling 10-15% more than their maximum lifts while sober.
Although it seems the cat is out of the bag with oboffill’s discovery, there are a few ways to maximize the positive benefits of getting shit canned before a max attempt:
Use this technique only when performing a max attempt, typically at a competition. If you get plastered during training sessions your body will adapt to alcohol’s unique benefits and the strength gains will become marginal at best.
The more alcohol you ingest the greater your max lift will increase. We have found that each drink of alcohol (beer, shot, or glass of whine) increases your max lift by approximately 2%; however, after a certain point we have found the effects actually become counter productive. This typically occurs after 12 or more drinks, often lifters are unable to stand up or find themselves crawling around on the ground or inappropriately groping nearby females. Typically 8 drinks leads to a 15% increase in your max lift, after 8 drinks the effects appear to diminish.
Some benefit also appears to exist based on how quickly the alcohol is consumed. In a recently performed double-blind between-groups study of the effects of casually sipping wine vs. shot-gunning beers, we found that lifters who chugged the beer lifted greater weights than lifters casually sipping wine. Based on these findings we recommend lifters use a beer bong to consume their alcohol. It also appears to be beneficial for other lifters in the gym to form a circle around the lifter hitting the beer bong and start chanting “Go, go, go, go, go!”
I have heard many of the elite gyms in the U.S. have adopted some of these Soviet techniques, Westside Barbell is rumored to encourage their lifters to do keg stands prior to max attempts, and other gyms are quickly picking up on and taking advantage of these closely guarded training secrets.
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Damn bro, pretty long post there. I hope you are rewarded with a “lol” from somebody.
[quote]oboffill wrote:
Damn bro, pretty long post there. I hope you are rewarded with a “lol” from somebody.[/quote]
My reward is spreading knowledge and supporting like-minded strength athletes.
Even though everyone is bagging you out I have a confession to make.
I know what you mean.
I’ve been to the gym stoned before. My endurance was definitely up. And I’ve been slightly intoxicated before. I don’t know whether I was stronger, but it’s possible to still work out. I definitely felt sober at the end.
Not a good idea in the long run though, but a fun thing to try out once. I wouldn’t recommend going for a PB when impaired though!
And you dudes who would ‘toss him out of the gym’? Who are you, the gym police? Why do you care as long as he’s not lurching around, singing irish songs at top volume and generally making a twit of himself?
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
And now we know why you’ve been getting mediocre resulta at best.[/quote]
I agree. Although I have been in pushup contests while drunk, normally at parties for money.
On a related note, everyone who said in the last couple days that Rockscar has a “Sweet avatar” now looks like a jerkoff, being as its back to being a picture of his ugly mug.
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
And now we know why you’ve been getting mediocre resulta at best.[/quote]
Some may not call a 205lb squat for a triple mediocre, especially if he has brought this poundage up a great deal.
Guys, 205x3 was not even difficult, I exploded up every rep. The rest of the guy’s weights were on other bars and I didn’t feel like housing his shit nor going to a max squat while intoxicated.
I guess you could compare it to taking a pain killer prior to training to limit golgi inhibition. Thats the only explanation I could think of.
That being said, tsb.
A friend of mine used to have a chin bar in his living room. I could do an extra five or so reps of bodyweight chins and pullup when intoxicated.
You are a fucking twit.
This thread is fucking stupid.
Hence I am an idiot for reading it again but it’s like a fucking car wreck.
205 pound explosive squat? Wow.
You drank some wine and went to work out.
Wine? What a dork. I would have hit the tequila.
[quote]MattFarlick wrote:
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That’s because guys who sip wine are pussies.
Can I follow this program if I workout before noon?
What are your theories on heavy volume workouts causing the direct combustion of alcohol as a fuel in the muscles?
Is there some preferential affinity for this fuel source due to efficiency and cool burning temperatures?
Drunk weight lifting = fucking a fat chick
[quote]apayne wrote:
Drunk weight lifting = fucking a fat chick[/quote]
It’s okay if noone else sees you?
To the original poster. This sounds a lot like a conversation I had approximately three months ago. The conversation was about drinking and driving, with a close friend of mine. She told me she was in the habit of having drinks with the girls every night after work. I reminded her that her commute home after a long day was on one of the busiest highways in america, and it was a 30 minute without traffic commute. Her response to me was that she was in total control, and would not let anything happen to her. I said you aren’t always in control of everything. Her reply was that she was, and everything would be okay.
I was at her funeral two months ago. Died in a car crash, drunk, on that same highway.
I’d rather not see on the news drunken idiot kills himself in the gym.
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I’d rather not see on the news drunken idiot kills himself in the gym. [/quote]
Honestly, would you really care that much? How drastically would such an event occuring really alter your life?