what about puffing on an e-cig?
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
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So taking aminos means less room for oxygen in your blood?
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
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So taking aminos means less room for oxygen in your blood?[/quote]
i figured ‘protein’ would be covered under ‘essentials’.
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
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So taking aminos means less room for oxygen in your blood?[/quote]
i figured ‘protein’ would be covered under ‘essentials’.
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Just messing with you.
It’s the vasoconstriction that seems the most problematic, really.
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
Um, perhaps you should re-post this in the “broscience” thread.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
Um, perhaps you should re-post this in the “broscience” thread.
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Ill do anything you say if you convince me why. What specifically are you refuting?
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
It’s weird, but I was being assessed by an oympic lifting coach to start training one time. This guy was a USSR bronze medalist in the '70s and also otherwise well credentialed in the field. He asked about lifting history, current maxes then drugs, booze, and smoking. The only one I answered yes to was smoking. He said not a big deal, a whole bunch of very good weight lifters smoke.
Not to be misconstrued with good for you or that it somehow helps, but it certainly didn’t seem to preclude anybody from competitive weight lifting.
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
Um, perhaps you should re-post this in the “broscience” thread.
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Ill do anything you say if you convince me why. What specifically are you refuting?
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I was trying to be humorous, but I think I came across as a dick, sorry about that.
I just find it hard to fathom how a few nicotine molecules can displace significant nutrients in the blood.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
It’s weird, but I was being assessed by an oympic lifting coach to start training one time. This guy was a USSR bronze medalist in the '70s and also otherwise well credentialed in the field. He asked about lifting history, current maxes then drugs, booze, and smoking. The only one I answered yes to was smoking. He said not a big deal, a whole bunch of very good weight lifters smoke.
Not to be misconstrued with good for you or that it somehow helps, but it certainly didn’t seem to preclude anybody from competitive weight lifting.
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Do you still smoke and lift?
Have you ever compared your smoking-and-lifting vs. not-smoking-and-lifting?
Do you notice a difference?
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
I just find it hard to fathom how a few nicotine molecules can displace significant nutrients in the blood.
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My thoughts too. Hence the “does protein displace oxygen” mock-question.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
Um, perhaps you should re-post this in the “broscience” thread.
[/quote]
Ill do anything you say if you convince me why. What specifically are you refuting?
[/quote]
I was trying to be humorous, but I think I came across as a dick, sorry about that.
I just find it hard to fathom how a few nicotine molecules can displace significant nutrients in the blood.
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Ya I did think you were being a dick so shame on me for assuming.
See, I find it hard to fathom that we are able to add something to the equation without consequence.
In my opinion, if you add something to an equation, we always have account for it on the other side.
We know that lifting weights and not-smoking would be the optimal approach to muscle-gain/recovery. So, using that logic, IMO, it makes perfect sense that adding around 4k chemicals into your body would skew the equation.
It would make it less optimal.
What’s your thinking?
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
It’s weird, but I was being assessed by an oympic lifting coach to start training one time. This guy was a USSR bronze medalist in the '70s and also otherwise well credentialed in the field. He asked about lifting history, current maxes then drugs, booze, and smoking. The only one I answered yes to was smoking. He said not a big deal, a whole bunch of very good weight lifters smoke.
Not to be misconstrued with good for you or that it somehow helps, but it certainly didn’t seem to preclude anybody from competitive weight lifting.
[/quote]
Do you still smoke and lift?
Have you ever compared your smoking-and-lifting vs. not-smoking-and-lifting?
Do you notice a difference?[/quote]
Yes. I’ve quit several times but currently do smoke and lift.
I’ve never noticed any real difference either way, but that could also be conditioning. Doing heavy manual labor for long periods of time (years) like splitting wood, breaking concrete, and beating the rust scale off of steel plate will induce some type of GPP/energy systems adaptations.
Probably not the best way to go about things though.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
Anything that your body gets from the cigarettes reaches you blood stream.
That’s also how your body fuels your muscles
So, by smoking a cig you’re making less room for essentials. Not only would that affect your output but also your recovery.
How fucking stupid would you have to be to smoke a cig and then believe it helps you lift weights?[/quote]
It’s weird, but I was being assessed by an oympic lifting coach to start training one time. This guy was a USSR bronze medalist in the '70s and also otherwise well credentialed in the field. He asked about lifting history, current maxes then drugs, booze, and smoking. The only one I answered yes to was smoking. He said not a big deal, a whole bunch of very good weight lifters smoke.
Not to be misconstrued with good for you or that it somehow helps, but it certainly didn’t seem to preclude anybody from competitive weight lifting.
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David Rigert, one of the greatest weightlifters of all time, was a heavy smoker. He also liked whiskey!
Many of the Bulgarian weightlifters, when resting between exercises (Part of the Bulgarian system involves 45 mins of rest between some exercises) would smoke a cigarette!