I try to drink only on Weekends and Wednesdays and limit that to beer. Unfortunately (?!?) my favorite hangout now has $1.25 pints of some lite Busch product on tap. They go down a little too easy sometimes. I’ve cut way back on occasion and saw my bodyfat drop substantially with no other lifestyle changes but since I’m not a pro BB’er I figure I might as well loosen up and enjoy a few once in a while.
I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this but since I started weightlifting I can really pound down the drinks and not get hangovers. Must be my increased metabolic levels. It makes it hard not to overdo it sometimes when you know there will be no repercussions.
Oh well… Pour Little Me! (sic ;^).
I have recently given up drinking. The motivation is simple a $1000 bet between me and my girlfriend. First one to drink pays out. I don’t intend to pay $1000 to get drunk!!!
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
maryjane wrote:
I try to only drink on the weekends. Soon I’ll have to cut out drinking completly (competing in OCtober)…but take this past weekend for example.
Went to dinner—drank 6 beers. Went to the bar----drank 6 beers. And yes I was still standing and yes I stayed awake when I got home. I grew up a tomboy–so I’ve learned to ‘hang’ with the guys!
I think you drank more than me that night. Made for a good end of the night though:)[/quote]
i used to be a fairly heavy drinker, and it definitely affected my training drinking 3 times a week or so… i found that its not just the negative effects of drinking, but the negative effects on lifestyle as well, you don’t want to eat 6 meals the day after drinking and you are alot more suseptable to eating shit when drinking (pizza and wings during monday night game), your sleep is a mess if you stay out late partying, and all of this is on top of the damaging effects of drinking… in the few years since i’ve smartened up i’ve made huge progress and i attribute it to cutting the partying down and getting my diet in order…
[quote]nuwayv wrote:
I’m 36 and I drink virtually every day. No, I’m not a drunk. I keep my drinking within self-imposed parameters; only imbibing after 8:00 pm, a 2-3 drink limit, and no getting hammered (even on the weekends).
I feel fine the next day and my training seems unaffected.[/quote]
You have no way of knowing this as you drink everyday. The only way to find out would be to log your progress. Stop drinking and then compare your results to beforehand.
It’s a bit like my Dad. He keeps telling me he’s never felt better and he’s at least 40kgs overweight. He’s so used to being overweight he can’t remember what it’s like to really feel good.
I’m 22, I usually go out Friday or Saturday night. Most the time I’ll have at most like 3 beers, every now and then(once every few months maybe) I really tear one off and end up pretty shitfaced. I think I have it pretty under control, and when I am seeing someone, after I get a bit of a buzz it’s pretty much fuck time so that helps.
I go for 2-3 month stretches where I don’t even have one drink, then I’ll go for 2-3 month stretches where I drink 3-4 times a week(usually closer to three, Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night,) but when I say drink I mean drink. Four to five pitchers or 16-20 beers would be about an average night for me, I don’t really like to just get a buzz, if I’m drinking, I’m going to get hammered…I guess I have an all or nothing personality, but I’m part Irish and most of my “growing up” was done in the military, what can I say?
I’m currently in college and walk a tightrope as far as drinking goes. I’ll go for a while and think that I’m just gonna quit altogether but usually end up having a few (1-3 normally) on the weekend. I’m also a bit of the “all or nothing mentality”, so this amount normally fails to give me a buzz and I am just pissed. However, something I have noticed is that now intoxiaction does not=confidence like it used to.
I’m not sure if this is just because I am knowledgeable of the effects of alcohol on training and nutrition, or if the confidence I have when sober is just blunted by the depresant aspects of the alcohol. There’s a balance somewhere in this whole training/alcohol/college/social thing I’m sure.
[quote]maryjane wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
maryjane wrote:
I try to only drink on the weekends. Soon I’ll have to cut out drinking completly (competing in OCtober)…but take this past weekend for example.
Went to dinner—drank 6 beers. Went to the bar----drank 6 beers. And yes I was still standing and yes I stayed awake when I got home. I grew up a tomboy–so I’ve learned to ‘hang’ with the guys!
I think you drank more than me that night. Made for a good end of the night though:)
I drink any day I’m not on graveyards but I haven’t been drunk since New Years Eve’03…Take that back, Mardi Gras '04
The Big Easy baby. Nothin like it.
[quote]wissler wrote:
maryjane wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
maryjane wrote:
I try to only drink on the weekends. Soon I’ll have to cut out drinking completly (competing in OCtober)…but take this past weekend for example.
Went to dinner—drank 6 beers. Went to the bar----drank 6 beers. And yes I was still standing and yes I stayed awake when I got home. I grew up a tomboy–so I’ve learned to ‘hang’ with the guys!
I think you drank more than me that night. Made for a good end of the night though:)
A VERY nice night if I may add!!!
Damn, get a room. LOL
JK
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It’s already booked for the 11th! We’ll enjoy that night too!
[quote]wissler wrote:
I drink any day I’m not on graveyards but I haven’t been drunk since New Years Eve’03…Take that back, Mardi Gras '04
The Big Easy baby. Nothin like it.[/quote]
I’m from the BIG EASY—I guess that explains my high tolerance for alcoholic beverages—it’s in my bloodstream!
When I was in college two years ago, I would be getting hammered an average of two nights a week. I ran track six days a week and lifted about four days a week. This was enough to keep me in check. Although I took in about 15 drinks per week, my training helped negate the negative effects of alcohol. But alcohol calories are empty calories, so if you are looking to keep your body fas healthy and as lean as possible, keep the drinks to a minimum.
I am 20 years old and am a college football player and during the season I drank two times a week, Saturday and Sunday but out of season its always out of control and more like four or five times a week. I can’t seem to slow my drinking down, as every time I drink it ends up being about 20 beers. And it definitely affects lifting and physique big time. I seemed to never have any energy the days after drinking and instead would just spend my day drinking water and trying to remember what happened the night before.
I came in as a Freshman 235 lbs and left that spring at 265, 30 pounds of beer weight and latenight food. I am now trying to limit my drinking, but livin in a frat house with a bunch of boozebags doesn’t help. And with the topic about weed, my feelings are that drinking hurts you a lot more than smoking, if anything smoking stops me from drinking so much.
[quote]X-Factor wrote:
Some interesting opinions here. Have you found that gettin shitfaced once a week, is better or worse compared to drinking like a 6 pack twice a week?[/quote]
I’d say the latter’s the better option physique and training wise, unless you don’t get nasty hangovers after a big night.
