Social Life vs Bodybuilding?

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Stop complaining. You can still go out and be sociable without drinking alchohol. Missing a meal? Eat when you get home or eat twice as much before you go out. Is it that hard?!

Not drinking doesn’t make you miss out on “party things”. You’re actions (or lack thereof) makes you miss out. I have tried to make it a priority to be sociable. That just means, when all your friends starts hammering down shots in the bar, you walk over and talk to the cute girl in the corner.

People staying at home friday nights with their broccoli tend to do it, so they don’t fall of the wagon, so they don’t get peer-pressured into drinking etc.

…Coming from a guy who had his fair amount of binge-drinking in the past…

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Get new friends. Keep these guys for going drinking with if thats what you still occasionaly want to do but its clear you need friends with different interests as well.

When I was in college I found people with similar interests, I became friends with a bodybuilder,a powerlifter/strongman competitor, a vertical training guy and even a guy that trained for one arm pullups. Most of these guys had planned eating schedules and rarely if ever went drinking, but hanging with these guys was a blast.

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I just don’t like to drink that often and people understand. To me, I think there is really no reason to get shit faced to the point where you don’t remember your name (like most of my friends do). I like to do the casual drinking where I can still talk to people and remember what I am saying or trying to say. I never found drinking every weekend appealing either, but my friends do it all the time even in college/sports training.

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The eating is a non issue - what drunk person doesnt want food?? if your at a party and its time to eat, go get food, someone will always go with… and if your really good its usually a girl so you get some “alone time”…

not drinking a lot is not really an issue either - if you dont drink a lot, no one will care, offer to be the DD - this gives your friends a safe way home, you have a car to get food, and chicks remember the nice guy that gave them a ride home…

Otherways to get around drinking - powerade: tell people you pout vodka or malibu rum in it… get club soda and put lime in it: tell everyone its a gin and tonic (it tastes good too!!)… sip a microbrew and enjoy it… fruit punch… chocolate protein shakes and tell everyone that its a kahlua drink…

or just tell them you have a drug / alcahol test for some reason the next day… all of the above let you be social, enjoy your life, keep yoru goals, and have fun… or you can just nut up and cut lose sometimes too…

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[quote]Ratchet wrote:
Otherways to get around drinking - powerade: tell people you pout vodka or malibu rum in it… get club soda and put lime in it: tell everyone its a gin and tonic (it tastes good too!!)… sip a microbrew and enjoy it… fruit punch… chocolate protein shakes and tell everyone that its a kahlua drink…

or just tell them you have a drug / alcahol test for some reason the next day… all of the above let you be social, enjoy your life, keep yoru goals, and have fun… or you can just nut up and cut lose sometimes too…[/quote]

I’m sorry, but if you have to lie to people about drinking alchohol, then both you and them have serious problems.

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Don’t miss out on going out but people should respect your decision not to drink and just put a couple of protein bars in your pocket cause your not going to want to be carrying around a protein shake all night.

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I’m now a senior in college and it’s been very easy to balance social life and bb’ing priorities. You can still drink and make solid gains in lbm and strength. It might just mean not getting shit faced all the time, but only every once in a while.

While he may not be a bb’er, Nate Green has talked about how he went from completely staying away from booze to now limiting himself to 5 drinks a week and he believes that it hasn’t hindered his gains at all, but he actually enjoys himself much more now. And I think it’s safe to say that he is probably stronger and bigge than like 95% of the pussies that regular this forum.

There is a balance that you need to find between several things in life, the faster you learn how to do it and stick with your decisions regardless of how popular/unpopular they might be, the better off you will be.

If that doesn’t help you at all, just take the advices of Arnold: “Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to drink beer.”

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[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
Ratchet wrote:
Otherways to get around drinking - powerade: tell people you pout vodka or malibu rum in it… get club soda and put lime in it: tell everyone its a gin and tonic (it tastes good too!!)… sip a microbrew and enjoy it… fruit punch… chocolate protein shakes and tell everyone that its a kahlua drink…

or just tell them you have a drug / alcahol test for some reason the next day… all of the above let you be social, enjoy your life, keep yoru goals, and have fun… or you can just nut up and cut lose sometimes too…

I’m sorry, but if you have to lie to people about drinking alchohol, then both you and them have serious problems.[/quote]

Agreed. I always just told them I didn’t want to drink. They eventually quit asking. That doesn’t mean I am against alcohol either. I just don’t like it in general and I hate the feeling of being drunk.

As far as school is concerned, you are there to get an education. I know that may sound ridiculous, but most of the people acting like going out every weekend is the thing to do rarely made decent enough grades to do much after college.

Today, you pretty much need an advanced degree in some area in order to make a decent living. They say college degrees today are like what high school degrees were 40-50 years ago.

I did not go out every weekend. I was a biology major and if you get a GPA like I saw quoted above, that basically means any chances at professional school after that degree are over and done with.

College is the time where you finally figure out who you are and who you plan to be for the rest of your life. If you go through still bowing to peer pressure (like it seems many people here are by how they hide and lie about why they don’t do this and that to friends) good luck finding that ability to be an individual later on.

You need to decide what your goals are. If your goals don’t include making decent grades, then party every fucking weekend if you want to.

In college, my grades came first. Weight lifting was not my top priority even though my actions towards it helped define who I am.

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[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
My 20 year old female cousin gave me like a bottle of this shit when she came to visit. I was like wtf christy why are you carrying around a drug that is most commonly used as date rape?

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Got her digits bro?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

College is the time where you finally figure out who you are and who you plan to be for the rest of your life. If you go through still bowing to peer pressure (like it seems many people here are by how they hide and lie about why they don’t do this and that to friends) good luck finding that ability to be an individual later on.
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Great post, pretty much what I just touched on above. If you can’t fucking do whats best for you now, there’s a pretty good chance you won’t be able to later on either.

It’s easy to find time to go to the gym in college and eat decent if you have some money. I imagine it’s only going to get harder when you start having kids, full-time job, etc. Make the decisions you want now so you have the strength to make them again later when it’s probably going to be even tougher on you.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Rational Gaze wrote:
Ratchet wrote:
Otherways to get around drinking - powerade: tell people you pout vodka or malibu rum in it… get club soda and put lime in it: tell everyone its a gin and tonic (it tastes good too!!)… sip a microbrew and enjoy it… fruit punch… chocolate protein shakes and tell everyone that its a kahlua drink…

or just tell them you have a drug / alcahol test for some reason the next day… all of the above let you be social, enjoy your life, keep yoru goals, and have fun… or you can just nut up and cut lose sometimes too…

I’m sorry, but if you have to lie to people about drinking alchohol, then both you and them have serious problems.

Agreed. I always just told them I didn’t want to drink. They eventually quit asking. That doesn’t mean I am against alcohol either. I just don’t like it in general and I hate the feeling of being drunk.

As far as school is concerned, you are there to get an education. I know that may sound ridiculous, but most of the people acting like going out every weekend is the thing to do rarely made decent enough grades to do much after college.

Today, you pretty much need an advanced degree in some area in order to make a decent living. They say college degrees today are like what high school degrees were 40-50 years ago.

I did not go out every weekend. I was a biology major and if you get a GPA like I saw quoted above, that basically means any chances at professional school after that degree are over and done with.

College is the time where you finally figure out who you are and who you plan to be for the rest of your life. If you go through still bowing to peer pressure (like it seems many people here are by how they hide and lie about why they don’t do this and that to friends) good luck finding that ability to be an individual later on.

You need to decide what your goals are. If your goals don’t include making decent grades, then party every fucking weekend if you want to.

In college, my grades came first. Weight lifting was not my top priority even though my actions towards it helped define who I am.[/quote]

Sometimes I wonder if your lying about majoring in biology, are you sure it wasn’t psychology? lol. Always seem to say the right thing.

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[quote]Getting Closer wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if your lying about majoring in biology, are you sure it wasn’t psychology? lol. Always seem to say the right thing.[/quote]

My dad was a psych major and kept every book on the subject he could find while I was growing up. I had gone through many of the books before high school.

It helps treat patients who are scared shitless.

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At the very least, make sure you go out and chase tail. You don’t have to be fucked up all the time to enjoy college, the ones who are don’t graduate anyways. Like X, I’m a bio major, I know if I did the same shit all my buddies are doing (smoking blunts and playing xbox ALL day) I’d be out of school. I party a good amount, have been making good gains and have never been off the dean’s list in my 3 years of school. Just budget your time, it takes work but it’s nto rocket science.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Getting Closer wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if your lying about majoring in biology, are you sure it wasn’t psychology? lol. Always seem to say the right thing.

My dad was a psych major and kept every book on the subject he could find while I was growing up. I had gone through many of the books before high school.

It helps treat patients who are scared shitless.
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Ahh, that explains it then.

I guess if the psychology fails at least you can easily hold them down with one hand and jab the anesthetic in with the other haha.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:
A Ninny Mouse wrote:
Hot diggity-dog. I was just thinking about this. I just started college, and I’m hitting the gym with my roommate often. I’m not really a partying guy, and I doing the gasp long-distance thing, so all I really have is chilling, working out, eating and studying. Studying hasn’t come yet.

hahaha, dude the first semester was the best time of my life and yet the worst. I made the worst grades I have ever made in my life, got drunk more than I ever had in my life, and got with more women than I had ever before.

Kind of tough to bounce back from a 1.25 GPA lol. Everyone else in my 4 person suite made 0.0 GPA’s so I guess I got the best of it haha

Damn…good bye medical, dental, law, nursing and grad school.[/quote]

haha fortunately I am interested in none of that :slight_smile:

I’ve actually been able to pull that up to a 2.9 with 2 years left so I’ll be ok. Now my suite mates…yah not so much.

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Professor X,

Sounds like you did pretty well for yourself. Can I get some advice?

I just started my junior year as a biology major, in hopes of going to pharmacy school after I graduate. I currently have a 3.36 gpa.

Aside from busting ass in school, what would you recommend I should do? Extracurricular wise?
I know getting good grades isn’t enough these days.

Thanks

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Getting Closer wrote:

Sometimes I wonder if your lying about majoring in biology, are you sure it wasn’t psychology? lol. Always seem to say the right thing.

My dad was a psych major and kept every book on the subject he could find while I was growing up. I had gone through many of the books before high school.

It helps treat patients who are scared shitless.
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whenever i go hang with my friends and we drink i bring peanuts and drink alot of water
its better to wake up awkardly next to some chick in your friends house than to be a loser

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[quote]im kenny wrote:
whenever i go hang with my friends and we drink i bring peanuts and drink alot of water
its better to wake up awkardly next to some chick in your friends house than to be a loser[/quote]

I usually bust out my rag and a bottle of ether, how does the peanuts and bottle of water work to get the girl?

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lots of great advice in this thread, but I personally drank like a fish in college and still made solid gains. could have been, better? of course, but I had a great time, made some great lifelong friends and have some great stories. don’t disregard the importance of socializing in college.

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Dude what college you in?