It’s fine. Good lord live a little. I used to have some of my best work outs while high. So it is friggin’ fine. I won’t go into the delicacies or delta 9 tetrahydrocannibol, but most nay-sayers will harp on bullshit like it lowers your testosterone. There is absolutely no evidence that this is true. It won’t make you fat, gay, or dumb, or weak. So have fun and don’t get arrested. Oh yea, don’t drive…much.
You should seriously consider a vaporizer–despite the other effects of marijuana the smoke is probably the worst thing you could put in your body. A vaporizer will heat the bud to a point that the THC gets released wherein you can breath it in. No smoke–therefore no other harmful chemicals released in the smoke.
Just be careful with the increased appetite effect and I would deffintely not lift while intoxicated. And make sure your bud is clean.
Why is this question revisted so often? Does everyone that smokes whatever need justification for it?
What’s the point, do you need to feel that it’s OKAY with other people? If so, why do you care? If not, drop it already and smoke-up or lift.
Interesting that you chose “Building a Better Body” instead of “Steroids and other drugs”. Do you believe pot helps build a better body?
We would all get along, if everbody hit a bong !
Here goes input from someone who has smoked weed for the last 25 years, almost daily (one to two joints in the evenings).
First, I am now 45 years of age. I weigh 290 lbs, am 6 feet tall with a body fat of 18%. I had not worked out since high school and college where I was a major football player (three year letterman, all city player, junior college Division II letterman). After college I did absolutely nothing in the way of work outs. I thought I had earned my R&R. Throughout college and up to this day, I smoked weed.
I have found that weed will make you fat if you allow it. I allowed it for quite some time but this is also infected by inactivity on my part.
Weed (good weed) will not effect your thought processes nor will it kill your motivation for things you make your mind up about, such as graduating from college with a Bachelor’s Degree and eventually obtaining a Master’s Degree in Social Work as I have done. The key is mind over matter.
Good weed will not effect your memory retention, neither short nor long term memory.
Good weed will not raise your blood pressure, nor affect your cardio vascular system in and of itself. If you allow your self to be dominated by such things as the munchies, then you will risk physical ill effects especially if you couple this with inactivity.
I have again started to pump iron and have been doing so for 6 months now. This began again after by son asked that I help him train for the high school football team. I jumped on the oppurtunity to hit the weights again. In the 6 months of my renewed commitment to training, I have lost a total of 45lbs. Yes, I was at an alarming body weight of 335 lbs.!
I walk and do the stationary bike for cardio and then hit the weights heavy, medium number of sets and reps (ex. three sets at 8 reps for most exercises). The starting was slow and painful; for ex. my bench press was at a laughable 125lbs for sets and reps. I now bench 265 and work out with 225.
The true tale is in the way my clothes fit. I went down four pant sizes and two shirt sizes. I now wear a size 44 waist pants (size 50-52 before) and a XXL or depends on the design, XXXL shirts (size XXXXL before).
I feel great. My blood pressure and cholesteral are within normal limits. I have added significant lean muscle.
And, I still smoke weed each night. I feel that my past inactivity rather than my use of marijuana is really to blame for the extremely por shape I let myself get into. I drink an occassional beer, light pilsners with my ribeye steaks!
I know I need to get much more serious about my diet, but I now follow somewhat of an abridged version of the Atkins diet, allowing for carbs from veggies. I also take Spike, two tabs daily. Spike and weed make for a killer experience watching Star Wars on the big screen; please note that I do not use Spike as a rec drug, just the weed.
Again, mind over matter seems to apply. I will eventually lose much much more weight and get into much much better shape. My goal is to weigh about 225 lbs. and have as low a body fat percentage as possible.
But I wil still enjoy the relaxation that weed affords me. No, I do not have a chronic cough or anything along those lines. My physical before I started to workout again, indicated that my lungs are clear.
Yeah I would have to agree here…Im 31, been smoking since 18 or so…I am probably in the best shape of my life…happily married (I know, I know, hard for some to believe), and almost done with my bachelors degree.
Its just like drinking, if you let it take over it will…and if it does, you shouldnt smoke (or drink for that matter). If you work all day or go to school (or both), workout and stay in good shape, and take care of your family…I dont see anything wrong with it…again, responsibility is the key here, and believe me, I know plenty who dont smoke that are very irresponsible.
[quote]cynic16 wrote:
When I was in high school, there was this weed that was all the hype with my friends called the “Barney Bud.” It was purple. We found out later that it was dipped in embalming fluid, which was known on the west coast as the chronic. Kinda like a carcinogen cocktail.
That’s not chronic - that’s the syssurp! That’s what some rappers are talking about when they say, “sippin’ on syssurp.” Chronic is just good bud. Really good bud.[/quote]
Sippin on syssurp means drink cough syrup. It has DXM in it and it fucks you up, thats why they are always talkin about Tussein. Chronic refers to bomb bud, and that bud that was dipped in embalming fluid is called getting wet. It is just lacing the weed with PCP, which is probably not the best idea… hehe.
i’m surprised at the complete lack of
flaming here compared to a few months
ago when this topic came up and the responses are much better and informed.
what works for you doesn’t work for others is always true.
Thanks all for the sanity and some scientific evidence, and not some over-emotional anti-drug for the sake of it bullshit, or, conversely, people praising something which, in the balance, seems mildly bad for you.
I know a pro-bodybuilder who would recommend to some of his hard-gaining personal training clients that they smoke weed on the weekends, as an appetite enhancer. He’s an intelligent man who occasionally writes for magazines, actually writes his own articles, and is not your typical pro-bodybuilder dumbass.
i appologize if someone posted same info already:
weed has a large negative effect on libido. because of this i’d think that T levels are greatly decreased, but i’ve seen no research that its the case.
but like im sure most believe, mixing drugs and fitness is kind of counter productive. like all the old people you see smoking while dragging their oxygen tank behind em.
[quote]RobCap1 wrote:
My response to you is “burn” away. I personally have smoked for 4 years on a consistent basis. I have managed to go from a skinny fat at 5’8" 160 lbs. to 180 with 8% body fat. I play division one college baseball, and I am on the deans list. I dont drink because it stunts my progress, but marijuana has not hindered me in such a way. I eat right and train hard. I respect Charles Staley very much. However, for him to say that you are a follower because you smoke is a crock of shit, I can speak for myself when I say I am no follower. This witch hunt of smoking weed must stop. It might not fit into some people’s lifestyle’s, but for others it could. If smoking pot is affecting your ability to achieve personal goals then stop, but if it isn’t then why not?[/quote]
Wow… thats logic right there.
Let us all drink and drive until we crash. After all… if you haven’t crashed yet… why stop?
I think it’s best to look at it like cheating you your diet, the less you can do it, the better your progress will be. That being said, if done in moderation and occasionally, it can be a real nice break mentally and physically and won’t destroy your progress…the key is moderation.