Wake up you hung over Mother F'ers

[Roush]

It's new years day. A lot of you are probably hung over from last nights party. heres a thread talking about how badly alcohol effects your body building goals. Lets hear all the negatives you know about, rumor or science based.

feel free to throw in any benefits that alcohol provides you as well. there are power lifters that will shoot vodka or whiskey about 20 mins prior to a lift (even though alcohol is on the banned PED list, but none of us here care about that).

some rumored negative things that alcohol effects body building.

- the liver is too busy trying to metabolize alcohol that no other nutrients are absorbed, and fat burning is also hindered. so you can't make muscle gains without absorption of nutrients and you can't burn fat.

- dehydration. alcohol dehydrates you. your muscles are 70% water. you need h20 to grow and function.

- alcohol consists of 'dead calories'. alcohol consists of calories that are 'dead' not able to be absorbed as 'nutrition', yet alcohol is calorie dense. you can easily consume over 1000 calories drinking shots of whiskey, but there is NO nutritional value to those calories. your body has to take time and energy to process these dead calories. not what we want for building muscle

- alcohol raises inflammation in the body. this will lead to catabolism and muscle wasting.

- alcohol stops the process of anabolism and proteins and amino's are not properly absorbed, thus your body will begin catabolizing its own muscle cells as protein. your muscles will shrink

etc. etc.. what else ?

 

[Matt0071]

Nope not me.sober as fuck
Just the opposite the hangover bloating sluggish feeling of eating chips.and chocolates last night haha
That was my new years as I suck lol
Oh and fucked the girl a few times last night lol

 

[Matt0071]

Gotta live every once in awhile
As.I don't drink nomore.but treat myself once a week to a.wendy's.burger or fries and or pizza haha

 

[Teutonic]

Alcohol s useless except to swab a pin site.

 

[Mountain-Man]

Nope I was in bed at 830 and in the gym @ 7 am

 

[Roush]

Alcohol s useless except to swap a pin site.

aha, so there is use for alcohol in body building

 

[Roush]

Nope I was in bed at 830 and in the gym @ 7 am

that was actually my plan. hit the sack at 10 then hit morning cardio at 7 am. that all went to shit when the wifey made a couple drinks though.

I've also heard that it takes about a full week to completely 'atheltically' recover from a night of heavy drinking. One night of binging effects your gains for a whole week. Fuc that !

 

[Prowl]

I drank a shit load of booze last night. Woke up in the afternoon and had one hell of a leg workout,go figure!

 

[anzel]

I did my heavy drinking in my younger days and slowly peeled myself away from it. I can have one or 2 Belgium ales with dinner , usually get sleepy and bloated. I just normally do not drink. But last night I went all out, 4 beers and two sipping shots of JD single barrel and a ton of smoked ribs and chicken and side dishes.

I was in bed by 10 or so and had a terrible night sleep, I couldnt get into a deep sleep. I felt like I was awake for most the night. All day today I felt tired and muscles felt weak. I had no pump. Not hung over but when you dont drink then one night you do you can see the difference. Alchohol is shit. But I had a very fun night with some good people.

Alchyhol is a depressant. The next day you will have supressed dopamine and serotonin levels and you can actually feel depressed and un motivated.
When I was going through a very rough period in my life a few years ago I was keenly aware of this. My friends all saw how stressed I was and kept trying me to go out for some drinks to unwind. I never did though. I went harder in the gym instead. I ate what ever I wanted and that acted as a release for me, (stimulated the pleasure center of my brain) and I made sure to get in as much sex as I could. I took out my frustrations on the barbell and let me tell you, it worked. I was a grumpy fuck tho. Really grumpy and I had no patients and short tempered. But do you think that would have gone away if I drank? Hell no, it would have been worse.

But once in a while maybe once a year, if you can, its ok as long as you dont over do it,

 

[ICEMAN11]

Good post, considering how bad alcohol is for your mind and body it makes me sick that there is a drinking culture.
I've had my fair share of it though, been sober for 6 months.
Alcohol maybe brings joy for the first couple of hours, but after that it's mostly horrible, blackouts, hangovers etc.

Went out partying last night (sober) with my gf (which has never even tasted alcohol), we went home early because drunk people are very unattractive in behavior and we just got tired of all the drunks.

One more point is that I find it really sad when people start their stories with "oh I was so drunk".. like they are somehow proud of it...

 

[ICEMAN11]

Plus it affects the gains / cuts severely.

 

[Teutonic]

I was tired of waking up and wondering what route I d come home on...the Beach, I-10 or the back roads.

Then there was the time the ole man came in my room and said
" U drink last night.boy ?"
"No sir !'
" Get ur ass out front...NOW.!! I said Now...come here..."

69 Chevelle sitting in driveway having idled out of gas, battery dead from light s left on etc.


" I was to drunk to walk so I had to dri....I mean..wait..let me think.."

Useless.

 

[Hypnotix]

Alcohol fucks my blood sugar. Real fast.

If I eat badly, have a pop, sweets. Then drink a beer, glass of wine, shot, etc.. I'll shake and sweat until I eat some carb that'll last in me for longer than 15 minutes.

Still love the taste of many beers and wines though. And did indulge a tad over the holidays. Not like I'm 100 anywhere else healthwise. Throw in some booze for good measure! To 2016!

Seriously though, I don't typically drink but in small spurts a weekend here, weekend there, lightly then even. When consistently training, dieting, and such.. Never.

 

[Teutonic]

I used to drink ONLY to get drunk so clearly that had to stop.

These politician s and cop s who come home after a hard day saying I need a drink....stop. How about-
A hit or 2 of herbage ? I don t burn but...?
.25 Xanax or it s equivalent in another benzo like Atavan, Valium, Klonopin ?

I hate a hypocrite-Do as I say...not WHAT I DO.

Religious hypocrits are the worste and being Catholic I can say that as we got hypocrisy cornered.

I train..calm s me down. AAS calm me down.

 

[appleton111]

Alcohol fucks my blood sugar. Real fast.

If I eat badly, have a pop, sweets. Then drink a beer, glass of wine, shot, etc.. I'll shake and sweat until I eat some carb that'll last in me for longer than 15 minutes.

Still love the taste of many beers and wines though. And did indulge a tad over the holidays. Not like I'm 100 anywhere else healthwise. Throw in some booze for good measure! To 2016!

Seriously though, I don't typically drink but in small spurts a weekend here, weekend there, lightly then even. When consistently training, dieting, and such.. Never.

My blood sugar level is low but with a proper diet I keep it under control but Man if I drink and get nice and loaded and then eat chocolate or sweets, I turn into the Boggy man. I have had experiences where I wake up in bed with girls I have no idea how I met, or the bad flip side, I wake up in a empty city construction site around 5 am, blood running down my face, the remnant echos of gunshots still ringing in my ears, going home and turning on the morning news to hear about a gun battle that raged the night before for minutes in the area on the construction site that I had woken up at. By the way I am just hypothesizing here,

A stupid uncle of mine told me that he drank beer all the time when he was mowing a very large yard in 90 degree humid weather sweating like a priest in a whore house. He swore by it in his self proclaimed wisdom. A month later he was in the hospital for kidney failure and the doc told him if he had another drink he would be pushing up daisy's.

Its also good to hear the older and wiser member here say that they just chilled and took it easy like I did as well.

 

[Scrappy1]

Yes, but lots of alcohol gives you a keg Why would you want a 6 or 8 pack abs when you can have a keg for abs? Alcohol kills your blood sugar also. As all you guys get older, more gear wont help, have to start watching your sugar levels. (stamina, energy, limp dick, blood pressure)

 

[DucBase]

30 years of heavy drinking has taken it's toll on me. Blood sugar issues, sleep apnea, lipid profile that's a mess, liver and kidney issues. I envy you guys that can enjoy one or two...that was never me. I usually have 5 or 6 in me by the time I'm out of the shower. It's a really shitty place to get to when you realize that stuff has made you it's bitch.

 

[Milton]

30 years of heavy drinking has taken it's toll on me. Blood sugar issues, sleep apnea, lipid profile that's a mess, liver and kidney issues. I envy you guys that can enjoy one or two...that was never me. I usually have 5 or 6 in me by the time I'm out of the shower. It's a really shitty place to get to when you realize that stuff has made you it's bitch.

The scariest part about boozing/hangovers is that I got used to it. So it becomes a way of life. The devil is at the bottom of that bottle my aunt B used to say. Having been a hard drinker for over a 2 decades, managing/bartending/DJing bars/nightclubs, booze was free for me ( heavy night drinker only), but now in my latter years, its a whole different story and have pissed in my share of beds while passed out, have also woken up with my share of not so good looking girls, or fatty's, "like damn!!!! Who are you bitch!" " Get the F*** out my house! and swore all kinds of allegiances while puking my guts out on the throne, " saying, "I will never drink again over and over again, I promise this time yada yada yada."
The worst part for me I guess and confess around you brothers here gathered around the campfire is that alcohol has caused me to break alot of girls hearts, especially my moms. and that does my head in and its something that I will have to live with forever since she passed away and I never got a chance to tell her that I was sorry for all the shit I put her through.
So boys and girls, its best to keep it under control and avoid it if possible. When your sitting on your porch in your declining years, sipping on ice tea and watching the clouds go by your memories of youth will be better. Its a damn good thing Facebook did not exist back when I was going hard, lol.

 

[DucBase]

Last year I quit drinking for a few months just to prove I could (see I'm no alcoholic). I've just got really good at it over years I guess but it hit me pretty hard when I sat there and thought about just how much I drink...and all the shit I've missed out on because of it. Not one to be sloppy drunk very often but I drink from the moment I get up. Hell I even do shots when I'm lifting

The fact that I'm sweating and shaking right now is enough to tell me I needed to do it I guess. This sucks.

 

[oldmusclemike]

Clean n Sober lil over 4 years now!