Booze And Training

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Hi folks,
10 year personal trainer her needed some other peoples info for a partner im currently lifting with. ive explained to him the reprocutions of excersize and drinking and long nights. he knows my background (ACSM & ACE CERTIFIED) BUT I think because its coming from me hes slipping and beginning to regress.
any response relating to the effects of long nights-drinking while trying to build quality mass and strenght would be great.
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[Fade]

You prob know all the basic probs this will bring.

Long nights/not enough sleep = poor recovery, poss increased chance of injury

Drinking = dehydration, slower metabolism, system dealing with the stress of the alcohol on the body when it could be dealing with just recovery from the workouts, depending on the drink crappy carbs could be a factor

 

[Mudge]

http://www.avantlabs.com/magmain.php?issueID=3&pageID=53

http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17095

Personal trainer and you picked them for a partner? I know it can be hard to find a good one, but I might look around. Just a thought. I know a couple who wont even take someone like that on.

 

[Robin Hood]

When I started training, I quit drinking all together. I just didn't see the point of eating healthy, training hard, and then slamming back alcohol...just didn't correspond. I agree with above comments re: lack of sleep and dehydration, etc. Also, people seem to forget that alcohol = calories. If this guy wants results he needs to cut out the alcohol. I may have went a little extreme by cutting it out completely, but he at least needs to cut back. In addition, how can you train and give it your all when you were out partying til all hours of the night and have a hang over...IMHO...

 

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thanks to all!! hes a little embarassed a the responses but hopefully it will stick and i have explained to him all of the dissadvantages of alcohol on the system but its kinda like hearing it from your parents ya know, i tell him he shouldnt drink and stay up but it doesnt have the impact that these responses do. as for picking a partner: i am in a reletively small town and own a large business. i would love to pick up one of my clients as a partner but my current partner is the one on the gear with me and we can talk about it, get hyped about it, get concerned about it, and research it together. its my first time and although he may party a lot its worth it to have him there and be able to converse etc... under normal circumstances heck no but.............
by the way MUDGE im not sure how this link is set up. i only saw a link on your response in my origional thread. i clicked on it and it brought me to this thread?? like i have said im new to "forums" and "web site chat". if i have to i usually have the secretaries do it.
thanks guys this should impress upon him some better decisions in the future. iether way im still at it twice as hard as normal and if i ever figure out how to post my pics on here ill get that done.
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[Mudge]

I didn't even notice you posted both threads, but I have links within this thread pointing to some things people have posted in my search of the forum.

I can live with some alcohol now and then, but drinking regularly to me is just a shitty habit. About 8 or 9 years ago I for awhile used to have some beer on weekends as a regular thing, I didn't get trashed but it was regular. I just dont like the regularity of it, its like being a smoker, whats the point? I have to be happy with my life by being buzzed? Nah, its fun now and then but being incapacitated on a regular basis is like being a recreational drug addict, in my own view as for what is right or wrong for me anyhow.

Once in awhile though, couple beers on the weekend, unload about work or whatever sure why not. I see some wine once in awhile, not much else, alcohol is just not something I buy often.

 

[Robin Hood]

I didn't even notice you posted both threads, but I have links within this thread pointing to some things people have posted in my search of the forum.

I can live with some alcohol now and then, but drinking regularly to me is just a shitty habit. About 8 or 9 years ago I for awhile used to have some beer on weekends as a regular thing, I didn't get trashed but it was regular. I just dont like the regularity of it, its like being a smoker, whats the point? I have to be happy with my life by being buzzed? Nah, its fun now and then but being incapacitated on a regular basis is like being a recreational drug addict, in my own view as for what is right or wrong for me anyhow.

Once in awhile though, couple beers on the weekend, unload about work or whatever sure why not. I see some wine once in awhile, not much else, alcohol is just not something I buy often.

You sound similar to my attitude on drinking. I was never the type to go get loaded (except on b-days and special occassions) and I rarely drank except to have a couple to be "social". But like you said, what is the point? I'm so outgoing and funloving to begin with, that what is the point of drinking alcohol? I mean, if I were out I may have a glass of wine with dinner....but seeing as how my b/f doesn't drink either, I just choose water. I dunno, to me drinking a beer or any alcohol is like eating something "bad"...I feel bloated and disgusting after and it makes me retain water like a sponge...so I stay away...

 

[Mudge]

Its something I can live without, and when the mood suits, sure I'll have a drink - but my "getting loaded" days are long gone and even those were really few and far between. I'm just not the kind of person that would enjoy feeling drugged up or drunk so much of my life. I have known people that would wake up and start smoking pot after being awake for maybe 5 minutes, I just dont understand that mentality, that need for being buzzed and/or wasted for 40% of your waking life.

I'm not preaching, I just honestly dont see the need, desire, or point to being buzzed so much of the time.

I've done acid, 5 times, liked it but dont need it. I've tried pot sure, I've drank, and I've been drunk even. So its not like I'm a saint, but at my age and place in life I dont need to be loaded to enjoy myself.

At this point even soda is rare, I have it when I eat out and thats about it. So yeah I'm a water boy.