How much does alcohol effect your fitness?

[Manfredo Jr]

man alcohol is terrible. it produces estrogen for a start!

you have to have a social life though

[hemichromis]

well i drink occasionally but i tend to drink alot when i do usually 25-30 drinks(bout 15 doubles) but i have been known to down alot more(its just a bit hazy for me!!) i dont see why alcohol should affect you too badly you should lay off for a week beofre a fight but in moderation it is unlikely to cause you problems unless your trying to lose weight

[phallus]

I know as much as the next guy the euphoric feeling of a good strong buzz, the freedom of getting drunk, and the absolute chaos and mayhem of being outright tanked. Last weekend I shared a handle of Jack D with a friend. Over a fifth of whiskey each. I was ****ing insane, smashed a TV on the side of the road someone had left for the trash and yelled for everyone within two blocks to get ****ing wasted with me. Then the memory gets spotted and I woke up feeling like absolute ****, a glass vase filled with vomit near the couch I was sleeping on.

Okay, so you know excess drinking can really hurt you in the end, but even getting moderately drunk can be devastating in the long run. For me at least, one drink leads to another after the 3rd or 4th. I'm okay and can stop after one or two, but after three I get those good feelings, the onset of a buzz, and I just want to feel better.

Really, alcohol is the most insidious man made creation on the planet. You feel great, like you're in heaven, but every night of drinking you're slowly weakening your organs, ****ing up your whole system. When you get to a point of drinking for so many years, the damage is irreversible. You compromise your health for a good time, and your health is something you can never really get back.

Believe me, I love to drink, especially with my friends. The last 5 months since I've graduated I've gotten drunk at least once a week, and it never seems to lose its fun. But deep down I know that I am ****ing myself over at this rate. I need to cut down, but there's always parties, where drinks are everywhere. I'm legal now and there are two big liquor stores within a 5 minute drive from me. It's not easy to avoid temptation like that.

To my credit, I've never gotten drunk alone yet, but really that means nothing when I'm getting tanked on a weekly basis. It isn't good, and it'll catch me in the end I know it.

My advice to you is to cut down on the booze big time, if you're training to be a real boxer. John L. Sullivan once said "I couldn't lick whiskey, what makes you think you can?" Stuff has a habit of getting a stranglehold on you, and I don't even mean physical addiction as in alcoholism. It's a psychological addiction, a dependence, because it's so goddamn fun to be drunk and its obliterates all your problems at the time. It's a ****ing panacea but God it takes it's toll on you.

Cut back if you have any aspirations of being a boxer. Heavy drinkers who receive concussions have an increased chance of brain damage. Look at poor Jerry Quarry, who lived up to his irish heritages and could drink anyone under the table and often did between fights. Look what happened to the guy.

Booze and training don't mix, period.

alcohol ****s u up pyschologically too, when u get to the point where u need it - u become a lowlife who'll do anything for booze. i know a guy who was a promising boxer in his teens who had to go drinking every night becasue of his street cred or whatever - today he's just a lowlife who'll do anything to get a few jugs into him

[mgkirkpatrick]

you have to have a social life though

yeah for real. personally i dont need alcohol to have a good time. although ill vouch for the fact that it really does help and i dont judge n e one who does. i sorta was pretty into it for a while. thought about it weighed it up. realised the next morning wasnt usually worth it. it was a big financial drain, and i did some **** things drunk. so i gave up entirely for over a year and now i only drink every three or four months, and try to keep it in moderation, a few drinks and being slightly gone and enjoying yourself is good but i cant fathom the people who think you need to be paraletic and hurling your guts up to have a good time. as for the trainin question yeah its not good. one of my friends who was a complete party animal, but wanted to concentrate on his body building did a heap of research and has cut it out completely. alcohol is in fact a poison. its not so much the alcohol that wrecks your body its just that when it is in your system it is the bodies sole aim to get it out. so it just ****s around everything in your body that keeps you healthy. to put it simply.