Why Alcohol is a Bodybuilder"s Worst Enemy
It is the end of the week and everyone is leaving the office.
Friends and fellow work mates are calling relentlessly asking you out for drinks and other night out events.
The pressure builds up and you cannot bear it anymore.
One thing for sure is that there are workouts that have been planned for you and some exercises have to be undertaken for body building purposes.
The choice lies in your hands, whether to go on a drinking spree or be faithful to the workouts.
But, take time to think about it.
Are you satisfying yourself, or being self-destructive in your body healthy, fitness, and in the shaping of your life? Is there a commitment in a healthy living or you are just "trendy?" Forget about tomorrow morning and focus on the set workouts for the day.
Exercising must be a habit in an individual's life, taking it like brushing teeth, or even eating breakfast.
Drinking should be taken solely as fun since it carries negative issues of bodybuilding.
Research has indicated that, small amount of alcohol augments muscular endurance and the body strength.
But these benefits are just short lived.
It is good to note that after not more than 30 minutes of alcohol consumption negative aspects surface as the respective side effects show up.
These side effects devastatingly outweigh any potential benefits that drinking could bring, therefore no matter how good you might justify the alcohol to be it is still detrimental in your body.
Alcohol reduces the strength, aerobic capability, endurance, recovery time, and halts the individual's ability to necessitate fat metabolism and a times stunt the growth of muscles.
It also has detrimental effects on a person's brain and affects the central nervous system.
Consuming alcohol causes severe damage of the nervous system.
In the process, the interaction between the muscles and the central nervous system is compromised therefore causing several long term and other fatal health problems.
Alcohol also causes the damage of blood cells and it inhibits proper circulatory functions, causing sleep problems, muscle soreness, digestive system and a slowed muscle reactions, and with extreme organ damage.
In addition it causes a release of insulin, telling the body that it needs to have energy storage in fat form.
In addition to all these, alcohol interferes with the body's important nutrients.
It can cause nutrient deficiency to the some extreme levels.
This is due to the liver being forced to work strenuously and forcing a filtration of alcohol from an individual's body.
In the process, one can cause serious damages to the liver and eventually reach a point of failure.
With alcohol being diuretic in nature, it also posses great dangers and puts an enormous amount of stress and strain on the kidneys.
There can also be excessive water retention as a result of inefficiency of the kidney.
These conditions are severe and have long term effects on the body, posing great dangers to the health of a person and eventually can cause death.
Friends and fellow work mates are calling relentlessly asking you out for drinks and other night out events.
The pressure builds up and you cannot bear it anymore.
One thing for sure is that there are workouts that have been planned for you and some exercises have to be undertaken for body building purposes.
The choice lies in your hands, whether to go on a drinking spree or be faithful to the workouts.
But, take time to think about it.
Are you satisfying yourself, or being self-destructive in your body healthy, fitness, and in the shaping of your life? Is there a commitment in a healthy living or you are just "trendy?" Forget about tomorrow morning and focus on the set workouts for the day.
Exercising must be a habit in an individual's life, taking it like brushing teeth, or even eating breakfast.
Drinking should be taken solely as fun since it carries negative issues of bodybuilding.
Research has indicated that, small amount of alcohol augments muscular endurance and the body strength.
But these benefits are just short lived.
It is good to note that after not more than 30 minutes of alcohol consumption negative aspects surface as the respective side effects show up.
These side effects devastatingly outweigh any potential benefits that drinking could bring, therefore no matter how good you might justify the alcohol to be it is still detrimental in your body.
Alcohol reduces the strength, aerobic capability, endurance, recovery time, and halts the individual's ability to necessitate fat metabolism and a times stunt the growth of muscles.
It also has detrimental effects on a person's brain and affects the central nervous system.
Consuming alcohol causes severe damage of the nervous system.
In the process, the interaction between the muscles and the central nervous system is compromised therefore causing several long term and other fatal health problems.
Alcohol also causes the damage of blood cells and it inhibits proper circulatory functions, causing sleep problems, muscle soreness, digestive system and a slowed muscle reactions, and with extreme organ damage.
In addition it causes a release of insulin, telling the body that it needs to have energy storage in fat form.
In addition to all these, alcohol interferes with the body's important nutrients.
It can cause nutrient deficiency to the some extreme levels.
This is due to the liver being forced to work strenuously and forcing a filtration of alcohol from an individual's body.
In the process, one can cause serious damages to the liver and eventually reach a point of failure.
With alcohol being diuretic in nature, it also posses great dangers and puts an enormous amount of stress and strain on the kidneys.
There can also be excessive water retention as a result of inefficiency of the kidney.
These conditions are severe and have long term effects on the body, posing great dangers to the health of a person and eventually can cause death.