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Alcohol Consumption And Its Effect On Body Building

October 20, 2008


Alcohol may arguably be the earliest drink consumed by human being for the purpose of socialization and relaxation. Around the world, alcohol has been used for a variety of purposes including religious and ceremonial purposes. Alcohol consumption is also considered as a good omen in some societies of the world and a party or celebration is considered incomplete without the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Apart from this alcohol has also found a lot of medicinal and pharmaceutical usage in the form of antiseptics and decontaminating agent. Historians have dated back the use of alcohol to musch before 10000 B.C., and still doubt that it may be far before this period that the alcoholic drinks were used and consumed. In terms of health benefits, an important usefulness of alcoholic beverages is in its blood thinning action beneficial to the cardiovascular system. Barring a few beneficial effects, a lot of negative and untoward effects to health are also derogatory from alcohol consumption. From a body building perspective alcoholic consumption can have lot of complications which we will have a look upon as we proceed.

Alcohol consumption and body building : How bad is it?

Are one or two drink for socializing or just a bit of relaxation really harmful? Do they come under the category of addiction? Well these questions are obvious and justified in their pedigrees. The answer in No! a drink or two even on daily basis are not at all harmful to the system, if there is no pathophysiological or medical condition that demands completely no alcohol. In terms of body building aspect, it is the continuous and heavy consumption of alcohol that makes the situation difficult and complicated.

How does alcohol affect the bodybuilding?

Alcohol is a depressing agent, not in literary sense but in terms of neuronal activity. Alcohol affect the GABA receptors in brain and through a series of activity, slows down the functioning of brain, te central nervous system as well as the limbic and muscular system. This leads to a withdrawal from exercise routines, and also results in early muscle fatigues and lactate generation thus, addictive level drinking could be detrimental to all the hard work that you do while exercising.

‘A word of advice would be to abstain from alcoholism or consume as little as possible to get the maximum benefits from your exercise.’


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One Response to “Alcohol Consumption And Its Effect On Body Building”

  1. David Eugene on October 21st, 2008 12:51 am

    ‘A word of advice would be to abstain from alcoholism or consume as little as possible to get the maximum benefits from your exercise.’

    Abstaining from alcohol altogether may not be a bad idea.

    Dave

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