Many people, starting sports trainings, ask a question: whether it is possible to combine alcohol and sport not to do much harm to health. It would seem: what can be advantage of alcohol to the training person? Let's consider in more detail this question in our material.
Why it is impossible: influence of alcohol after the training
Consumption of alcohol-containing drinks negatively affects results of your work in the gym, breaking production of the enzymes and hormones which are responsible both for disintegration of lipids, and for accumulation of muscle bulk.
On an organism in general
Receiving an alcohol dose after classes in gym, the human body is exposed to the following negative factors:
- Coming to blood, ethanol increases urine synthesis, at physical activities liquid leaves in the form of sweat, thus, a conclusion of moisture occurs many times quicker. The deficiency of water in blood breaks a blood-groove that leads to the shortage of oxygen and the nutrients coming to muscle fibers it touches also a myocardium (cardiac muscle).
Important! The conditional portion of alcohol is equated to the admission of one training.
- Thermal control process violation. Alcohol intake leads to expansion of vessels, increase in a thermolysis, considerably reducing body temperature.
- Violation of sleep quality affects process of restoration of muscle bulk that reduces its growth.
- Adjournment of fats. At the expense of the content of ethanol and various additives including sugar, strong drinks differ in high caloric content. In addition to it the intensity of disintegration of fats more, than decreases by 75%. As a result the excessive number of the used calories is laid off in the form of fat weight.
On muscles
Muscle bulk — main "tool" for work in the hall. The negative processes influencing muscles which are caused by the alcohol accepted after various trainings are given below: races, swimmings, power exercises, etc.
Ethanol in an organism of the athlete provokes:
- decrease in synthesis of a protein;
- growth hormone secretion suppression;
- falling of level of testosterone;
- destruction of muscle fibers;
- washing away of nutrients.
Whether you know? Each dose of alcohol slows down synthesis of proteins for 20%, and growth hormone — for 70%.
All above-mentioned processes lead to a stop of growth and destruction of muscles, cause their exhaustion and dehydration.
Video: influence of alcohol on a set of muscle bulk
Through how many and what alcohol it is possible
5–6 hours later after the training it is admissible to drink a glass of red wine or a glass of cognac.
For the purpose of decrease in the done harm follow the simple rules:
- wash down alcoholic beverages with water, tea, juice, reducing concentration of ethanol in blood and restoring water balance;
- give preference to a high-protein dinner (cottage cheese, chicken fillet, etc.);
- next day, before a breakfast, take the vitamin drugs for the purpose of completion of deficiency of vitamins, and the breakfast has to be big, proteinaceous and vitamin (dairy products, meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts);
- the next training has to be not earlier than in 2 days after a feast.
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Speed of removal of alcohol from an organism
Degree of alcoholic intoxication depends on many factors: quantities and fortresses of alcohol, quality of the food eaten at the same time, age and weight and also the general condition of an organism. Indicative data on the speed of removal of alcohol from an organism are specified in the table:
Alcoholic beverages |
Time demanded for removal |
Weight, kg |
Quantity, ml |
|
Beer |
2 h are 40 min. old. |
60 |
300 |
|
2 h are 20 min. old. |
70 |
||
|
2 h. |
80 |
||
|
1 h is 40 min. old. |
90 |
||
|
Champagne |
1 h is 40 min. old. |
60 |
100 |
|
1 h is 30 min. old. |
70 |
||
|
1 h is 20 min. old. |
80 |
||
|
1 h is 10 min. old. |
90 |
||
|
Wine |
2 h are 30 min. old. |
60 |
100 |
|
2 h are 15 min. old. |
70 |
||
|
2 h. |
80 |
||
|
1 h is 15 min. old. |
90 |
||
|
Vodka, cognac |
6 h. |
60 |
100 |
|
5 h are 40 min. old. |
70 |
||
|
4 h are 30 min. old. |
80 |
||
|
4 h. |
90 |
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Alcohol and trainings in the hall: myths and reality
Now we will talk about the most popular beliefs, regarding strong drinks after physical activities:
- Myth No. 1. Alcohol helps to relax. Coming to blood, ethanol slows down a set of biochemical processes in an organism, loads a liver, interrupts a sleep, thus, desired rest turns into internal fight of an organism against products of disintegration of alcohol without full restoration.
- Myth No. 2. From alcohol do not get fat. The slowed-down metabolism in combination with the high power value of drunk — the favorable environment for accumulation of fatty tissues.
- Myth No. 3. Alcohol stimulates growth of muscle bulk. Men's hormone testosterone promotes growth of fibers, however the estrogen which is contained in alcoholic beverages blocks production of this hormone, respectively, about any set of muscle bulk of the speech cannot go.
Going into a track of a healthy lifestyle, it is worth refusing alcohol intake. If you allow its presence at your life, reasonably approach the matter and remember: everything is good that moderately!