What affect can drugs have on your training? Weekend Users ...

[crazyjoe380]

What affect will marijuana or crystal meth or even cocaine have on fighters or those train all week and party on the weekend..



can certain type of drugs be bad and affect training you did last week??

break it down..

[crazyjoe380]

nobody? anybody?



*crickets chirping*

[Brokenmace]

Well, if you smoked cannabis it would probably cut down on your lung capacity. It is actually harsher than cigarette smoke, and not filtered (although filters are really BS, but that's another story). He wouldn't be able to spar as long, nor fight in general as long. Short term memory is reduced, which may hamper the ability to learn a task (i.e. training). Long term, heavy use can sometimes lead to "cannaboid psychosis," a form of dementia.

Stimulants (which is what I think meth is) can keep you up for days if they are powerful, and the crash is horrible. It can screw you up for a week or so, depending. Speed is bad that way too. They can also cause paranoia and if you are borderline psychotic, tip you over the edge.

Actually fighting while on marijuana could do serious damage, as the heart rate and blood pressure both increase to stress the heart. One study showed that the chances of a heart attack increase for one hour after the last use by five times, but there were only 500 people involved.

Alcohol can kill. It shuts down nerve impulses to the lungs, incurring suffocation in extreme cases. If you pass out, you can choke to death on your own vomit. A person died at a patron boxing match in my town recently; the paper said he was intoxicated, and there were no paramedics around. I saw a patron bout where the ringman was feeding bear to his boxer; the boxer lost, almost certainly from being drunk. This, and the other guy sucked and ass.

[binski20]

Brokenmace,
could you elaborate on this cannaboid psychosis?

[Brokenmace]

Like a large number of things associated with weed, cannaboid psychosis is on somewhat fragile ground. Here are the facts as I know them.

1) any form of psychosis most often onsets between the ages of 15 adn 30.

2) in Australia, for example, about 70% of those diagnosed with early psychosis have used marijuana in the past month.

3) supposedly, the percentage shoots up if you include "past use" of any kind.

4) The fact that psychosis onsets at these age groups and that most folks who smoke marijuana fall in this age group making producing a causal link difficult, as the age groups have been proven not to change in the abscents of drug use.

5) However, it is known that smoking weed can increase the severity of psychotic episodes in the afflicted.

Weed can also cause angine (chest pains), and it is strongly believed it can cause lung cancer, but there is not evidence, other than the fact that there are about 500 toxic chemicals in the smoke.

Still, the chances of developing cannaboid psychosis are said to be low, and almost always associated with very heavy use.

[crazyjoe380]

well what i ment about the question i had was:


if u work out all week.. like weight lift.. train..


doing certain drugs.. will do what?? eat your muscles? make em stay where they are at?

what affect will they have and have on someone who trains hard all week..

does he throw it away just on that weekend of partying?

[Brokenmace]

Smoking anything will generally reduce cardio pulminary efficiency. Harsh stimulants, like meth, can damage the heart; he could end up having a coronary in the ring.

Any cardio he gained during the week would probably go down the drain. I don't think it would influence his weight trianing much, unless he was high while training (dangerous, of course).

A bad rip of partying could destroy his ability to train for maybe a week or two, and it is well known that many folks lose most benefits from training within a few weeks, sometimes as little as two weeks.

That's all I know.

Good luck.

BTW, no one does meth only the weekends for very long. Meth is bad shyte. The only drugs I know of that aren't heavily physiologically addictive are: weed, caffiene (depending on physiology), and LSD

Most others will eventually cause some form of addiction, mild or heavy, including alcohol (of course).

[Builderofmuscle]

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF DOING DRUGS? i DON'T UNDERSTNAD. iS THERE A HIDDEN BENEFIT CAN YOU TELL ME?