Drugs

[mr.boggle]

Just another quick q...
Excuse me if this has already been asked, but will taking certain drugs like weed and ecstasy affect your strength training? I would like to see an article about this (which would be really interesting to read). I was offered to take some with a bunch of friends but I rejected because I thought it would ruin my whole routine... My devotion for strength training is insane, y'know! I hope I didn't reject it for nothing!!!

[oi_joe]

there not worth doing in the first place to be honnest, some of my friends are into them, but i've never seen the point, i think in the end its a waste.

[Young Athlete]

there not worth doing in the first place to be honnest, some of my friends are into them, but i've never seen the point, i think in the end its a waste.

True, I'm a straight-edge along with my girl friend. There really isn't any reason to ever do them especially ecstasy that stuff can really mess you up.

[eLvarouza]

Just another quick q...
Excuse me if this has already been asked, but will taking certain drugs like weed and ecstasy affect your strength training? I would like to see an article about this (which would be really interesting to read). I was offered to take some with a bunch of friends but I rejected because I thought it would ruin my whole routine... My devotion for strength training is insane, y'know! I hope I didn't reject it for nothing!!!

You rejected something like ecstacy because it might fuck up your training and not because it's an incredibly dangerous drug that totally fucks up your body?

Anything that destroys your body will obviously destroy your training progress. It's like asking "will my training suffer if I do speedballs on my off days?". The obvious answer is: duh.

[bigwhat62]

just say no, i mean it. even a beer or two i feel throws me off.

[sveinbjorn]

Will they screw you up? Most definitely yes!! Not only will they screw up your training, they will screw up your life! Marijuana destroys motivation and goal-seeking, two things you need for successful training, and successful life. I don't know a lot about ecstasy, except that it is occasionally deadly, and is made in "pirate " labs, so you never know exactly what you're getting. Both of these are also illegal. Having to deal with arrest and trial and possible incarceration won't do much for your training, not to mention your employment prospects. Actually, though, if you do end up in prison, you will have plenty of weights and plenty of time to use them, if you don't mind all that shanking and raping stuff.

Back away from the Drugs!

Svein

[Rugger]

Pot is like anything else that might affect your training, it will if you let it. I don't see anything wrong with getting high every once in a while, as long as you don't let it interfere with anything important to you, like getting strong. Stay the fuck away from ecstasy though.

[mjh]

weed: once and a while, no worries. When it gets to be a habit is when motivation and concentration issues arise.

anything else: I am always amazed when my otherwise intelligent friends willingly ingest chemicals manufactured by scumbags and sold by scumbags.

[eLvarouza]

Actually, though, if you do end up in prison, you will have plenty of weights and plenty of time to use them, if you don't mind all that shanking and raping stuff.

And then I wouldn't have to pay this gym membership! Hmm...

[Beppe]

Occasional drinking, smoking, drug taking cannot do you harm at all (chemical shit like ecstasy could anyway).
BUT...
How much is occasional? How much is once in a while? To keep yourself clean I think it's easier to cut them all completely. That's why: let's say you decide to have a smoke of grass once in a while (months, weeks, days, hours?). So you basically do drugs. Sometimes but you do. So if the occasion comes, even if you planned perfectly to have it just the first saturday of every other month, if an extra occasion comes you take it. And that's not predictable. Friends ask you, they know you do, and you say "why not?". This happens once, twice, until you can't really say that you're not doing too much drugs. That is even worse with "regular" cigarettes. I've been there, I have tried quitting many times, since I discovered how it works (with some help from Mr. Allen Carr, RIP) and happily quit completely. Sometimes cravings come: I'm nervous, I'm relaxed, I'm whatever... it was normal at the times to light a cigarette. Now I know that a single cigarette could bring me back to that pack and half a day nightmare, and I cut the thought out. Friends ask you to do drugs? You don't have to ask yourself if a safe amount of time has passed since last time. You know that you simply don't do that stuff. Simple. No doubts. The demon that wants you to be weak gets fed by doubts. He'll always tell you that you're not doing too much stuff. But when you know that you don't do shit at all: that's simple.
Simple, not easy. Example: I'm completely teatotaler. I'm not a crusader, so no problem with other people drinking. But they always have problems with me. People I know since years still ask me if I want a beer, a shot, a glass of whatever. Answering NO all the time can be annoying, but even with all this social pressure it becomes an habit. Sometimes you get pearls of wisdom like a co-worker gave me the other day: "you don't smoke, you don't drink, you don't take stuff, so for what do you live for?". I know for what I live. Plenty of things, there is literally not enough time to do them all. No room left for drugs. I want to be here all the time.
Going against social pressure isn't easy at all, but I suppose on this board people come to become stronger, isn't it?

[Love_Deadlifts]

Without a doubt stay the hell away from ecstasy. You can probably get away with smoking some pot every now and then as long as it doesn't become habitual. You always have to consider the possibility you'll get busted with drugs too, then there's all kinds of legal hassles you have to deal with.

[dhw]

Just another quick q...
Excuse me if this has already been asked, but will taking certain drugs like weed and ecstasy affect your strength training? I would like to see an article about this (which would be really interesting to read). I was offered to take some with a bunch of friends but I rejected because I thought it would ruin my whole routine... My devotion for strength training is insane, y'know! I hope I didn't reject it for nothing!!!

Stay away from the drugs and also the people who use them. Neither will help you in life and both will bring you trouble.

[7611masari]

pretty much the only drug out there that has no chemically adverse effects is the magic mushroom, surprising as this probably is. The only dangers with the magic mushroom are that a)your hallucinations can cause you to believe things that could lead to you harming yourself or others (ie believing you can fly and so jumping off your porch roof) and b)you don't get a real magic mushroom, you eat a mushroom that looks like psilocybin but is actually really poisonous.

You aren't really sober with pot until two days after you've stopped feeling high, which means you should not operate machinery.

Stay off the drugs. There are way cheaper and more actually fun ways of having fun than taking chemical shit. Besides, your liver will like you better.

[Edziu]

A taekwondo friend of mine smoked a joint before a lesson once. He said his sparring was awful and his board breaking was worse. His patterns were the best he'd ever done though.