after a night out?

poobum

drank a rediculous amount and got sick n all the bad stuff! didnt know what i cud handle hadnt drank in a while for sport but thought ah sure its christmas it wont matter....bad idea! what can i do to minimise the effect drink would have on me the next day to save myself for sport!
by this i dont mean to reduce hangovers or anything i was told that drink messes up up in your muscles etc...making you not able to perform to your max for a few days is this true? how would i minimise the time taken to be back on form?

LundiMardi

don't drink.

slicus ricus

Apart from not drinking:D , just make sure you get loads of water into ye the next day. Also, either you just gotta put up with the effects the booze has on ye when training or ye can work around it. Personally, if im going on a heavy night out, i arrange my training schedule so i dont have to train the next day. Id be wrecked and would get nothing more than a BS session if i went the day after!

cournioni

Drink lots of water before you go to bed. It helps.

watsgone

Water helps, thats for sure. And drink water between some real drinks.

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LovelyHurling

okay this sounds very dodgy, and I havent tried it myself, but lots of my friends swear by it - getting yourself on a drip is a sure way or ridding yourself of a hangover. Its very common amongst vet and med students. Of course, if youre going to do this for someone you should be experienced in applying an IV and have the appropriate training. I once got home one morning to find two mates slumped back on the couch with 500ml drips on themselves! It was a sight I'll never forget and I had to sit down I was laughing so much. Alternatively, if you dont fancy sticking a needle in your arm, Effhydral tablets (large rehydration tablets for farm animals) are perfectly safe for human consumption and purchasable from your local vet are also sworn hangover cures! Just tell the vet your calf has diarrhoea thats mainly what its used for, the hangover literally vanishes with immediate effect

I endorse neither, merely recounting a story...

Easygainer

You can do nothing to stop the lower test levels, but it shouldn't make much of a difference anyway.

Dehydration is the main problem, and I'll explain why. First off, alcohol cannot be stored by the body and it's 7kcal/g - nearly as much as fat, so the body has to use the alcohol first. Then all alco drinks have carbs so if you go to bed with carbs in your system you store them and they subsequently are stored as fat if not used. So it can make you fat.

Then, as alcohol dehydrates you, dehydration means catabolism which means losing muscle. To stop this, drink water while drinking, take dioralite when you get in*, and drink loads of water throughout night and next morning, preferably with some dioralite in it. (I had 4 litres after new year's eve during night...)

*Dioralite is a thing for children that comes in sachets and it has electrolytes to stop you getting dehydrated - works for kids, works for us!

PJG

Easygainer wrote:

*Dioralite is a thing for children that comes in sachets and it has electrolytes to stop you getting dehydrated - works for kids, works for us!

Stuff is really good if you’re doing a lot of sweating or cutting.

akw_old

LovelyHurling wrote:

okay this sounds very dodgy, and I havent tried it myself, but lots of my friends swear by it - getting yourself on a drip is a sure way or ridding yourself of a hangover. Its very common amongst vet and med students. Of course, if youre going to do this for someone you should be experienced in applying an IV and have the appropriate training. I once got home one morning to find two mates slumped back on the couch with 500ml drips on themselves! It was a sight I'll never forget and I had to sit down I was laughing so much. Alternatively, if you dont fancy sticking a needle in your arm, Effhydral tablets (large rehydration tablets for farm animals) are perfectly safe for human consumption and purchasable from your local vet are also sworn hangover cures! Just tell the vet your calf has diarrhoea thats mainly what its used for, the hangover literally vanishes with immediate effect

I endorse neither, merely recounting a story...

thats a bit much now. if you want to buy some human tablets, buy berocca in any pharmacy. they're a strong mulitvitmain. have one before you go to bed after your night out. because it contains loads of b vitamins, which are lost from alcohol, and with a few glasses of water for rehydration, you'll feel relatively ok in the morning. so have another when you get up and should be fine for the day.
these are strong multivitamins and i dont advise over dosing on them

accensi0n

akw wrote:

thats a bit much now. if you want to buy some human tablets, buy berocca in any pharmacy. they're a strong mulitvitmain. have one before you go to bed after your night out. because it contains loads of b vitamins, which are lost from alcohol, and with a few glasses of water for rehydration, you'll feel relatively ok in the morning. so have another when you get up and should be fine for the day.
these are strong multivitamins and i dont advise over dosing on them

I don't advise over dosing on anything.

Clive

As someone mentioned, Diarolyte is great stuff, available in Boots.

Lots of athletes use it when cutting weight, and if it can put 10kgs of water weight back on someone in 24 hours, it can sort you after a few beers!

PJG

it would be very hard to OD on Berocca. The vitamins are vit c and b which are water soluble so any excess not used by the body is passed off as expensive urine. The mineral levels are to low to worry about them. But yeah for sure one before bed and one in the morning will help.


What's in Berocca?
Per tablet %RDA
Vitamin C 476mg 793
Thiamin 10.4mg 743
Riboflavin 13.6mg 850
Niacin 45.3mg 252
Vitamin B6 7.1mg 355
Folacin (folic acid) 366µg 183
Vitamin B12 8.6µg 860
Biotin 0.13mg 87
Pantothenic acid 22.7mg 378
Calcium 95mg 12
Magnesium 95mg 32
Zinc 9mg 60

de_shadow

I've found that a couple of B-vitamin complex tabs taken about 30 mins to an hour before you start drinking and plenty of water through the night really helps beat a hangover although you will be up and down to the jacks more regularly .Vitimin b is one of the main ingredients in the lifeline hangover cure thats available in most offies.

FrankGrimes

my own personal, tried and tested, hangover cure is finishing off the next morning's shower with a blast of two minutes on the coldest setting (I do this everytime I shower and find it very beneficial), and then drink a bottle of still lucozade sport. I sip it and take a while to drink the whole thing. Strong mints also give a temporary pep when needed but thats a last resort.

I think the lucozade sport restores all sorts of salts and electrolytes that you lose when drunk so its logical, and for me its results are noticeably better than any other hangover cure I've tried.

poobum

thanks! i didnt mean to reduce hangovers do! i nvr get them! i just notice i can play **** all for the next week! not due to hangover i think drink effects my muscles reactions or summat! what is the best way to regain the reactions fastest?

ixus

Aren't sports drinks like Lucozade still pretty much just cordial, water and a bit of salt?
As has been suggested rehydration as quick as possible is the most important thing. Would also recommend keeping away from caffeine (tea coffee a lot of chocolate).

If you're really wrecked the next day, do as little as possible, sleep on the couch sipping water, let your body shut down as such and veg on the couch.

went for a jog one morning after a serious night out and it was an absolute waste of time. I knew I was dehydrated but was trying to "clear my system".

SpitfireIV

LundiMardi wrote:

don't drink.

I think there may be some benefits to that option