What do you guys sacrifice?

skinny_guy

Hey guys,

This is my first post on this forum so go easy lol. As my username states I am a skinny guy. I have been lifting pretty regularly for the last few months trying to gain muscle mass. However I keep running into barriers and lose all motivation. One of those barriers is alcohol!

I do enjoy going out at the weekend but the next day I am so hungover I stay in bed for so long, miss my meals. Sometimes I wouldn't drink that much, I would just be extremely tired after a night out.

Anyway I will get to the point. I feel like its impossible to have a good social life when you are dedicated to getting a more muscular physique. Even trying to sort out my meals, I feel I have to be in the kitchen constantly. Do I need to start giving up on my nights out? I just cannot stand being skinny anymore? I need a serious amount of tips

Hanley

1) You're being a pussy - eat more on the days you do eat

2) It's obviously not ideal but it can be done

Burkatron

skinny_guy wrote: »

Hey guys,

This is my first post on this forum so go easy lol. As my username states I am a skinny guy. I have been lifting pretty regularly for the last few months trying to gain muscle mass. However I keep running into barriers and lose all motivation. One of those barriers is alcohol!

I do enjoy going out at the weekend but the next day I am so hungover I stay in bed for so long, miss my meals. Sometimes I wouldn't drink that much, I would just be extremely tired after a night out.

Anyway I will get to the point. I feel like its impossible to have a good social life when you are dedicated to getting a more muscular physique. Even trying to sort out my meals. Do I need to start giving up on my nights out? I just cannot stand being skinny anymore? I need a serious amount of tips

Dirty bulk! On your nights out hit every takeaway on the way home

Seriously though, you don't have to become a hermit just cut back a bit on the nights out if you really feel they're the problem! At the end of the day it's still calories in vs calories out if you're trying to gain weight!
Have you tried the Gallon Of Milk A Day (GOMAD) tactic! Eat big, lift big, GOMAD It will put meat on your bones!!

Duck's hoop

I reckon regular alcohol consumption in large doses seriously impinges on any training and expected results.

I love pints and the pub but since I got semi-serious about my training I've radically curtailed that. I'm a bit older and all but I think the feeling you get from being in reasonable shape is better than the short lived 'craic' in the pub.

Having said that you've got to live so just cut down maybe? I really think you can be undoing a lot of hard work by regular sessioning.

xgtdec

13th of December 2010 was my last alcoholic drink......i took my goals so seriously that i became a pioneer to make damn sure i stayed off the sauce, after the year was up i never bothered starting back on it.......one of my best moves ever from a goals pov...not so good for the social life...but im not caring!!

next time you hit the gym on a saturday morning have a sniff of the guy pumping out his hangover....it aint pretty:D

On the bulk end of things...eat eat eat....and eat....then eat....if you not eating between sets your doing it wrong

Mack_1111

I always go off the gargle coming up to exams and end up going hatchet in the gym It'll sort out your lie in's also cause you'll go home early on a Fri/Sat night once your mates start talking drunken s**te

skinny_guy

skinny_guy wrote: »

Hey guys,

This is my first post on this forum so go easy lol. As my username states I am a skinny guy. I have been lifting pretty regularly for the last few months trying to gain muscle mass. However I keep running into barriers and lose all motivation. One of those barriers is alcohol!

I do enjoy going out at the weekend but the next day I am so hungover I stay in bed for so long, miss my meals. Sometimes I wouldn't drink that much, I would just be extremely tired after a night out.

Anyway I will get to the point. I feel like its impossible to have a good social life when you are dedicated to getting a more muscular physique. Even trying to sort out my meals, I feel I have to be in the kitchen constantly. Do I need to start giving up on my nights out? I just cannot stand being skinny anymore? I need a serious amount of tips

just drink less
you hardly need to be giving up nights out or socialising

billyhead

Excuses Excuses. If you really want to put on weight you will. On the way home from your night out fill up on a double whopper deal from Burger King and a large milk shake and then the follwoing day drink yourself sober therefore you will get although not healthy calories in:D

Gummy Panda

I don't drink much anymore. I don't think it's due to the gym but more that I find I have a low tolerance to booze now so get the fear the next day and sometimes depression.

Motorist

It's come to the point for me where it's just not worth it save for maybe one big night every few months. I find when you're consciously cutting back or off the gargle, you notice the amount of random, $hite nights the crop up out of the blue - you know the text to come into town at 10pm when you're in work the next day anyway.

Training definitely does take it's toll on your social life, especially if that life was built around the pub with friends you used to get smashed regularly with.

Duck's hoop

Motorist wrote: »

It's come to the point for me where it's just not worth it save for maybe one big night every few months. I find when you're consciously cutting back or off the gargle, you notice the amount of random, $hite nights the crop up out of the blue - you know the text to come into town at 10pm when you're in work the next day anyway.

Training definitely does take it's toll on your social life, especially if that life was built around the pub with friends you used to get smashed regularly with.

Spot on.

Wollwead

FFS, I don't know about anyone else but putting on weight is the easiest thing in the world for me TBH. Full fat milk based whey protein shakes in between meals and peanut/almond nut butter is the way to go, c'mon dude it's easy. Losing weight is another story!

Gummy Panda

billyhead wrote: »

Excuses Excuses. If you really want to put on weight you will. On the way home from your night out fill up on a double whopper deal from Burger King and a large milk shake and then the follwoing day drink yourself sober therefore you will get although not healthy calories in:D

XL Bacon double cheese burger is where it's at

Duck's hoop

Weight - no problem!

Muscle, fitness etc is hard earned though and regular pi$s ups just make it harder.

deadlybuzzman

If you cant get the meals in when you stomachs in bits or youre just struggling to get particularly the protein in, use shakes.
Its not ideal but if the options eating nothing at all or shakes its an easy choice. Its the only way I can guarantee to eat the amount I want.
And when youre on the lash finish your night with a nice big half pounder

Please Kill Me

I don't have a social life as I do some form of training or other every day. But then again, with kids that was pretty much f**ked up anyway! LOL

My weekends are my rest days and I don't want to spend them drunk or hungover. No reason why you can't go out and not get hammered! Your choice chief, if you're serious about it. You can have a hectic social life or you can train.

pecker1992

I found myself in this position also OP..and i can safely say after cutting out the drink ive never been happier...if a girl needs to be legless to be interested or you feel you need to be wasted to have fun with your friends then theres a problem....and its not the training or you.....its this countries population and the fact that 99% of people conform to binge drinking as the only means for social interaction..dont be afriad to rise above the tunnell vision that most people have about nights out...i go out sober when i do choose to..and i enjoy the company of my friends and ive never had women problems..it all boils down to what YOU want more!!! hope this helps

by the way i should add that im 22 and a first year in UCC also.....so you can imagine the position it puts me in...

Sangre

If you're consistent with training and keep chipping away at it, you can easily reach realistic goals without negatively affecting your social life. You might miss the odd session but as long as you keep plugging away, work out hard on the other days of the week and look after your diet 90% of the time then you'll eventually get the results you want. Just plan around our social life. Arrange it so your rest days are on your "hangover" days.

Of course, if you're looking to push the boundaries a bit, for instance, compete in an event or seriously cut body fat, then your social life may need to cut back.

However, if you're just looking to start looking a bit better, especially if putting on weight, then the social life definitely doesn't need to disappear.

skinny_guy

Thanks for all the tips guys, very helpful. I think I'm going to cut down on the drink for a little while and see how it turns out. I know it will be worth it in the long run.

deadlybuzzman

just came across this in an article from jim wendler

Eat the three meals/day that you're already eating. And eat as much as you can at these meals.
After each meal, make this shake: Two cups of whole milk, three scoops of protein powder, a banana, and two tablespoons of peanut butter. And after you make this shake, drink it. Three times a day. Don't miss a day.

cant go too far wrong doing that.
I noticed your last post was 1.48am-make sure youre getting at least 8 hours sleep every night!

Pace2008

Cutting back on the gargle is never a bad thing, but if you're eating well and hitting the weights hard during the week you should still be making gains. What's your diet and routine generally like? Being hungover on a Sunday shouldn't stop you from being consistent on the days you're not drinking.