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Excercise and Alcohol

  • 06-12-2004 6:31pm
    #1
    p.pete
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    I learned in college that if you run / play football while drunk your muscles are going to hurt the next day. Also I'm reasonably well up on why it's so destructive to the muscles.

    Anyway - yesterday morning I had my first proper game of football in a long time (English Sunday league) and so I'm not fully fit, so hareing up and down the line has unfortunately taken its toll on me. Luckily I hadn't been drinking the night before but at the moment this only seems like a small mercy as my muscles are still in considerable pain - just as if I were to have had alcohol in my system while I was playing.

    I did however have pints after playing (although quite a few hours after) and I'm wondering what kind of effect drinking post-exercise has on the system. Is the pain I'm feeling now purely as a result of not being as fit as I'd like to think I am and then running my arse off or would the alcohol (we're talking 6 or 7 pints of Guinness) be playing a large part?


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  • #2
    daymobrew
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    He may not be the best source of advice but Keith Duffy commented, when promoting the KD All Stars vs Dream Team, that drinking the night before the previous games dehydrated his knee joints and he ended up damaging them.
    So, don't drink the night before games.


  • #3
    GreeBo
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    Did you warm up and down?
    Stretch before and afterwards?
    People dont seem to believe the difference it makes to your muscles the next day :cool:


  • #4
    p.pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭p.pete


    GreeBo wrote:
    Did you warm up and down?
    Stretch before and afterwards?
    No and no :o
    I strongly suspect that has a lot to do with it too but was just wondering about the effect of the alcohol because I was a lot stiffer on Monday having been in the pub the night before then I was all afternoon previously after the football.

    The major problem however definitely is with the stretching - I'm not as young as I feel :D (or on current evidence I'm not as old as I feel, should be right again in another day or three...)


  • #5
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Go for a run now (well, maybe not this minute but soon)
    Even this later on a run is the best thing to get rid of the pain.
    (assuming you stretch this time and dont go mad on the running)


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