is drinking alcohol really that awful on cycle?

[MattUK666]

Apart from damaging your liver, I cant see how drinking would affect a cycle too badly (I mean apart from the calories, and hangovers effecting how you perform in the gym)

But if you know your body, I dont see it being a problem, I drink all the time, But I go to the gym in the evening, so it never effects me, I lift heavy and its fine.

But I mean, im not competing....

[johnCash]

hey peptideguy what were your gains like while you were drinking that much? and what are useless calories? arent all calories good?

[rich1234]

reverses protein synthesis

[Friend]

For me once I stopped the weekend drinking is when I was able to start making fast improvements and take myself to the next level (still got another couple of levels to go ). Just depends on your goals and how far you want to take your physique. If you're for real about getting to the next level then every opportunity should be use for growth and recovery.
I still go out I just chose not to drink and when I do its on a rare occasion, birthday, new years. My goals are set to high and I don't want anything slow me down cause it will and for me just weekend drinking slows me down BIG TIME. I'm talking BIG TIME.

Just depends, I'd continue but then I'd catch heat cause of who I believe should be juicing or not

^^agreed

[Pac Man]

Depending on your size an occasional drink or two won't hurt much but I wouldn't make it a habbit on cycle.
I think if running a test only cycle your best time to have a drink would be on and absolutely nothing during pct.
If your drinking socially with clients make your first order a crown and coke, than order just coke in the same glass to appear to be socially drinking. I do this with apple juice instead of beer as well as cranberry to look like cran and vodka.
If your into ciders you can order a hard cider than swap for the juice and no one will be able to tell the diffrence after two drinks even if they tried it.
My 2 cents, take it for what its worth

[chuckt12345]

im hungover

[BRITISH ANABOLIC]

What the hell is a tittie bar? God England sucks.....

Dude we have a queen, thier's nothing more sexualy appealing than that!

[diesel405]

What good is it to eat, sleep ,and siht bodybuilding if ya cant go out and show your hard work off to some quality but sluty strippers? I say go for it bro......

[Lightsout2184]

How much bigger might you get if you did not drink? and man with that theory of we only live once seems that you would want to jab yourself with a couple grams of test every week. as you say, you only live once!

obviously u didnt get my point. throwing back a couple drinks isnt gonna shorten ur life like cruising on 2 grams of test a week. u only live once doesnt mean make urself die sooner. it means enjoy the moment

[BGIZZLE8629]

will a few vodka and cran-grapes once or twice a month during 30mg dbols be THAT aweful? I will be taking MILK THISTLE also... if that makes a difference

[Grizzly22]

Don't drink while cycling???? That's a long time!! Sh** you'll must not have shitty jobs like I do that require drinking to stay sane haha

[louiscypher]

Besides dehyrdating the muscle, reducing protein synthesis, and leading to catabolism here is just a little tid bit for all you who run compounds that aromatize:

Alcohol hinders the ability of the liver to remove excess estrogen from the body (techinically there estrogenic derivatives), meaning that if you get "wasted" or put liquor in your body (shots, rum, vodka, whatever) than the liver will go through a peroid of time where it won't be able to remove excess estrogen as proficently as it could do before. Now factor in that is for "normal people" imagine what happens when you have steroids in your system that aromatize (such as test).

So what side effects could that lead to? Bloating and worst of development of gyno, I mean what better time to have gyno develop than when the body can't reduce the amount of excess estrogen that is circulating.


So while 2-3 drinks per week won't kill you (as long as you arent running orals), it is counterproductive.

Doesn't booze destroy testosterone in your body as well?

[Tarheel]

I also have read that alcohol -anything > 3 drinks a day - will decrease test levels in the bloodstream...but just like T-MOS said...moderation is the key..1 beer every now and then wont be too detrimental

[fb4life]

i'll say what i said in another thread like this.

When i'm on, i take the ole lady out, get her wasted and beat her bones in. I dont drink, but I can sure give her a hell of a scroggin' with the test flowin like mad.

[NycItalian]

moderation . rum and club soda

[nilrac]

I guess everybody is different. Depends on the individual, their lifestyle, diet and so on. And when it comes to gear, what compounds they are taken and how many units of alcohol they are consuming. There are so many factors...

What I do find a little scary though, is the amount of guys I come across who are taking orals for ridiculous periods of time and hitting it hard -with alcohol- every weekend. Not a good idea... I can only hope their gear is bunk!

[DEVLDOG]

alcohol in of itself slows down your matabolism, this is a proven fact, that right there is enough for me not to want to drink.

anyone serious about their body wouldn't even consider the thought but thats the problem,most ppl using gear today just wanna look good for the beach and have no business or knowledge to even be touching it in the first place

[songdog]

Were you the kinda kid growing up ur daddy had to tell you everything 3 times? Then smack you in the head for not listening?

[ninesecz]

I do not think I even drank more than 3 times the entire 29months I lived in vegas!