Can you lose muscle by drinking?
It is often said that as long as you drink alcohol, your muscles will burn, so many people start to quit drinking after exercise.
First of all, wine itself can't identify our bodies. If drinking can take away muscles, it is not only skeletal muscles that we have grown up, but also visceral muscles such as myocardium and smooth muscles. Then every alcoholic can die in a few seconds. This is obviously unrealistic, but alcohol will not directly take away our muscles, but it will have a similar effect indirectly.
1. Alcohol and its metabolites are considered as muscle toxins, which have destructive effects on muscle cells and accelerate the metabolic decomposition of muscles;
2. Alcohol intake has a direct effect on the growth of muscle fibers after training;
3. When drinking alcohol, the speed of myofibril synthesis slows down obviously after training, and the combination of the two will have a fatal effect on muscle growth;
Can you lose weight by drinking?
First of all, alcohol affects the fitness effect. During exercise, the human body uses glucose stored in the liver as fuel. The problem is that after drinking, alcohol is also metabolized through your liver, which means that drinking will inhibit the efficiency of glucose burning. Therefore, if fitness can't get the energy it deserves, the fitness effect will be greatly reduced.
In addition, alcohol will dehydrate your body, and your body needs more water and body fluids during exercise. If you start exercising after drinking a glass of wine or beer, you will only be short of water. Not only is it dangerous, but it will also lower your physical level.
Finally, drinking and exercising may also put you at risk of injury. Reason: The body is in a "burning" state during exercise, and alcohol itself is an accelerant. The double effect means that you are more vulnerable.
Fitness precautions
First, necessary warm-up activities. You know, this is not the time to braid your hair and drink a glass of water. This is a necessary process before you start exercising. When muscles are more relaxed, they are more embarrassed and easier to control and expand. Doing these exercises will reduce your chances of getting hurt. So it's best to spend 5- 10 minutes to make your body fully active and feel a little sweaty. You need to understand that this step is a good start for your fitness exercise.
Second, the extremely necessary stretching exercise. There are always some things in life that are easy to do, but stretching after fitness exercise is not so simple. When you exercise your muscles, they become tense and shortened. Stretching helps you relax your muscles, thus preventing them from aching the next day. It should be noted that the best time to do this exercise is after you finish the warm-up exercise, and at the same time, keep each exercise for 20 ~ 30 seconds, which will help your muscles relax and let you get more meaningful stretching exercise.