can you still drink alcohol

[ang_soo_do_guy]

hey i want to know please can you still drink alcohol if youre training to be fighting fit any advice helpful

[47MartialMan]

In what manner?

 

One of my Shifus, consumes a little wine. His Shifu, had also and lived into his 80's.

 

Do you mean going out with the "boys"?

[AngelaG]

I guess it's down to personal choice and how seriously you take your training... and how much work needs to be done.

 

I still drink at the weekends. I work VERY hard all during the week and I need a little relaxation at the weekends, so I either go out with my dojo buddies, or stay in with a wine, a nice meal and a DVD.

 

However, I don't go and and get wrecked.

[White Warlock]

i would agree it is personal choice. i don't drink. Don't like how it effects my body. My mind stays the same, if not just a tad slower. These are things that most serious practitioners abhor about alcohol. A sort of conflict of interests, if you will.

[47MartialMan]

So I guess this is a "No No" like smoking from "extreme health conscious"?

[White Warlock]

Are you asking a question, testing, or posing a rhetorical question?

[47MartialMan]

Can it be a quasi-sacarstic remark? Hmmnn.

 

How about all of the above.

[ang_soo_do_guy]

yeah i drink at weekends sometimes i get drunk somtimes i dont but im only a white belt and in my teens so i thought as a get older i can cut down or cut it out or when i rank higher in belts what do u think

[47MartialMan]

So I guess what you are saying, as you rank higher you become more mature and responsible?

[steveb]

All things in moderation. A drink now and then isn't going to hurt, and in the case of wine (no, not as in drinking a whole case of wine) a glass or two has actually been shown to have some health benefits. Obviously, if you are getting lit every day you are going to incur some problems.