Marijuana and exercise
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Nice, you pick your enemies well. I just need a warm up by picking on some cubbies.
I should chime in. Living near San Francisco, I see a lot of interesting behavior. The prevalence of Marijuana in the area is astounding. I have seen one trend, however. The people who do it, are rarely considered by greater society to be successful, independent, and confident individuals. I'm not saying this is true for everyone who does it, it's just a societal perception. "Stoner" is a label just like all of the other negative labels out there, and people will put that label on you and treat you differently because of it. I'm not saying it's right, but that's how it is. It's a choice that may benefit you personally in some ways, but it does have it's drawbacks.
It's an inarguable fact that smoking any substance has a negative impact on your health. To willingly damage your lungs is your choice, but a questionable choice at that.
I would say, think deeply, when your not high. Ask some respectable individuals what they would do. Make the decision for yourself.
It's an inarguable fact that smoking any substance has a negative impact on your health. To willingly damage your lungs is your choice, but a questionable choice at that.
I would say, think deeply, when your not high. Ask some respectable individuals what they would do. Make the decision for yourself.
And yet doctors prescribe concentrated THC tablets to for cancer patients, and for a variety of other ailments.
So that means a 'neurotoxin' is not inherently 'bad'...or that its cons don't necessarily outweigh the pros.
So, still flawed logic in 'the war on weed'.
BTW, ever see the video of Arnold Schwarzeneggar smoking a fattie spliff back in the late 70's?
A buddy of mine will and can attest to this. When he was younger, his dad was a drunk. He would come home and beat the crap out of his mom and him. One ****ty day, his dad beat his mom so bad that she died in the hospital 3 days later.
He doesn't drink or do weed (he's pretty straight edge actually) but will always go with MJ if he had to choose between the two. His rationale is "Do you think if my dad smoked instead of drink that he would still come home and beat the **** out of my mom and me??? No, he'd light up and get hungry and/or fall asleep. MJ over alcohol any day..." Sad the events had to happen, but so much truth behind it.
Yeah. I know all about that ... first hand as a kid. Getting pounded on by somebody 130 pounds heavier than you isn't a lot of fun. And it's probably why I'm so dead set against any substance that has the potential to alter one's brain chemistry.
Different foods will alter moods. I get pretty cranky when I don't eat.
Spicy, your post doesn't say much. Just because you know people who are total stoners, doesn't make being a failure and smoking weed causal. People from every walk of life smoke. They just aren't shoving it in your face that they do it.
Spicy, your post doesn't say much. Just because you know people who are total stoners, doesn't make being a failure and smoking weed causal. People from every walk of life smoke. They just aren't shoving it in your face that they do it.
Haha, that sounds like a wild party
I agree with Lei, pot isn't great for your health but I think you'll find that alcohol has far more detrimental effects on health. What is it that makes you lose all respect for the person? The fact that they are smoking a mild drug or the fact that it's illegal?
I've never chased the White Dragon but I have seen the Pink Elephant while riding the White Horse a fair bit in the past
Getting back to the OP, and avoiding the whole ‘drugs are bad m’kay!’ and ‘drugs are illegal’ arguments, I can’t imagine the smoking anything before or immediately after training would assist you in anyway, unless maybe you were having trouble consuming enough calories so wanted a post-training joint to stimulate hunger
I’m in no way anti-weed; of all the drugs I’ve ever encountered it’s probably the most harmless, but from a fitness point of view I’d keep away from smoking close to training times.
And for all those ‘your body is a temple’ people. What’s the point in living in a temple while you live a unadventurous and uneventful life? Tests on animals suggest that castration can increase a man’s life expectancy; if that were true of humans would you cut your balls off just to live a little longer?
Yeah, maybe smoking weed will knock a year or two off your life but lets face it; those years are off the end of your life when you’ll probably be sat in a care home soaked in your own piss wishing you were dead anyway. At least the stoners will be stuck in care homes in their old age with a lot of fun memories
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I should hope so too; it’d be pretty unfair to make being Dutch illegal
Maybe they could just legislate against the stupid accent and wearing wooden shoes?
I've already answered those questions in my previous posts.
Not that I'd actually choose either, because I wouldn't drink a margarita and wouldn't eat MJ brownies
I have a lot of will power and I live by a pretty strict code when it comes to what I put into my body. Everybody makes conscious decisions as to what they are going to do and what they are going/willing to put into their body. Therefore, it's hard for me to relate to people who have no will power or want to do things that have the potential to permanently damage their bodies. It's just not logical, especially when you're spending all that time in the gym training to get a better physique. Your overall health isn't just about what you look like on the outside. You've got to respect the inside of your body, too.
You don't have to agree with it. I just believe in being clean. It's the same reason why I never took anabolics in track and field. Everybody else did (even the women). I made a conscious decision not to because I didn't believe in them. And I still don't.
Yes, it matters to me. Read the last paragraph in my post directly above yours.
It might look nice, Lei, but at the end of the day I'm far more impressed with people who choose to develop their physiques naturally.
I've been reading that AAS use is almost epidemic amongst teenagers and gays now because of media pressure for men to have perfect bodies and competition for sexual partners. It's quite sad actually.
I've been reading that AAS use is almost epidemic amongst teenagers and gays now because of media pressure for men to have perfect bodies and competition for sexual partners. It's quite sad actually.