# Alcoholic and training
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490 "2021-12-04T12:23:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/1 "2021-12-04T12:23:51Z")
I drink about 7 liters of vodka each week, and i still lift weights in between.I train hard – lets say 1 hour of weight lifting twice a week. Is that a good thing despite my drinking? i am 52 yr old
I have a feeling it helps me to lift, i feel better after drinking now a days. I no longer get a hangover now - i assume it is because i drank for so long that it doesnt longer affect me.
To explain; i drink for two days then take a week before next drinks. Not ideal, i know my liver is bad- im concerned about my kidneys, but i dont want to know
I dont drink near my training, i sleep for a long time for a few days and im ready for training.
Any comments or hints (beside stop drinking - im an alcoholic)
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/2 "2021-12-04T12:33:02Z")
You drink for 2 days then take a week off? Does this mean you’re drinking 3.5 liters a day? How have you not died of alcohol poisoning yet? How much do you weigh?
How long have you been doing this with so much consumption? Do you feel yourself going into withdrawal on the days you don’t drink? Alcohol withdrawal is very dangerous.
When you stop drinking how long does it take you to recover back to normal?
How are you working out if you are dehydrated from alcohol and hangovers?
I’m a typical Wisconsin drunkard. I wait until everythings done and then at the end of the week I blow my freaking brains out. But your level of drinking is beyond fun, it’s dangerous and I fear for your safety.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/3 "2021-12-04T12:34:03Z")
7 liters in a two days span is a shit ton of alcohol. And I say that as an alcoholic myself. If you’re managing to get two work out days a week; good on you I guess. It’s better than I’m doing, and I don’t drink as much as you.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/4 "2021-12-04T12:54:09Z")
I think 7 liters in 2 days is simply impossible. If you drank evenly for 48 hours - about 150 mls an hour, every hour, you would achieve a BAC of about 2.6. This is more than 5 times the point at which you are a risk of coma and/or death. It would take, allowing for normal alcohol metabolism, about 6 days to sober up.
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### Author:  [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/5 "2021-12-04T13:00:07Z")
> [@Loggins](#):
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> I drink about 7 liters of vodka each week, and i still lift weights in between.I train hard – lets say 1 hour of weight lifting twice a week. Is that a good thing despite my drinking? i am 52 yr old
It doesn’t matter.
When you say you’re drinking 7L (over 7 US fifths) of vodka per week, and trying to keep a weightlifting regimen, I am reminded of the phrase “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” This is an enormous and dangerous amount of alcohol.
Weightlifting isn’t making you healthier because the alcohol is pushing your internal organs to the breaking point. If you continue drinking these amounts, fairly soon you won’t feel like lifting at all. Your liver will fail first, and your heart is probably not in good shape either. Both of these organs are necessary to keep a weightlifting regime going. If you destroy them, you won’t be lifting for much longer.
If you don’t stop drinking, you’re going to die soon. You’re drinking too much to quit on your own. To do it safely, I would encourage you to spend a few days in medical detox. Do it soon before the hospitals get slammed with the next wave of COVID.
Your life is in danger right now. I can’t imagine you are enjoying your life very much either. It’s time for some changes.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/6 "2021-12-04T13:13:59Z")
@Loggins:
> Highway to the Danger Zone
> I’ll take you right into the Danger Zone
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/7 "2021-12-04T13:21:28Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> I think 7 liters in 2 days is simply impossible. If you drank evenly for 48 hours - about 150 mls an hour, every hour, you would achieve a BAC of about 2.6. This is more than 5 times the point at which you are a risk of coma and/or death. It would take, allowing for normal alcohol metabolism, about 6 days to sober up.
I agree the amount he’s drinking is impossible.
But it’s not possible to calculate what their BAC would be without knowing their weight. A 450 pound man might be able to handle that much ethanol for awhile but there is no way a 180 pound man could.
I wonder if they made an error on the amount their drinking. Maybe they meant to say pints instead of liters? That would change the equation enormously.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/8 "2021-12-04T16:01:27Z")
Aside from the risk of death what is with the two day thing. You drink for two days you work out for two days. Lifting two days a week it’s really accomplishing anything though from the sounds of it you are killing your body with only two days of drinking per week. My suggestion would be to lift every other day so you get 3 to 4 days per week in. Hopefully that’ll help cut down on your attempt at suicide.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/9 "2021-12-04T16:10:05Z")
Please tell me you don’t drive.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/10 "2021-12-04T16:12:15Z")
> [@Loggins](#):
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> Any comments or hints (beside stop drinking - im an alcoholic)
In what possible way is that an excuse for what you are doing to yourself?
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/11 "2021-12-04T16:49:06Z")
This is like catching your pants on fire, and then waiting to remove them, to ask us what clothing colors we think work well on you.
You appear to be in a full blown crisis. Weightlifting is irrelevant.
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/12 "2021-12-04T16:50:32Z")
I think i might have mis calculated the aamount, i guess i drink 4 bottles of wine, 1 literof vodka and 1 liter of cognac i one sitting. And i still - with enough rest am able to train heavy lifting twice a week. After the last lift – my reward is to start drinking, and i feel so nice
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/13 "2021-12-04T16:53:15Z")
This has gone on for years (like 20) and i am a heavy smoker of tobacco. BUT i do feel quite fine, exept for a few days after a drinking
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/14 "2021-12-04T16:53:56Z")
> [@Loggins](#):
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> I think i might have mis calculated the aamount, i guess i drink 4 bottles of wine, 1 bottle og cognac and 1 bottle of cognac i one sitting.
> [@Loggins](#):
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> I drink about 7 liters of vodka each week
That is not “miscalculating the amount”-That is totally misstating both the amount and the substance being abused. Please get your story straight.
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/15 "2021-12-04T16:56:42Z")
You got a point napier, but after my weight lifting regime (about a year) im less sick after drinking, and im more social with my family. So i assume my training gives all my internal organs extra blood and boost to endure a lot of smasching
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/16 "2021-12-04T16:59:51Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> > [@Loggins](#):
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> > I think i might have mis calculated the aamount, i guess i drink 4 bottles of wine, 1 bottle og cognac and 1 bottle of cognac i one sitting.
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> > [@Loggins](#):
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> > I drink about 7 liters of vodka each week
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> That is not “miscalculating the amount”-That is totally misstating both the amount and the substance being abused. Please get your story straight.
It can from time to time be 7 liters a week - in that case split in 2 days, but normally it would be 4 red wine bottles and 1 liter vodka and 1 liter cognac. I think i was miscalculating, what else would you excpect from a non english speaking alcoholic…
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/17 "2021-12-04T17:00:15Z")
It’s still quite an amount.
A bottle of wine is about 10 units of alcohol. A liter of hard alcohol is about 40 units. So he’s consuming 120 units of alcohol daily, or 240 weekly. At 7L of vodka a week, it’s the equivalent of 280 units a week.
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/18 "2021-12-04T17:01:50Z")
Im not drinking daily, it is a reward (like any drug addict) at the end of the week and after training, i never drink unless i trained twice a week and it does wonders
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/19 "2021-12-04T17:02:26Z")
And the story changes yet again.
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### Author:  [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcoholic-and-training/955490/20 "2021-12-04T17:03:58Z")
Not really, i said i drink such and such much a week, but not daily, just heavy two days with energy drinking
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