Fitness and Alcohol

[Wildfire]

Recently (due to a change in my personal schedule) I have swithched my training from 3 1.5-2 hour sessions a week to 4-5 more intense 1 hour sessions at lunch, and also started cycling a lot more in preparation to go biking in the Atlas Mountains later on in the year. I am feeling better about my fintess, have lost fat and put on lean muscle.

But I have found that my alcohol tollerances are now extremetly rubbish.

I had 3 drinks the other night and felt apalling the next day. I drank a good load of water before I went to bed and still the next day I felt awful.

What are the affects of alcohol on training? I'm talking a few glasses of wine in the evening once then training the next day.

As my fitness increases am I going to feel progressively worse when I drink?

[M3CHA-MONK3Y]

I found that the fitter I got, the lower my alcohol tolerance became. I have a mouldy head after 2 pints of calsberg export.
I'm afraid it's the price you pay, less body mass and similar alcohol intake gives you more of a hangover.
Try eating before a beer and continue drinking plenty of fluids after.

HTH

Edited by M3CHA-MONK3Y on Wednesday 22 July 12:05

[coupeboy]

I think it's also to do with the fact that when your body gets fit it can process food and liquids much more quickly, in other words your organs (heart, lungs, liver etc) also get fitter, resulting in alchol being processed much quicker.