Alcohol brings in many side effects which negatively affect our bodybuilding and muscle growth. Most of the guys take too much of it while others take it in moderate fashion. But believe me that if you want muscle and body growth, alcohol can be a big stoppage in that. Below I will explain how:
1- Use of alcohol significantly decreases the production of human growth hormone in the body. It is said that it reduces the production to 70% of original production in the body. Keep in mind that human growth hormone is there to develop and grow your muscles, body cells and bones. This hormone is produced most in the night when we are sleeping and use of alcohol really stops its production and as a result our body growth and muscle growth gets affected.
2- Another important hormone for muscle growth is testosterone. Use of alcohol becomes toxin against those elements which stimulate production of testosterone in our body. As a result, its production gets severely affected.
3- Alcohol contains certain such elements which can easily make us gain weight. So it increases the fat level of our body which is not good for body.
4- Use of alcohol can cause your body getting dehydrated because it is diuretic. So when you are in gym and putting your body under lots of stress and hard work, you lose your body water and minerals in the form of sweat and need to regain it fast. Use of alcohol further dehydrates your body and hence you lose your energy that should have actually been utilized in muscle building and growth. Dehydration becomes critical in summer when lots of your body water goes out in the form of sweat and hence you should completely stay away from alcohol.
5- Alcohol can really make you a patient of high blood pressure and high hear beat. For a bodybuilder, both these diseases are fatal because he has to do hard training in machines and put his body under lots of effort and stress and cannot afford to have blood pressure or heart beat diseases. Use of alcohol also decreases the ability of the body to repair itself by increasing the recovery time.
In general, use of alcohol for body builders should be strongly prohibited because it does not let muscles to grow fully. Also, alcohol is not good for body in general as well because it causes certain diseases to grow in the body.
