Hey friends, Do you guys have any experience dodging the alcohol goblin when out socializing?
I've successfully avoided this dude I don't really like for a long time now. Problem is he loves me and wants to hang out all the time, just doing nothing (which bores the shit out of me so I rarely accept) and he doesn't really have any other male friends due to him being a cunt and I feel bad for him. All his other friends are girls because he never wants to do anything, just chill and talk gossip (and not introduce me to the girls for some selfish reason).
Recently his gf dumped him so he has increased his efforts to "chill" and I've agreed to go out to a restaurant with today after lifting. I will get a nice steak and such so it's not all bad (though expensive) but I know he expects me to drink a lot of beer with him. I've started my cut and hopped on creatine so I avoid beer like the plague because I know it wrecks my workout the next day, and I want to lift on friday as well.
Do you guys have any good tips on how to avoid the alcohol? What to say to make normies/dyels stfu about drinking? I don't really care if he thinks I'm a tard, but I want to have a nice relaxed evening, not sitting and arguing why I shouldn't have just one beer. Also, does a glass of wine with the steak fuck up the recovery and next day workout as much as I know a beer does?
Noah Diaz
How little self control do you have that you cant take 3 shots of whiskey and walk away?
Noah Carter
I could do that, but I'm pretty sure that wrecks the recovery and next day workout as well, wouldn't you say?
Cooper Kelly
Say you're on anti biotics, and Google before on which kind you can't drink.
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Daniel Price
good tip, thanks mate
Gavin Scott
literally just drink anything other than beer, seriously. it's totally pleb tier alcohol.
Ethan Miller
someone on here once recommended saying youre taking a medication that you can't mix with alcohol. but this leads to more lies, like what medication and what condition you need it for etc etc
Michael Barnes
3shots of whiskey is alcoholic amounts
Samuel Sullivan
Get diet coke in a old fashioned glass and don't say anything they will assume you are drinking something with a mixer.
Nathaniel Cooper
Well, seasonal flu is pretty common tier these days. I don't really get sick anymore, but the normies don't know that.
I love beer but I avoid it because I've tried just having 2 beers (while bulking) the night before workout, muscles just couldn't perform as well as I know they can. I would guess a small amount of booze or wine would have the same effect, but I haven't tried myself in the same controlled manner as with beer.
Isaiah King
I'd rather drink beer than all those shit chemicals mate. I've cut out all sodas as well from my diet and my body loves it
Elijah Hughes
beer contains silicon which is god tier for bones you could just drink a couple light beers OP and dont do anything you dont want to do
Kayden Morales
no
Blake Butler
I stopped drinking for 2 years straight. At first everyone is annoying about it, but they eventually give up and don’t bother you
Mason Russell
drink whiskey or vodka and seltzer/club soda. there's a reason thots drink this religiously
Noah Morales
Don't light beer contain shitloads of calories (carbs) as well?
what worked best as explanation to the normies in your experience? Not giving any explanation if you know they're just gonna bitch at whatever you say anyway?
Yeah, I prefer drinking vodka straight while cutting, but as mention, I do believe the alcohol fucks up the workout next day even in small amounts. I'm considering going gin and tonic though
Aaron Gonzalez
obviously, but if you have sweet frame a lil' hangover won't stop you from hitting the gym
Adrian Powell
is that why I get gyno the more I drhink, bc my chest are filling with silicon?
Dominic Perry
The whole bottle would yes. 3 shots, no
Austin Kelly
If you weigh 3 lbs maybe
Hunter Hill
>Don't light beer contain shitloads of calories (carbs) as well? dont know about that, i know most beer bellies are really due to all the chips etc that go along with it
>is that why I get gyno the more I drhink, bc my chest are filling with silicon? 5/10 user it was kind of funny
Adrian Howard
It depends on when you go out and when you go to sleep. I guarantee you can have three drinks with dinner if you go out around 7:00pm, drinking water the whole time, leave around 9:30pm and be sober enough to get perfectly fine sleep. Stop being such a fag.
Henry Gomez
Like his ex, just say NO
People these days..it's not hard
Christopher Rogers
I just think sessions where I suck are so boring. Cutting every single set short because I'm exhausted.. feel like I'm not making any gains but it could just be the ego talking..?
i kekked
I'll have a look at the nutrition info on a light one next time I'm at the store. I've tried low calorie beer and it absolutely sucks.
Yeah we'll be going out around there and I hope to be in bed by 2200. Have work in the morning as well. Maybe I'll have 2 or 3 shots of vodka/gin tonics for science to see how much that affects the workout
Alexander Price
For the first 6-ish months I’d just say I didn’t feel like it (they will be annoying as fxck) After the half year when I went to a party I told them I didn’t drink anymore. I don’t remember exactly what I told them but I think I just said ‘for fitness’ After a year it was expected I didn’t drink.
The worst part about it is that the drunk people think they’re being “playful” when they keep pestering you to drink.
Jayden Gonzalez
Just drink half shots like 2 -3 drinks worth tops, shittons of water/tea/milk. You'll be golden.
Benjamin King
What the fuck is wrong with you millennials?
"No, sorry, I don't drink, I'll have [insert something alcohol free here] instead. But hey, feel free to drink whatever you please!" >but why, user, why? "Because I lift and if I drink then etc etc etc"
No man who deadlifts 4pl8s is afraid to say the fucking truth nor gives a flying fuck about social validation through alcoholism (which, by the way, it's a facade pretty much as smoking, you'll be perfectly respected and maybe even admired if you don't) Grow a fucking pairs and stand for your life decisions ffs
Dominic Morgan
every person i know who doesn't drink is a total social outcast/loser. if you don't feel like drinking, have ONE glass of wine or liquor. You can sip these for probably an hour at least an be totally social with everybody else while the party goes on around you
William Hughes
alright, thanks for the intel mate.
It's not about validation, it's not about being scared of becoming an outcast, I don't care about any of that. it's about me not feeling like explaining myself for 4x5 minutes during an evening I'd rather just relax during to normies who'd never understand anyway. That would just leave me in a pissy mood which would probably fuck up my recovery and workouts even more.
Indeed this, I don't have any friends that don't drink. This is why I'm considering just having one glass of wine with the steak. I like the taste combination
thanks friend, I can go back home early and chugg like 2 liters of water afterwards
Luke Anderson
You're quite the little girl yourself not being able to tell him like it is.
But since you are, and do not bother about being truthful or not (Why do you even hang out with a guy you secretly dislike?) then just go with an easy lie:
- "I'm on antibiotics, cant drink" - "I just had a fever, alcohol makes it worse" - "My stepdad beats me if I make his dick smell like booze" - "I have to drive a friend to bullshit city at 6AM, not having any drinks." - "I'm trying to cut down on the booze, my dad had issues with alcohol and [sobstory]"
Ayden Campbell
As I said, I'm about his only male friend and we have much history together, like serving in the army together on intops and such
But thanks for the tips, I might use one of those
William Lopez
>implying a 4pl8 deadlift is anything to be proud of >implying lifting a certain amount will change anything about your personality Nigga it's just lifting, chill out sperg-o-tron
Cameron Cox
You say this now, but what if he weights 130lbs and deadlifts 4pl8s?
Charles Hall
You're an outcast/loser for giving it such an importance. IF those people you're referring to are real outcasts, rest assured it's NOT because they don't drink, or smoke.
>it's about me not feeling like explaining myself But you are trying to justify yourself and you're wasting a lot of efforts trying to conceal something that doesn't need nor deserve to be concealed. If your peers aren't literal clownfishes they won't ask you every 5 minutes. If you're "chilling" or "partying" with people pestering you, find new people to party with. Do something remotely alpha for once. By the way, "let's get wasted" and "you NEED to drink/smoke/do drugs" memesters will be more of a social reject in a couple of years than how much you think you'll be a social reject for declining beer and whatnot
Who the fuck ever said that a 4pl8s is a fucking life accomplishment. Jesus. Replace it with "No man with [insert lifestyle choices here] will be afraid of his choices" if it triggers you, brainlet.
Jackson Cook
Just say you don't drink because when you were young your dad was a raging alcoholic who routinely beat the shit out of you and your mum, thought it was funny to constantly push your mum down the stairs and one day throw your cat out the 2nd storey window for the lolz
Brody Sanchez
>Who the fuck ever said that a 4pl8s is a fucking life accomplishment. You did you blind dumbass, let me roll it back, ahem: >No man who deadlifts 4pl8s is afraid to say the fucking truth nor gives a flying fuck about social validation through alcoholism Don't delude DYELS into thinking that lifting will get their head right.
Wyatt Walker
wew lad if you can do that you can do whatever the fuck you want
Cameron Lee
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Lemme share a good trick with you, broski. As a former ultra-drunkard-but-not-quite-alcoholic, I've turned my drinking habits around mostly by just making better decisions as far as preferences. These days, pretty much all I drink is vodka with soda water. If the vodka isn't shit, it'll taste fine and get the job done for minimal calories. If wherever you go has flavored zero calorie soda water, go for it. If they don't, just ask for soda water and a lime squeezed into it. Tastes good and the water helps keeps hangovers away.
Zachary Taylor
Damn, I fucked up that quoting. I'm actually
Jackson Howard
I never wrote nor implied that lifting will "cure" anything, or that it will "morph" someone's personality. That was not the content of that post, try to read more than a period at once. I simply referred to someone who made a lifestyle choice. Someone who doesn't lift "occasionally" or "to get toned" and therefore someone who is supposed to be serious about that. You're reading something that simply I didn't write, maybe for the sake of arguing, or maybe because it's an argument you read somewhere else and it's stuck in your brainlet mind. You can be a flaccid pancake and have grown a fucking pairs more than social sissies for sure. Some gym rats are "trying to compensate" something and they are doomed to fail if they believe that lifting alone will change anything about their personality (besides maybe adding a routine to their life, but then they fall in the OCD realm). That's a totally unrelated discussion.
Jackson Ramirez
Why the 4pl8 comment then? As if it's some miraculous milestone? >You can be a flaccid pancake and have grown a fucking pairs more than social sissies for sure Oh shit, with spelling like that you're probably a pajeet, sorry bro.
Noah Ross
i'm not sure how new you are, but pretty much everybody will think you are an outcast/loser if you won't/can't even have one drink. This is basic social etiquette.
Imagine refusing to have a piece of cake for somebodies birthday because you are 'cutting'.
Sometimes you have to do things you don't like to maintain social relationships.
Julian Gomez
Brah, i was 18 in uni when realized I need to get fit. I stopped drinking any alcohol for a good while. I still went to all the house parties and even nightclubs sometimes. With a big bottle of sparkling water. The first few times the guys (obviously) were teasing me for it but i told them that I don't care what they say or do, I'm not gonna drink anything else. And they accepted this and after that no problems at all. We still had lots of crazy shit. :) After i lost 20kgs i loosened my rules a bit on alcohol. Just say no and fuck them
Easton Harris
>Why the 4pl8 comment then? >try to read more than a period at once >I simply referred to someone who made a lifestyle choice. Someone who doesn't lift "occasionally" or "to get toned" and therefore someone who is supposed to be serious about that
>probably pajeet I'm probably way whiter than you, not that it matters.
"No"
Elijah Long
>"No" Social gainz are important too, Quasimodo. Who cares if you're shredded if you have no friends. Being lonely sucks, can't delude yourself out of that. Lighten up, there's more to life than lifting. Unless you're using your refusal to make yourself feel better about yourself. Which you are. >I'm probably way whiter than you, not that it matters. kek yeah "probably"
Liam Gonzalez
"No" as in "No, you're not giving up on social life if you decline a drink" You're comparing apples and oranges when you mix up "basic social etiquette" with this topic. It's not like going to someone's birthday and say "fuck yourself and fuck your fucking cake too". At all.
>Lighten up, there's more to life than lifting. Never implied nor wrote anything different.
Ryder Nguyen
People treat me like a leper. When I tell them I don't drink. So I don't have to worry about going out.
Parker Richardson
I don't drink. Tell everyone I don't drink. People respect it. Have fun anyway.
Why is this so hard?
Asher Cox
Be a man and let people know you avoid alcohol for your health. Fuck anyone who judges.
Adam Sanders
Just get a double shot of whiskey on the rocks, or some other liquor of your choosing. Hydrate before hand and after you'll be fine to workout the next day. Or just have a beer that you like. Personally I don't notice a difference f having a beer or two and working out the next day. Not a heavyweight by any means but a little alcohol doesn't have long term effects
John Williams
>put literally anything in a red solo cup or flask >smile a lot when you talk to people and be more expressive with your face (to appear drunk)
Or just say "no thank you" and don't be an edgelord about it. "Nah man I'm not drinking tonight, thanks though" if anyone actually tries to argue with you or call you a pussy or some shit, they're not a good friend and you shouldn't be hanging out with those kind of people anyway.
Kayden Sanders
Avoid beer. drink vodka or wiskey
Ethan Cook
"Sorry man, not today, my stomachs been fucking with me. But how've ya been etc."
Oh wow look how difficult, better make a thread since I couldn't figure out this brain teaser. Jesus christ
Grayson Hill
Not sure if I should call you a dyel but I notice a lot of strength drop the day after just 2 beers.
Landon Martinez
Night we didn't all grow up in a convent
Easton Torres
Isn't that because alcohol is some muscle relaxant or some shit like that?
Ryan Smith
I gave up drinking a year ago. To be honest no one cares, if I go out with my friends I usually have a coffee or a diet coke if the bar is busy. No one has given me shit for it yet.
Angel Gonzalez
sounds exactly like my problem on the weekends. My friend wants me to come over and get drunk with him.
Asher Long
Man 2 beers is almost nothing. If you are "losing strength" the next day because of it, it's almost certainly all in your head. As long as you don't miss sleep, and drink some water after, there is no evidence that the effects of two beers being harmful or lasting long enough to affect you the next day.
Samuel Lewis
no mate, I'd been plateauing on flat bench as the first exercise for a while, dumbbells of 38kgs for 3x8, it always went like this: 1. set 8 reps 2. set 6 reps 3. set 5 reps
The day after 2 beers with good sleep and food as always: 1. set 6 reps 2. set 5 reps 3. set 5 reps And at the end of all sets I was pushing and pushing and the muscles just couldn't give any more.
Maybe. I also suspect it prevents the muscles from getting enough water no matter how much you water you consume before and after.