Do you like to drink? Because I like to enjoy my frosted cold beverages every now and again. I mean hey cmon its a great way to relax , be social, and just enjoy life.....especially college. But with all of the negative side effects are there good ones? Well guess what! I found that I actually already do! I generally run and workout everyday except for the day or two I take off. But I've found that I always go for a nice run after a long night out, to work out that extra "sweat" I gained from the night before. So therefore can we conclude that our extra curricular activities as college students are actually making the people that workout in a better living standard than the ones that don't?
A recent study found that people who drink regularly seem to exercisee more often than teetotalers, and those who average more than a drink or two a day may be the most active, a new study suggests.
Using data from a government health survey of U.S. adults, researchers found that in general, the amount of time people devoted to exercise tended to inch up along with the number of alcoholic drinks they had each month. Compared with abstainers, those considered heavy drinkers — at least 46 drinks in the past month for women, and 76 or more for men — exercised for an average of 20 minutes more per week. Meanwhile, moderate drinkers — which included women who had 15 to 45 drinks in a month, and men who had 30 to 75 — got 10 extra minutes of exercise each week.
Using data from a government health survey of U.S. adults, researchers found that in general, the amount of time people devoted to exercise tended to inch up along with the number of alcoholic drinks they had each month. Compared with abstainers, those considered heavy drinkers — at least 46 drinks in the past month for women, and 76 or more for men — exercised for an average of 20 minutes more per week. Meanwhile, moderate drinkers — which included women who had 15 to 45 drinks in a month, and men who had 30 to 75 — got 10 extra minutes of exercise each week.
So would you look at that! We have gained a new found motivation to get outside after a long night out and further our physical fitness. Whether it's because you feel guilty about all of the suds you drank the night before, you just felt like running, or you've come to the conclusion it is the only thing that will get rid of your hangover. It doesn't matter! Because you are still working on you fitness. And that my friends, is always a good idea.
Nick this is a great way to look at drinking in a positive way, but I think no matter what drinking isn't healthy for you even if you do get an extra 10 minutes of exercise a week. As a male having 10 beers 6 nights a week and 15 on the 7th night or as a female having 6 beers 6 nights of the week and 9 on the 7th night can’t be to good for your liver. I am always looking for a positive out of drinking but can never find one except for the fact after a few it makes it easy to talk to a girl but still the next day most of the time I can never remember what I said to her or even her name sometimes
ReplyDeleteHypothetically speaking, after a long night of drinking and staying up til four in the morning, a person's body will feel awful the next day. The reason I run the next day is not because I feel guilty that I consumed a bunch of empty calories, but because it actually does get rid of a hangover.
ReplyDeleteThe study you talked about makes me wonder, of the people they used in the study, how many were athletes? I feel that college athletes tend to consume more alcoholic beverages in season because they know they are working out, as opposed to the off season, which would go along with the results of the study. A study on that specifically would be interesting, too!
That's a good call alyssa because thats the exact thing that I do lol
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